Valentine's Mountain Weekend

First of all...HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!

I know some of you probably despise this holiday, so I sort of hate to tell you it's one of my favorites...however, maybe this will make you feel better...

It has nothing to do with my boy. Although I love my boy and love any excuse for a holiday with him...

but I love it because my mom used to go all out for Valentine's. The whole house seemed like it was pink and red and I would always wake up to a fun little surprise. It was magical.

Now that's she's a billion miles away I have to make my own magic, and this year I think we did pretty good! I headed to the mountains with all of my best friends...



Let me just say that you have no idea how difficult it was to get this picture.

Here was what the other 100 looked like...



There were 3 boys taking the pictures and they didn't think that "one at a time" was sufficient. We looked in every different direction, and we either look so confused, half of us have our eyes closed or someone is yelling, "ONE AT A TIME!!"

On another small disclosure note, Squirt (that's Sarah on the left) had a "ski accident" cough cough, but don't worry, I made sure to ask her if it was ok to post these pics first!! ;)

She was the best sport and didn't complain ONCE!



Here were our awesome hosts for the weekend!



And here was us with the newly engaged couple!



I love my little Britt, and we had so much fun together!



Besides taking pictures in the -3 degree weather, we lounged around by the fire...



cried with Britt watching "One born every minute" or some show like that, watched 20-20 and had family time...



and of course headed to town to shop!






I've said it a million times, but Highlands is one of my favorite little towns, and I'll take any excuse to go!



I don't think all 5 of us had been shopping together since our "Mystery Trip" to Washington D.C in like 9th grade...have we, girls?!

We had so much fun, and we all found a "happy valentine's gift to ourselves". All of the girls but me found there "somethings" here...



After a little shopping we tried to find somewhere to eat.

You will never know how hard we laughed over this picture...



Squirt tried to put her face against the screen to take a picture, and I think she almost broke that thing again!! Poor little thing, but it was the funniest thing ever...

When we got home I was inspired by Britt's beautiful "Ruby Red Slippers" color on her hand that I wanted to paint my own...



We all had so much fun painting...



But instead of a red for V-day, we all went with this color blue...



Besides our fun little shopping excursion, doing our nails, watching tv and being lazy, we did a lot of this...



Eating!

I absolutely love a round kitchen table...I love being able to see everyone and we had so much fun...



Himmies on the other hand got lots of love from his aunties...



You know how much I love looking at pretty houses, and because Britt's neighborhood is amazing we decided we needed to go take a look around.

Here were a few of my favorites...



So cozy!



and can we say...ENORMOUS!!!



Speaking of beautiful houses, here is a little tour of Britt's...



I love her grandparent's bed...it looks like it's straight out of a castle...



and here was our room for the weekend!



Blake and I had the best time!

We had to take one last picture heading down the mountain because it was so beautiful...



Thanks Britt for such a fun weekend!