valentine's day through the years...

 2007

Matthew was in Chicago.  I'm pretty sure we celebrated Valentine's Day before he left.  I gave him a guitar (you should ask him about it!) and he gave me an emerald necklace.  He flew back for my sorority formal the weekend after Valentine's Day!  Little did we know, we were falling madly in love.  Or maybe the fact that it was so hard for him to leave for Chicago (only after 3 months of dating) was our first clue!

2008

We were engaged and getting married exactly 4 months from this day!  He gave me another necklace...are you noticing a theme?  :)  I think I gave him Dremel tool and this puffy vest.

2009

 (just have to include this picture...Hudson wanted to be in our happy valentine's day pic)

 We lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and we celebrated by going to dinner at Max & Erma's.  This year, we did small gifts...I got a lovely bouquet of roses and Matthew got chocolate strawberries (he shared!).

2010

We were back in Kansas City!  We enjoyed a lovely dinner at Nick and Jake's.  That lovely bouquet of flowers showed up and Matthew and I took off for the weekend in Omaha to see a Michigan hockey game.

2011

Our Valentine's Day was nothing extraordinary this year.  But the time devoted with each other is always special!  One of the best parts...he brought flowers home at lunch time so they would be right there when I walked in the door from work.  Very sweet!  We enjoyed dinner at Granite City (a special place for us...where our journey to marriage began in a way....) and then had some fro yo at Peachwave.