Our Valentine's Weekend

This post is only overdue by about a month... But for anyone that knows Miles and I well, we love our holiday's. We still celebrate the anniversary of our first date,  of our first kiss, date night Wednesday's, the anniversary of our engagement, our wedding, and than all the nationally recognized holidays. We love celebrating us, and more often than not we go well above and beyond with our celebration. It gets kind of expensive.
So this year for Valentine's Day we decided that since we had a long weekend, we'd spread out our Valentine's Day and give ourselves a budget. We decided to focus on spending time together, not spending money on one another. So our Valenetine's weekend consisted of:
Thursday: we made Valentine's sugar cookies
Friday: we went out to dinner and saw Valentine's Day the movie with my sister Nikki
Saturday: Miles surprised me with breakfast in bed and gave me beautiful calla lillies and my favorite perfume, burberry brit, then we went snowboarding all day.
Sunday: we slept in and cuddled all morning, then I made Miles breakfast in bed complete with heart shaped toast. We were bad kids and only made it to Sacrament meeting. Then we built a snowman, took Nixon for a walk, and we cooked dinner together. I set up a special indoor picnic complete with glow in the dark stars (that I cut out and painted with glow in the dark paint because no where in Rexburg had glow in the dark stars!) and I put up white chinese lanterns, set out a blanket and cut out 14 hearts each with a different reason I love Miles on the back. I sprinkled the ground with Hershey's kisses so that Miles knew I "kissed the ground he walks on" and I made special place settings with our initials wrapped around the napkin. I also had some outdoor sounds playing in the background, like crickets and bullfrogs and the occasional owl hoot. After dinner we laid on the blanket and star gazed. When Miles and I were dating and he first told me that he loved me, I didn't say it back right away. It wasn't awkward or anything, he whispered it in my ear as he was saying goodnight and then left, he didn't linger waiting to hear it back, but I wanted him to know that I truly meant it when I told him I loved him too. I didn't want him to think I was just saying it to say it back. So the next day I snuck in to his room at the Ridge and wrote with glow in the dark stars on his ceiling over his bed: "ti amo" and "sogno di me" which is Italian for "I love you" and "Dream of Me" so that every night he would turn the lights off and think of me before he went to bed. So for in memory of that very special occasion,  I decided to write love messages with the stars for Miles to find on our ceiling. Also, our first Valentine's Day together, when we were dating and I gave Miles a little journal that I had been writing in with letters to him and excerpts from my personal journal entires that were about him and added pictures or objects that went along with each post. In honor of that tradition we wrote each other a letter in our journal. It's become a very special journal that we keep together, writing love letters and about exciting experiences together.
Monday: we had school off, so Miles and I went snowboarding again! We're making our season passes worth it.
It was the perfect Valentine's weekend that didn't cost us much. I love my handsome hubby and I'm really grateful for a holiday that celebrates our love.