Our Love Story

I've seen this on a few other blogs and I planned on doing this for Valentine's Day, but as you know, we were a bit under the weather this week. So I'm doing it now. And by the way..I feel the need to share my feelings on the big V-day and all it's cheesiness. I LOVE it. Pun intended. I've always loved Valentine's Day. I love all the pink and red and doilies and Valentine's cards and chocolate hearts. I may have secretly dubbed it Single's Awareness Day or "SAD" Day, several years in a row, and I may have made black "SAD" day cards for all my friends and co-worker's. I may have even carried a copy of the well known piece of literature called "I Hate Valentine's Day" with me to work on several occasions. BUT, that's when I was bitter and single. Deep down I still loved all the fun that came with Valentine's Day. I can't wait for Bauer to love it too. He already does. Because I got him a sweet little book called "I Ruff You" and a stuffed animal dedicated to all things love. SEE?!! I'm even swayed to buying my son ANIMAL FLUFF! I hate stuffed animals and all the clutter and fluff that goes along with it, but V-day does it to me man, it just does. Cue birdies singing. Anyway..on with the LOVE story <3

1. How long have you and your significant other been together?

Lee and I went on our first date, June 15th 2007. We consider ourselves as being together since then because we can't really remember the date that we made our relationship official. 5 years in June...wow :) feels like twenty..

2. How did you meet?

We met at work. For more info on THAT heck of a story you can see our wedding website here

3. If you are married, where did you get married at? Big or small wedding?

We were married in Fincastle, Virginia at the Kyle House. September 5th, 2010. It was a gorgeous day and one of the best days of our lives :) As far as how big...I'd say a decent size. We had 160 guests...lots of attendants..lots of food..and lots of alcohol! LOTS of fun of course! :)

4. Do you have any nick-names that you call one another? Do share!

We call each other ....Poo...Poop..booboo...it's as ridiculous as that. I don't know why we do. We just always have. :)

5. Name 3 things you love most about your honey.

His sense of humor. The man makes me laugh EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I need that. His Geekery. I love it immensely. And his caring personality. He cares for anyone and everyone and helps anyone he can. I wish this list had more because I could go on forever.. <----whoops! See? It got really "Cheese" there for a minute!!

6. Tell us how he proposed? On one knee. :) Another great story to be told here. I'm too lazy to type today apparently.

7. Tell us what you plan on doing on this Valentine's Day.

I planned on making Lee a fancy candle-lit dinner and home-made oreos (HIS FAVE) but since being sick, that didn't really work out. We actually did get to have a light dinner at our favorite mexican restaurant..and had a lovely evening on our couch skyping with our little one :)

8. Are you asking for anything this Valentine's day?

We did buy gifts for each other this year. We both wanted some stuff for the new house. I'll post about that later :) There was a lot of ETSY involved :)

9. Give us one piece of advice of keeping a relationship strong and full of love.

Communicate. EVERYDAY. Even when life is busy..sit down and talk to each other. Not about things that happened that day, but things other than that. Spend quality time together as a family too...we have snoogle time with our little man EVERY night :)

10. Show us a picture of what love means to you.

because you KNOW you wanted to see it just ONE MORE TIME! :) Happy belated Valentine's Day everyone!! :)

a few out-takes

Bauer was in a Glorious mood today when we took his Valentine Photos...so we had a few cute outtakes that we didn't use for our card that we would like to share. Prepare to GUSH. (That means YOU, Briggley Mae Grant!)

Just get a load of those chunky thighs, ladies...he'll steal your heart away :)

Love is in the air

We decided to do a Valentine's Day card to send to our closest family and friends this year. I am not revealing the card to facebook yet..but to all the masses two of you who read the blog..you are getting a sneak peak.. :) If you ARE in fact receiving one of these in the mail..you can expect it around March. Yup. We just ordered them today. Fact. Happy Valentine's Day. Love and be loved. Or as Ellen Degeneres would say..Be kind to one another :)

Super Bowl.

This was Bauer's first superbowl! (duh.) This year, the match-up was between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. SO. Being that we are Viking fans..it didn't leave us with much of a choice in who to root for. So naturally, we made a mature decision and picked the Patriots. It was the only fabric they had at the fabric store. That's how we made our decision. It would figure that they would lose. I did get great use out of the fabric as seen here...

and here...

We had Seth over for the big "game" and I made sloppy joes, baked beans, fresh salsa and lots of little snacks :) We had a great time...too bad Bauer couldn't hold his alchohol (j/k)...we couldn't resist.

Ringing in 2012!

I'm sure I'll have some massive Christmas post on here soon..but since I can't do anything in order I'm doing our New Year's Eve post. It was quiet. We stayed home and watched the ball drop. Had some champagne. We might have gotten dressed up just to take pictures. Ok we might've gotten dressed up from the waist up while wearing our pajama bottoms because we're cheesy like that. Yeah, I admit it. We do things in style in this household. I'd like to add that as soon as the confetti started falling, I chugged my champagne and went to bed immediately. I was still tired from 2011. Hey..I had a good reason..!