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As I was going through my Valentine’s Day photos, I couldn’t believe I didn’t take one of TJ and me over the weekend! So, I only have pictures of the kids, but don’t let that worry you… TJ is my first Valentine and we got to have a fun date out together out at the movies! He also surprised me with a huge box of delicious chocolates. He never has the car since he walks to work so I was wondering how or if he’d get me a gift but then on Saturday afternoon, a box was delivered and it was the best surprise ever!

Eva had a Valentine’s Day party at her school on Friday. That morning, we turned on Disney music, danced around, and put together her valentines. She wrote her name on each card and was so excited about them. She was a little worried about having to give them away, but I explained to her she would give hers out (get to keep one for herself) and in exchange, she’d get a dozen others from her friends at school. Well, I got her dressed up, did her hair and nails, then dropped her off. Well, when I picked her up from school and went through her school bag to see what she brought home like usual, I noticed ALL of her valentines were still in her bag. I couldn’t believe it. Did she not want to give them away? How did the two parents and one teacher not notice this was going on? There was a 3 to 1 kid to teacher, so I just couldn’t understand what happened. I asked Eva what happened and she said she just didn’t know what to do. She wasn’t as distraught as I was, I think I was annoyed no one noticed little Eva sitting there not passing out her valentines. Anyway, she passed them out the next school day and all is well.

We started off Christmas Eve with donuts from our favorite bakery in Lehi. You know it’s going to be a great day when it starts off with donuts, am I right? We had lunch later in the day with Tj’s parents and brother’s family at Cubby’s then all went over to Eva’s grandparents’ house for lots of fun! The kids played bingo, decorated sugar cookies for Santa, had a little gift exchange, and then a Christmas Spiritual thought about following the footsteps of Christ. It was so sweet. We turned off the lights and then the kids had flashlights and went on a little scavenger hunt. We then wrapped up the night with the kids singing Christmas carols and opening up new jammies. Christmas is a whole new ball game with kids. It’s so magical and absolutely precious.

We were so lucky to get two date nights in ONE weekend in December. We rarely go on dates, and so to have two in a row was nuts. We had kind of had an off day though so it almost didn’t happen, but we already had tickets to see Home Alone at the Utah Symphony (they played the soundtrack while the movie played on a projector, it was awesome!) so we decided to still go.

We got off to a late start and my anxiety level was already at like a 9/10 (see previous postpartum aftermath post ha!) and then we hit TERRIBLE traffic heading up to Salt Lake. We were going so slow and changed lanes, and of course got into an accident. That delayed us another hour, since we had to wait for the police and do a report. Thankfully everyone was fine and the cars weren’t in terrible shape. I told TJ we should just head back but then we just started laughing at how terrible our whole day had been. We kept making up funny scenarios of where the guy who’s car we hit would have just yelled out the window and said, “Don’t worry about it, have a great day!” Or, “Thanks guys, you actually did me a favor.” Or, “Here’s one million dollars, don’t worry about my car!” Sounds really dumb when I write it out now, but it cheered us up (plus I treated myself to a diet coke!) and we ended up making the movie at intermission and caught the second half. Afterwards, we walked around Temple Square a bit and admired the temple and temple grounds where we were married in, all lit up in Christmas lights! It was a bittersweet date, our car still has a dent, but we had fun!