Valentine's Day

For Valentine's day this year, we celebrated the day before--Saturday. Brian and I went to a fireside they had for couples, then we went out to dinner. The fireside was interesting. I didn't quite get the speaker, but the song that was sung at the beginning was really good. A lady in my ward sang, "He Thought He Knew What Love Was." After it was over, Brian spoiled me and took me to The Melting Pot. There is a new one open in Glendale, so it's nice we didn't have to drive so far. It was a special Valentine's dinner--we had four courses...a cheese dip appetizer, salads, meat entree and dessert. It is all very tasty and was a nice dinner with Brian. When we left we got a little gift bag with a frame (they took our picture), a bottle of one of their seasonings, mints, and a chocolate fondue bar. It was a nice Valentine's day with my Valentine.

On Sunday, we gave the girls their own little box of conversation hearts and they had fun reading them and eating them before breakfast and church. I got Brian some dress shirts, ties and a belt. Romantic! It was stuff he needed, so he was excited. At church we had our ward conference. It was good timing as our stake theme this year--and the theme of our conference--was Love one Another. I went to young women's during the last hour for our last ward conference of the year. Ellie had the talk in primary and did a great job. I was a little worried she would get scared or something and not do it, but she did great. She even spoke loudly. She was cute. After church we went to my parents' house for dinner. Brian ended up staying home with Libby. Man it's hard to have to follow through with consequences. But hopefully it'll make a difference. We had haystacks over there with ice cream sundaes for dessert. My mom had made the kids a Valentine gift--the cutest pink print pillow cases. Ruby got the same fabric but as a blanket. The boys got a baseball print. It was fun.