Valentine's Day in (3) parts

We celebrated Valentine's in a few different ways this year:

(1) The weekend before Valentine's Day we went to the Turnbull's annual Valentines couples party. It was 1920's themed so we all dressed up and had yummy food and drinks, danced the charleston then played the infamous way-too-personal nothing-is-off-limits embarrassing version of the newlywed game (a yearly tradition and huge crowd pleaser). We had a lot of fun, danced hard, and laughed harder.

 

(2) On actual Valentine's Day (Thursday) we did fun things with the kids and as a family, including: pink heart pancakes for breakfast, Caitlin's dance class, delivering valentines, lunch with Paul, making ice cream (tried a guilt-free recipe and it was a hit!), heart shaped grilled cheese with tomato soup for dinner and enjoying valentines presents and treats. I love my little family so much and try to show them everyday.

(3) The last Valentine's celebration was for Paul and I. We celebrated the day after by going to Salt Lake. We shopped at city creek, ate at Ruth's Chris steakhouse, went to trolley square, saw the Safe Haven movie then stayed the night at the downtown Marriott. (Can you tell by the amount of shopping and eating and lack of physical activity that it was my year to plan v-day?!) Cassie was so nice to watch the kids for us overnight and it was actually really weird to be so close but not go home at night! Really nice at the same time. In my book, few things in life are more heavenly than Ruth's Chris harvest salad, filet mignon, and sweet potato casserole (not exaggerating... my mouth is now watering) but being with my one and only Valentine definitely takes the cake. We could have been doing anything and had a great night.