Valentine's Day!

Yay! For Valentine's Day! Who doesn't enjoy the day you get to celebrate love and romance with your Eternal Valentine!? Darren actually has all the romance, I just bring the goofy/ silliness to the marriage. =D This year we have been trying to save up $5,000 for moving costs, closing costs for our Omaha home, Creighton down deposits and other big expenses, so Darren told me, that we wouldn't be doing anything for Valentine's Day. I know that holidays aren't about the presents, just about spending time with the people you love, so it was no big deal to me, but I did think I was clever because I came up with the idea of the 12 Days of Valentine's!!! Yup, I thought of it all by myself, and I thought I was soooo clever, until I realized people all over the internet have been doing it for years. So much for my "original" idea! lol.

I had a blast coming up with and making cutsie cards that correlated with a treat/ small gift for the 12 days leading up to the big V-Day! I got him small things like, a pack of gum, Rolo's, Big Hunks, lots of candy with fun names I could use and then there was the biggie, a Jamba Juice gift card! The first day Darren was thrown back! lol. He was so confused, then I told him I was doing the 12 Days of Valentine's, and he got a BIG grin on his face. He came home later that day with a bag of Strawberry and Chocolate Swirled Fudge!!! Oh my goodness, it was heaven! Darren had decided he wanted to participate too! lol. He also got me a box of chocolates from our local chocolate shop called Florence's!

A few days before Valentine's, I was upstairs cleaning up and Kaiden comes running in with a famous, little blue box! My heart jumped, and I opened it up! If you have ever seen the 80's movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit, then you're probably familiar with the scene where Roger is jumping on a bed and is writing his wife a love letter. Roger starts it with "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!!! 1 one thousand, 2 one thousand, 3 one thousand!" Anyways I like to recite that to Darren quite often! Haha. So the necklace he picked out was quite PERFECT and I knew exactly why he got it! He is such a romantic and I love him for it!

And while we're on the topic of "love and romance" I bet alot of you didn't know that Darren and I knew we were going to marry each other during the first time we talked! In fact, I even wrote it down that night! lol. Of course I thought I was crazy, but I knew 100% we were going to live happily ever after! And Darren admited he had the same impression that night! It still makes me feel giddy when I think about it! We are a match made in heaven!!!!

Okay, back to our wonderful 2012 Valentine's Day! My parents always got us Valentine's pajamas, a small gift, and candy for Valentine's Day, I love how my mom tried to make each holiday special for us! This year I decided Kaiden was finally old enough to appreciate it! So "Cupid" came! Cupid got Kaiden a dinosaur movie called We're Back! and a travel fishing game, you know the ones where the fish open and close their mouths and you have to catch them all! lol.

And for fun, I used blue chalk to color the tips of his faux hawk blue! He was so excited he sat REALLY still the whole time! Don't worry, it washed out!) And Cupid got Jaxton some popsicle molds, for frozen smoothies and the movie "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs." This boy is small but he can EAT, so it was no surprise Cupid got him food related presents! lol. Jaxton can seriously eat a whole piece of pizza plus some in one setting and eats more than Kaiden does in a day! He stays fit by climbing up the stairs EVERY chance he gets! He is FAST!

The boys got ADORABLE matching Creighton hoodies from their Romriell Grandparents! Kaiden of course LOVES his because it is blue! I will add a picture later. I need to wash his because he has been requesting to wear and sleep in it for a few days! lol. This boy LOVES blue! And the hoodies fit so cute on our boys!

When my mom was here, she took the boys on a little shopping spree for her Valentine's Day gift! Jaxton got some teal and some dinosaur onesies and a pair of jeans and Kaiden got a few shirts!

And Grampa Michael got the boys some money which we used to help pay Cupid's delivery fee! lol.

Our BIG gift to Kaiden though, was going to Leo's in Idaho Falls! The past year we have been looking for a place similar to Chuck E. Cheeses to take Kaiden to and we could never find one. Well we were boppin' around Idaho Falls one day and I saw a sign"Pizza. Games. Play Land!" I told Darren to turn around. We walked in and looked around a bit. This place was HUGE! The play area was so big and there was so much to do! We ordered pizza and 50 tokens for the games. Kids under 3 are free in the play area so that was nice! Kaiden had a great time, we ended up staying there for 2 hours! Darren and I took turns playing with Kaiden and watching Jaxton. Kaiden turned in the tickets he won for an orange ball which he gave to his brother, a few suckers and one of those toys that pop up into the air and completeley catch you off guard even though you're expecting it every time! lol Since it was so last minute, I didn't have my camera on me! But I'm hoping we can go back before we leave! It was quite over priced, but I believe most things like that are. At least kaiden had fun and enjoyed himself! Which in turn makes us pretty happy!

On Valentine's evening we bribed Dallen over with some of Grandma Gae's sugar cookies, but I fumbled the ball. They are sooo finicky! I used my Kitchenaide mixer and a different kind of butter and they were duds. ='( Hey, it's a live and learn process with these cookies! Darren ordered pizza so I wouldn't have to cook, then we got the kids to bed and we all settled down and watched a movie. It was a fun and relaxing evening!

We hope everyone had as FABULOUS of a day as we did!!!