Here's a piece of trivia about our marriage: Dan is physically incapable of keeping secrets from me. I am amazed that he even managed to keep secret his plans for proposing to me a few years ago. To this day, I am convinced that the only reason he was succesful at that was because we didn't live in the same state at the time. But before then and ever since then, Dan has never failed to break down and tell me about every great gift he has ever gotten for me. It's like he gets so excited that he has a good gift that he just can't contain himself. Never was this more clear than this week. Dan and I celebrated Valentine's Day on Saturday because he is leaving for a business trip on Monday. So about a week ago, Dan starts dropping hints about this "really great Valentine's Day gift" that I'll never guess. The way Dan undoes himself in these situations is that he truthfully answers questions I ask him in my efforts to find out his secret. So, needless to say, by Thursday night, I had gotten it out of him. But finding out early did nothing to diminish my absolute joy at finding out that Dan got me tickets to see Alison Krauss and Union Station in a few weeks. I had no idea they were even coming to Albuquerque. So, to Dan's credit, he did do a REALLY good job of Valentine's this year, even if he can't keep his mouth shut.

A note from Dan: Haley can't keep a secret either. She told me what she got me that same day.

Yeah, that was because I didn't want him to feel bad.