Valentine's Day turned out differently then I thought it. But I'm grateful for it.
Brent and I made brunch together: pancake muffins and a breakfast casserole. Yummy!
While we cooked breakfast this little dude watched Cars, while holding all his cars.
Stopping to smell the roses carnations before eating.
We ended up going to a baptism late afternoon. It was announced last minute, so we weren't sure anyone from the branch would be there and we wanted to show our support. There was actually a good turn out since family from out of town was there.
Brent and I were going to cook our fancy dinner we got from Hyvee (which was disappointing when we cooked it the next day), but we were lazy and starving. So a heart shaped pizza and cookie dough from Papa Murphey's it was instead.
The pizza tasted amazing!
Our 'tent'
After putting the little one down for the night, we set up our campground! We decided to do an indoor camping thing for our Valentine date since 1) we didn't have money to go out and 2) we didn't have money to go out AND pay for a babysitter. Geesh. So expensive.
We set up our air mattress and sleeping bags and pillows. Then we created a fort using our kitchen chair and a quilt. Yes, this big pregnant woman managed to get that close to the ground and sleep through the night. I actually slept better on the air mattress and woke up only twice that night - a record as of the last month or so!
Brent and I were both tired and decided we were too lazy to make smores and play card games. So instead we did a few quizzes I had printed out a few weeks before. The first was a love language quiz. Our favorite marriage talk is from this guy, Dr. John L. Lund, called "For All Eternity". We've listened to it many times since being married and it is amazing! It has great advice on communication and how to better understand your spouse. We took the love language quiz when we were first married, but as we discovered taking it again, things have changed.
The different love languages are touch, verbal, and visual. I am a 12, 11, 4, which means I feel loved by touch (hugs, kisses, etc.) and verbal (talking, talking about plans and schedules, etc.) Brent on the other hand is a 5, 7, 15, which means he feels loved by visual (cleaning, acts of service, etc.). We both struggle feeling like the other one doesn't love us sometimes because I don't feel like I'm getting enough 'huggie-wuggie' and 'talkie-walkie', and Brent doesn't feel like he's getting enough 'doey-wooey'. We both talked about ways we can help each other and have resolved to think about the other's Love Language more.
We also took the Love Quest survey to remember what the other person's favorite things are. It should come in handy when trying to think about gifts!
Overall it was a good valentine's day. I'm glad I got to spend it with my loved ones :)
