My Special Valentine's Day

My diet has officially been thrown out the window!!! My social life has taken over. I guess it's a win-lose situation. For our "Valentine's Day Celebration" this year, we attended a $10,000 dance put on by a local church. The deal was $100 per couple, which included dinner, drinks, dancing, and a chance to win $10,000! There were other drawings throughout the night to win anywhere from $15-$200, but no one from our ~20 person group won anything!!!! Bummer. It was still a really fun night though!

Here are a few of the girls from the night :)

Sitting at the dinner table...my eyes are ALWAYS red in pictures! ugh.

So, since Craig lives roughly 2 hours away, we of course did not spend Valentine's Day together. Nor did he surprise me with flowers, candy, teddy bear, or anything else anyone posted on Facebook that day! hehe But he DID surprise me that next Saturday morning when he came to visit me! I woke up to him handing me these four envelopes..... :)

Sidenote: He also took me ice skating outdoors Friday night which I had been wanting to do all winter! I wasn't very good, so he held me up my hand for the majority of the time. What a sweetheart <3

Back to my surprise....

I only got to open one at a time throughout the day, and each one had 3 cards in the envelope. On one side, the side that I got to see, had "Breakfast 1", "Breakfast 2", and "Breakfast 3"....I went a little picture crazy :)

 

I had to choose a card before I got to see the other side. I chose #2 all day (it seemed to be lucky, but I don't think I could have gone wrong after seeing all of the choices). Breakfast #2 was breakfast in bed! We had already been awake in bed for a while that morning, so I wanted to get up. I made the coffee while he made the breakfast. I was happy with it! We had to do some studying and went for our 6 mile run--which went GREAT by the way!-- and then it was on to envelope #2! It ended up being a winery! We got ready and headed out... this is a picture I made him take of us before we left :)

 

We enjoyed a bottle of wine and then headed out, because my next envelope was dinner! #2 was "cook dinner together", which we usually do anyway, but since we both currently have roommates, it was nice to cook together when we had the house to ourselves. We both really like to cook, and to eat healthy. I have realized over time that we don't always make healthy meals, but I figure if we ate the same thing at a restaurant, it would have twice the calories as making it at home. Another major plus is that it's much cheaper and you can veg on the couch much quicker afterwards!! :)  I naturally turned to my Pinterest app to find something yummy to make, and we chose something I hadn't ever made yet - Three Cheese Chicken Alfredo Bake. We got some bread sticks to go along with it and it was delish! Needless to say, we continued the wine drinking throughout dinner making... and dinner eating. Did I mention my diet was long gone? Guess I'm going to sport the muffin top on the cruise -YIKES!

My final envelope turned out to be a massage. Normally, when I ask for a back massage, it's a ~1-2 minute mix between scratching, rubbing, and speed massaging while watching some kind of hunting or history show. I must say, this was a major change! It was a 10 minute, uninterrupted relaxing massage! Hallelujah!!! (Now, was that so hard?!! haha) I was VERY appreciative for my special day and my amazing boyfriend. Like I said before, I failed at the Valentine's Day present and it got to my house the day he left. I showed it to him via Face time, but he'll have to wait for a couple weeks to get it!