I am LOVED!!!

This weekend was fabulous!  I have always really liked Valentine's Day.  I think it is just a really fun day full of love and friendship.  As my last post said, Sat. started with belly pics.  Super fun, but we don't get to see them until this Thurs.  I'll keep you posted.  Then we went to Denver to meet up with our friends Shannon and Austin to see the movie Valentines Day and go to Cinzzettis to eat.  We had a wonderful time.  We love getting to see Shannon and Austin and this was our second year in a row spending Valentine's Day with them...we are loving the tradition!

sitting, talking, and eating for three hours!!!

I actually really liked the movie. I initially thought I probably wouldn't think it was great, but that it made the perfect movie for the holiday. Well, it was actually really cute. I still can't decide if I would buy it or watch it over and over, but I was entertained! The cast really was amazing!

As for Cinzzettis, YUM! Pregnant or not I love this place, but it was very freeing going back for as many plates as I wanted without even the littlest bit of guilt. I am obsessed with pasta, and their pizza and ice cream are the best. Of course I highly recommend it. The only bummer is that we weren't there on Sunday (actually Valentine's Day) so they didn't have the chocolate covered strawberries. Oh well! I am already trying to think of an occasion that can bring me back there...

feeling my big belly!

Love you friend!:)

 

We got back really late on Saturday night so we decided to sleep in Sunday and go to mass Sunday afternoon.  Thank the Lord I got some sleep Saturday night since Friday night I was up almost every hour.  Cole snuck out of bed early on Sunday, while I continued to sleep, and surprised me with a beautiful tray of breakfast in bed (heart shaped pancakes with peanut butter and syrup, eggs, bacon, and a yummy smoothie), a homemade Valentine (like he does every year!!!), and a beautiful love letter.  I couldn't have asked for anything better:)  I only wish I hadn't been so full from the night before because I wasn't able to eat that much!!  We cuddled in bed for hours and I got to give him his V-day gifts and the crossword puzzle I made him (which I do for him every year!).  We went to church, stopped by my sister Sarah's house to see the kiddos, and then back to relaxing with pizza and the Olympics.  Overall, wonderful!

He loves me, even though I wake up looking like this! ;)

He is amazing!  I am so loved!

*LOVE*

Today was great too because Cole didn't have to work.  We look forward to every bit of extra time we have together.  Cole got the taxes done (boring) while I worked on some baby to-do items, but then we went to EPIC so I could sit in the warm pool and take all the weight off my body.  Yes, that is right, I am nine months pregnant and I wore a bikini in public!  I consider myself pretty brave!!! (don't worry, no pics! haha)  The water felt great considering every part of my body aches pretty much 24/7.  I was pretty shocked when I got out and my body was reminded of how much weight it has to carry around...ugh! 
We concluded the night with dinner and the Bachelor over at the Davis household.  Trust me, we offered to have them over here, or bring dinner to them, but they insisted!  The food was AMAZING and Cole and i ate so so much.  A little too much:)  Bachelor side bar: why did Jake keep Vienna? seriously??
Sorry this was long, but there was just a lot of great things happening in the past few days.  Hope you all had as good of a Valentine's Day as we did!
And, for my quote, I will use one that Cole put in the love letter he wrote me.  How perfect!

"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting."


Mother Teresa