Valentines Day

This year for Valentines Day, Patrick and I decided to go simple! We usually do actually since our anniversary is just next month. So we went out on Saturday night to dinner and a movie... without ANY kids!! Yes, I finally left Landon! My friend said he did great! I'm so happy, I wasn't sure how he would be... he's kinda a momma's boy. Sometimes he cries a lot for Patrick when I'm not home. But she said he was great! Such a relief! We went to dinner at Chili's. Not super romantic or anything, but it's a place we both love and we didn't want to spend too much money. Then we went to see the Avatar in 3-D. I admit, I really didn't want to see it, Patrick did. But I was gonna be a nice wife and go with him... after all, I did drag him to see New Moon with me! :) I actually ended up liking it so that was an added bonus!On Sunday, Patrick woke up early with the baby and let me sleep in! Best present EVER!! All the mom's out there will agree with me on that! Once I got up, I made Patrick one of his favorite things for breakfast.... Biscuits and Gravy! Now in our 9 years together, I have tried to make this, and the gravy always turns out gross and tasting like flour. So I gave up a while ago on making this for him. He always asks his mom to make it for him whenever she comes. So when she was here at Christmas, she made it, and I realized that I could probably find a recipe for it online and then maybe I could finally make it for him. So I went to my fav online recipe source Allrecipes.com and searched it out. And this is what I found.

They turned out so yummy! Patrick LOVED it! I was so happy that I finally made good biscuits and gravy! Click here for the recipe! If you happen to want to try this yumm-o recipe, just FYI, this only made about 5 biscuits, so I doubled it and it was a perfect amount for our family.

After church, we came home and grilled steak and made crab legs. YUM!!! I forgot to take a picture of that though... we were too hungry I guess to remember! :)

Then for dessert, I made Patrick his favorite.... Bread Pudding. Neither one of us knew we liked bread pudding until a few years ago. So at Christmas time I decided to again look on Allrecipes.com and find a recipe to make my own. Again... I found a winner!!! Patrick L-O-V-E-D it!!! So I made it for him again for Valentines Day.

HERE is the recipe for that. Serve it with some ice cream and caramel sauce and it's to DIE for!!!!

After the baby went to bed, Patrick gave me a foot massage and back scratches... pretty much my favorite thing in the world! It was such a great weekend!

I was so happy to spend Valentines Day with 4 of the best Valentines around!