Three birds....one date!

So this past week was our anniversary! Yea for weddings!!! D was OOT as usual so we couldn't celebrate until the weekend. Which really was just fine by me since I was also working all week and didn't get off until late every night.

So we decided to try out a new restaraunt for our date night. We didn't want to go to the same restaurants that we always go to...we wanted to try a local place. So we made reservations at a local seafood and steakhouse in La Jolla, CA. I drive by it everyday when I go to work and it looks so nice. It has an outdoor terrace that over looks the ocean. Can't beat that for date night, right?
The restaurant was called Vigilucci's. Yum-o!! Really expensive, but yum! We each got a prime rib, which was incredible, and we split our 2 small sides of a potato and fettacine alfredo. We also shared a bottle of wine. I am not normally a wine person al att, but D wanted to order some since it was our anniversary and all. It was a nice white wine and pretty tasty. Other than saying it was a white, I couldn't begin to tell you anything else than that...oh it was from 2008, does that count? Anywho, we had a wonderful dinner at sunset looking out at the ocean and then split an incredible chocolate lava cake and vanilla gelato. Then we took a walk to the ocean and just sat and talked for a while. It was nice to be one a fancy date and just be able to take our time eating and doing whatever.

After the dinner, we moved on to see a movie. We went and saw the new Leo movie, Inception. It was pretty good. You definately had to pay attention to the movie or you would miss a part. I guess it was good, but I wans't blown away like most people seem to be. Like it wasn't just incredible that I am raving about it to all my friends. Good and very well done, yes, but just okay.

That in a nutshell was out fabulous date night/movie time/ new resaraunt that we did all for our anniversary!!

I wanna get chocolate wasted!!!

Bawhahaha!! A few weeks ago D and I along with some friends went and saw Adam Sandler’s new movie “Grown Ups”….soooo funny!!! Like really funny. I mean David Spade…Adam Sandler…Chris Rock…Rob Schnider….and the guy from Paul Blart Mall Cop (can’t think of his name!!)…how could it not be funny?!?!

I had heard on either the tv or the radio the Monday after it came out that it was a bomb and it was terrible. I don’t know how that is even remotely possible. Surely I heard it wrong because I laughed so hard. The ending was super cheesy, but the rest was AWESOME!

D is a huge Adam Sandler fan! When we went to Hollywood a few months ago we stopped at Graumann’s and he took a picture with his hands and feet…

So naturally D loved it. So it was a really fun movie night for us and a good time to hang with our friends. We are planning a fun anniversary weekend, so stayed tuned for some more 101 updates!

You may now kiss the bride....

Happy anniversary to me and the hubs!!! Two amazing years ago we officially became Mr. & Mrs.!!! It was a long road in the making, but lordy was it fun!! It was, if memory serves, about 105 that day with 100% humidity for our outdoor, evening wedding. Yes I am a crazy lady for wanting an outdoor wedding in July...but in my defense it was a 7pm wedding and I figured it would cooler by then!

Wrong!!! Shortly after we kissed and said our "I do's" the heavens opened up and down came the rain. I didn't not freak however. I welcomed the water, as the tear fell from heaven.

You see, today is also D's dad's birthday. He passed 6 years ago in August. It was one heck of an emotional roller coaster. D has asked me to marry him 3 years ago today, and when he asked me he just said he felt like Dad was telling him it was time. And as usual, Dad was right.

I felt the tears also come from my mother who passed 15 years ago. I know she wished she could have been there to do all the mother-daughter wedding planning madness, but I think I did well on my own. I never really got emotional the day of our wedding. The only time cried for her was roughly a month before the wedding, when I went to try on my dress for the last time with all the trimmings. My mom's mom bought my dress and was there with me and I just broke down...in fact I am tearing up as I type this. All these monumental milestones in my life make me think of her. I know I did her proud.

And I know I did my other gma proud as well. She passed shortly after D's dad did. It was another devastating blow that year. She was my father's mother and practically raised me after my mom passed. She never had a daughter and I was the one she wanted. She fought lung cancer for not too long and finally gave in.

So as you can see the rain was more than welcome, because we knew our dearly departed loved ones were watching over us together. And I know they are still with us today. We miss them still more than ever.

Since D is OOT (as usual) and I am working (as usual) we will be celebrating this weekend. No plans yet, but D is wanting to finishing unpacking our house and maybe getting some paint for our bedroom. I am sure we will do dinner, but no plans as of yet. So happy anniversary my love. You are my one, my only, my always.

Forever and always....

Revelations in life...

So the last couple of weeks I have been on sort of a roller coaster in life. Nothing super specific in my life, but more or less things in close friends lives that have, more or less, shocked me.

The weekend D and I first went home to OK, we were in Mannford visiting his BF and his wife. I was checking my email and noticed I had an email from my old college roomie. She was coming to visit the weekend D and I returned to Cali.

I wasn't super shocked that I had recieved and email from her...we have been exchanging frequent emails in the last few weeks anticipating her trip out here. But this was no ordinary email. She started off the email by telling me that she had something important to tell me and she didn't exactly know how to say it...I am not a fan of emails starting like that. She goes on to say that she got a divorce from her husband almost a year ago and she had been living with another guy.

My jaw dropped and I just didn't know what to say. She begged me not to judge her and that the only reason she was just now telling me is that we just fell out of touch for a few months. I was just at a total loss for words...it came out of left field for me and D. When we lived together our sophomore and junior years of college and lived next door to each other our senior years, she had the most amazing BF, the guy she ended up marrying.

They seemed so perfecct for each other. He treated her like a queen. But it turns out the time after they graduated, things just went down hill. They moved into an apt together in Dallas and got their careers started and began to live the adult life. She told me when she came that no one did anything wrong, no one cheated, no one lied. He asked her to marry her about a year after graduation and they married the following fall. She told me she had doubts the whole time and just knew he wasn't the one. She told her mother, who told the rest of the family, and she was quickly bombarded by email from relatives saying it was just cold feet and this was normal.

So the wedding went on, but she never felt right about the whole thing. They ended up in marriage counseling, but she realized her heart just wasn't in it. In her email she told me that she had been seeing and living with another guy for almost a year...they moved in together just after she filed for divorce. She said she had never felt like this with her ex-husband. She felt complete with him and he made her happy in ways that she never was before.

It was just so much to think about and process that I was a little put off for a minute. I just always thought she had it all together...shows what you really know I guess, huh??

Revelation #2...

This one is still very shocking to D and I both. We recieved a message on FB last night from one of his very good friends. He started the email again with my favorite phrase..."I don't know how to say this, but..."

He went on to say that he came out to his mother 8 months ago. ::SHOCK:: A giant bombshell just dropped right then and there. He is probably one of the most guy guy's that we know. He loves football, beer, and is about as right wing as one can get. He told us in the email that he had been struggling with this feeling his whole life and he felt like he had been lying to us for years.

I called D since he is out of town and we began to say just how udderly shocked we were...still are. D and this guy have been friends probably since the 3rd grade or so. So they gre up together and are really good friends. After I got off the phone with D, I texted our friend to let him know that I still loved him no matter what. He said that it meant so much to him to get it off his chest and to have us know now.

We talked for a while and I told him that as long as he was happy D and I didn't care at all. He said he got all teary eyed and just kept saying how much it meant to him to have us on his side and to "be cool with it". I honestly could careless what his orientation is. he even said in his message that he was probbaly the "straightest gay guy we know"....and I know he is.

D and I were talking about how maybe we should have seen the signs, but you turn a blind eye when it is a good friend. He is not the stereotypical gay guy at all...he never really had a girlfriend, was always really shy and quiet. He told me that he felt like coming out was a black man declaring he was black. It really made me think about it in a different way. He said, that it is our society that makes such big deal about it. He siad his sexuality is such a small part of his life, that is shouldn't matter either way. He is the same guy he was the day before he told us and he will remain the same guy tomorrow, and the same guy 6 months from now.

I guess the whole point of this, is to just hope that my 2 friends are happy in their new lives. One, I hope she is happy with the new love of her life. Two, I hope he is finally happy and is able to live his life out in the open and without living a lie. I hope my friends know that I love them regardless of their choices and lifestyles....

2 more books down...

Moloka’I by Alan Brennert

WONDERFUL!!! Such a great book! It was again recommended by a great friend, Gingy. She reads so many good sounding books. I was sort of questioning this one, but I really like historical fiction type novels and being based out of Hawaii made it sound just lovely.

It is a story about a little girl who comes down with leprosy. Leprosy is a terrible disease and was at one point in time thought to be a communicable disease, a dirty disease, or just a disease the was plagued upon you for some wrong doing. But here is a little more about it:

Really a devastating disease if you ask me. But this story goes on to tell what the little girl’s life is like growing up in exile. The tragedy, triumph, the loneliness and the joy that she experiences while living on the island of Molaka’I.

A definite must read. I did tear up a little at the end, which is really no surprise because I cry at everything it seems.

Next book…

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Yet another wonderful historical novel. This time it take place in Nazi occupied Paris, France and it tells a story about the night of July 16th, 1942. This was know as the great round at the Velodrome d’Hiver, or Vel’ d’Hiv’ for short. It is absolutely heartbreaking what took place on this night.

In the wee hours of the morning, over 450 French policemen stormed the houses of all the listed Jewish families, rounded them up and marched them away in the middle of the night. They were taken to a large indoor facility with over 10,000 other Jewish people and held captive for a number of days. Little to no food or water, unsanitary conditions, and nothing but fear radiating through the walls. They were eventually let out, only to be taken to camps in the French countryside, and then transferred to Auschwitz, and gassed.

It is an absolutely heartbreaking story to hear what happened to these people. I do not recall ever hearing about such a terrible thing while in school. And I am a huge WWII buff, so to speak. It has really interested me to look into this more and learn about it.

But this story follows a little girl and a promise made to her brother. She is taken away in the night with her parents, leaving her brother behind. The story is also intertwined with an American journalist living in current day Paris doing a story on the 60th anniversary of the round-up. She soon discovers that the story of the little girl is over-lapping with her current life and family. She digs deeper to find the truth, even though she is repeatedly told there were no children who survived the time at the camps.

Like I said, I am a huge historical fiction novel lover, and a lover of all things WWII. I don’t know what it is about it, but I want to know everything about that time period…the good, the bad, and the terrible. It just blows my mind that something so horrible could have actually happened. I mean I know it did, but it is just so much it is hard to really imagine it.

Just a wonderful and heart wrenching novel that shows how a determined person clawed her way from the bottom to find a new life. And yet again...I got all teary eyed at the end...

June date night!

I know I am way behing in blogging, but please bear with me!!

June 23rd, 2010!

Nothing special at all for this date night…we had just got home from Oklahoma, moved out of our old military housing and into our wonderful new condo in the fabulous Eastlake of Chula Vista, CA!!!

We had already spent our first night there and it was weird sleeping in my own house. I mean, I own it…WEIRD!! Anywho, I had to work that night so we couldn’t do anything to special to commemorate our first official meal in the house, but it was nice nonetheless.

I had on my finest pair of scrubs, freshly washed and still wet hair pulled back in a clippie and D was in his best pair of gym shorts and t-shirt. We were super dressed up if you can’t tell (LOL…). But I made my wonderful chicken pasta that D loves. It is super simple and it is a spin off what my Uncle in Ft. Worth makes.

D grilled some chicken breast that had been lightly seasoned, and I whipped up everything else. Warm, buttery, garlic-y French bread, pan of whole wheat bow tie pasta, fresh chopped basil, and fresh motzarella, cubed and room temperature-ish.

After the chicken was all done up, D brought it in, I sliced it up and threw it in a bowl with some pasta, motza, basil and EVOO, just enough to coat it all. Toss…and DONE!!!

We opened the bottle of wine from our realtor, poured a glass, cheers to us, and plopped down on the couch, surrounded by boxes and chaos. It was such a nice relaxing evening before I had to jet off to work. It was nice to have a little wine and a great pasta dish to go with it. Oh and of course warm toasty bread… :D

Some of my new creations!

Here are some of the projects I have been working on…..I am terrible at taking pics of the stuff I have made, but here is what I have….

This is for my BF's newest little one...she is due to make her grand apperance at the end of July! I cannot wait to meet Miss Tinslee!!

And as usual...a perfect little hand tied bow at the corner of each 4x4 square!!

Chocolate and pink is what mom is going for in the nursery. I really like the way it all turned out…especially the letters.

Here is my friend Amy’s blanket for her new little one who arrived last week! I didn’t get a chance to get it to her while we were home though, so the good ole’ snail mail will have to do. I made on for big sister last year, so I did the same pattern for little sister.

I made a blanket for a fellow Nestie and gave it to her at our GTG we had. I could have sworn I took a picture of it…like I am 99% positive took a picture of it, but I can’t seem to find it any where. It really turned out cute. Maybe Mommy to be will post a pic of it on FB and I will steal it to throw up here! *Hint hint….*

I also made a blanket for D’s BF and his wife’s new baby, Bryson James. It matched his nursery perfect as well. I posted the fabric several blogs back….lime green, blue with bubble and yellow dot. I also put some blue gingham bows in each corner. Yet again I forgot to talk a pic….I know I suck!

I made another blanket for a friend that I went to nursing school with. She is having another little boy! Yea for 2 under 2!! Big brother’s blanket was cream, chocolate, and turquoise. Little brother’s blanket is mint green dot, tan-ish/pale blue/mint stripy fabric, and pale blue. Yet again…no pics.

Now something I do have pictures of…3 precious dresses that I made after seeing on one of my FAVORITE blogs…..www.makeit-loveit.com. She has so much stuff on there and I can’t wait to make it all! Stay tuned to my home updating blog for her great ideas I plan on putting in our house!

Ta-da!!!! Aren’t they so sweet!! Here is how it was made, again thanks to Make it and Love it!

Here is my first dress for my niece Emmy Gracy:

White tee, sassy zebra print skirt and a hot pink sash!

Emmy’s big sister Kaylee Bear:

Black tee, yellow polka dot (Bear’s favorite color), and a zebra sash!!

And for my BF’s daughter…my Angel, Kailyn. Since soon to be little sister, Tinslee, got so much, I had to get my Angel something too….

Purple shirt, fun multi colored dot fabric for skirt and hot pink sash and trim on bottom.

They all looked so cute in their new dresses, I wish I would have thought to take pictures of them in them!! The only picture I have of any of them in the dresses is my Angel. She wore it at Tinslee's shower and her mom put a pic up on FB with her in it...so I stole it! :D

Blurry, but you get the idea...

Well those are all the new creations I have for now. But I will have more soon, once we get all settled into our house and I can manage to find some time! I have spied several new projects on Make it and Love it, that I am dying to create!!

So stay tuned!!