Valentines Day

I woke up

GRUMPY!! 

Had a Doctors appointment, they took blood so that means needles!  Never a good thing?  Also,

Feel free to skip this part

Had to collect a stool sample, can I just say

 YUCK!!

I know I deal with this all the time with Gma but somehow.....

Startings of a headache by 3pm and a whiny kid who didn't want to mow the lawn.

I should back up and say I woke up Dallin and Brenn before the Doctor and gave them some chores, I don't care that they are 19 and 20, they still get chores!  Both had them done before I got home, that included mowing the front lawn, the whining was from a different kid and the back lawn.  If that is tough to figure out I only have 3 kids, come on!!

So I laid down to rest and hopefully get rid of the headache because I knew Ken would want to take me out for Valentines Day.

Door bell rings after 10 minutes, my new Visiting teacher with some goodies.

Phone rings, something I had to handle - can't remember.

Door bell rings again

You get the picture, right?!

By about 5:30 Ken came home with roses - he always gets roses.  He is very sentimental about them.  He has a hard time buying anything else because they just seem so right to him.  So he came with red and white roses.  The white are because we tease him a little.

So we went to dinner.  We ate Italian because we almost always go Mexican or to a Steak house because he likes those and I really don't care.  Food is not really important to me.  I like it.  I want it to taste good.  But I am not a foodie.  As long as it fills me up and is not gross, I am good.  But I do like Italian and he is not such a fan. 

So we try this new restaurant that Brenn found.

Alessia's

It is a little restaurant, tucked in the corner of a strip mall (Higley/Brown).  It looked a little hinky.  We waited quite a while, but it was Valentines day and we figured we would have to wait no matter where we went. 

We ordered the specials - one of each.

I had Pork tenderloins in a sauce with mangoes and grapes.

Ken had Lobster spaghetti. 

Ken's was really good.

Ken was

JEALOUS!!!

because mine was the best thing we had ever eaten!!

I gave him a bite to be kind.  Before I even tasted it.  If I had tasted it first

he wouldn't have gotten any!!

I wish I could pronounce or spell the dish.

I wish it was a regular menu choice.

Then I could google it and try to make it every night for dinner.

I googled:

 pork mango

Italian pork dishes with mango

Grape mango pork

Pork tenderloin fusion food

and about 10 other combos.

No luck.

But I did give my email so they could send the specials for the week.

There is still hope!

At least I was in a better mood when I got home.