vday 2011.

This year we went all out and decided to go to Hawaii for Valentine's Day!  Oh, actually, no.

Dontcha wish it was true?  I do.  Oh well, maybe like...never? :)

We decided to make it simple and low key.  It was grand!  With an overstudied husband and an overtired Mommy, we made ourselves a nice and simple Valentine's day.  The hubby surprised me with a Valentine favorite...Chocolate covered strawberries!  Mmmm!  Hannah liked 'em too! But what girl doesn't love a little chocolate covered sugar coated fruit?  He actually gave them to me the night before Valentine's day.  

Hubby actually did his V-day surprise in the classic "hubby style".  Flowers for me, a chocolate rose and a lollipop for Hannah, and she exchanged with him a homemade art heart.  Which was the cutest valentine exchange I have ever seen!  He gave me a lollipop heart ring, trying to reenact the "first" time he gave be one when he first asked me to marry him.  It was terrrrrribly romanteeeek!

I had all sorts of plans for doing the "7 days of Valentine's".  I even had a list which included making a homemade cherry pie using this pie crust recipe, ironing all 728 of his shirts (not really, but it seems that way when you hate to iron!), and I REALLY wanted to make these lovely cookies.  Are they not the most risque cookies you've ever seen?  However, my lazy side gave in and I bagged the 7 days of valentines after day one and ended up doing an extremely romantic lady and the tramp style homemade candle-lit spaghetti dinner.  Child included.

After the kiddo was snug in bed, we pulled our mattress to the livingroom for a showing of Love Potion #9.  Which was NOT the best ever.  Sooooo.... Never again will that show grace our television.

Happy very late Valentine's Day!