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

Gee Family

Garcia Family
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Here's a preview of our 2009 Holiday card [Just the picture...I designed a layout for it]! Could you be one of the few lucky recipients? Maybe!

Thank you Rob for the last minute photo session. I can't believe Andy smiled in 95% of the pictures. He loves you!

Almost 1 month ago...

I wrote my last post! :-O I know...sorry.

I don't want to leave you all high and dry. I know there are still a *few* faithful readers that check in every day in hopes of a new post. Although I don't have the will-power to write a full post today, I will do one of those random listings of my life. I know those can be entertaining to.

So until I get motivated to write for reals....


- I love the cold weather! I wish it were colder ALL the time. I also want it to rain a lot more. Although I must admit that I cannot enjoy these things as much now that I have a baby to worry about. I now worry about him being cold or having to take him out in the rain.

- I really really want to go to Disneyland before January 4th. I Love this time of year there. Starting with Halloween. The Nightmare Before Christmas Haunted Mansion. LOVE IT. But I know...we won't make it there this year. I'm gonna save my nickles and dimes to buy a yearly pass when Andy is old enough to enjoy it.

- Speaking of Christmas, *hopefully* we'll go buy our tree tomorrow and do some decorating. Looking forward to it. Although I do get a little sad when I think about the empty space that will be underneath the tree. Not many gifts being bought this year.

- I wish I had the time, energy, and money to throw another holiday party this year. I love having people over.

- Heroes tonight. Which reminds me, there was a Storm Chasers marathon last night and they are ALL on my dvr! G wasn't too happy about that. Must make time to watch some.

- Just took a 15min break from writing this to sort thru my junk mail and shred it.

- I keep thinking that I want to play Blockles.

- Looking forward to breakfast next week with Diana.

- Also looking forward to Leslie's 4th Annual Christmas Tea gift exchange on the 20th. Haven't seen this girl in many many months. Have absolutely no clue what cool non-generic gift I will buy her. Been sucking real bad at gift giving lately.

- For some crazy reason I am beginning to look forward to training for Mt. Wilson Trail Run. We start in January. I know a lot of it has to do with the fact that Andy is 4 months and I haven't lost much weight. My clothes still don't fit right and it's pretty damn depressing. I'm also looking forward to signing up for pilates [next week] at the Arcadia Rec Center with an awesome instructor I had at 24hr Fitness a few years back. Classes Start in January! This should all get my weight loss efforts going again.

- Also depressing is not having very many shoes to wear. Especially now that it's getting cold and I really only have sandals that fit. Don't exactly have tons of money laying around to spend. Like my brother said, maybe I should make a trip to Payless and Ross. Sometimes you can find some cute cheap stuff. Maybe....I don't know.

- I have a problem. since I started this post I have refreshed Twitter 5 times! Why don't people update???



Ok enough. This is like my brain just threw up into this post. Let's save some for a rainy day.

Feliz Dia De Los Muertos

I LOVE Dia de los Muertos. And have always wanted to go to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery for their awesome celebration. Again, this year I did not attend. It was last night and G was working till late. Maybe this will go on my 101 in 1001 list [That list will be explained in a later post].

Today is a day to remember our loved one's that have passed on. So take a moment to reflect, remember, and honor those close to you that our no longer with us in body.





[the beautiful image was borrowed from here]

Happy Birthday

To me!

It's been 19 days since my last post...but who cares! It's a celebration bitches! I am 27 years young today. I'll start a new blogging streak with a recap of my birthday. :)

WEEKEND RUNDOWN

I haven't done a real blog post in FOREVER! So let's get to it before I run out of time since it was a long holiday weekend.

FRIDAY

Started my day at the mall shopping for a dress for my baby shower on Saturday and for gifts for my shower hostesses. After that I headed to my moms where we would be carpooling to Brookside Park over by the Rose Bowl [our usual 4th of July spot]. Park was pretty relaxing as it wasn't too hot. Lots of food. Fireworks were not as good as last year. And it didn't help that we happened to pick a spot right behind a tree that would block most of the fireworks show. Lame. Unfortunately G had to work all day so he missed all festivities. Sucks.

SATURDAY

Shower day! G and I headed off to Pasadena to kill some time before our shower at my parents house. We had lunch at Chipotle, stopped at target for gift bags and other misc. items, and then G came with me to get a mani-pedi. I went to a new place on Lake Ave and Union and I loved it! They give an awesome massage and do a great job for a good price. I hear they do great eyebrow waxing too. Might try it before I have this kid.

After giving G's mom a ride from work we headed over to our shower. There was quite a bit of people already there. It was decorated soooo cute! It matched our Safari theme for our nursery. There was a lot of green and brown which my sister described as our wedding theme but for baby. So true. I love that they used these colors since I'm not much of a blue fan. We had a great time and got a lot of good loot. I'll have a full re-cap on my Baby Blog tomorrow. I don't have the pictures from our photographer yet [my brother and his fancy camera].

Quick shout-outs:
Nancy - Thank you for planning an beautiful shower for us! It was perfect in every way.
Vanessa - Thank you for taking the time [while pregnant and managing a toddler] to pick and mail out our invites. It means a lot that you would help out like this.
Angelica - Thanks for the bangin' ass cake! Serio. Can't stop thinking about it. And G thanks you for his UCLA balls. So cute!
Jackie - Thank you for providing the yummy favors! They were totally cute and a great idea. I love edible favors.

Ladies, it just means so much to me that your would all come together for me!

As we speak, the loot is being delivered to our home. Can't wait to get all unpacked and start setting up the nursery!

SUNDAY

After having breakfast at my mom's and wishing Vanessa farewell, G and I headed off to Macy's to check out their sale on mattresses. We went with the intention of buying a queen size cheaper end mattress. We came out with a Cal King pricey mattress! It was one of those "go big or go home" moments. We were way overdue for a new mattress set. How over due? We had been sleeping in my college bed....my full-size bed from Ikea. So yeah....it was over due. Especially with a baby coming soon. we didn't want nor need the extra expense, but this is an investment after all [or at least thats what the sales guy got us to believe]. This is the mattress set we got and it was discounted well over 50%. This really is Macy's biggest sale.

After a quick lunch at Tops, we headed back home to sleep off the shock of our gigantic purchase. we had wanted to catch a movie but the times didn't work with us. We also had plans to work on the unpacking, but my nap went long [which is great since I hardly sleep at night now]. So we picked up chinese for a late dinner [so yeah...we eat out a lot....lately...we haven't unpacked our kitchen gear] and watched The Savages. Good sad movie.

Stupid Cupid

Although we aren't celebrating v-day, I still wanted to say I LOVE this man!

After 11+ years, you still make my heart swoon!

I love you babe!

Can I be your funny Valentine?

Out with a bang?

Hello bloggers!!! I'm finally back! I haven't been working and I've had no internet at home - this has translated into no blog posts! I know....the horror! I am so sorry to have left my loyal readers high and dry! I promise I'm ok and will be back to normal posting in the New Year.

I am here now to wish you all a Happy and Safe New Year. '07 wasn't the best year to me...aside from an amazing trip to Italy, of course. But from the looks of it.....'08 is looking pretty damn good right now. Changes are a comin'! Get ready for some awesome stuff in the year to come.

Happy New Year!!!

Gaby

A prayer to 8lb 6oz Baby Hey-zus

Dear Lord Baby Jesus -

This morning I learned that it has not been proven that you were born on December 25th. I'm not really sure what to do with this information. And if this "new" information is true, then why is it that we celebrate your birth on the 25th? Baby Jesus, please use your omnipotent powers to shed some light on our ignorant boss. This holy Christian man that can't even remember your birth. Yesterday, Khriz & Cat tried to fight for your rights. Much to the horror of our boss, they removed you from your manger as you have not been born yet and should not be displayed in the nativity scene. Is this really just a Catholic tradition? Has the Seminary turned it's back on us after encouraging and welcoming all religions?

Oh newborn, fragile Baby Jesus, with your golden fleece diaper, know that every time I walk into the front desk and see you in the manger....i know the truth. I will continue to believe. Our boss thinks that just because he "runs the place" he can put your 8lb 6oz infant body out for display whenever he pleases. "Because why have a nativity scene with no Jesus?"

And as Cat said, we pray that you can use your Baby Jesus powers to knock some sense into his hard head.

Thank you dear Baby God.

Amen



***Now please go check out Cat's letter to the very powerful Baby Hey-zus.