Valentines Day Weekend

we had a wonderful first valentines day weekend as a married couple.

Friday night we went over to Jessie & Marks for some incredible ribs (recipe is on her blog, which I will link to later on in the post). I tried out a new side dish recipe from Rachel Ray. It was essentially twice baked potatoes with a topping of salami, bread crumbs & parmasean cheese. They were pretty good, but I felt they needed cheddar cheese instead of parmasean. We also got smoked again in Hand & Foot.. this 3rd game is not off to a good start!

Saturday morning we made chocolate chip banana pancakes from this recipe. They were fantastic. yum. Sat. afternoon we decided to go for what we thought would be a scenic drive. We got off I-5 at Marysville and headed along the water up to Stanwood. We pictured it to be a nice coastal drive, but it ended up being a drive through the Tulalip Indian Reservation AND we never saw any water!! We tried to find a geocache in a creepy cemetery, but did not have any luck. We headed back to town and ate a picnic lunch at one of my favorite spots in Edmonds- overlooking the waterfront park. It was delicious! Ben had bought salami, fancy cheese, sparkling cider and of course, 2 tasty cupcakes from Trophy cupcakes. After lunch we headed home and watched a few recorded shows. We went and rented Nights at Rodanthe which I didn't love- too sad. We also made a fairly fancy dinner in the slow cooker. When it came time for hot fudge brownie sundaes.. we just couldn't eat them- too full!

On Sunday, we went to church & then Ben went with Mark and a few other guys to a race track in Redmond to race go carts. Jessie & I went up to the outlets to try to find some baby clothes for James. Sunday night we had our friends Steve & Lindsey over for dinner. We made pumpkin enchiladas from Jessie's blog, which were delicious, seriously- you need to try them.

Monday I took the day off to hang out with Ben who was off for President's Day. We met up with Courtney after lunch and went to hid our first geocache! We thought we found a great spot .. but later that night, we received this email:

"This cache appears to be placed close to a railroad track. It is a Federal offense to place an object like a Geocache near an active rail line. A Geocacher has been arrested, jailed, had to go to court and paid a large fine for placing a cache near an active railroad line. The local bomb squad destroyed his cache. If this is an active line, even if it is only used infrequently, this cache must be moved or removed."

Needles to say, we kind of freaked out and went back to the cache at 11 pm at night on Monday to remove it.. well really Ben ran in the dark over rocks because the tide was in, while I sat in the parking lot among other cars w/ people making out while waiting for a cop to pull in and ask why I am sitting in a parking lot after the park was closed by myself. Ben managed to get the cache and we haven't heard from the FBI .. yet.

All in in all, it was a great weekend!