Happy Valentine's Day!

Darren and I decided to do Valentine's as cheap as possible this year. And by cheap, we meant free, since we're pretty poor these days.

We started our festivities last night with Sunday dinner:

We had yummy steaks, potato wedges, corn and Strawberry Kiwi juice. Yes, it doesn't sound like steak is a "cheap" meal, but it was FREE for us! And we loved every morsel of it. (Darren received a gift certificate to a butcher shop in Shelley as part of his Christmas bonus and we jumped at the chance to use it!)

It was so fun to have a really nice meal together and start our Valentine's day.

We both slept in this morning, and Darren got up a little before I did and surprised me with these!

I was so surprised! We decided to make eachother homemade valentines this year, and we went out and got "supplies" Saturday night. Those supplies happened to be handfuls of paint samples from Walmart :) They're free, and they come in a variety of Valentinesy colors!

I guess he made these while I was at Ward Council yesterday. It was so sweet to get "flowers" as I was waking up on Valentine's Day.

After putting my flowers in a vase I made Darren a special breakfast. I didn't really have any way to make heart shaped pancakes (which was my first choice), so I decided to make french toast, and use a cookie cutter to make it heart shaped.

It was really fun to surprise him and so something special before he headed off  to school.

While he was gone I worked on my cards:

 

They aren't nearly as creative as the card Darren ended up making me, but they worked and got my point across :)

We finished off the night with dinner at Olive Garden (thanks mom and dad for the gift card!) and then dessert on the couch while watching The Bachelor.

It was so fun to try to surprise eachother and I actually liked that we didn't buy gifts. I think it made today a Valentine's we won't soon forget.