Happy Valentine's Date

I love surprises. So I assume other people (Jason) will love surprises too so I arranged a special surprise date for us.

We're going to be with the boys on Valentine's Day...and Jason and I alternate years planning our festivities. So, this was my year and I decided we'd do something without the boys before the actual day. I arranged with my mom and Lauren to come up on a Saturday afternoon so I could whisk Jason away.

All I knew was I wanted a surprise date, but I didn't know what to plan. Then an idea kind of fell into my lap. When I was getting my hair cut the other day (at the same spa that did my Cloud 9 package) the hairdresser mentioned a "Sweetheart Special": an hour long couples massage by candlelight, followed by a chocolate sugar scrub, and then a trip to their "mystic room where a shower awaits you complete with champagne and chocolate covered strawberries". Sounded perfect so I booked one. I knew Jason would be game for a couples massage as he'd surprised me with one once before.

At around 2 o'clock I put the boys down for their naps/quiet time, just like any other day, and wasn't J suprised by the knock on the door at about 2:20. He said, "When you answered the door without looking to see who it was I knew something was up". He was right because Gramoo and Lauren were there with their bag of tricks. I said, "Surprise! We're going on a date!" Jason thinks we can never get in enough date nights so he would've been happy even if I didn't have such awesome plans. Dinner for two would have been enough for him. And for me to be perfectly honest, but this was our Valentine's Day celebration.

I drove and didn't tell him where we were going. The whole way I liked recounting all the ways I tricked and misled him and how Easton was even in on it. The journey to the surprise is all part of it for me. Jason often likes to make me mad by guessing things (gifts and other surprises) but he did good and only jokingly guessed we were going to see the groundhog see his shadow or not (it was Groundhog's Day). I finally spilled the beans in the parking lot of the spa.

It was super. Really really great. And then we went to dinner, just the two of us at a place in Boulder everyone always talks about but somehow neither of us had ever been. It was pretty good. Jason had the best chicken marsala I had ever tasted. It was so good.

We rushed home (about 10 minutes later than we had said) and the boys were fed, bathed, and in bed. Easton wasn't quite asleep yet but he had accidentally fallen asleep during his quiet time so bedtime is always later on those days. My mom and Lauren do so great with the boys. I have no worries when they're here which, the peace of mind, is worth sooooo much. They rock!

Once we got home I tried to get J to watch a movie with me but he fell asleep. Grrr. So we went upstairs to bed where he read for an hour and a half instead.

Anyway, it was a wonderful and romantic celebration. Thanks for reading!