Love is in the air

awww Valentine's Day...I remember the days when I didn't really care about this holiday- and it wasn't cause I was bitter and single, meh, just wasn't really that exciting to me.  I'd prefer to get surprised on a random day when I REALLY wasn't expecting it.  Since marrying the love of my life I'm able to appreciate it as another great opportunity to express my love and appreciation for code so I can deal with it :)  Plus I will always love chick flicks so how bad could it be?

So we, like most married veterans, went out to eat the day before Valentine's Day-not necessarily to beat the rush but because there was a SWEET group-on, yeah it was ridiculously good.  We went to Merche which is just off 290 and huffmeister near the cypress medical center/hospital there.  It was pretty good-itallian/spanish fusion place.  Small, intimate setting-had to have been no more than forty tables etc.  I got this rotissary chicken with a chocolate/chilli sauce.  It was pretty good, but I'm lazy and would have preferred boneless-less work, but still good, and Code got the filet mignon.  I also got my beautiful bouquet when Code came home Monday evening.  I'll admit shopping for me on Valentine's day is hard cause I don't like the whole cliche rose thing...they're way expensive and they're not even my favorite flowers.  However my favorite flower, the daisy-especially gerber daisies, are nigh-impossible to find on V-day, atleast in a big bouquet of them, so he managed to find a bouquet that was more daisies than roses and I love it :)

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On Valentine's day morning I woke up to find my kind of chocolates (if I have to go fancy chocolates I prefer See's but I'm kind of See'sed out lately) and a beautiful card that I'll admit got me a little teary-eyed

Then this is what code came home to when he got home from work:

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I got these cookies at a local bakery: frosted -off of 529- because they said the cake I was ordering didn't cost enough or something and I had to buy something else...yeah....so whatever I went a long with it.  That was my big surprise for Code-we always talk longingly about our wedding cake on the day of our wedding-how yummy it was and how we weren't able to freeze it since both our parents traveled to be there etc.  So I ordered a replica.  It was so cute and to be honest kind of how I originally envisioned our cake looking-a little more modern and fun.  I gave them a pic of our cake so they had an idea of the color schemes and polka dots etc. and wrote on that pic that I wanted a white cake, with white butter creme frosting and raspberry filling.  I'm pretty sure one of our teirs from the wedding was white with raspberry and we never got to try that one-we had the chocolate teir with raspberry.  So I got the cake was so excited-finally found two gerber daisies to put ontop just like our cake even though they were the wrong color and presented it to cody after dinner:

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You can imagine my dissapointment when we cut into it-I was waiting for the bright red strip to show and it was boring vanilla filling....no offense to you plain lovers out there-but why would I want a vanilla cake with vanilla frosting and vanilla filling?! I sent an email to the bakery today-I posted it on facebook so let's hope they take me seriously.  Sometimes I feel like I have to be a 50 year old woman with a temper to get attention in these types of situations.

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Afterwards we curled up and watched Return to Me which is just what I needed after a hectic day of running around :) 

But it was a great day and I am just so thankful for cody and his love and support-never questioning or thinking I'm weird for random bouts of emotion etc but just accepting me and loving me through it all.  I am so lucky and am so excited to go to the dr's this friday for our ultrasound and who knows....finding out the gender??? what are ya'll's guesses?  Code says boy and I say girl so we need some tie-breakers :)