valentine's weekend

I love Valentine's Day. I always have. Even before I had a romantic someone to celebrate it with. Growing up, my mom used to give us treats and a new movie on Valentine's morning. It has always felt like a special day out of the year to think about the people I love in my life.

If I'm being honest, I like to stretch out holidays as looonnnnngggggg as possible so we made a whole holiday weekend of it. ;) What made it even better, was that it was a 3 day weekend together and those are few and far between with Nic's busy work schedule.

I spent Valentine's day with my 25 little Valentines at school. We played bingo and I laughed as they made disgusted faces with every lovey dovey clue they were given. haha I had SO much fun deciding on the Valentines that I made for them and putting them together. Kool Aide for my "Kool" kids! I brought a big bag of sugar and we had a grand old time trying not to make a huge mess all over my classroom sink and counter tops. No they did not get stained bright red!! ;) I live for this stuff!

The love of my life had the most beautiful bouquet of flowers delivered to my classroom. He sure knows how to make a girl feel something special. He will probably kill me for sharing this but he bought the vase and put the arrangement together himself. Amazing right?! He is always surprising me and I love that about him. I told him that apparently we needed to open a floral shop together. ;) Maybe a retirement endeavor someday!

Later that evening, we had a romantic night in complete with a home cooked dinner by candle light, one of my favorite chick flick movies{Safe Haven}, and the perfect excuse to use our fondue pot to have chocolate covered strawberries for dessert.

On Saturday morning, we had breakfast in bed {cinnamon rolls}. We also saw the movie, Delivery Man, that evening. So funny! I hope you had a special day, or weekend if you like to carry on the celebrating for as long as humanely possible like us, with the ones you love.

xoxo