Valentine's Day

This post is so way long over-due, but better late than never!

So, for Valentine's Day, I made Dave a personalized gift basket of love.  :o)  No worries, it's totally appropriate to share.  lol

I found a cool Volkswagen Bug chocolate mold, so I made some white chocolate and dark chocolate volkswagens.  (Dark chocolate is his favorite :o)

Aren't they yummy-looking?!  And so way perfect for Dave!

In order to get the sticks to fit in the mold, I had to cut them.  They were hollow, yet tough, plastic.  My scissors wouldn't cut them.  So I had to ask Dave for a wire cutter.  He knew I was working on his gift and looked pretty suspicious (and slightly nervous) when I asked for wire cutters.  lol  Who know it would take a tool from the garage to make some chocolate.  :o)

I also got a heart mold and made my own white and dark chocolate versions of Dove chocolates.

I wanted to make him homemade fortune cookies, but realized I had forgotten to get 1 essential ingredient...  Agh!  So, I had the thought to try it with paper.  (Thanks for making sure I inherited some of your creative genuisness, Mom!!!)  They turned out pretty cute.  I made a bunch of them.  Dave has actually told me multiple times since then that he really, really likes the paper fortune cookies.  Yay!  Plus side:  saves calories and they never go stale.  :o)

Oh, and I can't tell you what the fortunes said.  Some of them are pretty lovey dovey, mushy gushy!  ;o)

On Valentine's Day morning, I gave Dave this box with all the goodies in it.

He said he felt bad that he didn't have much, but I really didn't care.  Needless to say, he had a couple of surprises already up his sleeve.

Dave drove the 10 minutes to my work on his lunch break and we just hung out.  It was a very pleasant surprise!  While he was there, we spontaneously bought tickets to see the sneak peek of the new Reese Witherspoon movie "This Means War" that had a special Valentine's Day showing that night.  A couple of hours later, these showed up at my work.

My first long-stemmed red roses ever!!!  How romantically beautiful!  I was in shock and a tad ticked off because Dave must've spent a fortune on them!  We've been trying to do so well with sticking to our budget and I don't think these were part of it!  But, I'm grateful for a husband who loves me and just so happened to show part of that love by ordering me these amazing red roses!  They're still beautiful and it's been like 6 days!!! 

The movie was cute and overall, we both enjoyed our Valentine's Day.  However, we both agree that we don't need a certain day on the calendar to tell us we love each other.  We celebrate our own Valentine's Days all the time.  It's wonderful!!!

I'm so grateful go be married to a handsome man who loves me and I love him just as much back!  It's also great to wake up every morning laying next to my best friend!  I love making memories with him and look forward to the memory-making forever and ever and ever!!!