Three Things + 1 : Lots of Love (and giveaways)

My husband and I usually go out to dinner. This will be our son's second Valentine's day, but he was only a month old last year, so I'm looking forward to starting some new traditions for him.

That is also my anniversary so we usually go out to eat and then he usually surprises me with a trip to a pulloff on the parkway or somewhere romantic. Thanks for the cool giveaway and I hope you are still doing well.

Wow what fun products!
This is only our 2nd V-day for a tradition--but last year DH surprised me and our 2 little girls with our own pkg. of Godiva (my fave). And he wrote a personal note to each of us, his "princesses"! I loved that! Hopefully he'll do something like that again!

Valentines Day at our house is not just for the grown-ups. I usually sneak something special into the kids backpacks so they find a treat when they are in school. I fill out traditional "kids" valentines and place them at each setting on the dinner table and we celebrate by have a nice "romantic" candlelit dinner as a family complete with steak and lobster and an over the top dessert. I love to splurge and try new recipies that you think would only be found in a fancy restaurant.

Valentines Day means a heart shaped box of chocolates. I miss the days when I was a preschool teacher with all the covered shoeboxes full of Valentines the children exchanged.

I'm celebrating with all my sweeties-- 2 kids & hubby!

How do I celebrate Valentine's Day? Well, pretty much the traditional way. My husband and I have tried to go out to dinner every year and exchange cards. I give him something hand-made and he picks out a great store-bought one. He really finds the most amazing cards. I don't know how he does it. He also writes a long personal note in the card. Almost makes me cry every time :)
Before we met I didn't celebrate Valentine's Day at all - no sweetheart :) I did enjoy wearing red or pink for a reason and I loved the 50% off chocolate the day after!

What a fabulous post filled with lots of eye candy! My husband and I simply celebrate Valentines Day with a homemade meal, a nice bottle of wine and a romantic movie.

My step-daughter and I make little "sweetheart" cakes for friends and family. It's so much fun to be in the kitchen with her :)

My hubby and I make homemade cards for each other. He is the one who started this idea actually. It gets harder each year to top what we had the previous years.

I work as a floral designer, so Valentine's Day (and several days before)is spent standing and designing arrangements for others. After a long day I like to come home and just relax with my sweet husband of 40+ years. He will usually fix me a little something to eat and we just settle in for a relaxing rest of the evening.

We'll we normally go out to dinner exchange a box of chocolates but this year I want to do something different. We have had a tough two years with family illness and I want to do something special, not sure what it is yet but I am working on it!
With my son we will probably bake cookies for our friends on the circle! It's his favorite thing to do.

We like to spend Valentine's Day just being together, whether it is a nice meal, or going for a winter drive to take photos, or even running some errands and working on a home project...as long as we are together!

We have lots and lots of hearts in our house on Valentines Day. I am trying to start some fun traditions with my son now that he is getting older. He and I do lots of fun crafts, like make homemade cards for everyone, make lots of construction paper hearts that hang all over the house and make heart shaped pancakes for one of our meals on that day. It is so much fun to see the holidays through the eyes of a young child!!!!! Oh and I also make sure my hubb gets lots of choc. covered marshmallow hearts too!!!
Hope you all doing well there!!!

The morning starts with jumbo double chocolate muffins, my kids look forward to this as it's ALWAYS been a tradition. Then they get a special Valentine from my husband & I telling them how special they each are. Dinner is always SPECIAL on this day. We all eat together, & we eat in, complete with candlelight. I'm looking forward to it!

We are pretty boring. We do the basic making valentines for school and dressing up in pink/red. Going to try to do a valentine's scrapbook layout about dh this year.

Valentines means chocolate in a heart shaped box in our family - even for the boys!

This year we will celebrate by going to my cousin's wedding. Normally we do something special with the boys like going out to eat somewhere fun and just spending the evening together as a family.

I usually buy a small gift and some Valentine's candy for my kids. For the husband, it's usually a really "lovey" card and some chocolate.

On Valentine's Day, I have the table set in a fun valentine way with one little gift at each setting when the kids wake up in the morning, and then we have a breakfast of heart-shaped pancakes.
My husband and I never get each other gifts, just cards, and after the kids are in bed, we treat ourselves to a candlelit dinner--he makes the dinner and I make dessert.