All you need is love... and a cast iron skillet.

Happy Valentines Day! We've had a very fun week, and I have been incredibly spoiled! I think that Ben loves me or something... This has been by far, my very favorite Valentines ever.

Bekah had a party at her school. They made valentines and gave them out. The candy is still hidden away... its almost as bad as Halloween!

Ben kicked the week off by surprising my early in the week with flowers and chocolates. The, yesterday he brought me MORE flowers, as did my BFF Honey. All told I got 4 bouquets of flowers! They are so pretty... see?

That's a mix of my early week bouquet and the roses Honey brought me.

These are called Alstroemeria, they are my very favorite flower. These are the same color as the ones I had in my wedding bouquet, and on our wedding cake. Ben remembers every year and gets them for me. There were white roses with these. I have so many flowers! I don't know what to do with them... I'm so spoiled.

For Valentines I got Ben a new drill (he's super excited) and he got me:

That's right, a cast iron skillet! I have been wanting one for... ever. He got me a big 12" one with a glass lid. I luff it so much. I can't believe he remembered... what a thoughtful man he is.

I spent most of yesterday making cake balls and cake pops. I FINALLY found some red velvet cake mix. I looked everywhere for that stuff! Wal-Mart had some so I bought 4 boxes. The cake balls are way better with red velvet, and they look so pretty too. I used semi-sweet chocolate this time which was extra num, and not as sweet...

The only problem with the Red Velvet cake mix is that it has so much food coloring in it. It stained my hands something fierce.

I couldn't figure out how to let the cake pops set so that they stayed round... I gave up and set them on the paper (like candy apples) but the cool thing is, once wrapped, they looked like chocolate roses. So, I have invented the cake ball rose. :) Want a dozen of these?

Today, Ben's working so I went and played at Wal-Mart for a bit. Bekah needed some totes for all her crap. Her room was starting to get completely out of hand. We cleaned it up together, and it looks fantastic. I love her room all clean, and I think she likes it much better too. She went and played in there for an hour after we cleaned it up.

I also needed a new shower curtain for my bathroom. I got these cool looking vinyl dandelion wall decals on clearance at ShopKo a couple weeks ago, and they didn't match the ducky curtain. I got this pretty thing on clearance for $7.50. Gotta love the Wally. Also got a matching liner.

Now I need a new rug, and soon new towels. But still, for under $20 you gotta love an almost new looking bathroom!

Too fun. It'd be nice to paint in there, and maybe this summer we'll talk to our landlord about it. I'd like to paint it kind of a taupe color in the shower curtain, but not too dark. Luckily that room gets lots of light.

Well that's all my pictures for today. Happy V-Day all! Loves!