Valentine's Day

 We enjoyed our traditional candlelight dinner for Valentine's Day.  Our goal is to eat 'fancy' food in a 'fancy' setting, and of course, enjoy our family.  Ellie has been looking forward to this night for several weeks now.  She made us all placemats and napkins and setting cards.  So, I don't know if this years fare would qualify as 'fancy' being as we ate most of it with our hands, but it was delicious!  Our menu:  green salad, ribs, baked potato wedges, corn, pretzel roll, and Martinelli's.

 Getting into the candy stash:

 And for dessert?  Nick made this super yummy cheesecake:

 And on this particular Valentine's Day, I was feeling particularly spoiled.  After months of lusting after a new camera, I finally got the one of my dreams!  Oh, I love it already!  The above dinner photos were taken in candlelight!  But the images are still as clear as if I was using a flash or with all the lights on.  I'm impressed, tell me you are too.  ;)  I remember when I moved up from our snapshot camera to a DSLR, and I was blown away by the quality of the photos, and now, I have been blown away once again.  I'm excited to take this baby for a real test spin.