Thursday, February 17, 2011

beer: my new craft



ok, so i like the taste of good beer. it is distinct and tasty. for christmas my brother gave me a beer brew kit and it was probably one of the best gifts ever. it wasn't just a great gift because i like beer. it was a great gift because it gave me a fun hobby to focus on occasionally after work and on the weekends.

when michele and i started dating and then got engaged i really wanted us to get hobbies so we had stuff to do, instead of just sitting in front of a tv and being bored. michele is great at arts and crafts so getting her paint and a canvas was totally natural. unfortunately, when i was growing up all i did was play sports at all times of day. i do not really have as much of a creative side, so arts and crafts don't really fit.

one day when michele bought the paint and canvas and painted this beautiful lighthouse (her second time painting), I decided to get a model sail boat to put together... it was an absolutely horrible idea. i tried to put it together and did after eight hours. lopsided, unfinished, and pathetic we put my sail boat next to her magnificent lighthouse and started to laugh.

so back to the beer. i got the brew kit as a christmas present and it has been awesome. it gives me a chance to be creative by buying different ingredients and the beer is really a lot more tasty then the type you buy from the store with a lot higher alcohol content. everyone wins and i suggest it!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

feels like home


so mark and i decided we have a new song to call our own. it wasn't the first song we danced to at our wedding but it was our last. it wasn't a part of our selected playlist but i'm so glad our DJ decided to play it. and when mark and i were dancing to it at the end of the night it was just perfect—at one point early on mark was like who sings this?

Monday, February 14, 2011

happy valentines day

valentine's day. mark loves this day. he loves it so much that he reminds me 100x the week before how much it's a just hallmark holiday and how stupid it is that people go crazy about it.

i'm not a fanatic about this day, but it's fun none the less. of course i'm a girl, what girl doesn't like a day that is all about love? I of course agree with mark that it's too commercialized and I don't like how people get sucked in to buying all this random stuff. my thoughts about valentine's is that you just have to acknowledge it in someway and do something a bit out of the ordinary and that will make me happy. I don't care for fancy expensive dinners or jewelry because to me it's just a waste of money.

Monday, February 7, 2011

married for 6 months already?!

a half a year already?

i really just can't believe we've been married for that long. the wedding does seem a distant time ago, but not before long we'll already be at a year! time really does fly.

without being too sappy... all i can say is i'm lucky to have such a wonderful man in my life, who supports me and makes me smile and feel beautiful everyday. thanks mark love you!

here's a bit of a blast from the past from mark and i's early days of dating: