Our 7th Valentines

This was mine and Chris's 7th Valentines Day. Considering we are only 24 years old I think this is pretty rare for couples our age. We did date on and off since we were 13, but we were never "on" on Valentines until our senior year of high school.

Chris is so good at making me feel special on holidays. Over the years I've received "love" gold fish (I wanted love birds, but he knew my parents wouldn't approve), diamond earring, diamond necklace, build a bears, memory cd's, photo montages, and the list goes on. He is GOOD!

I, on the other hand, am not so good. On Valentines day our Junior year of HS Chris invited me to watch him play soccer at Amarillo High. I had every intention of going until my friends decided we should have a "girls night." Girls night trumped the cold, rainy soccer game, soooo I caved and went with the girls to Applebees and a movie. All night I avoided his calls. I was a brat. To top it all off I called him at the end of the night to apologize and ended up leaving him a message that went something like this,


"Hey Chris. It's Shanna. Sorry I couldn't make it to your game. I really wish I could've. I got really caught up with my friends and lost track of time. Maybe next time." This is when I thought I hung up...but I had not... I continued recording on his home answering machine and said "That took all I had to be that nice."

&&& I love my husband because he forgave me for the whole "That took all I had to be that nice" incident (after several months of not speaking).