Valentine's Day - Cards & Freebies

I have been working on Valentine Day cards for Hubby. I plan on giving him one a day during our "Ten Days of Love". Here are a few of them.



The "I heart U" is made from paper, the rocket card is a hybrid of digi and paper, and the owl card is digi. I have the owl card front and the rocket pieces as a free download for you. Just click below to download.


*Owl card created with Serenity from Designs by Snowlady.

Download Owl Card



Download Rocket Card

I hope your Valentine's Day plans are coming along!

Valentine's Day - Love Coupons Freebie

I am starting to work on Valentine's Day projects. I plan on doing a "Ten Days of Love" for Hubby which will start February 5th and go through the 14th. One of things he will get each day is a Love Coupon. The coupons will be for things like "eat at a restaurant of your choice (no complaining from me)", "a back scratch", "one free massage", "one free dessert of your choice", and some couple time coupons. I gave him some coupons at Christmas and he loved them. Here are the coupons I'm using.


*Coupons created using Fruit of the Spirit: Love from Designs by Snowlady and are for PERSONAL USE ONLY.

You can make your coupons good for whatever your hubby will enjoy. Click on the picture above or HERE to download the coupons. I've included a sheet plus the individual coupons. I hope your hubby enjoys them as much as mine does!

Valentine's Day

It's time to start thinking about what to do for Valentine's Day. I have been browsing Pinterest and have several ideas on my Valentine's Board. Now to "pin" down what exactly I'm going to do for Hubby. Stay tuned for ideas!

E-Cards and YouTube

I know that sometimes our days get busy and it seems the week is over before you know it. Well there went another week without a date night. If that is happening to you, remember there are other ways to connect. During December I sent hubby some e-cards and songs from YouTube. They are quick and easy to do. With the e-cards, they send it out. You just have to pick the card. If you have a favorite song, look it up on YouTube, find a version you like, and send it to your spouse's email account.

Here are some free e-card sites:
123 Greetings
River Songs
Greeting Cards
E-Greetings

Let your spouse know you are thinking of them - even when your week is crazy and busy.

Do Something Your Spouse Loves

I am not a video game player. When I was younger I loved playing our Atari and arcade games. But now, not so much. Maybe it's the choice of games in the house. Well I decided Date Night would be about the hubby, and we would play X-Box together. So after dinner we sat down to play Call of Duty. I have never played this game before and was at a definite disadvantage. I couldn't quite get the movements down on the controller. Atari had a joystick and a button. Now their are buttons and more buttons that all do different things. Hubby was kind and let me kill him a few times. Of course sometimes he was just standing there and I couldn't shoot him! Hubby thought I was joking about playing X-Box as I've always said no before. I think he enjoyed the time spent doing something he enjoys doing.




So get out there and do something your spouse loves. It may not be your thing, but they will appreciate the effort you are making!

Snow Shower

For each day leading up to Christmas, I gave the hubby a 4x6 card. Some of them were for things to do, some were love quotes, some were links to songs or e-cards. On Day 22, I went out to his truck before he went to work and left him a snow shower and the card said, "I love you 'snow' much!" I should have cut more snowflakes but oh well. He enjoyed it and was quite surprised. For Valentine's Day I'm going to shower his truck with hearts.



There are many sites out their with snowflake patterns. Here are a few:

Snowflake Patterns
Snowflake Patterns
Snowflake Patterns
Snowflake Patterns

Have fun "showering" your spouse with a little love!

College Date Night

Dan and I both attended Purdue University. One weekend we were looking for something cheap to do. My RA had rented the movie The Accidental Tourist. She offered it up to us to watch. We found this to be one of the strangest movies we had ever watched.



Ever since college, we bring up that movie title all of the time. We couldn't remember what the movie was about just that it was strange! I found the movie on Netflix streaming, so I decided it was time to go back to college for Date Night. I created an invitation and left it on his pillow.



The plans:

*wear our Purdue shirts
*drop the kids off at Youth Group
*pick up Hardee's on the way home (Hardee's was right across from our dorm in college.)
*watch The Accidental Tourist while eating dinner
*eat ice cream sandwiches for dessert (My RA always had these for snacks during floor meetings. She would always have an extra for Dan. )

I made the ice cream sandwiches myself using homemade chocolate chip cookies and vanilla ice cream.

Directions: Make your favorite type of cookie. Let cool. Set ice cream out to soften a bit. Slice the ice cream into slabs - about a half inch to an inch thick. To cut the ice cream in circles I used a small diameter glass. (Find something that is about the same size as the cookies.) Wrap individually in Saran wrap and freeze.



I was trying to make this a surprise, but the ice cream was melting. I had to get help from Dan and the boys to get the sandwiches made, wrapped, and in the freezer before we had an ice cream pond.

We had a great time reliving some college moments. The movie made a little more sense this time around but was still strange.



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Think of a time awhile back in your lives that you can recreate today. Reliving the memories makes for a great Date Night!

Have fun dating your spouse!