first video of the year

It has been an enjoyable year so far with the weather.  Our summers are just brutal that I feel like we have to right to brag....just a bit when when we have nice weather!  While the rest of the country is enjoying summer weather outside in the pool or playing outdoors, we are fleeing away from the heat before we wither away and roast!  The past two months we've had 80 degree days with no humidity- now that is something to brag about!!  The girls and I spent a lot of time outside, soaking up the sun and fresh air.  I realized I took a ton a photos of them when I loaded this past weekends photos on my computer.  So, I decided to make a video...

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Lovers Day

 

The word lover just cracks Gabe and I up.  Everytime we say that we laugh, especially since I joke around when Gabe would ask who's texting me- I say, "My Secret Lover!"  We just can't say that word to each other in a serious context, even before before the secret lover joke that word always made us laugh.  The word lover sounds so.....Romeo & Juliet era- come here my sweet lover, lol! I mean, who says that in today's world?  What does lover mean?  I thought it was your soulmate/partner or someone you're intimate with.  Googles definition is:

• LOVER (noun)
  The noun LOVER has 3 senses:

1. a person who loves or is loved
2. an ardent follower and admirer
3. a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage

So, about a month or two I used definition #2 to the extreme!  I can't even remember how it went down, but I got upset with Gabe and my anger carried on for a few days.  One day I was over it but didn't have a chance to talk it through before Gabe went to work.  I asked my mom to take care of the girls that evening as I felt Gabe and I needed time alone.  I had a clever idea to send him an evite to his work email because the guy never leaves his desk so I knew he would get my email for sure.  The title to the evite said You're invited- Movie Night.  Of course it had the date, time, and place and host name: Secret Lover. But the message attached was the best:

Message from Host 

Meet me at the rendezvous by the water fountain. I forgot to mention that I'll be wearing a little black dress. Perhaps we can have a cocktail or two afterwards. I will be dressed for our special occasion. You should be ok with your blue polo for 5th Street.

Your Secret Lover

So, I sent it thinking he will be perplexed at first but probably know it was from me because he knows I get a kick out of using words like rendezvous, cocktail and secret lover.  Well, a couple of hours went by and never got a text or email.  I couldn't handle the suspense- I texted him asking if he's busy.  His reply was somewhat delayed and short as he was still upset with me and just said YES.  About an hour later I texted him again, this time asking: you gonna be home late?  btw, I got a weird email.  He quickly replied: what kind of email?  I got a really weird one too.  I smiled from ear to ear and thought, OMG he doesn't know it's from me or is he trying to pretend he doesn't know it's from me????  So, I decided to call b/c I can tell by his voice if he's trying to pull a fast one on me.  When he answered he starts to tell me that he got this weird e-mail from evite, but he checked into it and it's a spam email.  I asked him to read it to me and after he's done I said: "Umm, this is not a spam evite.  Someone knows you, like someone who saw you today sent this to you.  You have a secret lover at work!  How else does someone know you're wearing a blue polo!!!!!"  I wish I was there to see his facial expression but he just said, "No one has seen me, I've been at my desk all day, I've been so busy I haven't even got up to get water."  I tried so hard not to laugh, I had to keep it together and insisted someone at work had the hots for him.  I was having so much fun that I could have easily carried this game to the next day but I was worried if I didn't tell him it was me who sent it, my secret lover in the blue polo wouldn't meet me at rendezvous by the water fountain at 7.  Saddly, I ended my game when he told me he had to go because he had a lot to get done.  Finally, I told him- it's me....I'm your secret lover!  He laughed and said, I should have known it was YOU! 


For Valentine's day, Gabe surprised me with a mystery dinner fun filled evening.  We had a great time and the best part of the night is we got to pretend to be someone else!  We had fake names, fake occupations and well, everything that came out of my mouth was a lie!  When we had to ask around the room (about 100 people) our interrogation questions to find out the killer I told people that my name was Samantha and Gabe's alias name was Vick!  I started the night telling people I was the Mayor of San Marcos, but decided to spice it up a bit.  I was a divorce lawyer and I was Vick's mistress....secret lover!!!  Once again I got to use my favorite words- Secret Lover!!!!

Our nice evening turned into.....

THIS!!! ha, ha, ha :)