I LOVE US!

Have you seen the Hallmark commercial for Valentine's Day, (click here to view it). Anyway Shea and I saw it and loved it! So here are the words to it : "Valentine's Day is NOT for saying I Love You! It's for saying I Love US! I love who we are together and how we've grown; from our nervous conversations to the one we two have become. Valentine's Day is taking the time to saying I Love US!"

So this year we had some US time!
Connor had just come down with a bad cold so he had to crash our party. So we did a quick dinner at a local sandwich place, called Gator Jack's. Then we went to the store and found some candy for US! I love that family comes first and we couldn't leave our sick little boy and so we had a nice Valentine's Day with him too. We even got him a balloon! And he really enjoyed it once he wasn't so sick.

Our little Love Bug!

Shea surprised me with a "love note" and some cash that he insisted I spend on myself shopping. Since I never get too anymore. And then this weekend we drove to a big mall in Boise where I got to shop to my hearts content. LOVED IT! LOVE SHEA!


When Connor got better the next week, we went to dinner at Olive Garden just US! And had a great time talking about our silly stories and dating blunders. It is so fun looking back at all our US memories!

And for a little bit of Holiday History:

Saint Valentine's Day, is a celebration of love and affection between courting couples. The day first became associated with romantic love in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

According to legend St Valentine was persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II in person. Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him, attempting to get him to convert to Roman paganism in order to save his life. Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead. Because of this, he was executed. Before his execution, he is reported to have performed a miracle by healing the blind daughter of his jailer. On the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he would have written the "first valentine" card himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved, as the jailer's daughter whom he had befriended and healed, or both. It was a note that read "From your Valentine."