umm it's been awhile

Wow, January 25 was my last post?? Sheesh.

In the queue:

1. An update on my awesome trip to Maryland plus not one, but two four-generation photos.
2. How I'm doing on my New Year's goals (good!)

For now, here was the COOLEST part of Valentine's Day.

Me and Shaner had these gift cards to Applebee's from his parents (thank you!), but we could only use one at a time. We had FOUR of them. For Valentine's Day, we decided to each go and get to-go Applebee's food and bring it home to eat for dinner, with Martinelli's in wine glasses and candlelight. OK we didn't do candelight but Shane did get me flowers. Anyway, we totally went separately and got food separately and then ate together.

As I was taking his food out of the bag and putting it on a plate, I looked at it and said, "Shane, what did you get for dinner?"

He got the SAME THING I DID!

My heart skipped a beat. I felt like it was a sign! We ordered the same thing! How beautiful!

I really love this man. Things are going very well in the Gottula house and Valentine's Day was awesome. I can't wait to cook up great things for his birthday.