valentines day 2012

after recapping our valentines days from 2010 and 2011,

today we have last year's valentines...going through the 

memories from our dating years & valentines of the past

has been so fun and has made me ten times more excited

for this year, our first valentines day married!!

sorry for all the love posts, but it is valentines week,

and what can i say? i'm a hopeless romantic.

...

last year during valentines we were engaged and planning our wedding,

so it was definitely a fun & romantic one! i had just moved back home after 

finishing my last semester of college living on campus, so chase came over 

at the crack of dawn and cooked an entire breakfast for me while i was 

sleeping. then he came and woke me up for his breakfast, lots of gifts, 

and an entire plan for our day!

..the day he had planned included..

a valentines breakfast, hiking in neff's canyon, cuddling, some tennis, the temple, a lunch date, ice skating downtown, some hot chocolate, a surprise dinner at a new italian restaurant, presents, and then watching my very favorite movie. 

it was the perfect day, and i loved that he had planned it all!

chase's presents to me included: all the dates that day, this cute new phone case,

a "love map" of places we had lived {and the place we were moving to}, 

a really cute pink apron i had wanted, and concert tickets to one of our new 

favorite bands! so perfect. he said for valentines, he always wants to 

have one of his gifts to me be tickets to some type of 

show/trip/event for us to go to..love that idea!

for my present to chase, i made snickers chocolate chip cookies {he loves snickers,

and when i saw these on pinterest i knew i had to make them for him}...then i framed his diploma and got his sigma chi certificate framed for him. 

the main gift was a "jar of dates," with all different date 

ideas rolled up inside of it for us to do!

(not my very best gifts, but hey- i was busy planning a wedding! :)

last year's valentines day made me even more excited to marry

this boy, and he made it perfect. can't wait for tomorrow! 

happy valentines eve!

XO