February 14

Happy Valentines Day!

I am so thankful that God brought Brian into my life - he is truly my other half. He is my best friend, my lover and my best friend.  Happy Valentines Babes!

Here are a few pictures from our special dinner today:

Our gifts to each other before dinner:

Chocolates from my sweetie!

The Card Brian gave me - so sweet! I can't wait until we are all old and gray and still pinching each others behinds ;) 

The card I gave Brian ;)

 You'll have to guess the hidden word ;)

 Gummy worms from me

 A Hub-Man for my Man ;)

 My Sweet husband :)  - he liked the card ;)

 Dessert!! Reese's Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cake - SO YUMMY! Recipe can be found HERE

 Our Dinner - SO delicious! It's the Pioneer Woman's Pork Roast with Onions & Apples - one of our favorites!

 Hope you had a good valentines day as well - remember that The real Love story was written many many years ago When Jesus died for you and me - he gave his life for you that's how much he loved you!!

February 12

Went to church this morning - great service. Pastor John talked about SEX - yes, SEX in church and we didn't die, we didn't all burn up and go to hell ;)  He taught on the lies that people believe about sex - fantastic information!

We came home and had lunch then we finished unpacking the basement. Brian put up his flags in the "man land" (or more like the "family room") He also put up some other"man land" items. Then we went upstairs and got a bunch of items hung on the walls and some curtains put up - pictures to come at a later date ;)

I got all our Valentines decorations put up - I think they are cute, even if it's only for a few days ;) 

 Sadly Bernice need's batteries....

 This is the bear that Brian got for me on our first Valentines Day - he's so cute :)  And this is the card we got from Brian's mom :) It was very sweet!!

Do you decorate for Valentines Day? My husband thinks I'm weird ;)

February 11

Today was a pretty lazy day - one that was much needed! Got to spend some good quality time with my main man :)

He also took me to dinner tonight at a pop-up restaurant (that was only open for this weekend) and the chef was a guy that we met at one of our Pampered Chef shows in December.  This was the menu:

Course 1
スープ
Green Iowa Egg Drop Soup
Shiitake ginger shallot garlic rice

Sweet Corn Coconut Chowder
Tofu carrot onion celery garlic ginger

Course 2
前菜
Sausage Stuffed Squid Hoods
Breakfast sausage tempura sticky rice chili

Ginger Glazed“Beef”Tips
Daikon slaw sake cabbage satin rice wine

Course 3
寿司
Pork Sushi
Sticky rice sesame bacon ham apple sweet corn brown sugar

Vegetable Sushi
Seaweed avocado carrot cucumber chive sweet corn wasabi

Course 4
デザート
Fried Ice Cream
Pound cake tempura raspberry chocolate peanut

Cinnamon Sugar Toast
Apple pie spice sticky rice lychee cherry blueberry


The food was amazing - and so unique - something that is hard to find here in Iowa ;)  I think the Pork Sushi was our favorite - the flavors were AMAZING!!

I was also told that this is only part one of Valentines Day ;) So we'll see what else my man has up his sleeve - and yes, he's making me wait until next FRIDAY for the rest! lol

What do you have planned for Valentines Day?  Any traditions?