Valentine's Day 2010

J and I had a WONDERFUL Valentine's Day!

He surprised me with beautiful roses in my favorite colors and a sweet balloon that said "I love you!=) Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday...always has been. He definitely made it special!

I had a nice dinner planned for us that evening. We ended up deciding it would be fun to snack on it instead of sitting down with the formal china. We had steak, bacon wrapped scallops, steamed asparagus, and roasted potatoes.

We ate our goodies and watched that movie "Couples Retreat." It was funny, but not as funny as we had imagined. Either way, we had a nice time hanging out and enjoying the evening together!

Exciting New Health Development

Health is very important to me. I do take vitamins and supplements every day to help with my overall health. Recently someone told me about taking Vitamin D3 supplements because many people are lacking nutrients humans get from the sun! The damaging affects of the sun have been reported for many decades. Because of this, many people have done what they can to protect themselves from damage they could potentially get from sun rays using items such as sun block lotions. This is great for our skin, but it also causes us to miss out from nutrients we are missing out from the sun.

Recently, I ordered some D3 from True Essentials. I suggest you go to this website and take a look at their D3. I've done my research on companies that carry vitamin D3 and it really seems like they carry a really good one.

If you go to this website: http://www.trueessentials.net/index.asp?repid=6559818 , you will click on "Products" (top left button), then click "All Products." Once in the "All Products" section, you will then go to the second column of links and click on "Vitamin D3" at the very bottom of that section of links.

We have music!

My instructor told me he picked out the music for our Tango/Paso Doble performance in June. Very excited!

http://www.last.fm/music/Bond/_/Libertango

We are also working on costumes as well. I hoping to look for a skirt similar to the one Yulia is wearing in the Paso Doble post below. Crossing my fingers!

Never said I was tech savvy....

Recently, we got my PC connected to the Internet. J's laptop has been connected since we got married and moved in the house. I've simply been using his computer instead.

One of our tech savvy friends helped us hook both computers up to the same connection. While he was there he suggested something to help my PC run faster and even showed me how to install it. Apparently, I should have had HIM (or something else who was also tech savvy) come in and install it... because I might have done something to my PC=( Tech support from the product I purchased indicated it could be something MAJOR or it could be something minor. My friend has been gracious to come over this weekend and see if he can fix what I did. I'm hoping for the best! Kind thoughts and prayers are appreciated!!!

When I'm back up and running, I want to post a picture of the new cool item we were given as a gift for our home! It was a fantastic gift with an even BETTER story as to how we received it.

Shower Season is Upon Us

I have been asked to co-host a lingerie shower for a friend of mine getting married this spring. I consider myself somewhat of a pretty decent shower hostess=) I have fun throwing them at least!

At these types of functions, many people will decorate the food tables/gift tables with confetti. I'm REALLY not a huge fan of shiny metallic confetti at ALL...

When looking for decoration ideas for our red/black themed lingerie shower, I actually found confetti that doesn't look like it belongs at a child's birthday party! It's pretty cute and certainly appropriate for our theme:

It's from: http://www.partymakerdiscountmegastore.com

Christmas 2009

I'm so late with this post! Here is our summary of Christmas 2009!

J and I always have a private holiday dinner with just the two of us the weekend before we head out to visit family during the holidays. We have done this every Thanksgiving and Christmas since we have been married. This year for Christmas, it was our turn to visit J's family up North! Here are some of the pics.

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J's really excited about Christmas=)



Our Christmas dinner! Since it's just the two of us, we had ham, sweet potato casserole, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. Obviously, we still had puh-LENTY of leftovers!



We took our furbabies on the trip with us. Love them! This was one of the more quiet moments=)



Here are some of the scenery pictures we took while on our visit.




More snow....



Last but now least....the snow boots J got me for Christmas! (Previously mentioned in below post) This Southern girl had her feet protected. It's kind of ironic that I decided to take this picture on the one patch of land without snow on it=)

Christmas Vacation

This weekend and next few days have been committed to getting ready for our big Christmas trip.We have been packing, wrapping presents, and getting the house vacation ready. J and I live in one state, but our families live in two other states. We alternate spending Thanksgiving and Christmas with both sets of families. I would like to add that both of our kitties will be making the trip with us again this year. That is always interesting=)

This Christmas we are heading to J's hometown. I will be getting my first pair of snow boots. Although, I have had a white Christmas before in my home state, I've never been in colder weather for this length of time before. 

We are looking forward to spending time with family, enjoying some down time, and Christmas in general!