Valentine's Day 2013

 I'm not going to lie.  Valentine's Day started out as a disaster this year.  I had it all planned that I was going to make a homemade triple layer strawberry cake for the hubs.  I had the day off, so I went to out to buy all of my ingredients.  I drove to three different stores before I found all of the ingredients I needed.  Who knew how hard it would be to find strawberry extract.  Anyways, I spent two hours making the cake and the homemade frosting.  The photo above explains it all.  Two of the three cakes fell apart when I went to take them out of the cake pans.  Not only that, but the texture was so wierd and the frosting really didn't taste that great either.  I felt so defeated.  I just wanted to lay on the floor and cry.  I spent so much of my time, money, and effort on this stupid cake that I was now dumping down the drain.

At least I was still able to use one of the layers to make a mini cake...Ha!

The day really turned around when Brad came home from work and walked in the door with a big heart-shaped Marble Slab strawberry ice cream cake!  O.M.G.  I was sooooooooooo suprised.  I was actually glad my cake didn't turn out after all!  Ha!  (He didn't even know about all of my cake drama...Brad ordered the ice cream cake a week ago!)  What a sweet man. 

For dinner we grilled out steaks and I made baked potatoes & asparagus to go with them.  We both agreed that it was seriously one of the best meals we've ever had. 

We enjoyed the rest of the evening with a glass of Chocolate Shop Chocolate Strawberry wine.