Happy Valentines Day

This was our first Valentines together and we had a lot of fun making the day special and surprising each other. It's so fun to have someone you love so much.















My favorite thing, though, was getting ready for Valentines. I wanted to send Adam something and surprise him, but what do you do for boys? Not flowers. So then I was thinking balloons-- perfect. The only problem is that Adam would only be at the seminary for a couple hours on Valentines and then in class all afternoon (at the U) and then home. So if I was going to deliver anything it would have to be during those seminary hours. I did an internet search and called the first place I found. This was our conversation (after I asked if they delivered balloons):

me: "Can you guarantee that you can deliver them at a certain time?
lady: "No, there's no way we can do that, especially on Valentines. We'll just have to get it there when we can get it there."
me: "Well, my husband's only at his job for a couple hours and if it didn't get there then it wouldn't be worth it."
lady: "Well where does your husband work?"
me: "He teaches LDS seminary at Hunter Jr. High."
lady: "Oh, he's a SEMINARY teacher? Oh. How's he doing out there, how's the program in his area?"
me: "Pretty good, he really enjoys it."
lady: "Yeah, we have just had the hardest time getting the kids in our area to go to seminary...." talks for a long time about the youth and the seminary program where she is.
lady: "Well, listen just hang on a second."

Lady talks to husband in background. I hear him say, "It's a SEMINARY teacher? Yes, we'll do it for a seminary teacher."

lady: "We'll be happy to send your husband balloons and make sure they get there in the morning. Don't worry we'll make it work and we'll make SURE they get there before 12:30 when he leaves."

Lady then proceeds to give me a discount on the order, throw in candy with the balloons and tell me deep bits about her life story (their business burned down, her daughter just died of cancer and they're raising her son, etc.) and we had a nice lengthy chat. I guess since I'm the wife of a seminary teacher it just means instant bonding right?

Man! I hung up the phone and was laughing so hard. I wished I could've called Adam right then but I obviously couldn't. I called my mom instead and we had a good laugh about it. Talk about instant trust. What's funny is that I was just calling to get a quote and think about maybe possibly doing this. But after that conversation I really couldn't turn them down so out came the credit card and balloons were ordered.

Luckily everything worked out and Adam loved the surprise. A funny side note was that he ordered flowers for me and when the girl came to deliver them to my office (at the business school at the U) she noticed my position and started chatting with me about some interests she had in working in a Masters program and asked for my advice about being an advisor and all this other stuff.

What a funny day. We really enjoyed our holiday and made fun memories trying to serve each other and make sure the other person felt loved. Happy Valentines!!