Nelson's Got A Gun....

When saying the title of this post, you have to sing it like Aerosmith's "Janie's Got A Gun" song. Don't know it?

Anyway, Nelson surprised me at work today by driving up for lunch! He also brought a beautiful vase of flowers and chocolate covered strawberries - YUM! 

We went to Potbelly's for lunch, so nice and low key. It was definitely fun and super thoughtful of him to do. Do I even have to say how delicious the strawberries were? Beth and I ate them all. That day.

On my way home, I picked up Nelson for dinner. We went to Hopdoddy's on South First Street. I had never been before, but obviously heard a lot about it from everyone. It wasn't as crowded as it usually is (so Nelson said), so we assume most people stayed in tonight. Both of our hamburgers were delicious, we shared some greasy fries, and I had to have one of their famous shakes.

I love giving gifts, especially if they're surprises and something that I know the person will love. It's fun to watch their face, so I made sure to snap a picture of Nelson's when he opened his present:

Nelson has been talking a lot about guns, mainly because everyone else in our families have one. His dad has been going to the range and it seemed like something Nelson was truly interested in, but would never get for himself. So I had my friend, Marcus, who works in Cabella's gun library, let me know when they got something in. We are now proud owners of a Smith & Wesson Military and Police :) Don't worry, we have no bullets. Yet.

This is also a good time to tell the story of my mom scaring us (mainly me) half to death. At 11:30pm last night, Nelson was watching something on his iPad with headphones and I was trying to go to sleep. All of a sudden, I heard the garage door open. I quickly shook Nelson and ripped the headphones out of his ears. He heard the tail end of the door going up, so suggested it was the heater. I told him it wasn't, so he got up to investigate. Well, I've seen enough scary movies to know what happens to the stupid people that go up in the dark, creepy attic to check out a noise. I quickly told Nelson to set the alarm, so he did. In my head, that told me we would know if someone came in or not. And then we heard the garage door, again, and all I could think was, "Oh no. He's in." Nelson didn't get think anything of this until he realized just how terrified I was. He then suggested I call my mom, to which I said, "Why? What's she going to do?" Well, I called my mom's cell and she answered her phone, "I'm sorry, did I wake you up?" WHAT?!?! Yes, my mom came to our house, used our garage keypad to get in the garage, and left our Valentine's Day presents so we'd have them first thing in the morning :) I have the sweetest mom in the world! But good thing the gun was wrapped and on the other side of the house. And had no bullets.

I also wanted to share my favorite Valentine message. Lindsay sent me this picture with the note "We love you!" I absolutely love looking at that sweet face :)