One year older...

Happy Birthday to Michael, he turned the big 3-0 yesterday. Since he is so old now we just took it easy, ha! I had to work so after work I went to the store and picked up stuff so that I could cook dinner. I did steak on the grill, garlic shrimp, sauteed green beans and mashed potatoes. So good! After dinner we cut the puppies toe nails and gave them all a bath, exciting! :) After that Michael went and got us dessert, pie from Shari's. His present was a Raiders blanket, he got a fairly expensive surround sound system for Christmas so he was lucky he got anything at all. :) So happy birthday, sweet cheeks, I love you and I hope this year is the best one yet. He's marrying me this year so I don't know why it wouldn't be...

It's a Date!

So we have finally decided on a wedding date. Or rather, I picked a date, made sure it would work with the church and Michael said 'ok' when I told him what day it was. It is this coming May 15th. Chad is especially excited because that day also happens to be his birthday. We will have to do something really special at the wedding to acknowledge it. ;) The save-the-date cards came last week and I mailed the majority of them out yesterday. I am just waiting for some addresses from Michael and then those will be done. We started planning it about a week ago and we have an awesome theme and ideas. We are doing a circus theme, and before you think "oh no" (like Chad's and my mom said), just wait until you see it. I think it will look great and should be pretty fun. Kayte and I have talked about making the cake ourselves, so we'll see how that goes, we are going to start practicing with fondant so that it won't be a last minute panic. Our goal is to have everything purchased and done (besides the food) by May 1st. Sadly I have had to put aside home improvements until the wedding is over since weddings can be insanely expensive. My bathroom is just about done, though, so I will post pictures of the 'before' and 'after', I think it looks SO much better.

Also, our puppies turned 1 on January 3rd, it is crazy to think a whole year has gone by since I helped Missy deliver them.

We had a great Christmas with my family, it was good to see everyone. It would be nice to be closer so that visits weren't jam packed everytime, but what can you do. Our puppies still run up the stairs in the morning thinking that Uncle Bud is still here, they love their Uncle Bud!!

New Years was very, very low key. I went over to Kaytes for dinner since Michael worked until 8. Usually we do root beer floats at Kaytes at midnight but Michaels back was hurting so I stopped at the gas station and got stuff for our own root beer floats and we drank them while watching Bolt (yeah, the Disney movie) and then we went to bed, before midnight.

Now the wedding diet is in full swing. Me and the treadmill are becoming best friends, it is a love hate relationship, more hate than love.

Hope you all had a great holiday season!