I was blown away this Valentine's day by the men on our team. Ryan, my co-leader, and our guys Marcus and Josh absolutely blessed our socks off when it came to loving us women. Honey, you got a lot to live up to. 🙂
Josh, Marcus and Ryan
I woke up early to have my time with the Lord, walking out to my normal spot that looks out over the palm trees and the green fields. After a few minutes, I notice our guys sneakily setting up something on the other side of the building…. Out of respect for their surprise, of course I didn't get nosy, but it was rather hard to not notice frolicking happening as they gathered flowers from the field. Yes, I said frolicking. Don't question it.
When it came time for breakfast, we were escorted along a trail of wildflowers, around the building and to the scene of a picnic breakfast set up just for us. Approaching closer, we saw a single red rose by each place setting. Needless to say, a united: "Awwwwww!" arose from us girls.
Our picnic breakfast
The puppy love sound turned into shrieks of joy when we saw what awaited us at each of our places. Ryan had written to each of our families and gotten letters from parents, siblings and best friends. Hand written and placed by our roses, every single girl was bawling within seconds of picking up their cards (Yes, including me).
Kacie and Amy reading their letters
Me and my letter (Thanks mom and dad!)
Our day just got better with them serving us breakfast, and then at lunch each of the guys had several of us girls as valentines. Marcus got me the cutest little teddy bear to go with my sweet note of encouragement.
We had been filling up a box with notes and encouragement for one another, so that evening we read them, shared cheesy pick up lines and snacked on the sweets we received from one another.
Our box of Valentine's!
We decided to end the night well with a cheesy prom backdrop and a Valentine's day PHOTO SHOOT!
Awkward family photo
Why yes, we are Charlie's Angels
The night quickly degraded into really poorly sung versions of the Titanic song and fumbled attempts at swing dancing, but it really was the most amazing Valentine's day I have ever had. To my future husband: sorry, but you have your work cut out for you in topping this day.
