Valentine's Day Part 1!

Wow, it's been awhile. Seems holidays, illnesses, school, and well life have gotten in the way.  Hopefully things calm down now and I can start updating more regularly.  I have a lot to post.

First up, Valentine's Day!  Well some background for our day... we were both sick.  Chad was starting to feel better, I was doing horribly... in fact the next night I spent in the emergency room.  But that's a different story.

Sunday night I left this on our coffee table for him to find Monday morning.  It was sitting on top of the cup below.  At that time, only one slip was in the cup.  The rest were scattered around- on the toothpaste, in his lunchbox, wallet, on the cat food box....  They say such things as "I love you because..."  "You are an amazing..."  Etc...

Because of my unemployment and our tight money situation, we had said we would make gifts, not buy them....  Couldn't spend anything on them.  This was one of mine.  The cup was from a box full of valentines decorations my mom gave us at one of our wedding showers, the XO rocks I got from Target dollar bins a few weeks ago when I put all the Valentine's decorations up.  The rest I printed on the computer.  Monday night when he got home from work (really early Tuesday morning, since he doesn't get home till after midnight) we exchanged gifts. 

 This was one of the ones he made for me.  It says different thing as you spin it around.  Most of it he printed, but the little tab in the middle, holding it together is apparently from work, something medical, i think a vial cap or something.

 This was his other gift to me.  A year work of coupons for different things...  I have already used a foot massage one (and yes, he spelled it message, he didn't notice till after he printed them and didn't want to re-do them).  I have wanted to use others, but we both feel too miserable right now..

This was my second gift to him.  I will post a how-to for this one later.  It's a deck of cards that I put different things that I love about him on each card.

This was Chad's "illegal" gift to me.  I say illegal, because he spent money on it and we weren't supposed to!  I love it though.  Very beautiful and unique ring.  And it's orange...

This was my "illegal" gift to him... bathtub crayons.  We have been using them to write jokes, play games, and other silly things on our shower walls.


So that's the gifts... stay tuned for the fun, fairly inexpensive date!