175,000 Miles!

{Apologies. It’s kinda hard to take a decent photo in bad lighting while driving 65 mph…}

But yes, it’s true… our cute little car hit his 175,000 mile mark! I’m so proud of him. He’s getting so grown up! 14 years old and still going strong. Isn’t he handsome?!

Happy Birthday Brandon

Little brother’s birthday. The big 2-3!!

I can’t believe he is getting that grown up! And I’d say that I hope he had a great day… but considering that this was his face opening presents, I feel that he definitely had a fantastic day.

Oh, and in case you are curious, that face came after he opened this awesome gift we found for him…

Bazinga! Happy 23rd birthday Brandon!!

Love Love Love

This week was Valentine’s Day!

Although I think it’s an overrated holiday because I'm of the understanding that we should do nice things for the ones we love every day... but with that said, M was still my super sweet Valentine and we had an excellent holiday!

I had come home from work early to make some treats for M. Homemade truffles! And I teamed up with my friend Brittani who made mini cheesecakes. Yum!

Then M came home from work with roses for me! And we exchanged gifts.

While I’d been out shopping for his gifts, I found this card that was just perfect! I loved it so much that it even made me giggle out loud in the store! Because it’s HUGE!! As you can tell with it sitting next to a wrapped Toms shoe box or the bags of Dove chocolate…

Perfect!

Now we now have sooo much chocolate and candy in our house!

Oh, and now we have this game, Bananagrams, that we love!

And then we got to stick with a tradition we have. For our third Valentines Day in a row, we made homemade pizzas! Here is M’s…

And here is mine!

Somehow, he always manages to do things classier than I do! But then I managed to turn mine into a heart and pretend I did it to be romantic…

Mmmm… candlelight {heart-shaped pizza} dinner!

This was our best Valentines yet! I love M. And am so glad we have the rest of forever to spend together!

Happy Presidents Day

{We may or may not have become a little obsessed with someecards.com at work lately…}

 As for the holiday, I did nothing political or presidential today. But it was nice to have a day off. Hopefully everyone else had a lovely holiday as well!

The Super Bowl

Not gonna lie, the game of football bores me. {My friend Jen calls today’s event “the Stupid Bowl.” Pretty accurate in my mind!} But adding friends and food to the game of football and it’s way more fun! We had a Super Bowl party at our house and it was fantastic!

Oh, congrats to the Giants on their win. But more importantly—this is us during the game. Aren’t we cute?!

Although I’m totally clueless to the sport, it was fun to watch the game {a.k.a. talk during the game and just watch the commercials} with a group of friends! These are our cute friends:

Brady and Kiera.

As well as our friends from church, Randy and Brittani.

And Scott and Lauren.

Not only was it great to have our friends over, but everyone also contributed to the essential table full of deliciousness {a.k.a. junk food!} including a freakin’ awesome spinach dip and some super tasty blondies … Yum!

{Yeah, M may or may not have thought my taking photos of everyone and everything during a football game was slightly embarrassing. Oops!}

I may or may not have been playing Words with Friends during the actual game. But don’t worry, I stopped to watch the commercials!

Thanks to our friends for spending the afternoon with us!

Snowboarding

I’d ask you to guess what we did today, but the title kind of gives it away…

That’s right—we went snowboarding! It was awesome!! Because we haven’t had much snow this year, this was our first time this season. I finally got to use my new boots. They are fantastic!

M got to try out his new snowboarding pants from Christmas. They’re red. And I love them. He’s so easy to find anywhere on the mountain while still looking hot.

Yay for snowboarding!