The Day of Love?!!

Our little family has been under the weather, sicker than dogs, and feeling quit lousy for three or more weeks now! Come on! Let it end! This past weekend turned out to be life of laying in bed, being sick, and miserable. So when I went to bed Sunday night I was NOT excited about waking up Monday morning-- Valentine's Day and being cutsie-tootsie with hearts, loves, and all that jazz! I admit, I felt a little bah-humbug about Valentine's Day! I just didn't feel good!

Well I not only woke up feeling worst Monday morning, but my eye was completely swollen with green boogies coming out and I could barely see! So much for feeling the day of love when I feel like this!

But as soon as I went downstairs to wake up Ty for school something changed inside me! I felt like I had to do something to celebrate this day! Why? I don't know! But I quickly changed my bad-mood-Monday and hurried to make cute "Heart Shaped French Toast"!!

This was my kid's breakfast for Valentine's Day! They thought it was awesome!

This was mine! This was really how I was feeling about the day and about life I don't think it quite tasted as good as the heart shaped ones!

I tried offering a scrumptious breakfast in bed to my sweetheart but he could barely move and was soooo sick! I took matters into my own hands and decided enough was enough! It was time to go to the doctor! Mara had been complaining about an earache, Caleb had had an ear infection and I wasn't sure if it was gone, my eye was swollen and about to fall out, and my husband was hacking up a lung and I thought for sure he had pneumonia! So I called the doctor...then I called twelve more doctors! Every doctor in Price was full! One lady even told me "I'm sorry. We don't have time for you today." RUDE! So it was either the ER or drive over the mountain! We'll take choice #2 please!

So we enjoyed a nice little drive over the mountain. Nate and I listened to Sports Radio, and the kids enjoyed a movie! It was a nice little date! The weather was beautiful and although it seemed like a wacky thing to do to drive an hour and a half to some random doctor it was nice getting out of the house!

We went on a wild goose chase looking for an Urgent Care or InstaCare! No, we do not have a TomTom or any electronic device in our car that tells us where we are going. I only had printed off a few addresses! So we started in Spanish Fork driving around to some address that didn't even exist! Next stop: Provo! So we drove around Provo and finally found an InstaCare with no wait, they accepted our insurance, the nurses were nice, the doctor was as much fun as a box of rocks, and we got the needed medication to help us all feel better! It was worth the drive!
We even enjoyed going out to lunch before heading back over the mountain!

When we arrived home we found a bowl of soup and French bread on our porch! Talk about feeling the love from good friends and neighbors! Dinner was done! So now that my eye wasn't so inflamed and infected I actually felt like maybe we could make dinner kind of fun and special!

We had a romantic candle light dinner!

Cheers! To our Valentine's Day! Ty and Mara giving a toast!

How can you not but LOVE this little boy! He is one in a million!

Mara trying to give Ty a big kiss!

Caleb just loves bubblies! Good to the last drop!

Can't you just feel the love in the air!

Heart-shaped chocolate brownies with ice-cream, caramel and chocolate sauce! A perfect ending to a perfect dinner!

I guess Valentine's Day isn't so lame after all! It was actually rather nice celebrating a day devoted to LOVE! We had a nice Valentine's FHE before going to bed and I couldn't help but feel my little heart full of love for my dear husband, and three wonderful children! I truly love them very much and want to do a better job showing them my love more every day, not just on Valentine's Day!