Valentine's Day

If you received the Meetings and Milestones February e-newsletter, you may have watched the video where I talk about my ideal Valentine's Day.  Well, most of what I talked about really happened.  Yesterday morning I attended a networking event in Fort Bend County.  Just after I got home, my husband called and asked if I'd like to go for a walk when he returned from his errands.  In the early afternoon, we walked to Hermann Park which is only 1/2 mile down the road. The weather was beautiful and we got to see what the Hermann Park Conservancy has been up to recently.  They are almost totally redoing the park as part of a $30 million project.  It will be beautiful!  We proceeded southward and stopped at the Memorial Hermann office building for coffee at Starbucks.

Last night we watched a cute "Valentine-y" movie on TV.  A British comedy called "Confetti," it was a "mocumentary" about a bride's magazine in England that was having a contest for the most creative and unusual wedding.  Three couples were finalists: one couple were "naturalists" and wanted to get married in the nude.  The second couple were crazy about tennis and wanted a tennis-themed wedding.  The third couple loved old movie musicals and wanted something with that theme. Anyway, each couple worked with the same two male wedding planners (they came together as a package deal!).  The wedding planners developed the ideas and even participated in each wedding.  All three weddings were presented (one after the other) in front of the same audience on the same night and then the panel of judges picked the winning couple who received a new house in England worth 1/2 million pounds.  Pretty good deal now days! Of course, we knew the couple with the movie theme would win because theirs was the most elaborate production.  It was such a cute movie!

So I had a very nice Valentine's Day with the hubby.  I took the picture above of the beautiful roses and card he gave me along with the candy I gave him.  Oh yes, Charlie made a special guest appearance to scope out the scene.  It's not necessary to spend lots of money of Valentine's Day; being with people you love is the main thing though I won't pass up any presents that come my way!  Many of the stores will be having sales on Valentine's stuff for the next few days so it's a good time to stock up. Don't think I'd save candy for a year but in our house, there's no way it would last that long anyway!