Valentine's Day in Denver

On Saturday morning, Valentine's Day, I woke up to a few surprises! First, Matt baked me some Valentine's sugar cookies. Yum!! Second, we woke up to a beautiful snow covering outside! You can kind of see it off of our porch in the picture below:

Here we are...me ready for my third surprise! We loaded overnight bags in the car but Matt
wouldn't tell me where we were going.

When I got to the car, there was this cute little card with hearts and lips drawn on the outside of it! Matt also had Reeses peanut butter hearts and Sweethearts for our trip! But I was instructed to not open the card until we arrived at our destination.

But of course, the car needed to be cleared off before we headed out! Matt took care of that while I waited in the warm car munching on my Reese's peanut butter heart!





We get in the car and head north! I admit I am a little sad as we passed Park Meadows Mall in Denver because secretly, I kind of wanted to go shopping! But still, I greatly anticipated what was planned. At last, we arrive at this Hyatt in Denver and I get kind of excited thinking of just having a relaxing weekend away.

Then, Matt hands me my Valentine's card that I am now allowed to open. It is so cute and so sweet! He made it himself on Publisher. I am forbidden to show it in much detail on the blog, or to quote what it says! But basically, he wrote me a very sweet poem that included in there that we were going to go shopping and he printed out several coupons the night before for some of my favorite stores. He was laughing at me at this point, because I was actually crying because I thought it was so sweet!

I admit that I was a little confused as to why we were at the Hyatt if he said the surprise was shopping. He told me that he did that to throw me off! Can you believe that? But he said it backfired because he thought I would be disappointed at spending money on a hotel when we could spend it on clothes for work that I need! But instead I was kind of getting excited! Ha ha. Poor guy. He never knows what mood I will be in. :)

So after getting a great deal on this fleece to zip into my winter coat at Sport's Authority, we grabbed a delicious lunch at Taco Bell ( I know, it doesn't take much for us!) Then we hit a couple of malls! It was a very fun day! I got some much needed items for work and some fun things too!

The really good news is...we still stayed at Hyatt. Not the first one we went to, but another one some friends of ours were talking about. We got a pretty good deal. Matt even went in without me to try to get a deal from the manager. Ha Ha! It actually worked and he got us a discount. You never know until you try!

At the Hyatt, Matt had me wait in the car until he called me up to the room. When I came into the room this awesome TV was playing music and had these graphics on it. He had tea lights all around the room
(is that allowed?) and a bath set for
me take a luxurious warm bath!

This is the pull out couch when you first walk into the room. I really liked how the whole room was
decorated too. Very warm colors.

He even had rose petals on the bed and rented a movie with Richard Gere in it because I love Runaway Bride so much! Ha ha. But Richard Gere is at his best with
Julia Roberts...I just can't find
a movie that compares!

And the room from the other corner. It was really difficult to get a good picture that captured it all because it is divided up. The sink area and then bathroom is to the right of the tv. And the couch you saw earlier is on the left side of that panel that separated the bedroom from the "living area". If you care, you can go to this link, and get a much better idea of what the room looked like...and the rest of the motel for that matter.

And of course, a fashion show of the day's purchases after my hot bath!











See that ice bucket with the sparkling apple cider in it? I actually thought Matt bought it too because it is green...my favorite color! Then he told me that it was the hotel's ice bucket. Ha ha. I've never been to a hotel with that nice of a bucket...I thought they were always plastic!

It was a fun weekend for us to relax and get away! Sometimes it is fun to spend money on other things then towards your school loans! (That is still fun though too) :) We love you all and hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day! XOXO