G A L E N T I N E S D A Y

                

Over the weekend, I hosted a Galentine's Day Party at my house with my sisters & gal pals from church. We shared laughs, yummy treats, spent the night making Valentine's Day cards for our loved ones and taking lots of photos on my Instagram fiji mini! 

I am aware that Valentine's Day is over commercialized, actually, pretty much every holiday is! But I just can't help but to fall right in and celebrate. I love reasons to celebrate, get dressed up and make my home all pretty! I am such a girl and I love it! My aim is to always keep Christ at the center and come together with those that I love. 

Valentine's Day is fast approaching, what do you ladies have planned? My husband and I love to stay in and avoid all the commotion. We decided to take turns on who gets to plan Valentine's Day and this year its my husbands turn! 

Whether you have plans or not, just remember that you are loved. Romans 5:8 - "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." There is no better Valentine than my first love, Jesus. God IS love, so as long as we have Him, we have all that we need. 

Hope you all have a blessed and productive week! 

Love, 

Jessica

Our first Valentine's Day Married!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My husband and I consider ourselves home bodies and try to avoid crowds as much as possible (we like people I promise haha). Before we got married we would avoid the Valentine's Day crowd by either celebrating a day early, having a picnic at the park or just spend it at my dad's house eating pizza. Regardless, Carlos always made sure to make me feel so loved and special.

 

This year I decided to take advantage of the fact that we were now married and own our own home! Since Carlos always made me feel special, I decided to make our first Valentine's Day married very special for him. On February 2rd, before heading off to work that morning, I asked him to be mine with a special bouquet of bacon roses. He loved them so much that he showed off his bacon roses to everyone at work, what a cutie! The fact that it made him teary eyed made me realize all the more that our husbands need to feel loved and appreciated just as much as we do.

 

During the course of the next few days, I kept amping him up for VDay. I took full advantage of the fact that Valentine's Day landed on a Saturday. I started the morning off by making my husband breakfast while he watched Real Madrid play (his favorite soccer team). Then we got ready and headed out to downtown Redlands, had a nice stroll, ate some good food and went back home where I surprised him with our Valentine's Day tent! We exchanged VDay cards & he opened a few gifts, watched a movie and simply enjoyed each others company. It was perfect.    

 

I am so blessed to be married to my best friend, a man who loves me for me but most importantly, loves and fears the Lord.

 

"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."- 1 Peter 4:8