Valentine's Day Rescue Mission.  A photo essay, by Kristin.

Kristin: Code Name Valentine #1.  Mission: bring super cute gorilla to compensate for super lame boy.
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Blake: Code Name Valentine #2.  Mission: drive to Stillwater, Oklahoma.
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Mom: Code Name Valentine #3.  Mission: bring cookies.
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Lauren and Valentine #3.  Distraction by chicken cheese fries.
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Lauren and Valentine #1.  Chicken cheese fries not working!
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Eff you, Valentine's Day.
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"Boys are overrated. I'll have a ferret!"
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"A ferret will never break up with you on Valentine's Day."
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Valentine #2 says Lauren is the ferret whisperer.
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Valentine #2: suspicious of ferrets.
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"Ferrets kind of smell, so I'll have a book about ferrets instead."
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Lauren, to Jerkface, when he offered to return his Valentine's gift:  "No, I don't want your candy.  I want the last four months of my life back."
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Team Valentine.
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Textin' someone who cares.
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Mission accomplished.
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Ed. Note:  And she took the jerkface back a week later.  Discuss.

Ed. Note 2:  Special thanks to my favorite valentines, the instapundit and tigerhawk, for sending you all here to visit.