A Very [Late] Happy Valentine's Day!

Yes, Valentine's Day was almost a month ago, but my sweet husband out did himself again and had such a wonderful Valentine surprise that I have to share ;)

As many of you know, my husband Justin is very romantic and comes up with the best surprises/ gifts for me. Last year for Valentine's Day, Justin had "The Seven Days of Valentine" and gave me a little something for seven days leading up to Valentine's Day. I wasn't sure he was going to top that, but oh- he did!

On Monday, that day before Valentine's Day [and accidentally came a day early- way to go florist] Justin surprised me with a beautiful bouquet of pink roses to my school. This is how it went- I was in the middle of teaching and over the intercom came,
"Mrs. P- do you have an assistant today?"
Me: "No I'm by myself"
"Oh- we need to see you in the office."
Me: Fear immediately starting because I'm thinking I'm in trouble. "Well.. I don't have anyone here. I'm all alone so I can't come down."
"Ok well please stop by at some point today."

A couple minutes later, my tutor walks in the door so I ask her to cover the class so I can walk down to the office. I thought I should just get it over with, rather than agonizing about it all day. I walked into the office and this is what I found...


On Valentine's Day, as I was rushing out the door, lying with my keys was an envelope. Justin told me to open it during the day when I felt like I was getting overwhelmed and stressed out. Well, I opened that envelope at 9:24 am and this is what I saw...



How creative- Happy V"owl"entine's Day- Love it!

When I came home, Justin had a complete tea spread. The table was beautifully set with a white tablecloth, my flowers, dessert plates, platters of tea sandwiches, scones and fruit and cheese board and desserts. It was wonderful. We sat down and enjoyed all the delicious items that he made/bought!

The spread

Sandwiches, scones, fruit & cheese

Desserts...yum!
I definitely think he made the chocolate covered strawberries himself because some of the greens were stuck in the chocolate ;)

After tea, Justin had another little spread for me.

Going along with his English Theme, he wrote me a love note, that was folding up and sealed the old-fashioned way with wax. It note was in the language of Mr. Darcy writing to Elizabeth Bennett (Pride and Prejudice). He then had a little present for me, which was Season 2 of Downton Abbey. Justin and discovered Season 1 for me on Instant Stream Netflix one day while I was sick and I became quickly obsessed. I LOVE Old-English time period movies. We sat back and relaxed with a glass of wine and watched 3 or 4 episodes :)

It was a wonderful and very special night [and very relaxing- just what a hard-working teacher needs!]

Oh... and some of you may wonder what I did for Justin. It is nothing compared to what he did, but it was still special. When I woke up at 6:00, Justin had this waiting for him on my pillow.

At every hour on the 14th minute, he was to open an envelope and inside was a little note/memory that correlated to a special time that we shared during that hour. For example: 11:14 was the hour that we were married on August 8, 2009.
*Yes- I found the general idea on pinterest, but I made it more personal by having the note correspond to a memory from that hour :)

Happy Valentine's Day!