Happy Day of Love!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

I may be a few days late, but I hope that everybody got to spend the day with the people they love! Valentine's Day always seems to be centered around boyfriends/girlfriends/spouses. I think it should be more about spending time with those you love not just your significant other. That being said, I did get to spend a wonderful day with my man. We both had the Monday off of work for Family Day and decided to celebrate that day instead of after work on the 14th. 
We were super fortunate that the weather was so nice on the 13th. We went down to Granville Island and walked around the market and got food. I had never been there before and I was so excited to see it. There are some really cute shops and the market was full of food! We walked around for almost an hour, at least it felt like that long with how crowded the place was. There were so many places to choose from and I kept looking at all the pastry and dessert places instead of lunch ideas. We finally did decide on getting Chinese food. Not all that exciting but it was really good. We didn't spend a lot of time there and decided instead of taking the bus back we would walk across the bridge to the Skytrain station. Along the way we stopped for coffee at a little coffee shop, that I can't for the life of me remember the name of, but it had a fantastic patio that we sat and drank our coffee on. 
Instead of going out for a fancy dinner, we cooked dinner together. Before we left on our adventure, we got out the handy crock pot and put all ingredients in to make honey garlic chicken. I am no cook, but I love to bake. I am so thankful that my man lets me experiment with cooking and baking on him. He can cook so he usually takes over when I attempt at cooking anything. How I survive on my own is still a mystery. Anyways, when we got back we made the Parmesan baked potato halves and rice. This meal actually turned out so good!! It is definitely one I will make again and it was super easy. I had made dessert the day before and made cinnamon buns. I was going to make a cake or something but we never seem to finish a cake when I make it so I went with something that I knew would get eaten. That recipe could use some practice and refining, but they were still yummy. 

I made myself one too!

My man spoiled me with a beautiful bouquet of pink roses and a box of chocolates. The classiest part of it all was that he didn't have a vase or pitcher to put the flowers in, so they were in an A&W mug. Which probably isn't any better than the cheese whiz jar I have them in at my house. Me being a crafty person made him a Sharpie mug. Well I had attempted one and it just wasn't working out so he hasn't gotten it yet. I finally got it how I wanted it so he will get it this weekend. I find him to be incredibly hard to buy for as he's picky and even sometimes I feel the random little crafty things I make him he doesn't like. Even when he tells me he loves them. But coffee mugs don't need to match (his words) when I was telling him about his present. 

I can't espresso how much you bean to me

All in all it was a wonderful day and I am so grateful to have got to spend it with my man.

Have a wonderful weekend everybody!!

Song of the Day: Kiss Me by Ed Sheeran