Hearts, Stars & Horseshoes...

Valentine's Day once again decided to grace us with its presence. And quite honestly, I have a like, dislike relationship with the whole holiday - if you can call it that.

I tend to get a little stressed about what to get the one I love - do guys like to get flowers? Candy? A good book? Over the past few years, I have settled at Chocolates - one of his favorite kinds. But herein also lies a problem - Easter is right around the corner, when his REAL favorite kinds of candy come out.

Derick outdid himself one more time this year by researching how to MAKE me a dozen roses! He made me a dozen red and purple origami roses (in the photo above) and then spritzed them with his cologne! They are SO neat! I sat there looking at them for awhile until he asked me if I wanted him to show me how to make them. So, self-proclaimed Mr. Non-Creativity broke out a little of his creative side to make me my valentine's day present. How cute!

Then, if that weren't cute enough -- my dad pulled out all the stops again! He called us as we were on our way to Target to check out some things and just get out of the house! He said to swing by because he had some stuff in the back of the car for Derick. So, we trucked over there and found out that he had bought us ALL of the groceries to make the Wild Rice soup and his Chili recipe that I had been asking for! I mean EVERYTHING to make it too- Butter, bullion cubes, EVERYTHING! He is one amazing dad!

Saturday, I began my new 30-day workout routine and followed-through into Sunday. I began the Jillian Michaels 30-day shred. and YEOW I can FEEL it already! The workout was pretty decent. At the end, I was tired, sweaty and had noodle legs! But I am really pumped to stick with this to see some results!! Stairs are my Nemesis so far the past couple of days.

I hope that you and your loved ones were able to spend some time together whether or not you believe in celebrating the day, or not :)

-L