Happy Anniversary.

3 years ago I got all dolled up.

I walked down the aisle to the man of my dreams.

We promised to love each other forever.

We kissed.

We were man and wife.

And I've never been happier.


Happy anniversary my sweet husband.
I love you.
To the moon and back.

In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of...

Ok so maybe we weren't actually in the city - although if you ask Steve we were on Long Island which is part of NYC. I don't buy it. He gave me some sort of explanation that I can't remember. Either way, we were on Long Island at the end of January for a family wedding.

Best wedding ever. Best weekend ever. Seriously. So. Much. Fun.

We left the day after the ThunderSnow because we hadn't spent enough time in the car. I got up Thursday morning, worked for a few hours, got ready, finished packing, and we hit the road. Steve was anxious to get moving because he figured we'd be on LI just in time for evening rush hour. Which, apparently, is terrible. I didn't really want to experience that, but that just means we should have left first thing in the morning. We got on the road about 1 and we usually go up 95 but from our new house we went up a different way. We managed to make it through 6 states in 6 hours. (Less time than my trip home in the thundersnow. Which I'm pretty sure I pointed out all weekend long.) Our drive was relatively uneventful, and due to all that snow, LI had closed all the schools so we didn't even hit traffic there. It was nice.

We got up there Thursday nights and headed to Steve's aunts house. It was nice to see her. It's been really long. And we also got a chance to see the groom! We just sat around and talked for a while. We really had only planned on stopping by for a quick visit cause we'd see them the next day but we're chatty so we were there for a while. Lonnie's also getting in to making rice pudding so we had a tasting! I'd never really had rice pudding so I was trying something new! woo! It wasn't great - texture-wise - but taste-wise it was really good. I liked the orange dream one the best. After visiting for a while Steve and I headed to our hotel to crash.

Except we totally didn't do that when we got there. He turned on the tv and then started complaining about how hungry he was. We hadn't eaten dinner. Just some snacks and rice pudding at Baba's! We'd seen a McDonald's across the street so we headed there. Unfortunately, it was closed. So we went to the Diner next door. Steve had really wanted to go there, but I was hoping for something quicker and went for McD's. Stupid non-24 hour McD's! I had matzo ball soup and Steve got breakfast. I was really excited about my soup, because I'd been wanting some for a while and I'd been feeling kind of sick the last couple days. It was going to be soooo good. It wasn't. It was a HUGE disappointment. The matzo balls were weird and had no flavor. The chicken soup was super salty. All around. Not a good choice. After that it was back to the room and bed!

Friday we got up early and headed to Baba's for breakfast! We went to a bagel shop near by and had the most amazing breakfast!! Everything bagel, cream cheese, onions, tomatoes, and lox! I want some right now! Breakfast was nice and it was good to get to spend some more quality time with Baba because it'd been a really long time since either of us had seen her. After breakfast we dropped Baba off and headed to the outlets for this girl to get some shoes for the wedding. I didn't really have any formal-fancy type shoes that would go well with my dress so I needed to buy some. Even though we went to the outlet for me to get 1 pair of shoes we ended up leaving with a belt for Steve (and btw, are belts really supposed to cost $25 ON SALE?!) and we had put shoes on hold for Steve at another store near where we were having lunch. I'm not sure how that worked out, but Steve kind of made out here haha.

We headed to lunch with Debbie after our little shopping adventure. We went to this most amazing Italian place. The food was soooo good. I had an eggplant parm sub and a chopped salad. And it was SO MUCH FOOD! I didn't end up eating much, but Steve was surely happy to finish off my eggplant haha. We sat around at lunch for a couple hours. After lunch we still had to go pick up Steve's shoes. That was pretty quick trip even though I really wanted to walk around that outlet mall because it looked cool. We needed to get to the hotel and get ready for the Rehearsal Dinner. (Seriously, our whole trip revolved around food lol!)

The Rehearsal Dinner was a lot of fun. We finally got to meet Lonnie's bride! I can't believe we've been so busy that we really hadn't met her until the day before the wedding!!! She was super sweet and they look so good together. The dinner was a good time. We sat around and talked and caught up with everyone. We had like a gazillion courses of food. All of it amazing. I left out of there feeling more stuffed than I've ever been haha. It ended pretty late and we were ready to head back to the room and chill out for a bit (and for me? hit the hay. I was tired!)

Wedding day was busy and full of runnings around! Steve and I got up in the morning because we needed to go shopping. Again. We ran out of time on Friday so we headed to Target for a quick trip. And then back to the hotel to scoop up Heather. And then straight to the hair salon where Margot, Mel, and Baba were getting their hair done. First? Starbucks! We were tired! After they were finished at the salon we headed to All American! For the best food ever. I had a hot dog - which is not the traditional order from there because their burgers are amazing but I love hot dogs haha. Steve, Mel, and Heather got double-doubles. Heather was impressed with the food - she'd never had it before. And of course? ONION RINGS! OMG. They are amazing! I'm so glad we stopped.

After lunch it was back to the hotel. I napped. Glorious haha. After I got up Steve laid down which made my afternoon annoying. I needed to paint my nails for the wedding and he was sleeping and had to have all the lights out! I had to wheel the desk chair in to the bathroom so I could paint my nails. It was kind of funny, but mostly annoying.

We were all ready to head to the wedding around 5:40 so we headed out to meet the shuttle. That was supposed to be there at 5:45. It didn't show up until 6. When the wedding was supposed to start. Luckily, they weren't ready and they pushed it back to about 6:30. But when we finally got to the club they were shuffling us in to the ceremony room....we barely made it because of that stupid shuttle driver! There were plenty of complaints about that!

The ceremony was beautiful. Everyone looked great. It was full of love and it was just beautiful. Steve and I kept stealing sideways glances every time they talked about the vows and I know I was remembering the one's we'd said to each other and I'm thinking he was too ;)

The cocktail hour. OMG. The food. There were like 4 carving stations - paella (another new food for me!), shrimp, oysters on the half shell, rack of lamb, meat skewers, and a fried seafood table. Then the passed apps too. I saw mini-burgers, sushi, fried risotto, more shrimp, more meat, and a couple other things. Seriously we were stuffed before we headed in to the reception!

Which was equally as amazing! We walked in and the band was already going! This was going to be a celebration of celebrations! They actually had to clear the dance floor so they could announce the bride and groom! They went straight in to their first dance and then we all started dancing again. They did their mingle thing for a while, and everyone was still dancing! We'd sat down to have dinner apps and to order our main course. Before we could eat though Steve had to say the Jewish blessing of the bread. He was really nervous, but he did a great job!

The whole night consisted of dancing, food, family, friends, and great fun. It was really an amazing evening and Steve and I both said we'd never had so much fun at a wedding (and if you were at our wedding you know how much fun that was....this one? way beats that!)

We were sad to head home the next day. So we stopped for bagels first haha. Plus we needed to eat so we had one more Everything bagel, cream cheese, tomatoes, onions, and lox! Another amazing meal to cap off our trip full of food! We grabbed some bagels for us to freeze and we headed home.

Mostly uneventful ride. Took us a little less time to get home because we were leaving from a different part of LI but we were home around 5 and with plenty of time to unwind after spending hours in the car!

The whole trip was really great. Really fast. I can't wait to go back. We're planning a summer trip with a little more time and no big events so we can actually visit with everyone like we'd like to! Plus? Summer and free time. He's taking me to NYC if I have to drag his butt there haha.

1,000 days ago.

I married the love of my life.

It's hard for me to believe that next month we'll have been together 7 years. That in April we'll be celebrating our 3rd anniversary. It seems like just yesterday we said "I Do" but it feels like we've already been together a lifetime. Here's to the many more thousands of days ahead of us. I love you, baby. To the moon and back.

Happy Anniversary to us

On April 12, 2008 Steven and I became Mr. and Mrs. It was the best day of my life and I can't imagine spending my life with another man.

To celebrate our anniversary we wanted to go away someplace, but since we're trying desperately to pay off our credit cards we didn't want to spend a lot. Well, a few months ago I entered some contest to win a car. I didn't win the car, but I did win a vacation. It was one of those come here and let us wine and dine you so you buy our timeshare. We don't need one of those, but who can pass up a free vacation?! We were sold! We left on Thursday, April 10 after I got home from work and were spending the whole weekend at Masanutten Resort which is located about 2 hours from us in Harrisonburg (ok, well its right outside of Harrisonburg in a town that I can't pronounce or spell).

We had a wonderful relaxing weekend. Thursday night we got there and checked in and realized that the resort was practically deserted. Not because there was no one there, but because there was nothing to do after dark really. Kind of disappointing, but after a long day at work and 2 hours in the car I wasn't really complaining that we could really only sit around and watch TV.

Friday morning we woke up to a beautiful day and no rain even though the weather man said it would. We had decided that we'd be going on a bike ride through the mountains. We brought Steve's bike with us since he actually has a mountain bike, I on the other hand had to rent one. No problem, they do that! So we had a nice breakfast and then went and rented a bike and headed out for the trail. Which, apparently, is not actually ON the resort but about 2 miles away. 2 miles, not bad right? Well, when you have NO clue about the area it feels farther than it really is. We made it and got our bikes unloaded and hit the trail.

The first part was basically all up hill. I WAS DYING! Steve was patiently letting me do a lot of walking rather than riding though :)

After we made it up the hill we stopped to take some pictures. I secretly was just trying to get a little rest out of it but Steve obliged either way :) He's so good to me!

These pictures were taking at the top of the mountain. It was sooooo pretty up there and even after I felt like I was going to die I was really glad we decided to take this ride. I don't know how many more times I'll be tricked into this, but at least it was fun. After going up the hill we had to go down. I didn't like that all that much because the going down part was just as steep as the going up part. And quite frankly I'm klutzy so I was pretty sure I was going to fall. Luckily I didn't even though I slammed on my brakes a little harder than I should have and skidded a bit haha.

Friday afternoon we went to our sales pitch for the timeshares. We got a very nice sales lady and she drove us all over the resort. It was nice to see the entire resort, but it really confirmed our suspicions that there really wasn't much for us to do. Well there was, but we didn't really have the time. This tour was only supposed to be 1 1/2 hours long, but it lasted forever and by the time it was done the things we wanted to do were closed. We had planned on doing go-karts and mini-golf but they closed early. We did find out there was a place to go horseback riding and I actually got Steve to agree to go....but it ended up being too cold so we passed.

During our tour we went up to the senic overlook and it was beautiful! We were so high up, the view was different but just as pretty as the one from our bike ride. To the left is us at the overlook. We were going to go back to take a picture of the both of us, but it was rainy and cold on Saturday so we skipped it. It was really windy way up here and we had a to do a few takes of my picture because the wind was just blowing it around and into my face at about the same time that Steve would snap my picture! This picture below is a great view of the resort from the overlook. You can see how beautifully it is situated in the mountains. It was really a breathtaking view and its hard to imagine that these mountains are so close to use but we never venture out this way.

During our little trip we even accomplished a few things from the list. Friday night Steven and I went out to eat at this little Italian Restaurant for our date of the month (#1 - Go on a Date once a month). It was a really cute little restaurant and the food was awesome. Being Good Friday we went italian seafood and it was a great choice. We had calamari for appetizers and they were so good. They even served us fresh, piping hot garlic bread. I'm not a huge fan of garlic bread but I tried it because Steve said it was amazing. And it was. I only had a few bites because that's about all I can stand, but he really enjoyed it. Then we each ordered way too much food - we each got the Seafood Romano which consisted of clams, muscles, shrimp, and calamari (I think there might have been something else too) with a wonderful spicy marinara sauce on linguini. It was amazing. It was a TON of food, but we did our best. Neither one of us finsihed the pasta but we both devoured the seafood in the pasta! I was hoping there would be room left in my stomach for some dessert, but there wasn't. I gave up ice cream for lent and was really hoping to devour some after dinner but I was entirely too full.

After dinner we knew we needed towels for our trip to the waterpark on Saturday and we had seen a walmart so we headed that way. Well, we found Target first and stopped there. We tried to go into the mall to see if we could find me some ice cream (and walk off our dinner) but they were closing. So, no ice cream and no walking off dinner. We walked around Target though to walk off dinner and even the Starbucks was closed. Sad day :( After that it was back to our hotel to watch some TV and pass out!

This is our picture for #3 - Take a good picture of us each month. This little creek we found on our resort after we dropped our bikes off. I took a few pictures of it because it was so pretty and then we decided we wanted one of us. I think we took like 4, the first two I looked funny because the sun was a little bright and I was squinting without my sunglasses. Then I forgot to smile. Finally we got it! Trial and error but we made it :)

Saturday morning we woke up to a cold and rainy day. It was ok though because we had already decided to spend the day at the indoor waterpark! I was stoked. I love waterparks!!! Especially the slides. So we got up and got ready to go. It was kind of strange getting ready to go play in a pool all day when it was so cold and rainy outside.

After we got ready we went for some breakfast and then were on our way. The waterpark was at the very front of the resort so not very convenient to walk - but with the weather we wouldn't have anyway.

We got there pretty much as soon as it opened because we knew it would probably fill up big time on this nasty day. We were right! The first thing we did was hit the lazy river and it was so nice and relaxing. Until of course the huge bucket of water dumped on my head. It wasn't bad, it was just unexpected. After that we hit the water slides!! Steve and I did a double tube and went down a few and man were they great! We each did one without a tube and while those are fun, our backs hurt a little from bumping down the slide with nothing more than bathing suits on!

After a little time in the waterpark we decided to take a break and go to the arcade! That was so fun. We played a few games and actually spent quite a bit of time there without realizing it. They had a deal or no deal game for tickets (not money, boo!) that we got kind of addicted to. By the time we left we had over 500 tickets. And yes, we were cashing those suckers in! We browsed the prized and decided that we'd come back because we wanted a prize we didn't have enough tickets for.

Back to the waterpark we went. We were starving and decided on lunch. After lunch we were getting ready to get back in when they closed it down because some kid threw up. That sucked but it wasn't really for too long. After it was opened again we went back in and were acting like kids again!! It was really a fun day and I'm glad we went! They had a really cool promo thing there where people come around and take pictures of you throughout the day which was pretty cool so we of course signed up and while there was no obligation to buy we did anyway :) So this is Steve and I hanging out in the lazy river :) I'm glad I bought them because I forgot our waterproof camera (from our HM!!) and was really disapointed about that!

Saturday night we went out to see Crowded Streets a DMB tribute band because our friends play in it and it was nice to have something to do Saturday night. After we got back to the room we opened cards and presents!! Steve was so good to me this weekend and he bought me a card for each day that we were there. I on the other hand went with our traditional 2 cards for practically every holiday we celebrate thing. Steve just wanted me to have something to open every morning :) We decided to go ahead and exchange gifts Saturday night since A) it was after midnight and B) we'd be rushing around in the morning trying to get ready and get the car packed and checked out before 11. I was ok with it because I really like presents and I was dying for some cake!!

I got Steven a autographed baseball base signed by Jason Giambi. It also came with a picture of Jason signing the base (that would be the paper part). I kind of cheated by not really going with the traditional paper gift. I was looking for something autographed, Yankees, and paper and when I came up this and it was actually in our price range I couldn't pass it up. Plus, they only had one so I went for it. Steve went traditional paper and bought me concert tickets to WMZQ Fest!!!!!!! I was sooooo excited (see my excited face!). I am a HUGE country music fan and I pretty much only have 1 radio station and that is WMZQ. I've been trying to win tickets since they started giving them away and got REALLY close one day but totally blanked and didn't win them so Steve (not being a really big country music fan) is going to suffer through an entire day of country for me!!!

After cards and gifts it was time for cake!!!! Steve wasn't as excited about year old cake as I was but really I just love cake. My mother really, really, really wanted our cake to be good for us after a year in the freezer so she basically fort knox'd the sucker! It was double wrapped in wax paper, then triple wrapped in saranwrap, and then double wrapped in foil. This is me when I had just gotten to the saran wrap and hadn't discovered the wax paper yet.

As you can see I was uber excited to cut this cake after I finally got in to it! We cut our cakes upwards to bring us good luck (thank you Bruno!) so that's what I'm doing here.

And here is where we discovered that year old cake is actually pretty good!!! Even though Steve isn't a big fan of cake he said it was pretty tasty! I was just excited that I wasn't disapointed after waiting an entire year for this cake :)

This our let's take a good picture where we're not shoving cake down our throats for our Anniversary :)
Thanks for an amazing year baby! I can't wait to see what the rest of our lives bring us :)