last minute leroy

Is that a thing? You know, like Debbie Downer? Last minute Leroy? Well if it isn't, I just made it one. 

I told Andre' around 10 times this week that I did not want to go out to eat on Valentine's Day. Too many people and the food is never very good because there are SO many people crammed into a restaurant. Not my cup of tea. 

So around 10AM yesterday, I asked him if he would rather a pot roast or turkey stuffed peppers for dinner (I know, so romantic), and he responded with NO! We are going out tonight!

I laughed in his face and promptly gchatted this little lady something along the lines of "HA! Andre' thinks he can call right now and get a reservation for tonight. Good luck with that one buddy!"

Five minutes later, he had one. But it turned out to be OK because it was at the adorably tiny Italian place downtown called Pane & Vino. Bread & Wine? SAY NO MORE. I am in. 

So I got all dolled up...which I never get to do so I guess that part was OK too. (Don't make fun of me for this picture. I REALLY don't like selfsies so I'm really bad at them.) And what, you thought I was kidding about the bow thing?

I had to get the cheesiest thing on the menu (ha! in two ways! I crack myself up) - the Lovers Ravioli. The red ones were Lobster and the white were cheese - and all on a bed of broccoli sauce. You GUYS, it was so good! Who would have thought, broccoli sauce?! 

Some snippets from the night above. 

Any good dinner must ALWAYS have champagne. If you didn't know that, your dinner must suck. Sorry bout it. 

They gave me a rose when we walked in - so cute. But the daisies Andre' got me are much cuter.

And then we pulled a real classy move. We stopped at a liquor store for MORE champagne and then went to Target for dessert. We only planned on getting some Key Lime Pie, but we ended up with that AND everything else in the picture. Uhhhh...whoops?

Andre' sent me this last night, and even though I kinda like me some T-Swift (don't judge!), I thought this was super funny. And super true. 

And then we came home to some puppy snuggles. Yes, this is how he cuddles. I know, best puppy ever, right? 

And now it's FRIDAY! Can you believe how fast this week went? Maybe it's because I had a mini-weekend in the middle of it, that probably helped :) Hope you all have a fantastic weekend, we're headed to Houston for a baby shower and some nephew time. Never enough of that.

passport to yummsville

If you're visiting from Helene in Between, thanks so much for stopping by! I did a domain switch this morning - so if you are viewing me on put-a-bowinit.blogspot.com, it won't let you follow me :( Head on over to putabowonitblog.com and you should be able to - I would love to have you follow along!

Remember that time I kept talking about Mardi Gras, but I spelled it Mardis Gras? Yea, I'm still embarrassed about that. I've only lived here for 6 years, no big deal or anything. 

We don't really do anything for Valentine's Day. I'm not a fan of waiting for a table at a restaurant or paying an arm and a leg to eat good food while people are making out at the table next to us. But I always like to do a little something for Andre' as a surprise. Usually I make him some baked goodies, but we're trying to not eat so much dessert, so this year I did something I found on Pinterest. Where else would I look?!

original pin via

I knew we HAD to do this. Mainly because on the nights that we want to go out to eat, we spend more time deciding where we want to go than actually eating there. Lafayette is a small-ish city, but there are restaurants galore and we've been to very few of them. 

The original pinner did 50 restaurants that they had never been to. Andre' grew up here, so I'm sure that he has been to some of the ones I did, but I say they count because I've never been to them. 

Here's how I made mine. 

My Steps:
1. Find an old notebook you don't need for anything else.
2. Tear out the pages until you have the amount you need. (I'm re-purposing the pages as scratch paper for work.)
4. I didn't want to write it, so I went on inDesign and used cute fonts. I printed it on sticky back paper and then cut to size.
4. Stick in the book and there you go!
5. As we try out the places, I'm going to do what the original pinner did: green for amazing, pink for OK, and yellow for never go there again. 

We don't eat out a lot (cheaper and healthier to eat at home!), but I think this will make those nights when we do even more fun.

In other exciting (to me) news:
1. You may have seen me complaining about my domain woes. I never got it figured out after HOURS of trying, so I just called it a $10 loss and bought a new one. The original one was supposed to be thebowblog (dot) com, because I just thought my full name would be too long, but I couldn't think of anything else when that one didn't work, so it's now and forever: putabowonitblog.com. (Mouthful, huh?)

2. Over the weekend I noticed that I now have over 100 of you following me! I remember being excited for FIVE people to follow me. If you haven't reached out via email or comment, please do! I love getting to know everyone. 

3. I made a facebook page! There's nothing on it because I'm the only one who has liked it so far...but I plan on updating it with this week's posts today. Like away!

Hope everyone has a great Thursday/Valentine's Day :)

Linking up with Steph and Katie for saw it. pinned it. did it!