Valentine's Day craziness...

This Valentine's Day Nate and I decided we wanted to stay at home and try our hand at making sushi. Nate has a chance of being deployed during the next Valentine's day so we wanted to make the best of this one by just spending as much time together as we could.
We always go overboard with presents and stuff at different holidays so we set a $25 limit for V-day this year. Of course neither of us really stuck to it.
I was having a lot of trouble trying to find something for Nate that was nice and romantic. I finally decided to buy him the camping equipment he had been wanting and promised him we would go camping when it got warmer. I LOVE being outdoors so the present was kinda for me too, that is how I justified going over budget :). He did amazing this year!!! I told him I didn't want anything like dvd's or anything like that that I wanted something meaningful that I could have forever!!! He def. came through. He found this place that does canvas type things and they print your pic on it then you can write a message over it. It was perfect and VERY sweet. He woke me up with flowers then sent me on a scavenger hunt around the house to find my present. At each place I got flowers and a clue to the next location. It was so fun.
After all that we just spent time watching fun movies and spending time with the doggies.
It was finally time to start cooking sushi and we couldn't find the Rice Vinegar that we KNOW we had bought so we ran out to the Asia store and grabbed some. One of our many adventures.
We got back and proceeded to start making sushi.
Let me just say to those who want to make sushi at home in the future that it is quite a fun adventure and just be prepared.
We had so much fun trying to imitate our favorite sushi. When finally finished everything and sat down to eat and found that our eyes were WAY bigger than all of the huge array of food in front of us. We only ate a fraction of all the food we made.
Then for dessert Nate made up root beer floats.
It was around this time I got a call from my friend and she said she thought she was going into labor and was asking if I could watch her children while they went to get checked at the hospital.
I packed a bag and drove over.
There little boy was a hoot!!! He kept getting up every 5 min to tell me hello and that his tummy was rumbly. It was too cute!!! It turned out that she was not in full blown labor so they sent her home.
So all in all it was one of the craziest, awesomest, greatest, and lovely V-day ever and I didn't even really leave the house :).