Happy, Happy, Happy Valentine's!

well, well, well!  we had a really great valentine's day and weekend!!  

our valentine's celebration started friday morning.  jon does not have class on fridays and my class was cancelled because all my teachers went out of town for a conference... whoo-hoo!!  so we decided to go out for breakfast.  deluca's in the strip district has been voted pittsburgh's best breakfast place... i believe since the beginning of time!  since we did not want to wait in a line around the corner, we have never been on a weekend.  jon enjoyed the steel city breakfast which was the biggest meal on the menu... haha!  it was all VERY good. they have anything and everything you could ever want for breakfast!  we strolled around the outdoor markets and specialty shops afterwards.  if you ever come to pittsburgh, a trip to the strip district is a MUST!

friday night the seminary spouses club had a very cute valentine party!  we decorated "the shak"  (pts student union-ish place) with red and pink balloons and candles... it was really pretty!  we had yummy appetizers and of course chocolate (for those who like it!)  my favorite part was game time... the best part of any party if you ask me!  we played cute newly wed type games even though we had couples of all ages.  it was fun to hear everyone answer the questions.  you learn a lot about people, too... haha!

saturday we went to an afternoon movie at a really fancy theater!  i have been wanting to go to this place since we moved here, but we never had a good excuse to go... til now!  we were planning on cooking together that night, but after the movie got out, we changed our minds.  the theater is right next to a very nice outdoor mall (imagine the summit in birmingham, al) and one of our favorite restaurants, bravo.  it was only mid-afternoon, so we figured we could get our name on the list to eat sometime that evening!  luckily the wait was only an hour and a half, so we were set.  the temp wasn't too bad if you were bundled, and the snow was REALLY pretty, so we shopped around until time to eat.  

then sunday night we finally got around to cooking our valentine's dinner... thanks to brad's fabulous recipe!

this was the perfect weekend after midterms!  i was past due for some chill time!

hope everyone had a wonderful valentine's, too!

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