Family Valentine Photos

Shortly before Valentine's Day, Zak had us write down family activities to choose weekly, and drew out family pictures for Valentine's Day. He's been working on improving his photography skills at work, where he has helped photograph products. We grabbed the camera, tripod, and our little one for some evening family pictures.

 Also, some playtime pictures of Miss V and Mommy.

Shrimp Valentine

Although Valentine's Day is on Saturday this year, I wanted to surprise Zak at work, so I decided to do it on Friday instead. I will forever compare my gifts to the bacon roses, so I again turned to Pinterest. Zak was in the room when I found an inspirational picture from Project Denneler. It didn't give any instructions, but showed a plate full of heart-shaped shrimp appetizers. Grandma Sue discovered Zak's weakness for shrimp a bit ago, so I knew I had a winner.

This morning I speared the pairs together with toothpicks, and then found kabob sticks to make a bouquet. I didn't have any styrofoam, so I went with an apple in the vase to hold the sticks.

We share the car right now, and I knew Zak needed it for a product photo shoot at which he was helping around 10:30. I loaded Miss V onto my back with the Boba, and carried the shrimp toward Zak's nearby workplace, leaving at 9:30. I'm glad we left when we did, because he actually had to be at the photo shoot earlier than planned, so we only caught him as he and co-worker Brooke nearly drove past us. Handing it to him through the car window wasn't the romantic way I had pictured, but he grinned with delight just the same.

Happy Valentine's Day, Husband.