Valentine's Lunch

Our family's Valentine's tradition is to treat ourselves to a meal from our favorite chinese resturant, Imperial Garden. Usually Joey goes to pick the food up and we eat at home. (Before the girls were born, we'd sit on the floor at our coffee table with our feast spread out before us...but I'm not about to let the girls eat chinese food in the living room!) This year, we decided to go to Imperial Garden's Sunday brunch instead and it was a fun change of pace.

Joey and I started our family's Valentine's tradition about six years ago in remembrance of our days as broke college students. One year at ECU we had agreed not to do anything for V-Day since neither of us had money to spend, but I decided to do a fun, cheap dinner to surprise Joey. I picked up candles at the dollar store, got some Pepsi, baked some cookies, and ordered a thin crust bacon and onion pizza (our favorite) from Dominos. We had the best time feasting (we ate at the coffee table that night too) and hanging out...and we both agreed it was way better than fighting the crowds to go to an expensive resturant.