Would you like to eat dinner with fragrant lilies in the room?

Valentine's Day is one of my absolute favorite holidays--second only to Christmas.  I love that we have a holiday based on love.  It was my favorite holiday even when I was single.  I'll have you know that I never had a boyfriend for Valentine's Day before Jeremy, so I spent many Valentine's Days alone, and I still loved it.  My job also makes the holiday extra splendid.  For example, this was what one of my students wrote on his valentine:

It's true.  Kissing is good.  Many people asked me what Jeremy and I were doing for our first Valentine's Day as a married couple.  It's kind of funny to think of last Valentine's Day.  Jeremy and I had just started dating.  It was so fresh that I remember thinking Do I get him something for Valentine's Day?  Is it too soon?  This year I knew I needed to get him something, but I had a hard time coming up with something good.  This is what I came up with:

I typed up 100 reasons why I love him (which was quite easy), and bought a few gifts that went along with some of the reasons I came up with.

He seemed to really like it. :)  Jeremy gave me four of my favorite things: flowers, Reese's peanut butter cups, dinner, and a sweet note.  He always picks out the prettiest flowers.

We were going to go to Thai Evergreen for dinner as a tradition because that's where we went last year, and it was dead slow.  If I remember right we were the only customers there, but their food was DELICIOUS!  When we got there, though, they were packed, so went to Fusion, a Korean restaurant, instead.  The food was really good there.  The best part was that while we were looking at the pictures of customers on their wall by us (like every hole in the wall Asian restaurant has) we saw a picture of Jeremy with a date on the wall!  It was hilarious!  What are the odds that you see a picture of yourself on the wall of a restaurant?  Well, that basically sums up the Nicholls family Day of Love.  Cheers!