Our Fun & Frugal Valentine's Family Dinner

We celebrated Valentine's Day yesterday as an "I Love You" day my husband, our two daughters (4 & 2) and myself. I'm hoping to make this a tradition every year. We all got dressed up and I set the table really pretty and decorated it. Everything I used was things I already had on hand or that I printed out for free online.

And on the menu were family favorites!

Heart shaped pizza with heart shaped pepperoni!

Heart and arrow shaped cucumbers. Honestly, the "arrow" shaped pieces were what was left of the cucumber after I cut out the heart shape. I didn't want to waste it so I came up with the idea to make cupid arrows with it. We also had ranch sour cream dip to dip them in.

And last but not least, we had homemade ice cream cake. I made this by layering chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches with cool whip and then crushing Take5 bars and putting them on top along with chocolate and caramel sauce.

I made the girls little goodie boxes with lotion, slinkys, candy and bubbles (all purchased at Dollar Tree) and then hid them. We played the hot and cold game for them to find it.

We had a lot of fun! I think even my husband enjoyed it, although I don't think he loved the dress up part :)

What did you do for Valentine's Day?

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