Valentine's Day Date Ideas & Recipes to Make!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Hope you all are having a wonderful day whether you're with someone or not! Here are some photos I took with my guy the other day (you may recognize them from the last two days' posts here and here!). My outfit was Valentine's Day themed and I did not plan it- but it just happened to work out!

Do you guys have any cool plans for today? I think we're just going to stay in and have dinner- Nate's a fantastic cook (we're having crab alfredo, yes!) and we both have to work/go to class tomorrow. I really do enjoy this day (not because it's cheesy!) but because I love surprising people. I think it's a cool opportunity to show the person you're with how special they are in your own unique way.

And because of this special day, I thought I'd share some cool date ideas I came across!

• Have an amazing homemade steak dinner, then head for the hot tub!
• Attend a small concert then have drinks after
• Snuggle up on the couch to a fire and a good movie you've been wanting to see (bonus if you add hot cocoa!)
• Select a meal from a cookbook that neither of you have tried and cook it together with some wine
• Indulge in a couples massage! (we did this last year and it was UH-MAZING!)
• Have a backwards dinner- start with a delicious dessert, then move on to the main course, then salad, soup, and finish with an appetizer
• Collect old magazines and cut out pictures that remind you of the time you've spent together- make a scrapbook of your time together
• Plan a weekend getaway (even if it's only to the next town over!) and go wine tasting at a place you've never been
• Attend a comedy club and sit in the front
• Have a game night with wine and a homemade appetizer (try Scrabble, Monopoly, etc.!)
• Go sledding or snow tubing!
• Go to a karaoke night with your sweetie!
• At home wine-tasting (Pick a few bottles of wine you've never tried and research appetizers to try with them, make the food and have a private wine/food tasting!)
• At-home couples massage
• Try something new together (Try skiing, snowboarding, test driving a car even!)

Here are some yummy recipes to make for your sweetheart (or yourself!):

Strawberry Cheesecakes Recipe

Heart-in-the-middle cupcake recipe

Yogurt-covered strawberry recipe

The best red velvet cake in the world recipe (I swear by this!)



Angel food cake & strawberries recipe



Hope you all have an amazing Valentine's Day! :) Pin It Now!