And this my friends, is how we do Valentine's Day...

We started celebrating Valentine's Day at our house last Friday,

and it has been so fabulous that I don't even know where to start!

I hope you all felt lots of LOVE too!!! :)

In the midst of the million and one things I had planned to get

accomplished on Friday, I get a call from Brian telling me that it's

pretty important that I be home by 5PM. HUH?! Seriously. And

no explanation either?! I've learned in the past not to ask

questions... just do what I'm told. So... when I got home,

promptly at 5PM, this was waiting for me...

Just in case you didn't catch it, these are...

FRONT ROW tickets to see Rascal Flatts & Sara Evans!!!

And it was all kinds of awesome. Good thing I picked up a new outfit

Friday... you know, "just in case"! Lol. I took advantage of those A+ 

seats and snapped wayyy too many pics during the concert so I will do a 

separate post and share all of them later on, but I really must share one

more now...

YEP!!... Joe Don handed me his guitar pick during the encore!

Me = super ecstatic

I spent the rest of the weekend in the kitchen baking and getting

all of my VD crafts finished up. I really tried to think outside the box

for the kids gifts and this is what I came up with...

Ryan's "Gumball Machine"

Kaleigh's "Gumball Machine"

I filled them with their favorite candies and stuck in a gift

certificate for the movies. They loved them!

I made cookies and cake balls and RK treat hearts...

And cupcakes...

{pink velvet cupcakes with white chocolate buttercream icing}

I finished up Ryan's valentines for school...

And made up some baskets for my family with all of my goodies...

On Monday night, we met my parents and Jayson & Haley for

dinner at Cracker Barrel...

{please excuse the "serial killer" look... he "thought"

he was being funny... ha. ha.}

I got this from my sweet mother, and I am so IN LOVE with

these measuring spoons!! :)

And last night, we celebrated with our own little VD party with TONS 

of food and Wii bowling. I must have gained 5 pounds already this week!

Welcome to our "party"...

We had...

Pizza with pepperoni "hearts"

 Butter Meltaways

Cucumber Sandwiches

Pecan Praline Cookies

The kiddos made Brian a candygram...

 I got him tickets to the Bama-Miss St. basketball game...

 I scored BIG with some Hello Kitty too...

And the kids seemed to enjoy their Valentine's too...

I'd say Valentine's Day was a success!!! :)