Happy Valentine's Day

After 8 years together and nearly 3 years of marriage it's only fitting that such a practical arrangement was made - Jen asked Levi for just a long days worth of backbreaking renovation labor for her Valentine's day gift and in return she'd give him the same. And a long day it was! We spent a 14 hour day and accomplished so much. Jen primed the family room and the office and Levi finished off the island and installed a good portion of the kitchen floors each project was painstakingly tedious for different reasons.

Coincidentally the last room that needed to be primed was the formal room and the color going on the wall that day was red. As Jen was applying the red to the walls she thought back to her and Levi's first Valentine's Day, she was 18 and Levi was 19, Jen wore a dress and they had their hot date out at the mall chain restaurant Rainforest Cafe thinking it was one of the nicest restaurants they had ever eaten in yet. We bought each other big gifts with price tags we would still consider today to be too extravagant for Valentine's day. Levi says this was one of the first time's he thought he was falling in love with Jen.

With this memory at 10pm Jen decided they were too young to already not celebrate Valentine's day so we wrapped our projects up, attempted to wash most of the paint off our faces and arms and ventured out for a nice dinner, maybe at Chow Bella or Yuma's good steak house but each were closed, so the story comes full circle as we enjoyed our 8th Valentine's dinner together in a less than romantic mall established restaurant of Chili's :)