Meteor Shower Memories

Stuart told me that there is a meteor shower tonight and it immediately took me back to last summer. We had been dating again for a couple of months and when we heard about it we decided that it would be fun to go up the canyon and sit in the back of his truck to see it. For about the first half hour that we were sitting there talking I could feel the tension and had a pretty good feeling that it was going to be the night he told me he loved me.. then we had a bit of a surprise. A fellow onlooker decided to come and chat with us... for over an hour! I don't even remember what he talked to us about... I just remember that the tension was immediately eliminated. We watched the meteor shower, which was very pretty, and went home. We talked about it tonight and it was fun to remember and laugh about. It was maybe 3 days later when the tension came back and he told me, but it was a painfully long 3 days... I mean, I definitely wasn't going to say it first!

Fun in the Sun

Stuart and I were able to join his family in San Diego for a week and had SO much fun! We played on the beach, played with our nieces and pretty much just lounged. It was so great to be around family and get away from real life for a little bit :)

Lucy loved to bury Stuart in the sand. I'm so happy he's such a good sport.


Yes, that is me trying to get through Eclipse before Breaking Dawn came out...

All of us at the beach.

Eating Phil's BBQ on the beach. So so pretty at sunset.

At one of the best restaurant's ever, The Chart House.

Cutest. Picture. Ever.

Intense Saturday

Forget "weekend plans"... more like "Saturday plans"... I started and finished New Moon (the 2nd installment) in just one day. Actually that's lying, I read 2 chapters Friday night... but then what happened made me sad and I didn't want to keep reading. But on Saturday I could not put it down! Luckily for me she did NOT leave the 3rd book or my Sunday would have been spoken for as well and I didn't really have time for that. We were packing yesterday because tonight we are on a plane headed for San Diego with Stuart's family! (Where the 3rd book is waiting for me.) We're really excited to lay out in the sun and play on the beach. It's going to be a lot of fun! Pictures will be posted when we return :)

It Happened. I'm Hooked.

Last summer I had a couple of girlfriends who were obsessed with the Twilight series and they tried several times to get me to read it, but I was skeptical. I kept thinking that a love story with vampires was just not worth my time! However, my little sister, Lauren, read all 3 last month in like a week and raved about them, so I considered reading them again but quickly forgot about it with other things going on. Then Stuart's sister, Kate, came over this last Sunday for dinner and was talking about how she was so excited for the 4th one to come out... Geez! This book is everywhere! So I asked to borrow the first book (Twilight). Good thing that on Tuesday night she not only brought over the first book, but also the second, "just in case" I read it quickly and wanted the next installment. She was right. I read 2 chapters Tuesday night before I went to bed, a couple more Wednesday night, and then yesterday afternoon while Stuart took a nap I came close to finishing it! I went to sleep at around 1 last night but finished it before work at 9am this morning. I seriously could not put it down no matter how hard I tried. I would have finished it last night if my eyelids would have let me! Anyway, I loved it, and I'm really excited for the 2nd book she left. I think my weekend may already be planned out for me...

Current Love Affairs...

My Yellow Flats. I have somewhat of an issue... I was gifted this great pair of yellow flats and I like to think that they go with everything. Sometimes when I am getting ready (and they really do, in fact, clash) I have to remind myself that they don't go!!

Small Apartments. There is something to be said for small spaces. While there is not tons of room, it takes me all of an hour and a half on Saturdays to clean it. I've really come to enjoy it and never really thought I'd say that...


Bows On Pretty Much Anything. There's proof in the one I had on my wedding dress. Anthropologie has this new line of bow-adorned items that I'm in love with. I think this one is my favorite.
Alanis Morissette's New CD. (Except I don't like #3, unnecessary word usage) I really like running to it. It has kind of an Indian vibe. It's different than anything she's ever done, definitely less angry than Bitter Pill.

Netflix/Alias. Stuart and I borrowed Season 1 of Alias from some family friends to take on our Honeymoon to Mexico to watch in our downtime and got completely hooked. So throughout the last couple of months, thanks to our favorite new find, Netflix, we get a new installment every few days and its been really fun.

Real Simple Magazine. I really do go through every single page. I'm so excited about the new one I just got yesterday :)

Cupcakes... which leads to my Kitchenaid. I don't make them a lot because there is only two of us and I would gain 100 pounds fairly quickly I think... but I love cupcakes. Every time I find a new recipe for them I get super excited (especially if they are endorsed by Martha Stewart). This one is really great! Also, I love my Kitchenaid. I really don't know what I did without it before! Even now, when it's something as simple as a boxed brownie mix, I still use it! It's my favorite "kitchen toy." Isn't this color adorable?! It makes me want a purple kitchen!

25 years...

My parents 25th anniversary was today... absolutely incredible to me. I haven't even been married for 3 months yet, I can't imagine 25 years! I'm so appreciative of their great examples and I hope Stuart and I will be as happy as they are.

I Like It, I Love It, I Want Some More of It

Stuart's sister, Kate, and I went to the Tim McGraw concert last night at USANA and it was absolutely AMAZING! (Even with the flat tire that we got on the way!) I'm just so happy that she asked me to go with her!

This is what they gave us for ice water cups... yikes!

AH! We screamed the entire time... my throat was raw today!

All in all... we love Tim. I told Stuart I have a crush on him. He seemed ok with it.