Happy Move in Week

And Happy Valentine's Day! As you well may know, Valentine's Day is quite the to-do around our house. Sweet Husband started a tradition several years ago where he prepares a delicious meal while his favorite ladies get all dolled up for a big date. Now this isn't just any meal. There is a formal invitation for each of us.

2007

Our evenings have even been known to have a scrumptious menu printed for us to drool over!

The ladies love their Shirley Temples with festive ice and a tiny umbrellas!

Oh, and check out the appetizers that are brought to us as we are preparing for dinner...tomato and cucumber canapes and fresh berries.

Let's take a stroll down Memory Lane... Here we are in 2007 at the Inaugural Valentine's Dinner.

In 2008, apparently dinner was sooo delicious that we forgot to take a picture together...but we have a few individual shots from dessert!

The dessert is also homemade. Look at that!!!Strawberry-Caramel-Heaven-in-a-Dish by the fire with my favorite man! I am a lucky girl!

(...and apparently G decided to have her own photo shoot when we weren't looking :)

2009-- Our first Valentine's Date as an official family!

Finally, we all had the same last name!

2010--Oh, my...have you noticed how much the girls have grown up over the last few years! I just realized that this year G is the same age that Diva was in the first picture!!!

Needless to say, we have quite a bit going on in our lives, but Husband still wanted us to have our traditional Valentine's Day Dinner. What could we do.....? Something special... Then it hit us.Valentine's Dinner should be our first meal at the new house!!! Who cares if we don't have furniture? It doesn't matter if we don't have pots and pans to cook with...or fully stocked bathrooms in which to curl our hair. This would be our first ever meal in our house and it could be casual.

Diva and I were in charge of picking up dinner while Husband and G headed over to set things up. When we arrived, we found a trail of candles leading from the back door to the living room.

They had created an intimate table for four in front of the fire place and even brought real dishes for us to dine on. Not that I don't enjoy Chinese take out boxes, but this was a fabulous unexpected delight!

Speaking of unexpected delights...looks like this house comes with one!

This sweet little stray followed Husband around while he worked in the yard all weekend long. He wasn't wearing a collar and we heard from the neighbors that they've been unsuccessful in finding his family.

He now goes by Louie.

Hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day! I'm working really hard to get pictures ready to share from our work this past weekend...but it is moving week, so be kind to me :)