Love is in the air

G & I have never been big on valentine's day celebrations....oh who am I kidding. We have always celebrated! He would even drive down to San Diego no matter what day of the week it fell on just to bring me flowers and take me to diner. *swoon* But once we got married we stopped making such a big deal. i.e. no plans for tomorrow. We'll see what happens.

My friend Diana had this cool survey on her blog. I'm bored at work so I'll fill it out.

1. Where/how did you meet?

G & I met in high school. Freshman year we had English and History together. I actually didn't care for him when I met him. I later found out he was in love with me. I eventually got to know him better and started liking him. He apparently was over me. :( Sadness. I know. It wasn't till the beginning of our Sophmore year that my BFF at the time set us up. We started hanging out at lunch every day. One November day, at lunch, he asked me to be his girlfriend. I said I would think about it. LOL. I got so much shit from my friends for saying that. So during our last period I was going to Tennis practice and he was going to Soccer practice and I yelled out his name, he turned around, and I said, "Yes!" He immediately knew what I meant and ran over to hug me. Cheesey!

2. How long have you known each other?

13.5 years

3. How long after you met did you start dating?

1 year

4. How long did you date before you were engaged?

9 years!

5. How long was your engagement?

1 year.

*Our 2 good friends came with us on this "Birthday" trip to NYC and made this pic for us.


6. How long have you been married?

2 years 2 months 19 days

7. What is your anniversary?

November 25th - The day we started dating. 10 years later, to the day, we got married. So our dating and wedding anniversary are the same day.

More cheese!

Engaged 11/4/05 - proposed atop the Empire State Building

8. How many people came to your wedding reception?

About 225. Too many, but we both have big ass families.

9. What kind of cake did you serve?
Chocolate with whipped cream I think. It was really good.
















10. Where was your wedding?
Church - St. Elizabeth in Altadena
Reception - La Cañada Country Club


11. What did you serve for the meal?
Chicken is what we could afford. It was good though.


12. How many people were in your bridal party?
A crap load.















13. Are you still friends with them all?
Of course!


14. Did your spouse cry during the ceremony?
Yes! He choked up during our vows! I was the one expected to cry and I didn't! I was too happy and relaxed to cry.


15. Most special moment of your wedding day?
Heading back to our wedding suite. We were finally married. Our first night together as husband and wife.


16. Any funny moments?
This isn't so much as funny as it is freakin' awesome. G is a huge Pearl Jam fan. So the DJ played "Even Flow" and our entire wedding party & friends & family danced in a huge mosh pit singing every word out loud. Funnest memory of the night.

17. Any big disasters?

Of course. But I had a great day-of wedding planner that took care of things. It just sucks that I people who you think want the best for you make you feel like shit on your wedding day.


18. Where did you go on your honeymoon?
ITALY! Gawd I want to go back. Florence to a teeny Tuscan B&B to Venice to Rome.














*Florence - our favorite city.


19. How long were you gone?
13 days. Definitely not enough.


20. If you were to do your wedding over, what would you change?
Smaller more intimate.


21. What side of the bed do you sleep on?
Right. Use to be the left but these days its the right.


22. What size is your bed?
Cal King. We had a Full the first 1.5 yrs.


23. Greatest strength as a couple?
We are BFFs. We can talk about anything and everything.


24. Greatest challenge as a couple?
We are both hot heads with strong opinions.


25. Who literally pays the bills?
I do. And I'm kinda over it now.


26. What is your song?
It is now the song with first danced to.

27. What did you dance your first dance to?

John Legend - Stay with You


28. Describe your wedding dress.
Jasmine Couture

29. What kind of flowers did you have at your wedding?

30. Are your wedding bands engraved?

Nope

YouTube Tuesday!

Thank you Darlene for having this on your blog. I *heart* me some TJs.



Song originally seen on Slashfood.com.

Dead to the world

Lately I have been so very sleepy all the damn time. When I first started working out I felt a new surge of energy and I didn't feel lazy anymore. It is great, except now I'm seriously sleepy by 7pm. Like eyes burn and everything. If I sit down at this time to read or watch TV I just pass out. I have been passing out every night for the 2 last weeks. even on the weekends!

I know that it's just the new way of life for me. A baby gets you pretty tired, now throw in working out. I guess it trips me out because I use to be a total night owl. Midnight was my bedtime...on a good day. Now I'm up by 8am every day [most days it's way earlier than that]. Pre-baby I was sleeping in till 11am! It's just such a change for me. But I'm surviving. Slowly becoming a morning person. I have to have my "happy face" on for baby.

Last night I stayed up to watch the Grammy's. G actually went to bed before me. I think I made it to 11ish and then woke up just after midnight...still on the couch. My Sunday paper horoscope was right! It was a late night! LOL.

I am taking some vitamins....but maybe I need to add another kind. G and I are sharing a jar of Centrum. We should probably get the Performance kind instead of the OG kind. Performance has more B-vitamins and ginseng. Any thoughts or tips?

One more thing - Saturday night I went to hear Ray Bradbury speak at the Sierra Madre Elementary auditorium. A, Rob, and Chris came along. This guy is OLD [89] and it was great to hear him talk about his book Fahreinheit 451. He has a great sense of humor. He kept stressing to "Do what you want and love what you do." Can't get better advice than that. He also said college was full of crap and libraries are all you need. Read! Read! Read! I love books, and libraries, and reading, and I hope to instill this in Andy.

Andy has enjoyed being read to since he was just a few weeks old. We keep a habit of reading to him nightly. His current favorite book is "Where the Wild Things Are." And I must say it's my fav too and I don't mind reading it night after night. In the middle of the book there are a few pages with no words, just pictures depicting the "wild rumpus" as Max calls it. I made my own little [wordless]tune for this section and Andy loves it! As soon as I turn the page he looks at me with this little grin like saying,"Here comes the music! I love this part, mommy." :-p Or at least that's what I think he's thinking. He just gets this big ole smile on his face. It melts my heart.

I do hope that this love for books continues to grow. I'm thinking of changing my "work from home" day to Tuesdays so that we can go to Storytime at our local Library in the mornings. It'd be nice for him to see other babies too.

Oh - we didn't get our book signed. They said only the first 100 people and there was a mad dash. His words have been imprinted into my brain and that is enough for me. :)