5.29.2011

Year One

Jeff being the great husband he is made our first anniversary unforgettable, even though we were apart on the actual day :( I was asked out to dinner by one of my good friends and when she was supposed to pick my up instead her cute little family stopped by and delivered a personal pizza and wrapped present. I immediately knew to get on ichat where of course, Jeff was waiting patiently. We had dinner together (Jeff had the same kind of personal pizza) and then we opened presents! Jeff got me an awesome pair of the new nike free run shoes that I have been secretly eyeing for some time now. I was stoked! (He had already previously given me a gift card to a salon which I used to get a mani/pedi before Florida) I revealed to him that I had booked us a couples massage in Key West, something Jeff has been wanting to do together since our honeymoon. We were both very happy and excited. Modern technology sure makes things easy.. He told me he had one more surprise and told me to go look in the kitchen, after some searching and his directions of "Hot" and "Cold" I found a wrapped piece of our wedding cake he had my mom bring with her the previous week and hide in our freezer. We ended our anniversary date with a taste of our banana and chocolate wedding cake that was surprisingly not too terrible.
I sure love that husband of mine and know just how lucky I am to have him. He fills in all my cracks and is strong where I am weak. He never fails to remember our special days and make them memorable. He always supports me and is the first to praise something I've done. He loves to surprise me and take care of me/our home, cars, etc. He is kind and respectful and a total goofball and I couldn't love him more. I am so thankful to have spent the last year with him and look forward to every year and adventure to come.


ichat dates are awesome.
We are happy, we are in love.


All my spoils and my love!

5.14.2011

Our first anniversary


Happy Anniversary Jeffrey. I love you.

How we got to be together and why I am the luckiest wife ever. More on that later...

coming soon: why I never blogged about our big day (2 days)

Stay tuned for plenty more gag-reflux inducing posts about LOVE

5.13.2011

Visit from my mama

At exactly the halfway mark of the longest month of my life (Jeff being in Utah) my mom came out to spend the week with me. It was the best kind of "hump day" treat. We drove all around town, or towns, as in Hamden, North Haven and New Haven. My favorite was trying to explain the roads and listen to her to try keep track of where we were and how we got there. We shopped, visited, went to the orchards, had movie nights, spent a glorious day at the park reading and having a picnic and spent all day Sunday teaching(mom) and learning(cass) how to use my new pressure cooker, a gift from my mother. It was a perfect and much needed week and I was so happy to see her and be able to show her our life out here in New England.

The week in pictures, in no particular order...
Never been worn Aldo shoes I bought at the good will for $7 Steal!
Mom's cute new shirt!
East Rock Park
Mom eating her first meatball sub and Canoli
10 bottles of pork all done
10 bottles of chicken "going in"
My sweet new toy
Thanks for coming mom! It was a great week, love you!

*only 6 more days until Florida and 7 til I get my man back!

4.27.2011

Is it possible to love and hate?

I am having a love/hate relationship with CT right now.

LOVE: this beautiful spring weather! It is currently 67 degrees :) (Talked to Jeff yesterday, he said it was snowing in UT)
HATE: Paying $4.17 for gas. UGH!!!!!!!! Not driving unless it's absolutely necessary.

LOVE: having the house to myself and doing nothing.
HATE: having the house to myself and doing nothing!!!!

LOVE: trying new recipes and eating beans and egg salad and everything else Jeff won't eat.
HATE: Jeff not being here to pick the beans out of his soup

LOVE: counting down the days until Florida, Emily and MItchell's wedding, seeing my fam and my HOT husband and most importantly celebrating our One Year Anniversary!

4.25.2011

Just a few things

I just have a few things to say. Listen at your own discretion.

First of all, let me just say that this is going to be a long month of sleepless nights.

Let me explain.

All through high school and part way through college while I was living at home I shared a very generously sized california king sized bed with well, me, myself and I. It was great, I slept with all four limbs stretched out in various directions and still didn't come close to touching any edge of the bed. Because of this my room, my bed more specifically became the go to for sleepovers and we easily fit 5 girls including myself in there. For this reason I was also a little concerned with sleeping with someone and not disturbing them with gut kicks and face punches all night. But since being married I am somewhat of a mild sleeper and prefer to be cuddled up during all hours of the night. I have to be physically touching jeff in order to fall asleep. I also can't fall asleep until he has fallen asleep, which has it's own background story.
Jeff has this adorable and endearing involuntary twitching response when he falls asleep. The boy is lights out up there the second his head hits the pillow and usually falls asleep within literal seconds to minutes. This I know because it starts. Just a small twitch here and a small on there. Then as the minutes pass the twitching turns into jerking and then eventually kicking and one night I swear he did the wave with his arms before rolling over and really sawing logs. In the beginning I would laugh and quietly fall asleep only to be awoken by his most violent of twitches. It only took me a couple of times to train myself and now I can't fall asleep until his whole "episode" is through and I am certain he is still for the night. I love it. I laugh every night and then after and only after can I fall asleep.
Having worked saturday night and only sleeping 3 hours on sunday I was hoping to go to bed last night and get a solid 8 maybe 9+ hours before work today but even after I said goodnight and laid down I was wide awake for another hour and a half. I was tossing and turning and uncomfortable in every position. Hot and cold, you name it. It was only after I had talked to Jeff again with the promise that he would call again that I finally fell asleep. Ugh. I can't sleep without him.
Jeff on the other hand does not sleep well, well ever with me in the bed. He will probably be getting the best months sleep he's had since before we got married.

I do not understand the fascination with the royal wedding. I'm sorry but I don't and I don't care to know every tiny detail of what could or could not be a part of the whole shebang. And I definitely don't have any need to watch a lifetime movie about their whole relationship leading up to this wedding. They may be a future king and queen but they aren't mine.
I must say however that that Kate Middleton has some style. I wish Americans rocked hats like these.




Lovin it.

Today at work after going down to the gift shop to buy a paper for my PT I randomly bought an atomic fireball. What? Talk about going back to my elementary days. That first lick brought me back real fast and reminded me why I never have liked fireballs. I'm kind of a sissy when it comes to hot stuff and candy should not be hot. That's all I have to say about that.




I love kids and I love friends with kids. I love them a lot and don't know what I would do without them this year but I need some friends without kids. Know anyone? Preferrably someone not 3,000 miles away. Thanks.

I'm a nervous nelly, when I am alone that is. A few months ago we heard on a sunday night what we thought were gun shots right outside our apartment. (You never know out here, it can be pretty sketch) After calling the police, they told us they had gotten quite a few calls about the same thing and would check it out. We never heard anything so assumed it had to be something else and ever since I have been twice as jumpy.
Now that I am alone I walk through my house and turn on every last light as I go and when going to bed, I hit the light and make a mad leap to my bed. Just in case. It's totally normal.




Technology is awesome. Jeff and I skyped saturday while he was on his flight home. It was pretty noisy but really cool. It made coming home an exciting instead of dreaded thing knowing I was going to see and talk to him as soon as I got home.

My last thought of the day is how much I love wearing my husbands clothes. he he His sweats, slippers and all the above are just so much more comfortable than mine. Hmm... ;)

4.24.2011

Easter Shenanigans

I was upset enough knowing Jeff was leaving me for a month AND we were going to be apart on our One Year Anniversary so when I realized he was also going to be in Utah for Easter, I wasn't having it. I surprised him on Thursday with breakfast and an Easter basket full of goodies and in turn came home to a full fledge Easter egg hunt on Friday. We went out to dinner and dyed Easter eggs as well. Jeff also surprised me at dinner with a very thoughtful and awesome gift, a gift certificate to get my hair done since I have been talking about it for weeks now but am too cheap and frugal these days to actually spend the money on it. It was a perfect celebration! Thanks to my bunny. Love you babe.

Disclaimer: This video is cute but super long, silly and may be inappropriate for anyone who doesn't want to see some colorful brassiers and Gs (in a drawer that is) Don't say I didn't warn you.
So the video is not working. Maybe another time.


My Loot

He loves when I make him do stuff like this ;)



Happy Easter everyone!

Battleship

One day after the gym we just stopped by target and decided to buy battleship. Of course we only bought the $5 travel version that doesn't make noises but we improvised. I'll just leave it at that.


PS. Jeff totally won I was a poor loser. But I can't help it. Who likes to lose???