Love.

So. It was Valentine's day last week. As I was napping in my usual spot on campus last week, I overheard a girl wishing every single person who walked by a happy Valentine's day. After one small surge of traffic had gone by, she turned to one of her friends sitting next to her and said, "Don't you wish we could just celebrate love and friendship EVERY day?"

To that enthusiastic girl on campus I say yes, yes I do wish we could celebrate it every day! :) Don't get me wrong, it's not that I'm some super-cheesy romantic who wants to fill the world with chocolate and balloons and slow love ballads (well, okay maybe the chocolate part wouldn't be so bad...), it's just that Valentine's day is such a great opportunity to tell people in your life, "You matter to me. I am grateful for who you are. I care about you." And shouldn't that be something worth celebrating and expressing to the people in our lives everyday?

Anyways, I decided I'd try and go all-out for Valentine's day this year. And my efforts were mostly successful. :) I found out that, even though they look really simple online, homemade fortune cookies can actually be very difficult to make. But the joy of delivering pink fortune cookies drizzled in white chocolate and filled with cheesy LDS-themed pickup lines? Priceless!

I spent Tuesday afternoon delivering Valentines. My family sent me some beautiful gerbera daisies and a rose (gerbera daisies are my favorite flowers EVER. my family knows this ^_^). I got a flower from my visiting teacher and one of my close friends. And just when I thought things couldn't get any better, someone decorated MY door with Harry Potter Valentine's and a box of chocolate frogs... Who could possibly know me so well to give me a Harry Potter-themed Valentine?! Thank you! ;)

And then to top off the week, two of the little seeeesters came into town to watch state wrestling competition. Doesn't Bumblebee look adorable in her cheer uniform here?

Life's pretty good, ya' know? Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin once said,

"Kindness is the essence of greatness. … [It] is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes."

Thank you for YOUR kindness in my life. I hope your V-day was fabulous.

Heaps of love,

me