Valentine's Day!

The original plan for our Valentine's Day was to go to Falls Park and have a picnic lunch with Austin and Lucy, but the beautiful weather we had during the week didn't hold up for the weekend and it was just too wet and cloudy for the picnic we planned. I decided then that I would cook a nice dinner for us and we'd cuddle up afterwards and watch a movie with our little boy, but a family afternoon nap delayed the grocery shopping and we ended up too hungry to wait. At that time Ryan got on the phone and called all of our favorite restaurants checking on the wait times and putting our name on some lists. My mom called and wished us and Austin a happy Valentine's day and while we were on the phone, Ryan made reservations for 6:30 at some place we'd never been before. After looking at their online menu, he decided that I wouldn't be happy eating there (they had mainly seafood dishes) and cancelled that reservation. Finally, I remembered a restaurant I had been wanting to try in Greer and we called and they had one reservation left for 9:15 pm! Of course, this didn't help the fact that we were both starving since we had missed lunch. We decided to keep our 9:15 reservation but go out and get an appetizer somewhere else to tide us over.

Austin fell asleep while we were waiting to go to dinner but all of our babysitters were busy so we took him with us and hoped he'd stay asleep during dinner. We got some looks walking in there with an infant, but we knew he wouldn't cause a scene. The restaurant was really nice with candles, roses and linen tablecloths. They had a set 4 course menu and each course was sooo delicious. Austin woke up a little during our salads but went right back to sleep and stayed that way until we got home. We had a bottle of our favorite wine and great conversation and really enjoyed the romantic atmosphere. Our evening turned out very nice, even though it wasn't what we originally planned, we had a nice time together with our little family!

Austin falling asleep on Daddy while waiting for our late reservations!

Here's Austin sleeping in the restaurant

The family, after enjoying our dinner!