1 Year Wedding Anniversary

One year ago...

I married this man on a beautiful beach in Hawaii! 

Now here we are one year later celebrating our first blissful year together as husband and wife!

The Arizona Biltmore Hotel a very sentimental place for the hubs and I! We had one of first dates here!

To those of you that aren't married but are getting married:

Marriage is indeed a beautiful thing. It's not "hard" and those that say it is, really may have not married the right person. (this is my opinion not a fact) But I firmly believe that you found the right one, things usually fall into place just fine!

To my husband, this year flew by so fast, I can hardly wait for all the rest to come! 

Home Owners Say What?!

We're officially HOME OWNERS!!!!!

Signed all our paperwork on Tuesday, and Wednesday we found out everything went through, so today I get the keys!

I've never felt more like a "big girl" than I did signing my name 50+ times for this house. We are so thrilled to call this place "home". 

So dear friends, I'm signing off of blogger till we get our internet set up, but even then I'll be on a plane to get 


M A R R I E D

to my best friend, 

this guy

Mister Wonderful, my best friend, my everything! 

Speaking of pool, I'm headed that way to get one last use out of our Condo's pool. Our new house doesn't have a pool (wahhhh) but that's okay. Pools can be costly! 

Nurses make the worst patients!

How was everyone's weekend?

I spent my saturday night in the ER. I was not the patient. Mister Wonderful was.

Even fitness experts can get hurt from time to time at the gym. Mister Wonderful is sadly no exception to this rule. 

He was warming up and doing some squats/deadlifts with a bar on his back (No weight added yet) and after the third squat, his lower back basically went out. 

He's done this before but not to the severity where he couldn't walk or sit up. Not to the point where he (we) made the decision to go to the ER. Of course the irony is that Mister Wonderful is an RN so it was quite hilarious for another RN to be examining him when he is a nurse himself! 

And did I mention Nurses make the WORST patients? Because they do!

I just get super nervous when he's the one sick, because someone that weighs over 200 lbs that can't walk, how is one suppose to lift or carry him to help him around? I can't even lift his muscular leg without it crushing me on the couch. 

So for now, lots of rest, and I get to be the nurse to the "nurse". 

 

Easter Weekend

The fiance' and I have been bad about taking pics lately.

We went hiking Easter weekend---Camelback Mountain to be exact. It was the second time for us to hike it since we first had met and since the first time Mister Wonderful had ever been to AZ let alone climb a beast of a mountain!

We forgot to take a picture of ourselves all dressed up in our easter best this year! Slacking I know! 

Anyhow, the goal is to hike a different mountain each weekend. We LOVE to hike. For me I'd rather hike each day than ever step foot in a gym. It's such a great work out.

Teaser!

My great friend, our photographer teased Mister Wonderful & I with these photos of us on Facebook. 

Thirsty for more??

Stay tuned! 

NYE recap!

New Years. What a fun night. 

I didn't get to wear my dress I bought from ASOS :( sad face

But really, I'll just save it for another occasion or something! 

Story goes, we waited to long to get our tickets for the big new years eve bash the casino was having, and thus we we finally made up our minds about whether or not we wanted to go, they were sold out!

So......

Mister Wonderful & I ended up at my good friend's house. We stayed up till 2:30am!! That's the latest I've stayed up in a year or two for sure! 

Have y'all heard of a game called Apples to Apples? We played the game from 11 at night till 2 am. NON STOP. It was so much fun. Esp a lot of fun when you have such a large group to play it. 

Here' s video clip I took of everyone playing it

Hilarious.

Here's a couple other pics from the night:

Got my news eve kiss!!! 

The eve of a Christmas Engagement!

If you follow me on Instagram or twitter or facebook, then you know the news already! 

This Christmas eve, a few hours before midnight mass, Mister Wonderful proposed and I happily said YES!

So the story goes...

The tradition in my family is that on Christmas eve, we are allowed to open one Christmas gift on the eve of Christmas, the the next day we open all the gifts. I asked MW if he wanted to do that. He agreed. I picked out a photo book I had made of our Ohio/Chicago summer trip printed by Shutterfly for him to open. I had been dying to see how the book turned out, and had not opened it out of it's original packaging since it arrived! 

Next it was my turn. I was sitting on our black leather couch wondering what he was going to give me. Seeing how I KNOW that he hadn't used an INCH of tape or wrapping paper for the whole month, so I had no idea what he was going to give me. 

He just said, "Aspen go give mommy her Christmas present"

So Aspen comes bounding off his lap and into mine. I was like Oh goodie doggie kisses and with some dog breath is my gift sweet! 

really I didn't know what he meant by sending her my way. 

I just looked at him and said how is Aspen my gift? 

MW says, "no babe you need to look for it--it's on her"

at first i kind of panicked? what's on her?

Then as I felt up around her harness, there was this gorgeous ring attached to her name license and bell. 

I was in shock. He got down on one knee and said how much he had been thinking of doing "this" (proposing) for a while now, and wanted to know if I would marry him?

I kept asking are you sure? are you for real? Are you serious? I think those were the 3 things I kept repeating at first! 

He said he knew how much Aspen meant to me, and how he wanted her to be a part of the special moment, and I think I began to tear up then!

I couldn't stop staring at it all throughout midnight mass. 

I've waited 29 years to meet my soulmate, and contrary to belief, that old saying You know when you know? It's SO true. I knew very early on before Mister Wonderful moved from Ohio to AZ to be with me, that he was "the one". 

So that's the story friends. We did the best we could capturing our "Moment" with just as as the Photographers since both of our families were out of state for the holiday (his are in Cleveland mine are in Colorado.) 

I know NOTHING about weddings, planning or anything of the sorts, so any advice you bloggy buddies can shed would be GREAT! 

And for the basic questions....

No, no date has been 'set' but MW actually wants to try to be married over THIS SUMMER. 

Yeah you read that correctly. THIS SUMMER. CRUNCH!

Not sure if we can pull that off.....

We DO want to do a destination wedding via Hawaii. 

Reason is very simple:

We don't want a big wedding. 

We don't want to get married in a catholic church (even though MW and I are VERY CATHOLIC and attend church every Sunday) we don't feel the need to attend YEARLY pre marital classes (to each their own don't judge!) 

I never really blog about MW and my relationship on here, simply because people often raise an eyebrow when I tell them (only when asked) that MW and never fight. We get along totally fine, we don't let little pet peeves pick at us or ruin our relationship. Everyone just says oh your day will come, you'll fight eventually. Um...

It's been a year and a half and no, really, we don't fight. Like ever. 

Anyway, back to the Hawaii deets....

The main reason we also pick Hawaii (rather than St. Martins or Fiji)

Hawaii is IN STATE so my lil ole Grandma doesn't need to get a passport to see her grand daughter get married. 

We WANT our families to be on vacation with us. I know a lot of people escape their family and lives on a Honeymoon. We want ours to be there for some of it! 

MW and I have never gone on a REAL vacation.I don't consider going home to IL or OH a vacation. 

We both want a REAL destination as a vacation. 

Well friends, those are the details!

Has anyone gotten married as a destination wedding?

Have any of you gotten married in under a year engagment?

How does one get their hair and makeup done for a destination wedding?

TIPS PLEASE!!!!

girl look at that body

Girl look at the body

I work out

I'm sexy and I know it.

Um Yeah. I am SUPER sore from the last 2 days of grueling work outs that Mister Wonderful has guided me through. 

I def don't look so "hot" lifting he makes it look easy! 

So when I was resting between sets, I snapped a few of him in action.

Hotness right?

Gotta run, AMA's are on! :) 

Sunday Tune

I have to admit, when I first heard this song, it wasn't so much that I didn't like it, it was more of the fact that I am a HUGE Christina Aguilera fan, and the fact that she has like a 20 second vocal clip on here.


I felt like she hardly got any credit on this song and she's one of my all time fave singers.

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Maroon 5 - 

Moves Like Jagger (Feat. Christina Aguilera)

Today you get both the Audio and the Video! 

Take your pick! 

Oh and there will be no SEPTEMBER 11th post, because today is

 MISTER WONDERFUL'S

 31st BIRTHDAY!!!! 

So we shall be spending the day CELEBRATING 

and not feeling sad because of something that happened ten yrs ago on his b day shouldn't bring him down right? RIGHT! 

Get your Fitness On

I think Mister Wonderful wins the "guns show" by a landslide. 

 Yeah, I got nothin on him. 

Sadly, he won't be able to work out with his boo boo finger for three whole weeks! I think he'll go stir crazy. It's already been just 3 days since his surgery on his finger and he already has mentioned he feels "blah" about himself. 

His & Hers

Today's his & hers (inspired by the posts over at Hooray Design and Pure and Noble) is all about things we dislike. So, without further adieu, here is Mister Wonderful's answers and my own.

HIS:


biggest pet peeve: Driving in traffic.


most hated food: red bell peppers.


most despised type of music: any pop remakes of songs from the 80s (basically what he is sayin is all the songs you hear on mainstream radio that is a total rip off of a song from earlier years)


chore to avoid: PUTTING AWAY CLOTHES!!!


worst trend imaginable: government spending


idea of the worst vacation: Detroit, MI







HER:

biggest pet peeve: I have a few, but most have to do with children today and how they are being raised today or lack there of rather, by parents. Parents are so quick to point the finger and say, "Johnny and Susie wouldn't do that" and never put any of the problems on themselves. (That's the teacher in me for ya)


most hated food: It's a tie between
sauerkraut |ˈsou(ə)rˌkrout|
noun
chopped cabbage that has been pickled in brine.


and


bratwurst |ˈbrätˌwərst| (also brats)
noun
a type of fine German pork sausage that is typically fried or grilled.


most despised type of music: have to agree with Mister Wonderful on this, all the crap that mainstream radio is playing, they take the back beat of old songs and use them on meaningless tracks today!


chore to avoid: I don't really avoid them, I do most of them.. Okay I take that back. Cleaning the TOilet. This would be why MW has bathroom duty. :)


worst trend imaginable: silly bands. GAH Don't get me started. can't stand em!


idea of the worst vacation: Tjuana, Mexico. YUCK. Dirty. The end.




Do these questions with your boyfriend/husband/partner and learn something new about each other or see what you already knew :).




In case you are wondering how Mister Wonderful was so willing to answer these, that's because he's kinda laid up at the moment!!

My nurse got to have me as his Nurse! Without going into a lot of detail, if you'll notice it's just his finger. And in 3 weeks he should be back to work. Summer school has ended, so now we are both home all day! :) I think Aspen is heaven with us both home!