What a week!

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! We had quite a busy week, but it was great. Four bday parties, Thanksgiving, and our anniversary in just 6 days. We were able to hang out with some friends and a few of my cousins on the "biggest party night of the year" otherwise known as the only night Brian and I really go out to bars. I was fighting off a cold so it put a slight damper on things but we kept on going. For Thanksgiving we went to Brian's parents house. We were able to see a lot of people we don't see on a normal basis so that was good. It was a little weird to not see my fam at all that day but that's how marriage works I guess! Champ was able to play all day with his half sister and his cousins...he was EXHAUSTED when we brought him home on saturday. Friday Brian and I headed up to the Berkshires to celebrate our one year anniversary. We did some outlet shopping and bought a lot of Christmas gifts. Then we went out to a really nice restaurant...we stayed in Great Barrington, cute town. Our hotel was really nice (comfort inn and suites in case anyone would like to go sometime...we highly recommend it!) after dinner we drank some champagne and watched Christmas Vacation! The next day we were in no rush to do anything..it was so great to not be on a schedule, go at our own pace. We walked and shopped in Great Barrington, then headed to Stockbridge, another quaint New England town. Wasn't all that much to do there though. We ate lunch at a place that was highly recommended to us. We were psyched when we got right in but then we waited an hour and a half for two bowls of soup and two burgers. We didn't care all that much though b/c we weren't on a schedule. After that we picked up Champ, then went home to decorate the aparment! So fun! We also had some more champagne and watched our wedding video. The next day our families came over for pizza, more champagne, and again...the wedding video. It really was a great anniversary weekend!!

Things to be thankful for...

So I put together a schedule for people to bring meals to our friends who just had their baby, tonight was our night to feed them. Instead of dropping the food off at their doorstep we had them over to our apartment. Having friends or family over for dinner is always fun for us, we love putting our wedding gifts to good use! B/c we eat in the dining hall most nights, we hardly ever take our our serving bowls and wine glasses...but tonight we did just that. we had 4 guests total (which is pretty much the limit we can fit in our tiny dining room, not mention we don't have enough chairs for more than that!) I made turkey meatloaf (which could have turned out much better in my opinion), green beans with EVOO (any rachel ray fans out there??), red wine vinegar (I guess that would be RWV?), garlic salt and pepper; and rice pilaf. We also tried for the first time, whole wheat dinner rolls, the pillsbury ones. It wasn't all that bad. But the dessert was the best part...individual chocolate lava cakes, soooo good; and wicked easy! The little peanut just sat in her baby bjorn the whole time, squeaking a little bit every now and then, but she was so good! We're super lucky and really thankful for having made such great friends here at Choate. Too bad the night had to come to a screaching hault when it hit 730 and I had to leave to go to dorm duty :( Shouldn't complain though, as of 1130 tonight, I'm on Thanksgiving break, and I sure am thankful for that!!!

Winter Season

Well the fall is over, such a bummer. And now we're into the winter season at work which means HOCKEY and late night hockey practices. I get so bitter when this time of the year rolls around b/c I'm the one that gets stuck staying late all the time. And I also have dorm duty. So I pretty much never see Brian, he gets home around 4, I go in at 4. I get home around 10, he's usually in bed. So that works out great :( Bottom line, and something I complain about every year, this wasn't in the job description that was given to me when I accepted the job. Anyway, it may get changed next year if not this year. Or else to be honest...I'm outta here! I'm not going to work until 10 every night during the winter season when I have kids. I think thats a fair thing to say. Anyway, just venting. yay hockey

Our Weekend

Not that anyone even reads this blog but, I'm at work and bored so I thought I'd write about our weekend. After a cold, rainy, day outside at work, we headed down to the casinos for our friend Craig's birthday. We've never eaten at Michael Jordan's, it was really good. Sunday was a busy day! We went down to the rink to watch some of our friends kids play hockey in the morning, went up on the trails for a big walk with Champ, watched a little bit of the Choate football game then went to New Britain for dinner and the pats game with my family. It was a great fall day!

Happy Halloween!

We had a great Halloween! Some friends came over, we ate pizza, handed out candy, and watched Saw 2. (last year we watched Saw 1, so it's becoming a tradition). It was fun watching all of the little kids in their cute outfits! Champ didn't really like his Spiderman costume but he lasted longer than we thought. He loved hanging out on the porch with us, although he did scare a couple of monsters. (he didn't like the masks so much). We live in such a great community for this type of stuff!