My favorite quote from the evening...anyone who can guess who said first wins something super special.... "I think I just bit my lip in anger"

Thanks so much Boston Folks for keeping me laughing and entertained for the best hour on the mountain EVER! Let's go again....

I have decided Valentine's Day needs to be forgotten. I'm sure it causes more fights than good. Shouldn't you tell your significant other you love them everyday, not just because someone tells you to? Now, if only it were that easy to be ok with not giving into the stupid holiday.

Since Daren works until midnight, I decided to surprise him on Friday night when he got home from work. This is what he got to come home to....

• A giant balloon, something in which I've given him since we first started dating.
• Mini Heart Shaped cheesecakes...he won't eat any other treat
• Bubble Bath and Rose Pedals that you put into the bath. He's kind of a girl that way he really likes his baths.
• Sweet Tart conversation hearts
• A wall charger for his iPod
• A plate that says You Are Special Today. When he was growing up his parents had a similar plate. If it was their birthday or they were good at church they would get to eat on the plate. I will now carry that onto our children.

He was surprised! He also surprised me with a giant stuffed bear.

On actual Valentine's Day, we went to a movie that afternoon with the fam. We went and saw Taken. Not exactly what I was expecting but thats ok. Unfortunately, I got really sick after the movie. I wasn't up for much anyways that day but that really put a damper on the day. We ended up going grocery shopping! wooo hooo! Then got a RedBox and Old Grist Mill(I got soup...) to go and went home and went to bed. But overall, I'm not mad about how the day turned out. I love my husband!!!!!!

On another note, finally finished the stripes on Friday. It was quite a task to do it one handed, hence the reason their is paint all over my splint thing. Sorry the picture is so small, my camera was out in the car and all I had was my phone. Didn't really get to do the faux finish as planned but I think it looks really good still. Every night, when we're going to bed, Daren goes on and on about how it just makes the room look so much better. He wasn't so sure about it but now that he sees it he is happy. Which I, of course, love to hear!!

Like I said, I wanted birthday cake...So that is exactly what me and Michael got after school. It was a bit much I couldn't finish it all. So, I shared with AJ. Followed by LaBeau's for dinner....

Thursday was your pretty basic day. I did nothing until my brothers got home... then we played games and Wii Fit! Hoola Hoop Record 3294 spins, can anyone beat that?

Friday didn't really do much....Oh here's a funny story....well, it's too confusing on a blog so to make a long story short. We tried to go to dinner with Daren but as texts tend to be it was too confusing and we ended up in 2 different spots. Whoops.

On Saturday we went to lunch at the Coppermill with Kelristopher. I really like eating out...can ya tell??

After lunch, me and the boys finally went and bought the paint for my bedroom. We didn't get the stripes done due to not enough tape... Like?? I'll be sure to post pictures of the completed room. Well, the paint it'll be some time before we get the new bed I'm dying for!

Don't let all these good times deceive you...there were bad things from the week....

• I found a freaking grey hair in my head!! Shut up... I thought those came later in life...Maybe I was just seeing things???
• I have a spiderish looking vein on my leg...is that normal? I hope again I'm just paranoid of early aging...?
• My ipod decided it hates me so it cleared all my music from it...and of course my computer was not happy with me awhile back so I decided to delete music off of it so now I only have 700 songs on my ipod. Most of it is Daren's and we definitely don't agree on the term "good music"
• My hand is "healed"(as the doctor said) but hurts. It swells up quite a bit after doing too much with it. Bummer dude.
  

So, since January 31st I have been in charge of my brothers. Sure they are probably old enough to ultimately take care of themselves, minus getting up and ready for school. But it's always a good time when I'm around so I have been staying there. So on Saturday, we went to Happy Sushi. We decided to try "Heart Attack"- jalepenjo halves, spicy tuna, cream cheese- No thanks. I won't have that again. That with the Mexican Crunch Roll, Vegas Roll(also spicy) and AJ's Ramen(which burns your lips as well...) my stomach was overloaded with spicyness. Oh I could eat there everyday though! The fun really began on Sunday, with the superbowl. Kelsi and I decided we were going to have a nice get together and watch the game. And what superbowl party doesn't have food....We had fondue. It was so wonderful, the best fondue we've ever done. Thanks to Crystal for the good cheese recipe... Michael and I had pretty much devoured it all before Kelristopher showed up(thanks to whoever stole Steven's car, it made it so they were late!)