CeLEbRAte!

Cory and I have now spent 8 Valentine's Days together. Like any other cause for celebration, I've learned that I have to make it into something or nothing will happen. Don't get me wrong, Cory has always been great to buy me flowers, but instead of hitting the gym like we have in the past, we really celebrated this year. A highlight of the day was making cookies. I took a break from my diet, so this was a real treat for me. We made our traditional heart-shaped sugar cookies and also turned one of our favorites - Homemade Oreos - into a valentine's treat. When Cory got home we went to dinner at Applebees (I've heard mixed reviews, but we like it despite it being a chain restaurant). We came home and frosted/decorated our sugar cookies. Brady really enjoyed decorating his. There's no way he was stopping with sprinkes, and he managed to cover about ever part of that cookie with a piece of candy. He doesn't usually get sweets like this, and I absolutely LOVED watching him eat that cookie. After we ate our cookies we opened the presents that I'd purchased for all of us. Yes, I bought my own present, but they were all surprises to Cory. I found as long as someone is surprised I'm happy. After Brady was in bed (with his new blue Hot Wheel clutched in his fist) we watched a Nicholas Cage movie called "Next" that I'd checked out from the library. That, by the way, is an excellent source of new release DVDs, and you get them for three weeks rather than 1 or 5 days depending on how much $ you want to spend. It was a great day, and here is a slide show so you can see for yourself.