Valentine's Day...

Valentine's Day is generally kept pretty simple in our house because 1) It comes right after our birthdays which are 2 weeks apart and only a month after Christmas and 2) We celebrate our love for each other on a regular basis =) However, this Valentine's Day was made special by celebrating with a true symbol of our love, our sweet girl! We woke up and gave each other a small gift, I got a card and candy and I gave Greg the ABC's of US, which was an idea I found on Pinterest. It was fun thinking of all of my favorite memories to write down! It definitely made me realize how truly blessed we are. After Greg went to work, I went into rush mode to finish the other gift I had planned for him, which involved getting Caroline's pictures taken and sent to Walgreen's before we left to meet him in Duluth for lunch. Let' just say, the morning should have been a warning of how the rest of our day would go. She was NOT in the mood for a photo shoot and cried through half of it, so out of 60+ pics, I have ZERO of her smiling! Oh well, I took what i had and had them printed. Next up, was a morning nap. Well, apparently Caroline had other plans for her morning, so she did not sleep as I had planned and desperately hoped for since we were meeting Greg for lunch. After spending close to an hour trying to get her to sleep, I gave up and realized I had 15 minutes to get ready before we had to leave. I got ready and dressed her in her Valentine's outfit that I made for her, and we were out the door in 20 minutes...shower and everything (though my hair was put up wet). Luckily, she slept in the car on the way to Greg's work. Soooo, we get there and as I pull into the parking lot, I hear an explosion in the back seat. I didn't think too much of it, just hoped she was finished by the time I changed her. I parked and gave her a minute. I then took her out of her carseat and to my horror, found a HUGE mess!! She had blown through her diaper, which went all the way up her back, soaking through the pink turtleneck I went to 5 stores to find AND the outfit I made. All I could do was laugh and call Greg and say "we're here, just bring me some scissors." Yes. I had to CUT her outfit off of her. I chose to do this because it was EVERYWHERE and if I would have taken the outfit off over her head or dragged it down to her feet, we would have been in even more trouble. So, that was the end of the outfit. I was just SO glad I got in the pictures I wanted. Luckily, she had a spare sleeper in her diaper bag, so she had something to wear to lunch. What a morning! We had a great lunch together and she was super at the restaurant! The rest of the day was spent loving on Caroline and napping and waiting for Greg to get home from work. Once he got home we gave each other our other gifts, I gave him the picture frame with her in it, and he gave me Junior's cheesecake ordered from NYC (where we got engaged). SO yummy! We also gave Caroline her Valentine's Sing-a-ma-Jig and the book "On the Night You Were Born". We had a delicious dinner of steak and twice baked potatoes and then just a quiet evening of the three of us =) I do enjoy spending an entire day devoted to the ones I loves most!!

This is blurry because they were dancing, but this girl LOVES her daddy =)
The outfit that is no more...