Valentine's Day!

For Valentine's Day this year, Jeff and I both decided we wanted to go low key. We love a good excuse to go eat somewhere fancy, and we're acquiring a good repertoire, but we thought we should take a break from that this time. It was our 4th married Valentine's Day, but sort of our 5th. No, we were not together for the one before our marriage, BUT.... See, that Vday we were all a bunch of singles hanging out at Jeff's place (as we often did,) and my car was the last to leave. As I was heading out the door, Jeff caught me by the shoulder, turned me around, and that boy-who-had-never-before-kissed-anyone laid one on me! It was such a surprise, to the best of our knowledge, I just said "good night" and then left. We didn't immediately get together and get married, but that was the start of the story of a persistent man and a lucky woman. Now, we celebrate Valentine's Day as the anniversary of our first kiss.
So anyway, we secured child care (my sister/parents) and just had a vague plan to see a movie, and go to dinner somewhere we like but not monumental. We ended up going down to my parents', then found a compatible movie time (The Vow - we liked it.... this preg was choked up the whole time) with awesome movie snacks, in which we never indulge. Then, we went to the Olive Garden nearby... an hour and 45 min wait. So we set out to look at our .dream houses right across the street while we waited. (No luck there, BTW.) We headed back after waiting an hour, and as we walked up to the hostess stand, they were just throwing out our name! Lucky catch. We had a completely delicioso meal, then got the kiddies. They had spent the eve with their cousins, so they were in love. They had gotten bags of goodies from Grandma and Papa, plus a little something from the cuz's. (The week before, we had gone to Aunt Mally's when she invited us over to make valentine's - the girls also had a blast there! They especially loved the birdies.)


That morning, we had our traditional breakfast of heart-shaped pancakes with whipped cream and strawberry topping. I also awoke to a lovely rose, and Jeff got me a super soft, super warm pillow/blanket duo - he knows me so well! I got him some jeans (which he traded for ones he liked better, haha!) We gave our girlies each a little seed starter for flowers, which are a hit at our house. (And we knew they'd get plenty of candy anyway.) Grandma Chris also came over to decorate the girls' room with a sign, garland, balloons, new jammies and of course a box of chocolates. They loved it!

Our little lovies are well-loved and well-spoiled.