Weekend full of Love

Whether you celebrate St. Valentine's Day, St. Cyril and Methodius' feast day, both, or all of the above, happy day to you!  We do a little bit of everything :).  Being the unabashedly Czech family that we are, last year we made a big Czech feast (svíčková, potatoes, sauerkraut, kolaches, all kinds of lovely things...) This weekend was full of people and things I love.

Family

My parents came to visit!  My mom tries to come visit every month we don't make it to Kansas, but my dad normally can't make it out due to his job.  I loved getting to see him with little Miss Nugget.  She was a little nervous about them being around, but ended up having a great time.  We wandered around the 16th St. Mall and ate lovely panini's.  Ah... it was very happy.     

 Dad made a whole list of the possibilities for lunch and we walked past as many of them as possible before making a decision.

Good friends from out of town

 While we were downtown, I got to see one of my former college roommates and her littlest one :).  Anni was fascinated by a littler person than her and I loved getting to see Meghan!

Feathering my nest

Despite the fact that we are most likely moving again this summer, I love making our little apartment feel like a home.  It's important to me to make it feel like a sanctuary for our whole family.
 

 My "Valentine's Gift" to Daniel was to finally get some of our wedding pictures on the wall.  A bigger one above our couch and several above our bed.  They make the blank white walls a little more inviting :).

Also... my sister made me this table runner!  It spent its first couple of days on my coffee table.  Isn't it beautiful? 

I'm also in the midst of finally making Anni's room look like a baby room.  Because she was early (I never hit that major nesting stage) and we moved right after she came home, it has never really gotten done.  However, I have lovely things on the way and I'll share it all with you as soon as I can :).


All of it:

The sleepiness..

 The laugh-so-hard you squint

Those lashes...

Babywearing... seriously love it

Her littleness... I love standing back and taking in her smallness every once in awhile because a lot of the time all I can think is that she's getting so big!

 The crawling: after all that worry, Anni started to crawl (if you can call it that) forward this weekend!  Except, instead of using her knees, she digs those toes in, pushes her tush and stomach up and shoots forward!

My husband:

 We went on a date yesterday (it was World Marriage Day!)  It was... really good :).  I love getting just a little time to spend just being us.  (Not that I didn't jump out of the car as soon as we spotted Anni and my mom in the parking lot after...)

 

And, he made me a CD.  (Volume 2 because I made him one for his birthday when we were engaged.)  With commentary.  I love it!