Valentine's Day Festivities

We woke up bright and early on Valentine's Day to beat the crowds at The Original Pancake House. I had heard that they are always busy {it being a very popular place and all} so we went prepared! I brought along a banana and some animal crackers for Peyton to tide him over. We waited about 25 minutes but once we got in and got seated, they had our food to us in less than 15 minutes!

Troy had the Chorizo omelette which came with 3 pancakes. The omelette was super fluffy and tasty {and I'm not usually a big fan of omelettes!}.


I had the apple pancake and it was delicious! They make it differently than they do at the Tiffin Inn in New Orleans, but I like the variations on the same style pancake. I think this will be a new breakfast hot spot for us to go on the weekends! There were definitely about a dozen things I would like to try on that menu- it all sounded so good.


After breakfast, we headed out to the house to see the progress thus far and this is what we found! They are coming along nicely. The front office lady that we've been speaking to and filling out paper with told us that sometimes it will seem like things are going up quickly and then will slow down to a stand still for a while because inspections need to be made and then it will come together quickly again. It's pretty cool to see the process in action!


After our visit to our future home, we went to Verizon to look at some new cell phones. Our old ones were duds. Supposedly when we first got our LG phones from Alltel, they were new. But about a year after having them, they stopped letting us have access to ringtones and applications and our buttons started getting pretty stiff- the '3' on my phone had to be pressed really hard to make it work.

Then when we moved here, sometimes our phones wouldn't ring and I'd get messages hours after the intial message had been left. Apparently, they don't have Alltel in the area so were borrowing our signal from Verizon's network.

The fact that Verizon just recently bought up Alltel had us do some research since we had met our two year contract with them and had been with Alltel for 6 years. We thought we might go with AT&T for the next go around, but when we went in to check with Verizon one last time, they had just come out with new plans that worked for us and allowed us to buy one Blackberry Curve and get one for free. So we are now sporting new Blackberry's!

It is so cool to be able to check email at the grocery store! I also like having a workable calender so I can keep my life straight. It's awesome! Anyway, if any of you are on the Verizon network, you can call us for free now {hint, hint!}!

I'll send out an email later today to all of my friends that might want our numbers. If I don't get one out to you, just give me a shout via email and I'll send you our info!