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A Valentine's Recap

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I love holidays, even obscure ones.  (Actually those are my favorite to celebrate.)  With Valentine's Day on a Monday, I decided that wouldn't do.  I wanted a whole day of fun, so I requested we celebrated on Saturday...and Friday night. Celebrate big or go home, that's my motto. Here's what we did:

Friday


Danny got me roses, which adorn our kitchen table.
I made German pancakes for dinner.  For some reason many of
our holiday celebrations include German pancakes.
We then spent the rest of the evening chilling and watching movies.  We watched the movie "Paper Heart" which was pretty funny.

Saturday


On Saturday, I got to choose the activity.  I requested we go to Color Me Mine, I love that place.  I like to pretend I'm artistic.
Danny painted a gnome...and gave him red hair...and green eyes...and named him
Jonnifer...and told me that it was our gnome child.  My husband makes me laugh.

Wow, that's an intense look on my face.  I painted a little dish/holder/trinket/thing.
We then went to the movie theater and Danny got to choose a movie for us to see.  We saw "True Grit".  Nothing like a cowboy movie about revenge to say "I love you", haha.  It was a good story and the little girl in it was really impressive.  However, a bit too violent for me and it had snakes in it, I hate snakes (cringe).  Afterwards, we headed to Bath and Body Works, because Danny also gave me a gift card for Valentine's Day.

More Valentine goods
We ended the night having dinner at Tucci's Italian restaurant.  It was such a fun day and a great way to celebrate our first Valentine's as married folk (the cowboy lingo from the movie rubbed off on me).  On the actual day of Valentine's we still went out for frozen yogurt and I gave Danny a card and his favorite candy.
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  1. Becky ShulerFebruary 16, 2011 at 8:37 PM

    Super sweet! I like how you celebrated all weekend! Danny, you are hilarious! I love the little gnome child, Jonnifer!! So funny! Looks like your first Sweethearts day as a married couple was fabulous!

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  2. Becky ShulerFebruary 16, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    p.s. You forgot to mention that you got some very cool Valentine cards in the mail from your favorite nephews and niece from Florida!!

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  3. UnknownFebruary 16, 2011 at 10:02 PM

    That sounds like a fan-freakin-tastic day and I might have to steal your itinerary for myself.

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