Valentine's Day Part 2

So as mentioned before, I am unemployed and our funds our tight.  But, we still wanted to enjoy our day.  Due to some excellent timing, we were able to add more to our date than originally planned. 

We started the day at California Pizza Kitchen... ignore the bad picture, remember both sick!  We had one of our dates at a Tapas restaurant years ago and since then we love making our own tapas meals....

We got four appetizers and shared them... wonderful lunch.  During lunch Chad received an envelope.

 

Inside  was this...

We were about to go on a bookstore date!  I got the idea from here.  Really fun.  There were 2 other envelopes that had the plans.  Here are some pictures from our bookstore date, if you want to know why those pictures... check out the link above!

And yes I know the pictures are bad.... my medicine had worn off by this point...


For Part 2 we each had 30 minutes, and $10 dollars to run through the mall and buy each other a present.....

 I got Chad a cookie.....

 And a small container of olive oil from an olive oil store he loves.

And in true Irish fashion, Chad got me some clover earrings and some green nail polish to wear during March!  Now, I only need to learn how to paint my own nails.

For dinner, we went to our favorite deli, Molldeli's and got some pizza and sides for take out.  Since we were out all day and sick, we decided to spend the evening at home.  We watched Breaking Dawn and enjoyed time together.  It was a great Valentine's.

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!

Catch up

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.  Things have been quite busy for us since Thanksgiving, so I apologize for not getting anything new posted.  My goal the rest of this week is to get caught up.  I have a good sized list of posts for this blog as well as lots of recipes to go up on the food blog.  I was sick the whole week before Christmas and still feeling pretty out of it, so I am off to take a nap before I get started. 

Crazyness

Just a short note to say I won't be able to post some blogs for a few days.  Maybe Thursday, but might not be till next week.  Had a lot of stuff come up.  We also just got home yesterday and Chad and I are leaving again friday for four days, to celebrate our 1 year anniversary!!!

When I do return:

I will have Frames Part 2 ready... our picture arrived today and I am going to try and finish the magnetic frame this wednesday.
I will have our advent calendar done, going to work on it tonight while I wait for Chad to get home from work.
I also hope to have the Thanks board done, a little late, but at least it will be ready for next Thanksgiving.
Also, we received our first Christmas card (the ones we are sending out also arrived today) so I am going to get the wreath done too.
I also want to share about our Thanksgiving in Branson- wonderful time with family, some shopping, and 2 fun days at Silver Dollar City!
And in honor of our 1 year anniversary, I want to write about our wedding, lots of wonderful DIY ideas included!
Also, still need to write the posts from my devotional book.


Ahh, so much crazyness... I love this time of year... but I still can't believe I was crazy enough to have my wedding in the middle of holiday crazyness!

Wow

So in the last 24 hours, my pageview number has jumped from 415 to 530.  Wow.  I had actually a giveaway planned for when it hit 500 and was going to post the entry about it as soon as I got back into town on sunday (thinking it would take that long to get to 500) and now its come and gone!  I am honored!  I didn't start this blog wanting to hit a certain number or anything, it was mainly a place for my musings.  I subscribed to over 30 other blogs (and more are added everyday as I find them) and I get a lot of great ideas from these blogs.  Craft projects I never thought to do (which is all of them, since I never think of doing craft projects), recipes to try (although those get dumped on the food blog), organization ideas (small space=little room for stuff) and so much more.  Without these blogs, I wouldn't get these ideas.  If I can help some else have that "I should of thought of that, it will benefit me so much" moment all the better. And everything I post about I am usually pretty excited about (whether it's because I finally did a craft project without giving up or finally found a space for that item or whatever).  While most of these posts are still my musings (it's is my blog after all) I have tried to include more posts that other people might find enjoyable and interesting (not that my normal life isn't enjoyable and interesting... it is... at least to me.... wait you mean it's not to you?  oh, oh well ;-)).  And as always I hope everyone finds something here for them.  Again, I am honored by the pageviews!  Without you, it would just be me talking to myself (and I do that more than enough).

I do have some giveaways planned (my first!)... more info coming after the holiday. (Happy Thanksgiving everyone).
I also have my first reviews coming up too (more firsts).
The food blog will get updated (it's been awhile!)
Also, part 2 of the Frames Project will be posted (sorry, won't get to it before we leave!)/
Along with 3 other projects I am almost done with.
I have also finished more of my devotional notes that I would love to share with you.
Plus so much more.

I hope you all will continue to follow what I got going on.  I welcome any comments, inputs, or ideas you have. 

Again, HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL.... see you next week!