Valentine's Day Wrap Up (Sort of!)

First off today is a very special day! We're sending birthday wishes out to Rob! And, a Happy Anniversary wish out to Brad and Sarah as well! We hope the next year will be full of happy memories for all of you!

We also want to give a "shout out" to MeLissa's mom whom we're very proud of. She has embarked on another segment of her journey to health and fitness! Today was her first day of water aerobics with the folks at Physcial Therapy Plus in Lamar, Colorado. Way to go Mom!

Valentine's Day is not yet over at our house (as the song says, each day is Valentine's Day for us!) - we're still waiting for one more giftie for MeLissa to arrive. She can't wait to see what it will be!

Mark did give her something to tide her over, though - a sweet little pink locket style picture frame and a lovely card. Now she just has to decide what picture of Mark gets the special honors!

Mark received a pretty nice selection of gifts as well. MeLissa was able to procure a copy of a software program Mark's been wanting and also treated him to a pair of Valentine Snoopy Boxers (there's always going to be something about Snoopy it seems when we talk gifts around here!), a pair of silk boxers with hearts and martini glasses and a cute (yet masculine!) pair of lounging pants with candy hearts on them. MeLissa has to admit that she may be "borrowing" the candy heart pants some time. :)

Mark's favorite gift from MeLissa, though, was his annual hand made card. It's become a well-loved tradition for MeLissa to make a little hand-made Valentine for Mark! This year's valentine was pretty fun to make and included a poem which MeLissa wrote for Mark. We may post it (as well as previous valentines!) at some point, but for right now, you'll just have to be happy with front and back views of this year's special valentine!

In other news, we tried spelt pasta last night and it was great! We definitely think we'll be eating that again soon. It basically was just like "normal" spaghetti only it doesn't have wheat so MeLissa's not allergic to it! It was a nice change from corn and quinoa pasta which we've been using for a while and which we've found to be slightly annoying because it isn't as "stable" when cooked as typical pasta. It also tends to absorb sauces which can be rather frustrating at times. At any rate, we're pretty pleased to have found an alternative which will allow us to have pasta a little more often!