Valentines

 A few days before Valentines day my ward had a super fun relief society activity.  Sister Shelley taught us how to make chocolate covered strawberrys.  In my mind I was imagining several double boilers and temperamental chocolate...  But it was so much easier than I though so I knew I had to try it with the family.  So on Valentines day Joe came home early and surprised me with dinner out, just me and him!  We went to a little Asian restaurant near the house.  It was super tasty.  Mom and dad Hartzell watched Nolan and Shyloh so that was even better.  Then we ran into WalMart to get the fixens for the chocolate covered strawberrys. We found white, peanut butter and dark chocolate!  All you do is put the chocolate chips into a glass bowl and microwave for just over a minute.  Then stir in a bit of shortening and your done! Dip away! When the chocolate starts to harden just stick it back in the microwave to soften in again! I also browned some coconut and rolled some chocolate covered strawberrys in it.  Those were my favorite! Nolan didn't really have a preference.  He liked it all!!! At the end I also did some pretzels with the extra chocolate and those were the best! I will definitely be doing this again! A new valentines tradition in the making!

Shyloh wanted to be where she could see what was going on so we had here right on the floor with us in the kitchen.