Valentine was on a weekend day so that was nice. Our day started out with breakfast by Ray and Grant. It was SO precious!! They made breakfast for all of us girls. After that Ray and Grant handed out their Valentine gifts. Ray and Grant had gotten all us girls our standard homemade cards (which are ALWAYS awesome&different) and chocolates and Grants conversation hearts that he loves to get the girls and read them to "the sisters". Ray usually gets all of us a bundle of flowers but he didn't this year, but the girls had another Valentine for the flowers! Austin came to pick Hannah up and brought all the girls flowers and precious poems that he had written each of them. So, they all really felt blessed even if they didn't have a Valentine for the day.
ALOT of years Ray and I stay home - usually we do because the restaurants are SO crowded. Since Ray is such a good cook he usually makes me a yummy dinner because Valentine is for girls only, or that is what he has always said. He usually makes something we don't have at home - crab, lobster - something special. When our kids were little we would have to be very creative...since nobody wants to babysit on Valentine Day at their house, we would do silly things. Ray loves surprises so 1 year he made steak/lobster and the works. He set up a table in our bedroom in front of our fireplace and it was SO special. He had music, candles and the thing I remember the most is, to drown out the kids downstairs - we turned on the box fan! It was a HOOT - I don't know what they were doing down there but Rach was in charge, usually, so I am sure they were fine.
SO, since Olivia didn't have plans which was shocking (plans with a girlfriend that is) she joined us for our dinner and it was yummy as always. Rachel went to help out a cousin with her kids so that she could go out. She was home fairly early to join in on the movie that we watched which I don't remember. It's usually a chick-flick but it got them all sappy and not enjoying being single.
Sarah being single, she wasn't looking forward to the day but she too embraced it and is enjoying her single days. She however had plans and left that afternoon to head to Waco for the rest of the weekend. She went to see a GREAT, new friend, Anna. A precious, AMAZING young lady that did the internship at IHOP when Sarah did it so she wanted to share the "single awareness day" with her. Anna's guy friends wanted to bless some of their girl friends with an awesome dinner outside, to serve them and bless them. After the dinner the guys took the ladies to a house and had a couple of artist come and sketch pictures of all the ladies - Sarah's turned out amazing. She had a great time and was VERY blessed to be with some amazing people and she was SO excited to meet new friends. Here is a few pictures of Ms. Sarah on V-Day...
Sarah and Anna
Then there was Hannah. This was her and Austin's 1st Valentine Day together and Hannah's 1st V-day with a boyfriend so she was very excited. She had gone to get a new outfit so she was ready. Austin had a whole day planned to celebrate and it started early in the day with a trip to the zoo. Here is a pix. from the zoo.
After that they got ready to go out for the evening. Sushi and a movie!! They are SO CUTE! It was everything Hannah had hoped her 1st Valentine Day would be! Here are a couple of them dressed up for the evening.
And that is the end of another kind of silly holiday. I love that Ray does something special on that day but he does things like that SO MANY OTHER DAYS of the year!! Since we have 4 daughters he has always wanted to show them that this is how you should expect to be treated by your guy 1 day. It is up to them how they want to celebrate the day. But Ray cherishing us girls is a great example of how you honor the women in your life.
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