One Year of Marriage

Scott and I celebrated our one-year anniversary by going out to eat at our favorite restaurant in Chicago, La Hacienda. We figured we should keep with the Mexican theme of our wedding, and going to La Hacienda gave us a great excuse to visit the city.






This is the machine they make the tortillas in. They come out warm and fresh!


Preparing to feast on fajitas....yum!





Desert....Sopapillas!

Movies

American Idol starts in 4 days!! I can't wait!

Scott and I rented Ghost Town with Greg Kinnear, Ricky Gervais and Tea Leoni. It was a funny, quirky romantic comedy (ie. chick flick!). It was one of the better movies I've seen in a long time.

We saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button over Christmas and it was TERRIBLE! I'm sure it's going to get all sorts awards this season, but it didn't cause me to feel any emotion except for boredom and annoyance. It could have been SUCH a great movie. It had so much potential, but at over 2.5 hours, I was more focused on how sore my butt was than how Button was aging backwards. I wanted the movie to touch and move me like The Notebook (it kind of has that feel), but it didn't even come close. It was boring and the plot moved along slower than a snail. If you really want to see it, wait until it comes out on video!!

Christmas Tree

Christmas Ornaments

This is the ornament I got for Scott this year. It says "I love home improvement". Perfect for him!

More dog pictures...

Sydney's favorite position....


Basking in the sun!


Not sure what Precious is doing here!


Just waking up from a nap

99 Balloons

Check out this beautiful video about a little boy born with a syndrome called Trisomy 18. His parents recorded his short 99 days on earth and it is such a sweet video. Get your kleenex out because it will make you cry!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th6Njr-qkq0

We're BAAAACK!!!

Ok, so I know it's been awhile. I've uploaded a ton of pictures to sort of fill you in on our lives over the past 10 months. It's hard to believe that it's almost been a year since we got married. How time flies!!

Here's me in our first garden ever. I'd say it was a success!!


The back of our house...


The BIGGEST cucumber EVER!!! It's hard to tell it's actual size, but easlily elbow to fingertip.


A pumpkin


Our patio and lovely firepit Scott made for us. I think we only used it a few times. Oh well..there's always next year!

My new favorite website

I came across this website via a friend of a friend's blog. This website offers me daily amusement and I can't get enough of it!! Check it out for yourself! http://www.cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

Giving our dogs face time

These are some pics of the dogs we have taken over the past few months....

This is my favorite picture of them!! Senior picture pose!! :)



Precious wrapped up in her blanket


Emerging from the blanket


Sydney with sleepy eyes

Sleeping the day away!

Not happy I'm taking her picture!

If you look closely, you'll see Precious rolled up in the blanket like a sausage. This is her typical position of choice on their bed. She somehow manages to crawl under the blanket and wrap herself up. You can see her head peeking out to the left of the bed.

Happy Sydney...always happy.

Remodeled Spare Bedroom

We have one spare bedroom that still had not been "re-done" since I moved in. I think that every room in the house has officially been given a woman's touch if you will. :) Our spare bedroom had become a catch-all of all our "stuff" that didn't have a good storage place yet. Plus the wall color didn't match the bedspread I had in there. The solution, buy a new bedding set and paint the walls and whah-lah, you have a new bedroom! Our good friends Andrew and Makenna came to visit and were the first to break it in. I can now look in there and not feel overwhelmed at our piles of "stuff".