Happy Valentine's Day!

Today has been a sweet day. I've been looking forward to Valentine's day for a while because I love having an excuse to celebrate something and because I've been wanting to give him his present ever since I bought it a few weeks ago!

Last night, as soon as we got home from work, Landon and I headed over to my parents' house to celebrate my dad's birthday. My mom cooked a delicious dinner and we had a nice night--we sat around the table and talked and ate and laughed and gave my dad all of his presents. It was a nice night.

On the way to my parent's house though, Landon surprised me with my Valentine's day present. We took a really roundabout way to get there and I soon found out why--we pulled off the highway and in to the Sam Houston Race Park, where there was a huge sign on their billboard advertising their "Give Me Some Sugar" 5k and 10k on Valentine's day morning. So, we signed up for the 10k.

my Valentine's present :)

Landon's Valentine's present--a Nike running watch that works with his Ipod--so cool!

what I saw when I woke up this morning--my favorite flowers, my
favorite chocolates and a precious card with a little beagle on it :)We arrived at the race site around 7am, after stopping in Wal-Mart to try and buy some breakfast bars, only to discover that neither of us have brought our wallet with us! So, we were breakfastless--we got a good laugh out of it, but it was kinda sad, because we were both hungry and no where close to our house at that point!

All ready to run!

During the race Landon did awesome, but I started to feel really not good, so we ended up only running the 5K. It was still really fun though and Landon was really sweet to me...and, we got roses as we crossed the finish line!

We got home around 9, played with the dogs for a little while and then CRASHED. When we got up, I made some breakfast (on some little Valentine's plates I found that I'd bought a long time ago) and then we just hung out together this afternoon and watched movied and relaxed. I love days like that.

Landon found where I'd hid the other part of his Valentine's present--some peanut butter chocolates and a card--in front of his computer, the one place I knew for sure he'd go at some point today.

Tonight, we splurged (we figured we earned it since we got up and ran on Valentine's day, even if it was only a 5K, and went to our favorite local mexican restuarant. It was so yummy--we used to go ALL the time when we first got married and it brought back some memories of the old days, the first year or so of our marriage--before we worried about gaining 50 pounds from eating mexican food all the time!


I love you more as the years go by, babe! Happy Valentine's day--
thanks for always making it so special!