The Weekend + Valentine's Day

We were proud of ourselves after this weekend... we actually did fun stuff in Sacramento!

On Friday night, some friends from church invited us over for Trivia & Tapas Night at their house. It was a big group of people, mixed from various places in this family's life (i.e. church, neighborhood, kid's friends, etc). After mingling and eating, we divided up into groups for the trivia game. There were 30 questions and we worked as a group to answer them. They were hard! After doing our best to get answers down, we went over them together and found out the correct answers. And guess what?? We won! (I'm working on getting the picture of the winning team and when I do, I'll post it!)

You may be wondering what "tapas" are... I'd never heard of it before but from what I gathered that night, they are a bunch of appetizer-like foods. So you kinda just graze the whole night because there isn't just one big entree, but rather a bunch of little finger foods. Everyone contributed and it was yummy!

Saturday morning, Mitchell went out to a shooting range and shot with some fancy automatic rifle. Apparently, he is quite good. Like, really good. He attributes his skills to reading about Navy SEALS. Btw, he is beyond excited about the movie, Act of Valor that comes out on February 24th that has REAL Navy SEALS in it!

First time shooting a rifle, from 100 yards away

Saturday night, we went downtown for the Second Saturday Art Walk. The art galleries downtown stay open late and you can walk around and check out all the cool art. Some places had DJs playing music and some were serving wine. We walked through a clothing store that had art propped up on the walls for the night. We walked through a car museum that an artist had decorated with their art (Mitchell was more interested in the cool cars). We met the artists and told them how incredible their work was. We listened to some live music by guys whose name was "Naked Body" in Spanish. And then we went home. :)

Naked Body people

One of the galleries with cool cars

Sunday after church, my friend Allyson and I went to the Antique Faire in downtown and checked out tons of cool antiques. While most of it was dumb, there was some really cute furniture. It inspired us to be creative and artsy. Allyson wants to re-do some of her furniture and since I have some experience making furniture look old and antique, I'm going to help her. (I am very mad at myself for forgetting to take a picture of the experience. Grr!)

And on to Valentine's Day...
My socks :)

We received very sweet V-Day gifts in the mail from both sets of parents that added to the celebration. Thank you for making us feel loved!

When Mitchell got home from work, we had dinner and celebrated V-Day by making strawberries dipped in chocolate OR powdered sugar (or both, if you're Mitchell :P). We also watched Mr. & Mrs. Smith (randomly) and because I'm saving watching the movie, Valentine's Day for Thursday night with the girls. For people who don't go all out for Valentine's Day, we had fun. :)

Hehe, he's such a good sport

On to other news, my mom and Memom will be here in ONE week! Can't wait!