Happy V-Day (and Birthday)

Well, it has been another busy week and I am just getting to my (very long) Valentine's Day post.

We had a wonderful day that we started off a little differently. Caroline usually eats a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast and Jamey usually goes to the store to grab something to eat (although he has plenty of options here, but I don't think the morning trip to the store is really about eating breakfast!), but I decided to get up and cook them some heart-shaped pancakes and sausage. As you can imagine, Caroline was way more into this than Jamey. She was totally devastated when Jamey cut her heart pancake so she could eat it!

After breakfast, we gave Caroline her Valentine gift - some earrings, a Vera wallet to match the purse she got for Christmas, and some M&Ms.
Jamey, well, all he got were these yummies: He loves them and gets them for EVERY season they are made! Besides, it will save him that afternoon trip to the store to get his Mountain Dew and Reese's Cups there:)

Now, Jamey has always been an excellent, very thoughtful gift-giver. He (and Caroline) got me some G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S diamond stud earrings for Christmas that totally shocked me!!! I told him then he was in "good standing" at least through the upcoming year - meaning NO presents!! So...needless to say, I was surprised when someone knocked on the door Saturday morning with a dozen beautiful red roses for me.They also brought C a little something from her Daddy. He is usually offshore on V Day and sends her a surprise along with my flowers (I LOVE flowers of all sorts and for any - or no - reason at all!). This year Jamey, when he ordered mine, he ordered C a balloon with a bear and candy and told them to stick a red rose in with hers too, but they forgot the rose - don't worry because Jamey took one out of my bouquet to put in a vase for Caroline's room...he's too sweet! Here Caroline is with her delivery (she had just gotten out of her bath).We were suppose to go out to eat with our friends Jimbo and Susan that night, but Jimbo had that nasty stomach virus and we decided to pass. But our fam of 3 did end up going down to Destin and eating at the Crab Trap (very kid friendly). We did check out my favs - Louisiana Lagniappe and Osaka - first, but the waits were unbelievable. We were just down in Destin a few weeks ago with our friends and there was NOBODY there. Who knew they all came out for Valentine's Day?!?!

The day was perfect, but I know it was not the flowers or the food...it was all the time I got to spend with my two most favorite people in this world!!!

And then on Sunday, we celebrated (my) Daddy's 59th birthday! It was very low-key with a lunch and cake at Heather and Brian's house. But he was warned that we may have to spice it up a little next year for the big 6-0 (I bet you can imagine how excited he got over that one!)!! Matthew was upstairs sick, Riley Grace was in Montgomery, and Jack was asleep in his car seat. Maybe next year we can get a picture of Granddaddy with all 8 (maybe more) of his grandkids!!!