The Busy Day

Every year Valentine's Day is a busy day in my family.  Valentine's Day, my birthday, and my parent's anniversary are all on the same day.

This year, I woke up to tons of balloons, tulips, a large caramel mocha latte, and pink iced cinnamon rolls.  Talk about feeling loved! I gave Caleigh her Valentine's tote bag of goodies from Chad and I and Caleigh and I gave Chad his shirt and new paint brushes, paints, and canvases from us!

Chad was off of work so we dropped Caleigh off at preschool and then chilled until it was time to pick her up.
We picked her up from school and investigated the enormous amount of Valentine goodies she got from her classmates.  I could tell quite a few moms had been on Pinterest looking for ideas this year!

We went for a light lunch together at Chili's right after school.  It was so good.  I love their queso dip and salsa and their Southwestern eggrolls.  Yummy!  I knew I was in for a huge dinner so I didn't want to eat too much!

After Chili's, we dropped Caleigh off at her Nonnie's to celebrate Valentine's day with her and Chad and I went to see the movie Identity Theft.  We debated on what to see and I am so glad we chose this movie!  It was incredibly funny!  I could have done without the snake scene but other than that I enjoyed every second of the movie!

We picked up Caleigh and then headed home to start to prepare the crazy good meal that my mom had purchased for me to make on my birthday!  Mozzarella bites, salad, steak, baked potatoes, corn on the cob, and yeast rolls!  On the way home, Mish and Thomas call to invite us to eat at their house with them.  We take our food over and we have our delicious meal with them.  Mish and Thomas even gave me presents that night!  I love my new 31 tote!

This ended my actual birthday day.  We came home and all crashed for the evening.

That Saturday is when we celebrated with the rest of my family.  My mom made the traditional spaghetti dinner and we all exchanged Valentines, birthday and anniversary presents.

One of my "presents" from my mom was to be able to go out shopping and pick out the present I wanted for myself from her while she and Chad babysat earlier in the week.  I rarely get to have such a treat so I was more than thrilled to go shopping and take myself to get my nails done!

My Valentine's gifts to my sisters families and my mom and dad was Pinterest inspired as well!  It was strawberry and chocolate chip lazy cake cookies!  I assume they were a hit since I didn't hear any complaints about them.  I taste tested them and I was very pleased!  I also gave them chocolates and I have the kiddos giant swirl suckers and balloon on sticks!  Granny gave them the most loved present, pillows and blankets!

As an anniversary present I got my mom a tote bag.  I think she liked it!

Once again, I had an amazing birthday.  I feel so blessed to share my birthday with a day that celebrates one of the things that matters to me most in this world, LOVE.