valentine's day

Okay, so I may be a little delayed on this post but I just uploaded the pictures this morning(procrastinate much, Jerusha?? lol). So my Valentine's Day was lovely in every way this year! I woke up to do some cleaning before Chris came over and then I put on my Valentiney outfit, including my heart cardigan(people say you shouldn't wear hearts on Valentine's Day because it's as tacky as wearing Christmas sweaters, but I'm like whatever. I like being tacky. Plus it's cute! =]). Chris came over and surprised me with a dozen red roses!! Gorgeous. My first roses too, so even more special. :)

cell phone pic....but still beautiful!

We hadn't decided what we really wanted to do that day. If we wanted to just hang out at my house or go on a date, since it's basically the only day we're really allowed to. So we just hung out for a little while playing pool and watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on tv. Then Chris suggested we go to the Downtown Aquarium since he had been forever and thought it was pretty cool. The restaurant was of course already full, but we decided we might as well go the cheaper route for food, so we decided on Good Times on 16th Street Mall. So we went on a date! Super fun too!! And I have pictures! =]

I loved the neon purple fish. =]

Anemones are so strangely cool.

I've always had a thing for jellyfish...

Touching the rays.

Silly gift store visors. =)

My good pal Sharky! What an original name too. haha.

How adorable is he? :) <3

Delicious cherry custard with cherry-filled heart shaped chocolates! YUM!

Eating the tasty custard at Good Times!

And there you have it! Love my boyfriend and fun dates.

sparkly

Last night it snowed a couple inches. Big, feathery, fairy land flakes too. Gorgeous. But this morning the sun is shining and there's a bright blue sky! So all the white just sparkles. It's rather lovely. And that's how life is: sparkly. My life may not be perfect in every way, I may have boring days(reason why I haven't blogged in over a week or so) and not so great days, but really all in all, it sparkles. Cheesy maybe, yes, but still. :P
I have a wonderful family, an amazing boyfriend, and I have friends coming to visit soon! I get to see Liz from South Dakota whom I haven't seen since the 4th of July next week!! And then another South Dakota friend in March and then California friends whom I haven't seen in over a year in April!! YAY! :) I'm pretty excited!
Friday, Lydia and I have Kid's Night Out again. We're going to make fun heart sugar cookies! And Saturday is of course Valentine's Day! I don't really have any big plans...I'm not even sure Chris and I are going out then, but he'll definitely be with me and no matter what we do, it will be lovely I'm sure!
Last Saturday, Rebecca came over to hang out which was fun! We went and got Starbucks at the biggest Starbucks out there, I swear. And then we went and chilled at the mall for a little while. I didn't feel that great that day, which sucked....but nonetheless still fun! Although Saturday night I think I got like 4 hours of sleep. I laid in bed for hours not able to fall asleep, so I was rather exhausted Sunday and we had company too. *sigh* so it goes. And that's my life. Sparkly. :)
Anyways, back to work. Happy Wednesday folks!!