our love day.

For the last 4 years Matt and I have had a little tradition on Valentines Day. We don't go out to a fancy restaurant, but instead stay home, make a simple dinner, and just enjoy each others company. We decided to celebrate v-day on Fri. the 13th (hmm..didn't think about that until it was too late), so we took Yoshi to doggie day-care to tire him out and came home from work early. We always make homemade pizza and chocolate covered strawberries so we quickly started on the pizza. After dinner, we planned on making the dessert, but at 7pm (and a bottle of wine later) we quickly tired out. After both deciding we were too full for dessert and seeing the dog passed out on his bed, we just shrugged our shoulders, said "I love you" and fell asleep at...7:30pm!!! It was probably the lamest v-day we've had, but felt so good this morning after a long nights sleep. Maybe we're getting old, maybe we're just boring, who knows? But to us...it was perfect!We did make our chocolate covered strawberries today and plan to eat several tonight! Yum!

To celebrate V-day at work, Matt was involved in a sugar cookie throwdown. He went against another woman with all the employees voting on which one was the best. I'm proud to say Matt won 8 to 2! He was pretty cute the night before patiently frosting each cookie with just the right amount of sprinkles!

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Defurminating.

Yoshi is growing day by day and with it comes A LOT of hair! We've been reconsidering a long-haired dog the last few weeks. In our attempt to keep the shedding to a minimum we bought a defurminator. It's basically a big (dull) razor blade for dogs and helps get most of his undercoat off. Well...we tried it the other night. To be honest, we were disgusted by how much hair came off. For those of you non-dog owners, this is a ridiculous post. But for us, it was an exciting night here in the Vance household!

Before (he was a little scared to start):

After:

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Bowling Night

Last weekend our friends invited us out for a night of bowling. We both haven't been bowling in years (and it definitely showed!). One of our close friends recently broke both of his heels in a construction accident, leaving him in a wheelchair for the next 3 months or so. It was one of his first nights out of the house in a while, so needless to say, a pretty fun time. Matt had the high score for both games (108!!!)

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