Morning After...

So it is the morning after our first Valentine's Day as a married couple.  Did the day live up to the hype?  As a bit of background:

Be My Valentine?

So like a good girl I did not hunt through the house looking for my 'hidden' gift.  Turns out it would have been for naught ... D had the gift 'hidden' with him!  So what did I get ..... a dozen red roses :)  Slightly over our $10 budget but c'est la vie!

D loved his Weyerbacher Fifteen.  As usual, he encouraged me (read: all but forced) me to have a sip.  Though D loves his beer, especially a good stout, I cannot stand the taste.  It was so strong (which I understand is usually a good thing in a beer!) that I quickly had to open a nearby can of PepsiMax (generously provided by my father). 

Enjoy the picture below of my flowers and D's beer.  What did you get for Valentine's Day?

Hope it was a good one!

A Gift For My Sweet?

So D and I have always budgeted for gifts (as in we decide ahead of time what we can spend).  Now I know some who absolutely hate this idea.  Fair enough.  D and I are far from poor but even further from rich.  Budgeting gifts ensures two things: no one is expected to go overboard, and both gifts are approx. the same (i.e. I am not buying him a tie and he buys me a diamond bracelet!).  Now that said, I have on occasion gone a bit overboard.  We are saving up for a weekend away so we wanted to do a minimalistic Valentine's Day.  Originally we weren't even going to get each other gifts.  But then D said he wanted to so our $10 budget was born.