Happy New Year!!!

I'll start with the fact that I've finished two items off my 101 in 1001 list.  First, I've put my clean clothes away for a month.  Yay!  Secondly, I took a bubble bath for the first time in...well...I don't know when.  It was relaxing and I read a book.  I thought about taking a picture of the bath prior to me getting in, but I thought it'd be weird, so you'll just have to take my word for it! Ha!  


Now, onto the New Years Eve party!

Lily thought that if she went to sleep in my arms, we wouldn't leave her to go celebrate New Years.  But, we did have plans, so we went and got ready...and made a cake.

 John was gettin' fresh - ha!

 It was Funfetti!  It doesn't get much better than that!

We went over to our friend's house to celebrate the new year!

Here are some pictures from our night...

 Ashley...eating something green...which is a rarity!

 Tribute to my soon-to-be new last name...er-sort of :)

 The Ladies

 Blogger is being stupid and won't let my pictures come in right, but there were a couple I really liked and needed to include, so excuse the sideways ones!

 My future BIL & SIL!  I love them!

 Fire Pit!

 A couple of my favorites :)

The face!

Lily today-when the world was right and revolved around her once again!

I have to agree with Lily today, because 2011 started off fantastically!  For starters, I slept in.  I got up and realized today, I could wear shorts!  So, I did!  Then the Gators won!  What a great send off for Urban (I'll miss you!)...sorry Paterno.  (Is it just me, or does anyone else feel a little guilty when their team beats Penn State??)  John and I spent the rest of the evening snuggled on the couch with the Lil watching 30 Rock on Netflix!  I'm already lovin' 2011!  Happy New Year!!!

BREAKING NEWS!

Florida fans, all around the country are a little sad this afternoon following the resignation of their wonderful head coach Urban Meyer.

Let's take a walk down memory lane...

Thank you...

....for 2 National Championships!

...3 trips to the SEC Championship game, with 2 wins...

...for showing the world how a coach should treat his players...

...and for being an example of Sportsmanship and a class act.

Whether you love the Gators, or hate them, you cannot take away the class and talent this man possesses.  Thanks for 6 great years Urban.  You will be missed :(

Weekend Recap

Hi my bloggy friends!  It's once again Monday, which means the lovely weekend has come to an end.  What a weekend it was.  John & I drove up to Jacksonville for the weekend to spend time with some friends and tailgate.  We went with the Jacksonville Beach Gator Club on buses from the beaches to downtown and had a l-o-n-g day of tailgating.  We got there at 9am, we left at 9pm.  It was fun, but man, we were we exhausted!  So was Lily after a fun weekend playing with Cady.  Here's Lily this morning at the office, relaxing on her lion...man can I related...

The Gators looked like a football team...with an offense and everything!  They even let Brantley THROW the ball!  Not that they played super stellar, but it's a vast improvement from the Mississippi State game!  Yay!  I will have pictures later to post, I just haven't gotten around to putting them on the computer since we got home late last night.  We would have been home at 7, but poor John forgot his laptop, so an hour in to the drive, we had to turn around and head back to get it.  But thankfully we got it and he is now able to be productive at work today :)

Anyway...back to Game Day...

So we decided to walk around for a while and check out the sites.  It is, after all, called the world's largest cocktail party, so there are always sites to see.  Florida-Georgia has been my favorite rivalry as long as I can remember, until this past weekend. The Georgia fans we were around were rude, crude, and horrible.  Wait until I post pictures, they had trash up to my shins that they just left at their tailgate site.  I have never been talked to the way the Georgia fans were screaming obscenities as we walked by them.  Rivalries are supposed to be fun...not ugly.  We are the SEC.  That should bring us pride in having exciting games to watch and a great history within the teams.  Instead, some ignorant fans ruined my taste for the Bulldogs.  I know not all their fans are like that, and I'm sure there are those Florida fans out there, but how ignorant.  Grr.  The worst were the "ladies".  They were all dressed up so cute, then they opened their ugly, vulgar mouth, and they were only a lady by appearance.  It was seriously ridiculous.  You take a back seat now Georgia...good riddance!  I'm glad we won though!  We needed it after three losses in a row!

I will do my best to download those pictures and have them up by this evening...if not tomorrow!  The next few weeks bring lots of fun and I can't wait!  Tonight, John and I will be watching:

Hope it's worth the wait.  John has been dying to see it.

Happy Monday!

Weekend Recap

This weekend was busy, successful and fun!  

Friday, John and I went over to Cocoa Beach to spend some time with my parents.  We went to my favorite restaurant...TACO CITY!!!  Yum!  

We also had wedding missions while over on that side of the state, so Saturday, my mom and I went to meet with the florist.  You remember here when I mentioned our little florist debacle.  Well, we ended up meeting with the less expensive one to see what she could do with the pictures I had.  She did raise her price a little to meet exactly what I wanted, but she is still far less expensive than the other florist.  She's been doing this for 20+ years and explained exactly how she would put things together, so now I feel much better going with her.  Plus, the other florist was too busy to meet with us.  Deposit down.  Florist: CHECK!  Yay! 

 

I also stopped by to pick up more samples of cake.  This weekend, we tried lemon and red velvet.  The lemon was awesome and would be pretty as a wedding cake.  I have ordered chocolate peanut butter, almond, and cookies and cream that I am picking up this week to sample.  Then, the cake will be picked as well!  All we have left is to finalize the caterer, linens and invitations!  I'm so excited almost everything is done!!

Saturday night, I went over to my friends A & J's house to watch the Florida game and enjoy a Mexican Fiesta!  The food and company were awesome.  The game.  Not so much.  Gators...you gotta pull yourselves together!  Ahh!  Hopefully this bye-week does us some good and we're ready for Georgia in Jacksonville in two weeks.  On a happy note: Ohio State and Nebraska lost!  They shouldn't have been in the top 5 anyway in my lowly opinion. :-)

Sunday, we went for a training run.  We did 7 miles and it went awesome.  I think our training gets better every week, as does our pace!  Only 4 weeks left until the race...I'm pumped!  

For lunch, we went to this little Italian restaurant down the street.  It's a neat place with outdoor seating and a live band Friday and Saturday nights.  It's always good, but this time, I tried the Alfredo sauce and penne pasta and it was the best I've ever had.  No exaggeration.  The rest of the day was spend doing some things around the house and watching A History of Violence.  I'd always wanted to see that movie, but never had.  It was good, but a little violent.  I had a nightmare last night about the guy with one eye...ha.  That's what I get for watching something like that before bed!

Good weekend all-in-all.  I hate when they end.  Happy Monday!

GO GATORS!

The Gators played their first big SEC game yesterday and were victorious!  I wasn't sure how the game was going to go considering our team's still in a big learning curve, plus the Vols have a new coach (who looks pretty promising if you ask me...I actually do hope he'll do well) and it turned out to be a good game as always.  One of our best rivalries every year.  The game was exciting and even until probably 3/4 of the way through the 4th quarter, you really weren't sure how the game was going to go.

Way to go Gators!  Hopefully we continue to learn and play together as a team!

Long Weekend Ahead!

Friday is here. Not just ANY Friday though, it's football Friday! That's right...college football kicked off last night, and there's a weekend of football ahead of us! Florida kicks off at noon tomorrow which I'm SO excited about! Way to represent the SEC last night South Carolina. The SEC has one win under our belt! Time to prove that once again, we are the dominating conference! Yeah! :-)

Enough football talk...now to the puppies! Last night, I ended up going to see my friend's puppies alone (John had some work stuff and couldn't get out of the office in time). The mom is pretty, and the puppies are, well, hamsters still. At least I feel like all puppies look like hamsters for the first couple weeks. There are only 6 puppies left, 1/2 of them did not survive, and there are 2 females, with one spoken for. So, she is our option for a new lil American Bulldog. Here are some photos of them:

Mom Dog

*Potential* Future Pup

All the pups-Top left would be ours

Other female...she's pretty

Anyone else see the hamster resemblance here?? So, now it's deciding time. John & I both really would like to have an American Bulldog, but when's the right time for a new pup? They take so much time at first and with the wedding coming up in March...well, it's not the easiest time I suppose. But, I'm sure we will figure it out...puppies ARE so much fun! :)

I'm also going to play along with 5 question Friday, so here goes!

1. What do you do when you have time for yourself? Sometimes I read, sleep, or watch a nice girly movie that I'm sure John wouldn't want to watch.

2. When you look out your kitchen window, what do you see? I'm going to go ahead and consider John's house my house, since it will be soon and I use his kitchen more than mine :) There's a lake out there...sometimes with these annoying geese that poo all over the back porch. Get 'em Lily!

3. Who/What would you want to be reincarnated as? No one. I'll go ahead & be myself in heaven :)

4. What is your biggest pet peeve about other people's kids? My pet peeve is more about the parent's response. I HATE to hear kids screaming bloody murder. Not that parents like it, but I literally leave stores when I hear it. I understand sometimes kids do that and sometimes they are in a mood and the parents can't control it, but take your kid out or at the least, tell them to stop. Just because YOU are use to hearing it, does not mean anyone else cares to hear it through their whole meal. The worst I've run in to was on a plane when this kid was kicking the seats and screaming and his dad was playing a video game with headphones on and mom was looking out the window...neither said anything to their child (which I know because they were across the aisle and I was watching them the whole time). Finally the flight attendant came to them and said, "Is there anything we can do for him? He is disturbing the entire flight." Then they finally helped him calm down and he fell asleep. Really, that's what it takes for you to do something about your kid screaming in an enclosed space...how embarrassing.

5. Regular or diet soda? Not a soda drinker really, but if I do have it, I'm going all the way with regular!

Hope you all have a happy Labor Day weekend!!

GO GATORS!!!

Thankful Thursdays

I'm linking up with Cheerful Carolina for Thankful Thursdays this week!

I'm thankful always for John, my friends, family, & Lily! Today marks the start of college football...kicked off with an SEC game to boot, so I'm super excited! Only 2 more days til Florida takes the field and I can't wait!!! The long weekend makes me very happy. Here's a little of what I'm thankful for & what I'll be doing this weekend:

We have fun-filled 3 day weekend ahead. Plus, my new Gator shirts came in for the season yesterday, so I'm ready!!!

PS: We're looking at puppies tonight! Update tomorrow!

The End to a Good Weekend

Well, Sunday night has rolled around and there's that whole work thing that starts again tomorrow (unless you're John, he had to go into work tonight...boo). Tonight was the end to a wonderful weekend spent with my love, friends and some family! Plus, I won the grand prize package at the bridal show today...woo! Free stuff. Love it!

Yesterday marked 3 weeks until my favorite day of the year! That day would be the kick off to the Florida football season. For the next 4 months, I'll be a happy girl :-) Football season makes life seem simple, wonderful, and brings me this joy I can't explain. Yes, it may sounds stupid to place this much emphasis on a football season, especially if you don't know me but to be fair, some of my greatest childhood memories were made at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. My Grandad and Granny started taking me to games with I was about 3. I grew up a Gator. It was one of the things I did with my grandparents every fall and I loved it. They were always so enthusiastic about it and loved taking my brother and I...it's some of those memories that will last forever. Going in the stadium for the first time after my Grandad passed away was a tough game for me, but I have to keep the family pride going! I've been making sure to catch my 'Breakfast with the Gators' on Sunday mornings and have started gearing up. Planning for games, grabbing tickets and getting ready for house parties!!! Oh yea, and wearing my Orange and Blue. 20 days! Go Gators Baby!