Be My Valentine

 I am in love. And it is so fun. I love being with my cute little family and LOVE being a wife. It's so awesome in fact, that we are celebrating Valentines day every month this year. I'm super excited to have a reason to eat chocolate and go out to fancy meals with my man on the 14th of each month. Don't fret, I will not blog each Valentine celebration, but since this month was the national holiday, I thought I'd include what we did for memory's sake.

Thanks to pinterest, I started off the morning with these darling Heart pancakes. So cute right? I was glad I took the picture before flipping the cake over because once the heart side was cooked - it came off the pan flattened and a sad brown color; barely noticeable with the rest of the cooked cake. Note to self - try again next time. But they were delicious and worth the shot.

 The rest of the day was business as usual until 3:00 when Mark came home from work. It was a tradition in my family growing up that mom would put our Valentine treats and small gifts on our dinner plates; and we would all share in the love just before the meal. Its a good memory for me so I wanted to carry it over to my family. And I just LOVE decorating up my table with the fun Holiday themed things to look at during the day. Since our family can't quite make it to dinner to open our fun gifts, we modified it slightly and went with an afternoon opening celebration.

 

This year, again thanks to Pinterest, I did the cute "24 ways I love you" card for the Hubs, a jar of cinammon bears, and a small package of much needed new clothes. He got me an oversized candy card! Which was perfect for me because a) I love Candy. 2) I've never received one before. and D) I lived the most boring Teenage Life known to man and didn't even have a chance to be wooed for Valentines day. Ever. Oh, but that wasn't all folks. The real gift was a shopping spree for new jewerly and accessories.  Since our robbery 3 years ago, I have only had 2 earrings that I interchange (one that I found on the floor of a classroom I was subbing one day. Lame.) and was in dire need of something flashy and fantastic. So off to Charming Charlies we went and Mark indluged me in an array of newness that I just adore. Followed by some Chinese take-out and we've got ourselves a simply terrific day o' love. I did get the little man some bubbles and bibs for his Valentines day treats, but failed to wrap them cute or add them in the photo op. My bad.

 

 To the one who makes my heart dance. He did take me to a very fancy restaurant for our actual love celebration, and despite that most of our meal contained strong amounts of delicious Garlic, it was a delightful evening spent with my man. How lucky I am to find my perfect match who listens to me, knows my choice even before I do, lightens the responsibilities I carry, fights for his dreams, laughs at my jokes, encourages me to break out of my shell, gives me confidence, and romances me like we're still dating. Love that man of mine.

And rather than create an enterily new post for this little bit of news:

My baby has his teeth. He has had them for quite some time now, but the posting is a little behind and I'm just going through my list. He started out with just the one, but the second bottom tooth popped up right after. He wasn't a terribly cranky boy - although I was worried that he would get addicted to the pain meds that I felt like I was pumping into his system every day. "Baby's crying - give him the drugs!" It seemed like a good solution at the time. :)

Such a big boy this little man is. And yes, we get too many compliments as we running our errands about how stinking adorable this boy is. Love him too.