Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day. We love a good v-day celebration. Usually from the comfort of our home, so we don't have to worry about getting a babysitter or taking them away from their own potential Valentine. haha. Anyway, the boys woke up to a little box of chocolates then got to do the usual valentine celebrations at school..they came home and dumped and traded all their loot. (Valentines are gettin fancy these days..even when the teacher says NO CANDY!) 

Anyway...Thank goodness I took a picture of this food or else I wouldn't have remembered what we ate...I believe it was Mongolian Beef. And I think it tasted good, haha! Then all I remember is putting the kids to bed. Actually I don't really remember that, I just know that's what always happens next, I don't think we even gave them Chocolate covered Strawberries. 

 Max and I sat and ate chocolate covered strawberries and discussed some of our most memorable Valentine's days. I could really only think of 2, one when we were first dating in high school. and another when we were living in Utah and I had just found out I was pregnant with Charlie. (All the Valentine's days we had since having kids were a blur so thankfully we were able to look back at this trusty old blog and review many years of Valentines.)

Anyway, I'm going to describe the high school date since there is no record of it on this blog yet and even though I remember it 14 years later, it probably will slip my memory at some point. Max was a senior in high school and I had already graduated, (I was the bus driver, remember?) Max created a surprise date for us and I had no expectations. It was my first ever Valentine's day with a Valentine and we had only been officially dating for a couple months. First Max took me to the library and we said we are going to research about Valentine's day and figure out where it came from. I had already heard something on the radio about where it came from so I was a big buzzkill letting him know that I already knew. ha! I'm the worst. Then as we were driving somewhere else (the whole date was a surprise to me) max stopped the car behind Safeway near our houses. It was always a joke to go make-out by the dumpsters behind Safeway but we had never actually done it so we tried that out for a couple minutes, felt really awkward so we left for the next thing. Max drove me to a seafood restaurant, and he mentioned something about having to wait awhile since it's Valentine's day, only to find out that they took us to be seated as soon as we walked in. He had made a reservation, haha, pretty classy for a high schooler. Anyway, we loved our food and as we were eating, we found a set of gloves under the table. We passed them to the waitress and she thanked us profusely, she said the last guests had been calling trying to track down these gloves. Later in the evening, the waitress brought out dessert for us and said it's on the house because they were so grateful we had found the gloves. Being in high school and getting offered a free fancy dessert is basically like hitting the jackpot! And probably why this was one of the most memorable Valentine's days, haha.  
Anyway, after reading our blog, another V-day that stood out was when I was super pregnant with Miles, and Max had made a very thorough slideshow of our life together and I remember at the time, we were just so amazed at how far we had come in life since being "high school sweethearts" so it was funny to see how life had changed since he had made the slideshow and we only had 1 kid.

Anyway, after that big old trip down memory lane our disco dance party began! One thing that I'm pretty proud of is how good we've gotten at home dates. We really enjoy doing pretty much anything together so we have to consciously decided when we are going to do a home date then make sure we put our phones away and get our usual night time chores done so we can enjoy that date...This night we decided that our living room was a dance club. haha!

Pictures were random and awkward

And, let's be real, a lot of our home dates end up like this...we haven't matured much since high school.

Anyway, I don't know what else to write here, but hooray for free v-day dates and trips down memory lane. The next day, Max was one of a couple people that put together a family valentines dance party at our church...I didn't really take photos but her's our flyer, haha!

Oh and I took this photo of him making some sort of makeshift light-holder. bahaha

Anyway, it was fun to dance around with the kids, eat snacks, and then send them into the movie room so Max and I could dance....I'd like to think we've become better dancers through all this, but I'm not sure that's true. Anyway, Happy Love day!