{"id":130,"date":"2012-02-16T21:17:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T04:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2020-09-28T04:42:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T04:42:51","slug":"valentines-day-just-the-two-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s day, just the two of us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine&#8217;s day this year was low-key compared to our first three celebrated together (one dating and two married).<\/p>\n<p>2009:<\/p>\n<p>As a recap, Joe took me to a very nice restaurant when we were dating and then stargazing afterwards.\u00a0 Oh, and he gave me beautiful sapphire earrings.<\/p>\n<p>2010:<\/p>\n<p>Our first Valentine&#8217;s as a married couple, Joe surprised me with around 100 roses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_2825.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-131\" title=\"02142010\" src=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_2825-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_2825-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_2825-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_2825-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_2825-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_2825-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2011:<\/p>\n<p>Last year Joe went all out crazy with this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Valentines2011-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-135\" title=\"Valentines2011\" src=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Valentines2011-copy-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Valentines2011-copy-819x1024.jpg 819w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Valentines2011-copy-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Valentines2011-copy-768x960.jpg 768w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Valentines2011-copy-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Valentines2011-copy-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Valentines2011-copy-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I received a rose each day starting a week before Valentine&#8217;s day with each day increasing in number until V-day.\u00a0 On Valentines day, Joe gave me seven roses and a wonderful camera lens.\u00a0 I gave him his favorite rendition of Lord of the Rings on cd and the Hobbit in written format.<\/p>\n<p>2012:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/table.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-137\" title=\"table\" src=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/table-e1330124862376-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/place-setting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-138\" title=\"place setting\" src=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/place-setting-e1330125068878-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/almost-ready.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-140\" title=\"almost ready\" src=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/almost-ready-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/almost-ready-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/almost-ready-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/almost-ready-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/almost-ready-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/almost-ready-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This year we had the same menu as last year (maybe starting a tradition): side salad, asparagus, mashed potatoes and chicken piccata (from William and Sonoma).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/dinner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-136\" title=\"dinner\" src=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/dinner-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/dinner-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/dinner-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/dinner-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/dinner-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/dinner-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> We enjoyed drinking strawberry lemonade with dinner.\u00a0 For dessert I made a delectable dessert, Golden Cake with Tangerine Fudge Frosting.\u00a0 Joe did get me flowers and wrote a really lovely, sweet letter.\u00a0 I gave Joe the Silmarillion (by J.R.R. Tolkien).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentine&#8217;s day this year was low-key compared to our first three celebrated together (one dating and two married). 2009: As a recap, Joe took me to a very nice restaurant when we were dating and then stargazing afterwards.\u00a0 Oh, and he gave me beautiful sapphire earrings. 2010: Our first Valentine&#8217;s as a married couple, Joe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/?p=130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Valentine&#8217;s day, just the two of us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joelovesevie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}