Homemade Heart Day!

Well...Valentine’s Day 2012 has come and gone! It was definitely one to remember, but probably not for the reasons you would think! We didn’t do the traditional flowers, chocolate, or go out to dinner. Everything we did this year was homemade!

Alex is not a huge fan of always doing what everyone else "says" we should do on a day like Valentine's day. He says, “Why feed into all this commercialization when I could give you flowers on any other day and it would probably mean more.” Some may say that statement is a cop-out, but I kind of agree with him. So, since we (mostly Alex) have such a strong opinion about Valentine’s Day we decided we would make up a new tradition this year, and make everything ourselves! This included dinner and presents, but of course not dessert because we had to make our weekly (or sometimes 3 times a week) visit to Red Mango!

So, Alex made us some homemade dinner and then we opened our homemade gifts. Now, Alex has been blessed with many wonderful gifts, but when it comes to creative artsy things...not so much! With that being said, I was pleasantly surprised with the gift he came up with. I actually kind of love it! Below is what Alex gave me.

Below is what I gave Alex. He seemed to really like it, so props to Pinterest for the idea!

All-in-all, I would say that our new tradition for Valentine's day was a plus. We both had to get our creative juices flowing and saved a little money while doing it! Can't wait to see what next year brings!