Valentine's Day Fun

Valentine's Day started out a few days BEFORE the big day when I received beautiful lily's at the house one afternoon!! It included a card with the verse from Song of Solomon 2:2 "Like a lily among thorns, so is my darling among the maidens." How sweet! We've been studying Song of Solomon at church, so it was very appropriate. :) Then yesterday before we went out we opened presents first and I got a card from Caleb and the dogs, a sweet card from Bryan, and a new PINK camera!! I think it is called Cybershot...it has 8.2 megapixels (my old one was 3.2), it has a HUGE screen (my old one was quite small!), and it is so little and skinny!! I LOVE IT!!!! My old camera had been starting to drive me crazy lately, and Bryan knew that, so, surprise! Oh, the other great thing is that it doesn't need batteries. I burn through them so quickly, so this is a great thing! Some women want jewelery, I am thrilled with a new camera! I already take a million pics of Caleb and now I'll take more! I can't wait to see the quality difference.

Caleb got some goodies as well. Grandpa and Grandma Christy in Texas sent him a Vermont Teddy Bear that is dressed up like a monkey! It is so cute! And it is really funny because I've seen the advertisements for those teddy bears every time I've gone to the gym on the TVs there! I'll have to take a picture with my new camera!! We got him a stuffed lamb from the Christian bookstore, where the proceeds went to help kids in an orphanage, isn't that cool? Grandma got him a cool puzzle book, a stuffed teddy bear, a cute card, money for his piggy bank, and some cute overalls.

I got Bryan a card, the movie "End of the Spear" which has special significance to us and our relationship, a bag of dark chocolate m and m's (ok on South Beach-in moderation of course!) and some special gum/mints he loves. We then went out to Saul Good for dinner (we had a gift card, woo hoo!) and did NOT adhere to the diet! I got a grilled chicken sandwich-hawaiian style-and fries-SO good!! We shared the chocolate fondue for dessert-yum yum-they bring you waffles, strawberries, bananas, rice krispie treats, and pretzels to dip in the chocolate (we got dark) and it.was.heavenly!!! So it is back to being extra strict on the diet starting today...or tomorrow...:)

We ended the evening with candlelight and dancing at our house while Caleb slept. I am so blessed to have Bryan as my husband. I fall more and more in love with him every day. He is truly my best friend in the whole world and I thank God often for answering my prayer for an incredible husband. Seeing him as a daddy is wonderful as well...Caleb is a lucky boy to have such a great daddy.

Hope you all had wonderful Valentine's Days as well!! :)