Friday the 13th and Valentine's Day

What a full weekend we had! Michael headed to VA and Lauren shut herself in her room due to large amounts of AP U.S. History homework. Ahhhh......

Danny and I are not big Valentine's Day people but since we are newlyweds we embraced the 'holiday' appropriately and enthusiastically. In honor of Friday the 13th I made heart shaped brownies for Danny and Lauren. And yes, I even dusted them with powdered sugar.

That night Danny treated me to dinner at Bonefish Grill. If you have not been, I recommend highly. Its sorta comparable to a seafood P.F. Chang's. Its a chain but you can always count on it for a great meal. It was wayyyy yum and my hubby was smart enough to know that reservations on the 14th would be crazy.

On Saturday we had a wedding to go to at church for a young couple in our SS class. It is his first and her second. This was suppose to be 'low key' and casual and simple and for the purposes of just getting married. Their plans are to have a larger ceremony and reception in May. Anyway, congrats to Kozue and Keagan! The bride is Asian --- how could he go wrong???!

(Check out Danny's tie; it was my father's!)

Lauren got me dark chocolate for V day. But not just ANY dark chocolate. Its Lindt Chili dark chocolate and its FABULOUS! I'd been wanting to try it for a while and can't believe she was thoughtful enough to get it for me. The taste is dark chocolate but then this KICK. N I C E ! The best part was the note she attached with it that read: "To the woman who taught me to be a little sweet, a little spicey and a child of God. Happy Valentine's Day!" I feel so loved :)


Saturday afternoon Danny and I went to see the movie Defiance. It was a GREAT movie, and definitely worth checking out on video if you miss it in the theatres. If you like Holocaust history, this is one movie that is "uplifting" considering the subject matter. I don't know what it is, but even after working at the U.S. Holocaust Museum and knowing much more than I wanted to about this subject, when you haven't been around if for awhile, its still shocking to relearn the horror of those atrocities.

On a side note, when I was checking out the Defiance website, I went to the bottom of the site and clicked on the link "Resources" and no surprise was a blurb about the U.S. Holocaust Museum. The cool thing is they grabbed a graphic from the Holocaust site that I designed. I know, it seems dumb, but I immediately recognized it and knew my work. Its just kinda cool. Or perhaps I am so pathetic that I am living in my past gory. I mean glory.