Happy Valentine's Day!

I love Valentine's Day.

I love hearts, I love chocolate, I love flowers, and I love everything pink.

I love that on Valentine's Day, there are chocolates all around the office, flower deliveries coming in every few minutes, and that almost everyone is wearing a festive color.

(As a side note, I actually really dislike the color red. Valentine's Day is the one day a year that I actually buy things in the color and will forgive the general awfulness of the color.)

I also really love telling my sweet husband how much I love him.

I do this rather frequently of course, but Valentine's Day is the perfect excuse to tell him all day long.

Aaaaand I love being super duper cheesy about it.

So about a month ago I started browsing Pinterest and stumbled across a phenomenal Valentine's Day idea: a gift for every hour of the day to be opened on the "14th" minute. Cutest thing ever? I think YES!

(In case you're wondering why the "14th" minute, it's because Valentine's Day is on the 14th - I know, I know, I think it's perfectly logical but I was asked this by not just 1 but 2 co-workers so I thought it was worth mentioning)

So I had my plan - I needed 9 little surprises for the 9 hours Taylor was going to be at work on Valentine's Day. As I thought about what each gift/surprise should be, I decided I wanted them to be something useful or edible and not just random stuff. So I browsed Pinterest some more and was totally blown away by all the cute valentine ideas!

I'm talking super cheesy stuff like a pack of gum with a note that says "I chews you," a plum with a tag that says "you're plum perfect,"  and a little toy lion with a note that says "I'm wild about you!"

I wanted to do ALLLLLL of them!

And so...I kind of did.

I incorporated as many of the cute, cheesy, Valentine ideas as I could into my plan.

Most of them are edible. Some of them are useful. One or two of them are just plain cute.

All of them made me smile.

I bought some pretty red paper, stickers, and some twine and wrapped them all up. Each package was finished off with a little label reading what time they should be opened.

Here is the finished product:

I tucked all 9 gifts into a bag and left them in Taylor's car for him to find on his way to work!

Now, since you're dying to see them all, get ready for the cheese - here are the Valentines:

9:14am

And

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10:14am

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11:14am

12:14pm

1:14pm

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2:14pm

3:14pm

4:14pm

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5:14pm

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It's been fun getting texts from Taylor all day as he opens them!

Oh and I nearly forgot to mention, a few days ago Taylor surprised me with our Valentine's Day gift: a cooking class at Sur la Table on Wednesday night. I can't wait!

Tonight we've got plans for relaxing evening at home (steak dinner included!).

Happy, happy Valentine's Day!