{"id":3836,"date":"2011-02-16T19:54:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T01:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2011-02-16T19:54:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T01:54:32","slug":"valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=3836","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We both out-did ourselves for this Hallmark holiday this year because we like to mix it up a little. We don&#8217;t need an excuse to be nice to one another, but it sure is fun! I thought I had Joe topped by getting him a Kindle, which he wasn&#8217;t expecting, but of course he beat me. He always manages to do it no matter the occasion. <\/p>\n<p>In the morning there was a pretty sapphire heart necklace waiting for me by my purse, but it didn&#8217;t match my outfit so I had to run upstairs to change. :)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/ValentinesNecklace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/ValentinesNecklace.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Valentine Necklace\" width=\"192\" height=\"219\" class=\"entry\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Then later on at work there were two dozen tulips delivered with a pretty vase and a card that said &#8220;to the best wife a guy could ever have&#8230; all my love. joe&#8221;. I wasn&#8217;t expecting that since Joe hasn&#8217;t sent me flowers for years after getting burned by 1-800-Flowers <a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=763\">six years ago when they sent browning roses<\/a>. Luckily these flowers were fresh although they never quite perked up even with plenty of food and water.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/5451881567\/\" title=\"Valentine's Day Flowers by halo969, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4094\/5451881567_f03b9cf7db.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Valentine's Day Flowers\" class=\"entry\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I thought that was it, but then he gave me another present when we got home &#8211; a pretty sterling silver bracelet with hearts and diamonds.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/ValentinesBracelet1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/ValentinesBracelet1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Valentine Bracelet\" width=\"303\" height=\"219\" class=\"entry\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We ordered Lou Malnati&#8217;s deep dish pizza and hung out at home. I don&#8217;t care for the crowds on V Day, so we don&#8217;t go out to eat. It was a nice day even though work was involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We both out-did ourselves for this Hallmark holiday this year because we like to mix it up a little. We don&#8217;t need an excuse to be nice to one another, but it sure is fun! I thought I had Joe topped by getting him a Kindle, which he wasn&#8217;t expecting, but of course he beat me. He always manages to do it no matter the occasion. In the morning there was a pretty sapphire heart necklace waiting for me by my purse, but it didn&#8217;t match my outfit so I had to run upstairs to change. :) Then later on at work there were two dozen tulips delivered with a pretty vase and a card that said &#8220;to the best wife a guy could ever have&#8230; all my love. joe&#8221;. I wasn&#8217;t expecting that since Joe hasn&#8217;t sent me flowers for years after getting burned by 1-800-Flowers six years ago <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=3836\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3853,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}