My Valentines

I enjoy Valentine's Day.  What's there not love?!  Flowers, chocolates, wine, sappy cards, surrounded by my loves.  It's all good.  For some reason, some people get hung up on the idea that it's a 'halmark' holiday and a card industry should not dictate when or how you show your love for someone.  'you should show your love every day'  they say.  Well of course you should show your love every day!  But let's face it; in this busy life we all get sidetracked, right.  There's the day to day grind of going off to work, shuttling kids around, running errands, housekeeping, play dates, soccer, swim, Army stuff......yeah so showing the love can sometimes take the back burner.  So if the calendar people and Hallmark want to mark an official 'stop what you're doing and show your love' day.....I'm OK with that!

When it comes to Valentine's Day, we don't really think too far out of the box here.  There's one thing about Garrett and I; we've never been ones for extravagant gifts.  I mean, there have been in the 8+ years of marriage but they're the exception not the rule, you know.  We show our love by doing kind things for one another.  By voicing our appreciation.  By putting the other first.  And by just spending quality TIME together.  That last one we take pretty seriously!  Since having kiddos Valentine's Day has been a family affair.  This year Garrett brought home Kayla a rose along with my beautiful bouquet.  She was over the moon!             

Yes, those would be homemade chocolate covered strawberries there!  YUM.

Garrett picked up some melt in your mouth filets from the local butcher and grilled them up with a side of asparagus.

Our sweet boy!  He's obsessed these days with finding the moon in the sky.

And our final dinner.  That's blue cheese butter on the steak.  It doesn't look super appetizing in this photo but seriously my mouth is watering just thinking about it!  Try it on you next steak!