February countdown

Everyone should know what today is. Whether it is the day of love for, a day to mope and eat chocolate, or a day to celebrate independence. Either way, today is of course Valentine's Day! Also, for those of you keeping track of our countdown...it is also 5 months until our wedding! And, because of the holiday today, Sean and I each wrote 5 things that we love about each other. Sorry to those of you who may think it's too mushy-mushy, but our blog is about our wedding, love, planning, and life...so you can just stop back for the next post :)

Why Sean loves Amanda:

1. thoughtful. She makes me dinner almost every night and would do anything for me.

2. Amanda is creative and thrifty

3. goofy because we like to wrestle and play around

4. Amanda knows and accepts the whole me. She knows my strengths and weaknesses and pushes me to work on myself as a person everyday

5. she calms me down and believes in me, even when I don't believe in myself

Why Amanda loves Sean:
1. Sean loves me even when I'm a suuuuuuper grump-it's not as often as Sean may tell you if you ask!
2. he acts goofy with me/I can be myself around him. Sometimes I get in moods of wanting to play/wrestle/use energy and he (usually) plays along. And, If I ever do something a little too embarrassing I tell him "lets just pretend I didn't just do that"
3. he is hot blooded, NOT warm blooded, but HOT blooded. I am usually freezing so we balance each other out; I keep him cold and he keeps me warm.
4. he gives me foot rubs on almost a daily basis and doesn't even care if my legs are hairy :)
5. Sean is protective. Quick story: he was home alone over my Christmas and Ashley came home later one evening. Sean wasn't expecting her. So when he heard the door start to open and someone go downstairs he first grabbed his gun then then snuck over to the stairs and yelled downstairs "Who's down there??" Of course I wasn't there, but I can totally see Sean doing this and then Ashley just saying "it's me" and then Sean relaxing

I thought it might be fun to look back and find a picture of us after we had been dating for 5 months...I did have much better pictures, but this one below is the only one I could find on facebook since I accidentally deleted about a years worth of photos on my computer a while back :(

here is my "duck face" and Sean acting surprise. and yes, we are at a toga party. HA

last thing. if anyone is wondering what we are doing to celebrate Valentines day, just wait until this weekend. We are going to be cooking a meal together. We can probably count on one hand how many meals we have cooked together, it's usually just me doing the cooking around here...