Valentines Surprise

Dave and I had been apart for the past two weeks so it was fitting that our first weekend back home together was Valentines Day weekend. It was so nice to see him and give him our tile surprise but my favorite part of getting him home was watching how excited he was to run upstairs and look at Levi in his crib. I put Levi to bed before I picked Dave up at the airport (my Dad and brother were still in town to watch him) and so Dave missed out on seeing his smiley face. So he quietly crept into his room and picked him and cuddled him for a few minutes before he was ready to come back downstairs. I just melted! 

On Saturday we just played catch up around the house--laundry, cleaning, relaxing, enjoying each other's company. I had some leftover cleaning to do from our demo and in the very back portion of my cabinet I found my old espresso maker (thanks Mom & Dad for christmas circa 2002!) and crepe maker! We figured out how to work it and enjoyed quite a few (too many) homemade lattes. We've been together long enough (this was our 8th V day) to know the way to each other's hearts... For me= the bright red tulips that were sitting on our kitchen table when he got back from running errands. For him= the chicken cordon bleu I made him for dinner that night. That's LOVE! :)

We went to church on Sunday which is always nice when we've been away. The ladies in the nursery were excited to see Levi and he seems excited to be there. After the service they gave us this craft that all the kids made:

A lovely little Valentines Day poem...

And then what we can only assume was supposed to be a picture of his hand???
We think his chubby little foot is cute too, but it doesn't make much sense like this! :)

I knew Dave had also made surprise dinner plans. (I wasn't snooping, it was cryptically written "dinner" on our shared google calendar!) My sister showed up Sunday afternoon to babysit Levi (thanks again Sarah!) and Dave told me we had to be dressed and out the door by 5:15. (Which, btw, I was a little concerned that we're getting so old that we had to have dinner reservations at 5:30 on a Sunday night!) He told me we could walk to where we were going so as we walked down our street he kept trying to get me to guess. I was doing a horrible job guessing so we just enjoyed our walk together and then all of a sudden I looked into a storefront window and saw people we knew! Our friends Krista and Dave were standing inside the place that offers cooking classes. For a split second I thought "coincidence" and then three more couples arrived and we knew our men had been in on the planning together. It was such a fun night of laughing and eating and even a little cooking. We learned how to make breadsticks, a salad, this fantastic eggplant dish, shrimp scampi and a chocolate dessert. What a great idea guys!

Dave was an expert chopper!

All the girls:
Krista, Megan, Becky, Alison, Sheri 

The whole group.