Valentine Countdown

This Heart Crab Applique pattern came from a blog called Golden Lucy Crafts, she has a rather large collection of heart shaped things that are going to come in very handy this month. I did change the legs on one of the crabs after a helpful veterinarian friend pointed out that they are backwards as written. 

In one of the Facebook groups I participate in, a woman named Jessie Mosher has been posting photos of little crochet food items that she's making and leaving in her fiance's lunchbox along with a little pun. So new for this year's Valentine Countdown is my attempt to emulate these punny little things. For today:

If you can't read it "we love you S'More"

I free handed the graham crackers and chocolate and borrowed the basic idea of the marshmallow from a blog called Whistle and Ivy. I added some stitches in some places and took out rounds in other places. There are some really great puns coming up, I'm kind of excited about it.

And we also managed to get in a hike today. The state park hosted a Groundhog Day Hike. A day early thanks to the sportsing event tomorrow. We started our hike with a visit from "Tuttle Creek Tom". The park ranger was so excited to pull off his presentation and he really did a great job. 

He kept checking on Tom and telling us how feisty he was tonight. He picked a kid from the crowd to be his assistant and gave him a top hat so we could do it up just like the movie. They both listened to Tom and reported that he predicts an early spring. I couldn't convince the girls to pose with Tom and the fabulous top hat.

Then we loaded up and drove over to another part of the park for the hike. We went on a trail that the girls and I have walked before but we learned that there were parts of the trail that we didn't know about or had forgotten between the first time we walked it until the most recent time. Here are some pictures from October 2014. 

It's currently more muddy and has no leaves on the trees, but it was too close to dark to take any pictures. It was a lovely day to get out and watch the sunset over the lake.