girls weekend 2007

breakfast on the beach

we just got back from a valentine's day breakfast on the beach. valentine's day has always been a big day for us. (i'm 25 1/2 today too!) in 2003, it was our first 'official' date. matt was on snow crew, and since we had a blizzard that night, he was a little late picking me up. i still remember that i was in a white sweater, and he was wearing a blue pinstripe shirt. we went to caribou and talked until it closed. i came home that night absolutely soaring over this cute boy i went out with.

in 2004, we went to candlewood for the weekend. woke up on valentine's day (saturday) to the most beautiful blue sky and fresh white snow. matt walked with me outside to a path of roses on the snow. i followed them down to the dock where he asked me to marry him. later that day, my parents came home with matt's parents - a surprise trip. we had a valentines dinner that night and started talking about the wedding...

in 2005, we spent valentine's day in winnipeg. i've never seen that much snow in my life! we went out to dinner at the keg restaurant, and had the best french onion soup and caesar salad of my life.

in 2006, we watched the westminster dog show in the morning while eating chocolate chip muffins. had some friends over for lunch, then went to the beach in the afternoon. we walked forever, fed the seagulls, and stopped at the starbucks on the beach for a cinnamon dulce frappacino. that night, i made chicken salad with croissants and crackers, and matt brought me lilies and godiva ice cream. we watched the olympics at night. i think it was a mixture of curling and downhill ski jumping...

and this year. on monday night, i came home from work to beautiful pink roses on the counter. last night we went out with all the pastors from our church to The Mango Tree restaurant for a delicious meal. this morning, matt packed a beach breakfast, so we put down a blanket and enjoyed the beautiful sunshine and vanilla frappacino's, mini cinnamon and brown sugar bagels, and fresh strawberries. i'm working tonight, and matt is teaching at church, so it was so fun to have a morning picnic, although the day's not over...

until 2008 - there's our valentine's day history!

locked in

some past mlk jr day memories. my senior year at wheaton, it was the day that matt and i went ring shopping for the first time. the next year, it was the weekend that we went to norfolk to hang out with mark. by the way, if anyone is ever near where mark lives, visit him. he's an awesome host. last mlk jr. day, i was in seattle with my dearest friends having the best tomato soup of my life at pike's market.

so this mlk jr. day? i'm thinking of it as a recovery day. we had a girl's lock in last night at the church. we played twister (believe it or not, i held my own with 14 year old girls!), danced for hours and made too many blender-drink batches to count. we did all fall asleep around 2-3, so i got a few hours of sleep. tomorrow i'm working at curves at 6.30 am, so i'm taking today very slow. matt's will be home from atlanta tonight, so i'm going to get my fill of gilmore girls while i still can!

other news: hunter is visiting matt and i for 2 weeks while my parents are in india. we are having an absolute blast. the only tricky part is keeping him 'low profile', as the apartment complex doesn't exactly allow dogs that big. when i was a little girl, i read a book about a girl that hida monster in the basement. she tried to sneak by her mom, but this monster kept getting bigger because he ate so many apples that the mom finally realizes that a monster is in her basement. that's how i feel with hunter most of the time...that i'm keeping a monster in the basement! last night was his birthday, so i bought a cupcake and all the girls at the lock-in sang happy birthday to him. it was so cute. i think i'll have another celebration for him tonight since matt missed the first one. and i don't think hunter will mind the extra cupcake...

sledding in winnipeg