My Bloody Valentine!

Today has been the BEST Valentine's Day ever! The heck with the nasty chocolates, stuffed animals that will be tossed in Grayson's stuffed animal collection and flowers that'll wilt and be thrown out within 2 weeks. TC and I had an adventurous, exhausted, and long day but a fun one at that! To see my husband have so much fun was worth it for me and of course I had fun too. We started off early in the morning from 8:00-12:00 at an air soft game. We got my mother in law to come watch Grayson and of course they had fun. TC and I joined his friend Adam in photographing the event. Yall should have seen me! I had a sweater like shirt on with 2 jackets and this huge safety vest on with a hat and face mask. It was pretty epic and I looked like a giant burnt marshmallow haha I could barely move in other words lol. The air soft game was pretty much like a combat scene. We just had so much fun! We came back home to eat lunch. We had meatball sub casserole that I had made last night which was supposed to be for dinner last night but plans changed lol it was so good but I'm definitely changing up the recipe a little (recipe to follow).

I HAD to take a nap once we got back home. I was exhausted from having to stay up late with Grayson and then waking up early this morning. I tried to get Grayson to take a nap with me but of course he had other plans. I thought he was asleep but NO he got mischievous by being extra quiet while I was falling asleep. He made a little noise that startled me and the look on his face when I caught him was PRICELESS! He was flipping through Daddy's book....ANNDDDD he had taken his diaper off lol nakey party for one! Ha! Thankfully he didn't pee all over the place. ANYWAY! Lol! After I woke up, TC's friend Adam had come over and I sorted through some of my photography equipment and gave some to him since he's buying one of my cameras from me. He was pretty excited and thanked me about, oh I don't know, A MILLION times haha! Glad he was excited though and glad I could help him :)

We chilled for a little bit and my mom came over to watch Grayson so TC and I could go to Deceased Farms for their My Bloody Valentine event. For those of you who have never been to or have never heard of Deceased Farms, it's a farm owned by a couple who goes to my church that turned it into a couple of haunted houses. This year was the first year they've done a Valentine's event and it was so awesome! They usually only do them for the month of October and then do special events for kids and stuff throughout the year. So I was so excited! TC hates things they scare him like that but he was a champ and enjoyed it just as much if not more than I did haha! We saw some of TC's old students there who made us tag along with them through the mazes. Of course the scarier and more time consuming maze, the kids chickened out on right as we were entering lol so TC and I went alone and it was kinda nice not to have a bunch of screaming kids in my ear haha! The 3D maze was pretty cool and that's the one the kids went through with us. It definitely wasn't as neat or scary as the 2nd maze TC and I did alone. The place is just amazing and I'm hoping I can talk to the owners at church to see if TC and I could check it out during the day and MAYBE even take some pictures of the place for them. It's just so neat! I laughed the whole time except for the part where they have this huge dragon pop out at you and roar. That was mine and TC's favorite part. Of course people touch you and kind of get in your face but they're pretty nice as long as you're not screaming your head off and you looked terrified lol. Through the 3D maze, one of the scary people wouldn't let the boy we were with through the bridge past her. So I went back and rescued him. He was terrified and pretty mad that the two girls we were with ditched him lol. Of course they made TC be in front and me in back haha but I didn't get any of the action in the back. When TC and I went through the 2nd maze alone, we laughed the whole time but got pretty freaked out when we had to go through tunnels and this blown up material where you're squeezed in. And then of course the fog and the loud horns caused some troubles. One scary guy popped out and asked if I'd hold his hand so I did and he held my hand for a good bit while touching and smelling my hair trying to freak me out haha it was just so awesome! And of course all of them grabbed my butt when they were trying to grab my leg. I'm short so they miscalculated haha! And I got molested by a chain saw haha seriously the guy wouldn't get that dang thing off of my butt! I definitely wasn't scared through the thing. Now if I went through it on my own than that would be another story haha!

It was overly just an amazing day and it so beat out any candlelit dinner and rose petal bed/bathtub any day! I like the romantic things although TC's not very romantic. He definitely has his moments and tries way too hard lol I'm not one of those girls who DEMAND and NEED things like that all of time especially on Valentine's Day, Anniversaries and Birthdays. If it happens, it happens and it's sweet and gushy and I enjoy it. I'm a BIG girly girl but have my moments where I like to get muddy and pretty much be one of the boys. It's a rare occasion to say the least but I do enjoy it lol. And I was the ONLY girl at that air soft game with about 30 guys! Haha! But a day like this just tops all of that for me to be honest. All of those gifts I could have gotten couldn't have beat this day. I've always enjoyed TIME over gifts (well maybe not as kid duh lol) but as I'm getting older gifts are nice, but time with my family means more to me honestly. And being able to spend the day with my husband (no offense to Grayson lol) meant a lot to me. We don't usually go out anywhere without Grayson. I would always be a nervous wreck and couldn't enjoy myself without Grayson, but as he's getting older it's gotten easier and I'm starting to love date days/nights. As much as I love spending time together as a family, TC and I need that time alone as well.

I just want to thank my husband for such an amazing day and thank my mom and mother in law for watching Grayson for us today. I love them so much! For the past week, I've been joking with TC saying, "now you know what I want for Valentine's Day! I want flowers, a stuffed animal, all this gushy stuff," and of course I was kidding. All I honestly asked for was to be able to spend time with him for Valentine's Day. We get the weekends to spend time together and do things as a family and we get to spend about 3 hours of time with TC from the time he gets home from work to the time he goes to bed but being able to spend a whole day together without us having errands to run, without me having photoshoots, and (I know this sounds bad but) without having to run out and help a friend...was nice. I don't mind any of those things. Errands need to be run, the house needs tending to, money needs to be made and friends/family need help and I love doing all of those things (well besides errands and cleaning house haha), but it was nice to have one day set aside for just TC and I without having to worry about anything besides Grayson at home if something ever happened which it didn't phewww! Lol! We definitely need to make that at least a monthly thing and not just on a "holiday" :)

Ok so since this post is EXTREMELY long because of my big mouth, I'll be posting the recipe for meatball sub casserole in a different post...right now I swear lol