First Valentine's

Last year I was convinced my baby girl would be here before Valentine's Day. She was born almost a week later. So last Friday was Paige's very first Valentine's Day. I'm sure she loved it! She will probably love it even more next year when she can have chocolate and candy.

Starbucks was having BOGO that afternoon, so Paige tagged along while Daniel and I celebrated with lattes. We've also been having lovely weather lately, so we enjoyed the sunshine!

My in-laws took Paige for the evening, so Daniel made me a fancy dinner and dessert! We had steak, potatoes, and asparagus. It was so yummy!!!!

Saturday we went to the park. The sun was out and the temps weren't too bad, but it was windy! Paige loved the swing! When we took her out to go home she clearly let us know she was not happy about it.

Sunday, she wore her little cupcake outfit. Oh my gosh I couldn't even handle the cuteness!!!!

She loves being outside! Today was so nice we let her run around in just her diaper. She got dirty and tried to eat the leaves. It wasn't going to be bath night, but she was needing one after all the running around she did.

cutie pie!

Today we went to the library. Paige turns 1 tomorrow and I think i'm very slowly starting to accept it. These pictures of her walking around make her look so big. In my mind she's still just a little baby. 

We are having her birthday party on Saturday, so tomorrow we are just doing little celebrations. We are reserving her first chocolate experience for her cupcake on Saturday, but I thought it'd be fun to go get donuts in the morning and let her have a donut hole or something. I'm very interested to see how she likes sugar :)

love

laura

Valentine's Day and my movie star Husband

Tuesday was Valentine's Day!

Because we are just coming off of both our birthday's, anniversary, and Christmas, we decided not to do gifts for Valentine's Day. Also, because we're going to be on vacation on Friday, and there is Chili's in Malaysia...and believe me the best Western restaurant in town can just not compare. So we decided to just live it up when we go on vaca.

Random, but I did make this for breakfast. It was okay. I think I prefer regular oatmeal though. Which is actually what I had for lunch today.....i'm on a kick what can i say?

I LOVE Valentine's day! I know some people don't get into it because of the hype, but really why wouldn't you want to give out valentines to your friends and have an excuse to eat more chocolate?

Which is why I made Daniel chocolate covered strawberries, pineapple (his request), graham crackers, and marshmallows. I am a sucker for chocolate covered marshmallows....what could possibly be a better combination?

What's your favorite chocolate covered/dipped dessert??

I had extra chocolate so I ended up covering a homemade granola bar. Seriously, what can you not cover in chocolate??

I know this doesn't look that pretty, but yay for the cute heart plate!

We did end up going out for Valentine's though.....we had several friends going to dinner and then to see MI4, so we decided to join up! It was funny because it was us, another married couple, and close to 10 single girls. We always tease Daniel that it's always him and the ladies. Poor guy, he is always outnumbered!

And speaking of MI4......notice anything?!?!!?!??!

(this photo wasn't staged. It's actually from over 3 years ago)

Ya'll, it is insane how much they look alike!!! I was so distracted during the whole movie! If ya'll have seen it, or know my husband, I think you'll agree. When we were leaving the movie, I half expected Daniel to get mobbed for autographs or something.

Happy Valentine's Day!

love

laura

weekend rewind-play by play edition

i don't even want to talk about it.

Not Valentine's...but the Olympics.

Okay, so you already know that we go to bed early. For me to stay up past 9 takes effort or caffeine. So when i'm getting all excited about the Opening ceremonies, i didn't take time into consideration, because i thought the thrill alone would keep me awake.

hardly.

First, Daniel and I were right in front of the tv at 6:30pm sharp friday night, like we were supposed to be.

(after eating our Zuppa Toscana soup!) mmmmmm

 We didn't realize there was an hour and half of coverage before they actually started!!! After the teams walked in i laid on the couch till 10 with my eyes closed. I claimed i was 'listening' to it. I was SO determined to stay up till the torch was lit. But after fighting sleep for an hour, i just went to bed. When Daniel came to bed later i asked who lit the torch, but fell back asleep before he could answer.

So friday did not live up to my expectations. Saturday and Sunday EXCEEDED them!!!

sidenote: I did wake up on Fri to a card made by Daniel, asking me to be his Valentine!! (i said yes)

Saturday  nite we had a SS party for church. We don't really know anyone, so we were excited about having a chance to mingle outside of SS. We had the best time!!!! We went to a couple's house for dinner (which was decorated with flowers, decorations, and fine china!). We really enjoyed getting to know the other people in our class and learning more about their story.

Sunday...

We woke up and it was snowing. This was not in the forecast nor was it expected. But by the time we left for church, there was a nice covering of white stuff all over.

It was also V-day (and our 3 month anniversary!)

Daniel made me breakfast-scrambled eggs w/ cheese and toast! yummmy!!!

We had leftovers after church on Sunday, but used the fine china and lit every candle in the world to make it romantic :)

Sunday afternoon I lounged on the couch complaining that the only thing on was the Biathalon. Daniel and I agree that this is a competition...not so sure if it qualifies as an Olympic sport in our mind.....

We exchanged presents (we're on a budget, so we got small gifts). I got Burt Bee's calming leg and foot lotion (since my legs are now sore from learning to be a runner!!!) and a couple of new lip balms i've been wanting. I gave Daniel a tracker book he wanted and The Economist mag.

(ok don't let the double chin throw you, Daniel isn't chubby)

Ok, so the good part....DINNER!
We went to a local Indian restaurant, which we both l.o.v.e. LOVE!!! We had samosa's (not mimosa's), wine, tandori chicken, chicken tikka, dal, naan, lamb, and some potato stuff that i can never remember the name of.

can we say 'delicious?' 

I know it sounds like a lot of food, but we had no problem cleaning our plates!!!

THEN we got home and Daniel had more surprises!! He made me dessert- Valentine Tarts. Ummmmmm......probably my new fave dessert, which is saying a lot!!! Words can't describe the delight my tastebuds received from devouring the yumminess!

it's like a choclately pudding goodness, with whip cream, strawberry, and yes, you do see chocolate lace!

THEN....Daniel got out his guitar and sang me a new song he had written for me. (Daniel has written me 2 songs before for our 5 month dating anniversary.) OF COURSE...i cried :) It was the perfect way to end the day :)

Is it weird that i post about almost every meal i eat?? i think i just want the blogworld to feel involved...hmmmm


love
laura