Valentine's Day "Campout", Basketball games, and Lisa's Birthday

This past week has been a fun week.  First off, because it was Valentine's day.  I love Valentine's day.  I love having a day to think about the ones you love and celebrate it with the people you love as well.  I decided to plan this Valentine's day out a little better seeing as last year I didn't really plan that much.  Peter lately has really been itching to get out and go camping.  From watching like 'Survivorman' and 'Out in the Wild' to reading his Ranger Survivor Handbook, I picked up on the hints that he wants to enjoy the great outdoors.  Unfortunately, Mother Nature doesn't agree with him because it seems like it hasn't been higher than 35 degrees since January and so he would have to wait until Summer to actually go camping.  That's when I thought it would be nice for him to have an outdoor experience in our home.  After weeks of planning and keeping Peter guessing of what is going on, I kicked Peter out of the apartment and decorated the place so that he could go "camping".  I was a little disappointed at the end result of my decorating (it looks a lot cheesier than I envisioned it to be), but Peter loved it and we enjoyed eating our dinner on our blanket while watching "Skyfall" and sleeping in our tent. 

Yes.  I put that tent up by myself.  Be impressed.

Our "mountains"

The "river" I made, the stuff on the floor was "leaves" instead of rose petals,  and our "campfire" was a disc that was playing on the TV.

Pretty successful Valentine's day!

The next day, while Peter was in class, I cleaned up the living room, and packed our bags due to a last minute decision to head to Utah for President's Day weekend.  We spent a couple of days with Drew and Jessica and it was a lot of fun just relaxing and enjoying their company.  We got some tickets to a BYU Basketball game that we decided to go to later on in the day.  It was my first BYU basketball game and I must say I was glad I didn't get any boos or objects thrown at me seeing as I was wearing the wrong colors for the game (I wore my purple and white sweater which turned out to be the color of the opposing team.  Oops!) Lori was nice enough to hook us up with some awesome seats and it was fun watching the fans, the intensity of the game, and the excitement of it all.

They were great seats!

The next day was Lisa's birthday.  I felt bad that she had to spend her birthday so far away from home but Jessica did a great job making birthday crepes and decorating her place just for Lisa.  It was a fun morning celebrating Lisa!

Happy Birthday Lisa!

After church, we packed our things and went to have dinner and spend a day with my family.  It was fun shopping and spending the day relaxing with them.  (We spent most of the time relaxing or shopping and I didn't think to take any pictures.  Sorry!)

I love spending time with my family!  And I love spending time with Peter's family!  I hate it when the time comes to say goodbye to both and head back to the frigid Rexburg and it seems like the more we visit them, the harder it is to leave.  

It was a great weekend and I can't wait to see everyone again!