Happy Valentine's Day {Late}

Awe Love day!  In our house it’s a regular day but with a lil extra sugar on it. Haha.  Prior to having kids Morgan and I would just go out to dinner.  We weren’t really big on giving each other extravagant gifts.  I would always get a card, flowers, and a gift.  I have a love hate relationship with flowers.  They aren’t really on the top of my list of gifts, but they are nice to get and I do buy them occasionally to have around the house.  I do love cards though!  Morgan always has the sweetest and most thoughtful things to say.  I keep all my cards.  This year we spent Valentine’s day as a family.  Amelia and I woke up to gifts from Morgan!  He surprised us, I thought we were going to wait until he got home from work to exchange gifts.  It was really nice to wake up to that surprise and Mills was so excited.   It's so sweet that Morgan gets Mills lil gifts.  When I was growing up my dad would get my sister and I flowers for Valentine's day, every year.  It was really the sweetest thing.  Every girl should get something on this day of love from the man in her life.   Later that night {much much much later, Morgan got home at almost 8 pm, I fed the kids earlier and they were ready for bed by the time he got home} we had a steak dinner, complete with potatoes {We’ve cut out our carbs so the potatoes were a treat}, chocolate and wine.   It was a nice day filled with love. 

Mills' V-Day Outfit

Mills's bag on the Left and My bag and wine on the right

My gift

My treats

Saturday Night at the Movies

Movie: Argo

Rating: ***(out of 5)

Comments:   This movie was good.  It started off a little slow.  Then about the last hour it got really good. Super suspenseful at the end! It's crazy how this was a true story.  I can't even imagine being one of those embassy people trying to get out of a country that wants to keep you.  Apparently the allure of Hollywood can blind anyone.  Ben Affleck was awesome in this movie.  We waited until the kids were asleep to watch this.  I know Mills would not have any interest.  

Okinawa Zoo

Had a short hiatus from updating.  Morgan took some time off work and we spent our days hanging out and doing activities with the kids.  I got lazy and didn’t do any updates while he was on leave, but I had so much to write about since we were doing stuff about every other day!

On to the Zoo...

The weather has been really excellent lately so we decided to spend the day at the zoo and kids museum.  I love going to the zoo.  I grew up in San Diego, and going to the zoo was a big deal.  It’s not called The World Famous San Diego Zoo for nothing!!  I mean they breed pandas there like it’s nobody’s business.  To see everything at the San Diego zoo would probably take 2 days, 3 if you have small children.  But not all zoos are created equal.   The zoo in Oki is pretty small.  To see it all would only take about a few hours.  It’s a nice short day trip, totally doable by myself if Morgan were gone on deployment.  A lot of the animal cages are small.  I know Amelia has a great time because you can get super close to the animals since their living enclosures are small.   The only bad thing was that we went in the middle of the day and most of the animals were sleeping.  It was kind of funny because Amelia kept yelling at them to wake up.  She had a great time.  Nolan slept for the most part.  It was a great afternoon.