in pictures

A picture is worth a thousand words, right?

So instead of letting you read about my lovely Valentine's Day with my sweet hubs, I'll let you see about it.

Okay, okay I will cheat a little and tell you that David's gift to me was the most creative gift he's given me. He knows how much I love to go to the movies (he hates it), bowling (we both love it), ice skating (he loves it, I'm afraid of it, but have been really wanting to go), museum (I love it, he hates it), free date (I guess that means I don't have to pay? haha, so funny), and finally, go see a play (that is the best, to me).

I got David a really awesome gift (at least I think so), but it still hasn't arrived in the mail so the wait is still on. I can't wait to give it to him.

love day

I've always had a love/hate relationship with Valentine's Day. I've never had a good one, until I met my husband.


I don't tell him enough and I'm sure I don't show him enough, but I love him so much. He's the best thing that ever happened to me and I thank God for him everyday. He's the love of my life, my best friend and my home.


I don't know what is in store for the day except for dinner reservations tonight. I don't know where and that's exciting. I also woke up to these:

I'm looking forward to what this day might hold (even though I have to go to a meeting from 3-5 and won't see David until tonight), from what I know already, it should be a lovely day.


Also, I'd like to mention that today Lauren from Busy Bee Lauren published a "Love around the world" Valentine's Day post of pictures of people and their loved ones around the country (and the world!) and I made the cut!

To check out all the other photos and little messages, go to her post here. You can also click on the photos to go to each individual blog, which is wonderful, I think. 


(Correction: While I thought you could click on the photos to go to each individual's blog, you can't. I'm sorry!)


So Happy Valentine's Day to all of you out there and I hope you're day is fun/romantic/fantastic <3

vday weekend

So I'll just start this off by saying this: I didn't finish the slideshows. 


I had all of them done except for Italy and when it came down to it today, cupcakes made, house clean, dinner ready to be prepared, t minus one hour before the arrival of my in-laws, I gave up on all hope of finishing. I mean, the last slideshow wasn't even finished and I still had to set up the DVD menu, burn the discs and make the DVD labels. I mean, hello, an hour? 


Um, no.


But it's okay. We had a great evening nonetheless, and we set up a little theater in my office so everyone could watch the slideshows that I had finished, promising them that they'd get their own copies soon.


Maybe if I hadn't have made the cupcakes I would have been able to finish the DVDs, but honestly, I'm stoked on these red velvets. Red velvet cupcakes/cakes are notoriously difficult to get right. I'll admit right now that they're certainly not the best RVCC's I've ever had, but they are a whole lot better than the ones I've made in the past. I followed a Paula Deen recipe that David emailed me (Hint much??). 


They're definitely not as amazing as Bake 'n Broil's RVCCs, but they're pretty delicious (this is where you pat me on the back... jk). Anyway, they turned out very pretty as well, as you can see :)

{Uuuum, the BEST cream cheese frosting ever. Seriously}

{Beauties}

{Delish}

But I must tell you all about my amazing day/evening yesterday. Months ago I set a date with my friend Rhett to come over to his house and decorate Valentine's Day cookies with our friend Keegan (who is actually the sister of my good friend Kitty who did my incredible wedding invitations) and we had such a great/hilarious/fun time.

Here's a peek at our creations...

And then later that evening I met up with David and our Fusion (young marrieds) group from church for an amazing Valentine's dinner. We all dressed up and the guys cooked and served all the ladies. We had champagne, wine, hors d'oeuvres, salad, an amazing dinner (filet mignon for the carnivores, portobello mushrooms for the vegetarians) and macrons and three different kinds of homemade sorbets. All of this food was cooked from scratch (and so delicious) by Brian with help from all the guys. 

It was so sweet to see all of the hard work that our husbands put into this dinner to show us how much they love us. Super cute.

{The guys set all this up!}

{Dave & Todd, Kacie's husband, messing around and being crazy}

{Veggie dinner}

{Filet Mignon}

{Bromance}