The Coquere

Since it is Valentine's Day, I'm stuck home sick and everybody else is posting about love, here is my lovey dovey story for the week.
We have never celebrated Valentine's Day.  In fact, I usually forgot about it being a holiday.  Aaron proposed on February 11th and that is lovey dovey day for the year.  This year was no different.  We had been wanting to try a new pizza joint in town for a while and it seemed like the perfect opportunity.  We dropped Kira off at the grandparents and headed to the restaurant.  As you may have noticed, food is a huge part of our relationship.  Scratch that.  Food is a huge part of my life.  My priorities go something like this: God, family, food.  They didn't have a huge menu but the kitchen was right in front of the bar so you could watch them make your pizza after ordered it.  We decided to try getting pizza by the slice so that we could try more varieties.  We tried pulled pork with fresh mango, a pizza that was loaded with all kinds of meat and no veggies, the mashed potato, bacon scallion, and finally a plain old, boring chicken and basil.  Super yummy!  We enjoyed talking about the flavors and discussing what we would change about each pizza.  The other big thing we did was find out our baby's gender together!  I had had an ultrasound earlier in the day and Aaron was unable to make it so I asked the technician to put the gender revealing picture with a caption in an envelope.  I enjoyed not knowing the gender with Kira but it was also special to get to find out with this one.  If we have more children, I can easily see us going back to not finding out.
We will be announcing the gender hopefully tomorrow night at a little party for family.  Unless Aaron gets sick or the roads become impassible with all the snow we are predicted to get today.  So keep an eye on facebook.
After we left the restaurant, Aaron said that he had an idea of something that he wanted to do.  He started driving down the street but I really didn't know where he was taking me.  He pulled up into the Hobby Lobby parking lot and presented me with a gift card.  He told me that I had to spend at least part of it tonight and I could buy whatever I wanted.  This is where things got really weird.
After being in the store for only about 5 minutes, the store manager approached Aaron and asked to speak to him in his office.  When Aaron asked him what it was about, the manager replied, "I'll tell you in my office.  It will only take a minute."  Aaron asked if I could come too and we set off to the back of the store.  The whole time we were walking there, I was sure that either we were 1. going to be accused of stealing something or 2. going to be given a huge prize since were the billionth customer.
When we got to his office, the manager pointed to his desk and said, "Can you explain this?"  Sitting there was a huge bouquet just like the ones Aaron gave me when I proposed.  I couldn't believe it!
After that excitement, our evening was rather uneventful.  We just took the flowers home since we were only a couple of minutes away and then went to Lowes to look at faucets and freezers before picking up Kira.  My biggest regret is not being able to take pictures since our camera battery was dead.