Chocolate of brown, Red of Roses

I wasn't quite sure of my surroundings as I awoke in the cold bedroom alone that morning. Was the babe still asleep? Where is everybody? In attempt to understand my current situation, i rubbed my eyes and tried to gather information from each detail in the room. "his phone is gone" from the beside of where it rests A hazy light glowed in from west window. "what time is it? was it morning?" then, like a landslide, the information came pouring in. -its early valentines day morning -he is not in the room -the babes room is quiet - no footsteps from the hall -no bathroom fan humming(as always we leave it on to create white noise) "Hmmm..." I thought. "he must have taken M out to play" "how nice"...(pause)..."now i can sleep in" ...Half hour later a little knee in my ribcage is not my idea of being immersed from my slumber. But as usual the little critter knows the ropes In-&-out of her crib...and as usual im awoken from some minor pain in my body.(being that the bed is 12" fr the ground) elbow to the jaw- head butt-smack in the face..you know...the toddlers approach to: GOOOOOD Morning!!!!! Im Up! Play with me! routine. So i pull my stiff body out of bed and threw something decent on.(can't go walkin' around the inlaws in my undies) when low and behold, there, down the hallway, on the kitchen counter is 8X11 note saying " Happy Valentine's Day I love you SO Much" written on crisp white paper, propped against a big red box of See's chocolates. Giddy i was, giddy. And then as i came closer a small box was behind the note. I picked it up. It was heavy. From within a pretty little silver box with the words written : love Sean. And then from within that a little black velvet bag holding inside a tiny silver chain and locket. a Locket! " No, he didn't really get me what I actually wanted, did he?" thats crazy talk right? well with Him its always a surprise...but at least he tries...and for that it would be impolite and inconsiderate to complain. Oh it is Lovely! a F n is what he engraved upon it. its my initials is a......er...style of order, i guess. When I was a little girl a sweet old sister from my hometown ward gave me a little locket of my own and I loved it. But Im older now and who knows where that little locket be. I like to think of it as another opportunity to keep my dearest ones close to my heart. and he simply added these intertwined hearts. Thoughtful. Sweet.

Now Im in big trouble b/c all my two yr old wants is to look at "ring" as she calls it, then pursue to pry it open and look inside. Which does not have any photos at this time but that is a work-in-progress.

And for him you may wonder? Well he's always complaining of not having enough black socks, you know, for work. So once again TJ Maxx came through for me and I got him bouquet of black socks. Believe you and me, he was genuinly excited. It was cute. Oh and a nice DKNY tie. Seriously, its amazing how the littlest things came make a mans day.

Theres more to this tale but Im done for now. This here post was a huge step for humanity...er...me, that is.

All is Well!

Lovely Love-Day

The weekend started out like any other...get up with Emmery while the hubby slept in. As I made breakfast I was trying to think of something I could get him that day. I know he like candy of course so chocolates seemed like a good choice. So off we went to the Mall to pick up his favorite See's Candy. Truffles and Pecan buds, butterscotch and brittle....yummmm...all so good...but Hub's favorite Hands down, is the Peanut butter patties. So I got a one pound with half the box filled with Peanut butter patties, along with Peanut brittle and almond buds. I was quite disappointed because they were all out of the Pecan buds aka Turtles as they call em'. Wrapped with red paper and ready to go I headed back home. I arrived to a kiss on the lips and off he went to get his hair cut. Now time seemed especially slow...or maybe it was because he was actually gone for over and hour. I began to worry considering that he's usually back in 45 minutes. Oh well, so I started to get myself ready: i started curling my hair and painting my nails. I heard the garage door shut; he was home. But then 10 minutes had gone by and still no Hub to greet me upstairs. Curious as I was, I went down stairs where a beautiful bouquet of roses(and card)

was there to greet my eager eyes. I was so excited that he remembered what kind I like: peachy-pink and yellow colored. Red is pretty but predicable. Pink is nice too. But today he could do no wrong. I was going to make this a 'complaint free' day...remembering to tell myself..."just enjoy it and be thankful."

4 O'clock was drawing near...we were meeting our friends JC and Kelly at Texas Roadhouse. I needed to hurry in order to be ready to pick up the babysitter to leave before Emmery awoke from her nap. Everything was flowing ...so far were on time...we arrived to a predicable line covering the sidewalk of the entrance to the steakhouse. .. to then a predicable 1 1/2 wait to be seated. Was it worth it? NO....so we went to Logan's Steakhouse instead. NO WAIT!!! Hooray! I find that interesting b/c it is a copycat of Texas roadhouse. Prices are decent and food is good...whats the big deal that its not "texas roadhouse".

Anywho, Kelly and JC are this fun couple from our old ward whom we love to hang out with. Mostly over at there place b/c if we switched its likely they wouldn't come here. :0) They like their environment and the convenience of their home. Which I don't blame them...but we don't mind at all. So it was planned that we would all go out together last minute to Logan's. It was nice visiting with them. After dinner Sean and I didn't know what to do with ourselves being childless...so Kelly invited us to come over to their place play some games. So we did. It was short but sweet.

Then off to Burlington to do some shopping:0) and while we were there we saw a great deal on a table just fitting for a entertainment unit. We bought a huge 36 in TV for $50 but didn't have anything "sturdy" to put it on. 80$ bucks later we had one in the car ready to go home.

We have an awesome babysitter and we are so grateful that we were able to have the funds for this Valentines Date. I love you babe, you make me the "Luckiest" :0)