Married for 1 Year

Yesterday was our Anniversary! The first year went by so fast and it was so much fun.
We spent the day just being together, eating dinner at home (with defrosted wedding cake for dessert!), and going downtown where the wedding was last year.

We walked on the pedestrian bridge with the dog and got a funnel cake at the festival that was going on again this year. It was storming (our favorite weather) near us so we got to see lightning and hear rumbles as it rained on and off all day and later into the night.

• A year ago  I was saying hello to you all for the first time as a wife!
• We went camping and site seeing in South Dakota.
• Shawn flew a plane!
• I had health issues and overcame them.
• We bought a home together and moved in.
• We had many, many Mondays off where we drank margaritas.
• We adopted Peach!
• I decided to love myself.
• We made it to the halfway point for this year!
• We decided to have children.
• Filed our married taxes.
• Shawn took me away for my birthday!
• We said goodbye to another pet.
• Started preparations for having children.
• We waited to celebrate being together this long.

Thank you for sharing in our journey and our love.

It's Friday, I'm in LoVE! #22

Happy Friday!


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Today I am just so in love with... everything! Shawn and I are so happy, in love, communicating well, married for a YEAR on Sunday!!! We have so many things to be happy about and we are finding ourselves really enjoying each moment and getting caught up in them.
We are so fortunate in so many ways :o)
Hopefully in two weeks my body cooperates with me and stays on track according to the charting I've been doing and we will have yet another reason to be happy very soon.

I am in love with you, readers, for all the wonderful things you share with me in your comments. I literally get a huge grin on my face reading your thoughts and encouragement. Y'all are great.

Things I love that I learned and made and did this week:

1. Already researching doulas and making appointments to meet with them. Shannon was nice, I can't wait to meet Carrie next week!
2. I love my family and the little things we do together.
3. I love my constant search for knowledge and how Shawn is the same way. The Transit was so fun on Tuesday to share with him!
4. I have the courage to be myself all the time no matter what. Finally.
5. I am GREAT at cooking! YAY!

Bloggy-versary Giveaway!

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Last year I started blogging on THIS DAY!
Read the first post here!


Looking forward to the new year... 

 To celebrate I have decided to do another giveaway!!! This time it will be a little different. Instead of giving away a sock monkey YOU tell ME what you get! There's a choice of between a HiLLjO-made  amigurumi crochet animal of your choice; a standard-size sock monkey; or even a crochet accessory of your choice like a hat, socks, gloves or corset-style arm warmers!

Value of ths giveaway is $20USD and is open to International entries. Giveaway closes 12/26/11.

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Good Luck and Thanks for the Great Year!!!

SURPRISE!!!

For those who do not recognize... this logo is for the new Guns N' Roses.

And we totally saw them last night at ye Olde Qwest Centre (now known as century something...)!!!

I won tickets at my amazing job and that's not all... they were SUITE BOX TICKETS. This was the surprise I was keeping to myself yesterday!!!

I didn't tell Shawn we were going until we drove past the marquee at aforementioned Centre and he saw the logo with the advertised show.

"We're going to this?!" he asked.

"YUUUP," I was finally allowed to be excited now that he knew!!!

Better still, Reverend Horton Heat opened and played for over an hour!!! If you have played guitar hero you've probably heard "Psychobilly Freakout."

 That was better for Shawn than the headliner, who if you don't know, only has Axl as the remaining original bandmember. It was a great show, we had a FABULOUS time for free and didn't mind the late-starting show one bit. We did leave 4 songs from the end after November Rain but apparently from the reviews today in the Omaha World Herald a lot more people missed a lot more songs. It was after 1 when the concert finally ended.

My least favorite thing, to be a negative Nancy (no offense to Nancies out there; y'all can make fun of my B- blood type if you want) but they have replaced Slash with a baby poseur version of himself. The boy needs to take that hat off his head, cigarette out of his mouth and practice not playing sour notes here and there because he's too focused on the camera and babes in front of him to pay attention to the neck of his guitar. DURRRR.

Axl sang pretty well despite some falsely harsh reviews and he bopped around doing a classic 1-leg hoedown jig from time to time. It was a show filled with some talented musicians for sure.

Happy 49 Months Bunny!



Happy 49 Months, Shawnie!!!

Last month Shawn and I celebrated our 4 year Anniversary.
I will brag that we know how to celebrate simply. We have it down to an art. Both of us feels special without knowing the other one might come up short on grocery money.
This year I made Shawn a copious amount of his favorite cookies and he got me some BEAUTIFUL orange daisies.

I love all daisies but I love when he buys me colored ones that go with the season. A little variation on a favorite is all it takes to make it fresh!

But that's not all...
I have a HUGE surprise for him tonight.
Get your mind out of the gutter before I type another word.

I won tickets to an event that is luxurized... if that's a word. I can't divulge too much because he reads the blog but I will update and let you all in on what the surprise was!

OMG I CANNOT WAIT TO TELLLLLLL! AH!