Valentine's Day

This year, for Valentine's Day, I let the kids pick a craft from JoAnne's dollar bins.

They had fun playing with them.  This is what they chose:

Lainey playing "peek-a-boo".

Brielle and I love to make our own Valentine's.  They were supposed to look like this:

But making that ONE took too much time hand cutting everything so the other 26 ended up looking like this:

I made the kids their heart-shaped pancakes.  They LOVE them!

Brielle's gifts to Todd and I.

Ashton made a bunch of cards for us all too.

That evening, Todd and I got a babysitter and headed to Boise for our reservation at Barbacoa's, a very nice, very yummy restaurant down town.  They had a special Valentine's evening with our favorite filet minion and a chocolate souflet to die for.  The whole restaurant was covered in rose petals and Valentine's decor.  It was really pretty.  *Side note*- holy smokes the women's bathroom there was entirely made of pink granite walls & floors.  It had pink stalls, crystal chandeliers, fake crystal sinks with giant fake pink diamonds in them, and fake gold plated everything.  Whoa.  That was a trip. 

Anyway, we had such a wonderful evening together, all dressed up.  It was very relaxing just to be together alone, without a check list to do in Boise.  Just enjoy one another's company.  And I do SO enjoy spending time with my Valentine.  I love him very very much!  I'm so grateful to call him mine :-)

The waiter took our picture with Todd's phone- not too clear but oh well.