Happy Valentine's Day

Hopefully everyone had a great Valentine's Day! Gabe and I spent the afternoon at Mel's making goodies for this special day. It's always so much fun to hang out over there. Cannon and Gabe don't actually play together yet but Gabe sure enjoys Cannons toys! Mel and I always love to get together and cook up a storm. Unfortunately there isn't much time since we usually cram these cooking sessions inbetween nap times and even if we didn't, Mel is one busy girl with five boys to take care of (make that six, right Brad?!) Anyway, the real fun came later that evening after Daddy (aka Eric) came home from work! (Luckily it didn't take him 3 1/2 hrs to get home like the night before in that horrendous blizzard.) Gabe and I had a special surprise in store for him...balloons with little love notes hanging on the strings! Yes, I know, very very cheesey but I don't care! That is what Valentine's Day is for!! And I even got a single red rose out of it - very romantic. :)

Now I had to post the funniest picture of Gabe and Denali staring at the balloons. They stared and stared until I finally got the camera - I was cracking up the whole time! When I brought the balloons home from the store, Gabe was absolutely fascinated. He and Denali were both transfixed by this bunch of strange and slightly scary things hanging out by the ceiling. I think Gabe liked them but Denali was very suspicious and watched those balloons with something like terror in her eye. If I bumped one or something, she would scramble up like it was about to attack her! It was so funny. Eventually they both got used to them and in the way of babies and dogs, the balloons were old, boring news. :)