Happy (Belated) Valentine's Day!

I have been a bit behind on the blogging lately... So I'm posting my Valentine's Day ramblings a week late. Oops. :-) I woke up Valentine's Day morning to find my car gone, along with my fiance. He came back with a dozen long stem roses, 1/2 light pink and 1/2 dark pink. These were exactly what he got me last year and they brought back so many wonderful memories.

Last year, we said the big "I love you" for the first time on the 14th. It sounds uber cheesy, but really I think that it just happened to slip out that day and had nothing to do with St. Valentine. I remember thinking, this is CRAZY. We have been dating for THREE WEEKS. You can not possibly be in love with someone after THREE WEEKS. But I was. Totally and utterly head over heals in love with him. :-) The first chance I got I ran to the bathroom with my cell phone to text Robin to tell her he said he was in love with me. Robin was really a great confidant the first few weeks when I felt crazy to tell anyone else that this was the guy. Plus, she knew I was going to marry him anyway - I had decided that on our second date...

This year, Chris and I had a lovely little Valentine's Day, thanks in part to my parents. Mama and Daddy knew that with everything going on, we had been VERY stressed, so they sent us a little cash to take ourselves out to dinner. (Otherwise, it's doubtful we would have indulged in this economy). We decided not to go OUT persay, but rather to get some food and dine in. We stopped by a place in town, Mona Lisa Pasta where they make everything from scratch and picked up some manicotti. Then we went in search of dessert. We drove all over town and by this time, most of the bakeries were completely sold out. We got 3 "peanut butter balls" from Feast! to hold us over (naturally a healthy appetizer) and then ended up at Crazy Cakes on the downtown mall. We picked out a bunch of very cute cupcakes and headed home.

We had our dinner of manicotti, salad, diet coke in wine glasses, and bread. Then we cleaned up and ate our cupcakes while watching "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." Christopher had never seen it before and since then has been chasing me around the house with a bottle of Windex. After that, I went into a cleaning frenzy since Mama and Daddy were coming the next day and hadn't seen the house since we moved in August. Very romantic, Minsterman. VERY romantic.

All in all it was a wonderful little Saturday and a very nice break from the chaos that has been happening around us lately. Love, ain't it grand? Hehe.