V Day

Valentines Day was a good one this year.  My friends and I decided to make treats for the men in our life, so we got together on the 13th and put our Betty Crocker skills to work.  Needless to say, we ate most of the treats since all our guys aren't a big fan of treats.  The strawberries were a hit with Evan, but that was about it.  Oh well, you win some you lose some.  When I got home though I had a lovely surprise of roses from Evan and a sparkling clean house.  He is so the greatest.  The next morning, while he serenaded me when we got ready, he agreed to take me to my favorite Mexican place for lunch.  Loco Lizard, in case you don't know me very well.  I gorged myself on chips and salsa and of course a pitcher of beer.  After we decided to probably run some of these calories off, so we could continue on our bad eating habits.  It is a holiday after all right?  So after running we drove to Sonic for some coney dogs, and stopped at Little Ceasars for breadsticks.  Ended the night with some chocolate covered strawberries and my all time favorite show...Glee.

I really think on holidays like this, there are so many women out there that have these huge expectations.  Or some 5 star restaurant and if there husband doesn't buy them flowers, or do this or that, it means they aren't loved.  I watched Facebook all day seeing people take picture after picture of what their husband or boyfriend did.  I honestly think all men try their hardest to make the women in their life happy.  Every person is different though, so you can't compare what someone did to someone else.  My Valentines day was the PERFECT day for me.  Granted I did get two days of celebration.  We had our wonderful friends the Marchants over for dinner, and then we headed off to Melting Pot for some delicious dessert.  It was seriously the best night ever.  The guys were so thoughtful the whole night, and we had the best company which made for the perfect night.  But back to my point, I think everyone needs to love the one their with for them.  Not what they want them to be, you didn't marry or be with that person for those reasons.  I love Evan for all the things he is and how our Valentines Day actually was.  It really was the perfect day and I love that we eat the crappiest food and run to validate our eating.  No one can really say their husband will sit through Glee and not complain the whole time, or play Words with Friends with me for hours because he knows it makes me happy.  I'm so lucky to have Evan in my life and get so spoiled by him.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines Day.

Jackson Hole

Evan had a work trip up to Jackson Hole last weekend so he invited me to tag along.  Little did I know this was going to be a work/slave trip.  We drove up to Jackson on Friday afternoon and got in around 2, so we headed into town to get a feel for where our demo would be and what not.  Jackson is so pretty and it's such a small town with that cool feel about it.  Yes, not sticking to my New Years resolution we didn't take any pictures.  Evan's phone died, and I still have my blackberry that loads the most blurry pictures ever seen.  In less then a week, that will be different!  We had a great time wandering around downtown and looking at all the t-shirt shops.  Unfortunately Jackson is ridiculously expensive since it is such a tourist town that we stuck to the cheaper restaurants.  The demo went great, had a lot of people try out our product and met a bunch of cool people too.  Jackson has the nicest people ever who live there.  Minus the temperature, I love the place.  It was zero on Saturday, and then a warm -8 on Sunday.  Needless to say I was wearing every jacket I owned.  It's nice to get away every now and again, even though it was for work .  And we are SO lucky to have such amazing parents who will watch our dogs on a whim.  And send us daily picture updates of them :)  Good to know they are loved just as much as we do.  Also, Jackson is STEEP.  Like super steep, I was actually really scared on some runs.  I get nervous when I'm not following Evan down a run.  It's a constant anxiety that I'll take a wrong turn and won't be able to get down.  If I'm following Evan I just know that he'll steer me in the right direction.  He has a much better sense of direction then I do on things like that.  I mainly stayed on blue runs, which are black ones here in Utah and called it good.  And then we jammed back to Utah listening to the Superbowl on the radio while Evan serenaded me with his amazing voice :)  Great trip, and even better company.  Sorry for the lack of pictures, I swear I will gradually start to get better.  Hopefully.