29 wks 4 days- Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I have always had a love/hate relationship with this "holiday." As a girl who was single all through high school and only had useless boyfriends through college, I became bitter. I swore that when I finally did have a boyfriend; someone who would bring me flowers and chocolates and take me on dates, I would never take it for granted. I would never complain that the flowers weren't big enough or the chocolates weren't fancy enough.

Now I have a valentine. He is my absolute perfect valentine. However, I still don't like to make a huge deal about Valentine's Day so as not to rub it in the faces of those who aren't as lucky as I am today.

We do have a date planned tonight though. We will have a simple dinner at a fancy restaurant (Our Couch). Then we will get in...the...car and get milkshakes from the Culvers drive-through! I am so excited because so far I have only left the house for doctor's appointments for the past 10 weeks, so this is a big deal.

My mom brought Lucy down for the weekend. After dropping Lucy off this afternoon she went on to spend the night with a handfull (shall we call them a gaggle) of her sisters. Sean and I are very excited to have Lucy back home with us for a few days. We sure missed her a lot!

Lucy's Valentine from 2012

We had some excitement today. Sean's alarm went off at the usual time, he crawled out of bed and went downstairs to put the kettle on to brew coffee...where he found a dry kitchen faucet. He soon realized all of our faucets are dry. You probably know where I'm going with this...our pipes froze last night. Thank God we don't own our house, so a quick call to my Uncle (Landlord) started the ball rolling. I had many male visitors all afternoon and now we are back on! 

Apparently Monona residents are supposed to leave a faucet running all day until the spring thaw. The city workers had to come thaw the pipe. Luckily, they took less than an hour and said the past few houses they have worked on took four hours a piece. The frost line has reached four feet deep at this point, which is crazy! Lesson of the day: If the city says to run your water...run your water.