Baskin'

Anybody who has been on the internet today for more than 5 minutes knows that tonight was 31 cent night at Baskin' Robins. Meaning each scoop was only 31 cents! Since we are trying to be fun people we went. We first called Graham to see if he wanted to be a fun person too. I've had the flu from Saturday till last night really, so I only had a little bit of mine and took the rest home for tomorrow. They didn't have the best flavors left, but we still made out good. 

Trying to pick out what we want
The line that went out door and to the street
My ice cream. You gotta love the pink spoons!

Here is Joel...happy to be married so he can be a fun person and do things like this. He looks happy, right?

The Birthday Boys

Yesterday was Joel's birthday, so we had Graham over for dinner because it is his birthday too. :) I wanted to walk down to the corner store to get streamers and balloons to have up when Joel came home, but I had no money whatsoever. Instead Joel stopped to pick some up on his way home from work, and we quickly put them up before Graham got here. Because I didn't have room to bring ANY of my cake plates, I had to serve the bunt cake on the cutting board. :P Oh, well. Maybe I'll have at least one of them by next year. Oh, and you will notice that I wore the MEAJASO shirt all day yesterday. (That sentence shouldn't be understood by everyone reading this blog, but I don't really feel like explaining it right now.) I wanted to change before Joel got home, but I figured I should wear it the whole day. When he walked in the door the first thing he said was, "Wow! Are you wearing a t-shirt? You NEVER wear t-shirts" lol Maybe we should have put our design on a blouse . :)

Our dinning room
While I finished making dinner, Joel and Graham took pictures of themselves 

Balloons in the spoons
The cake is called "The Tunnel of Fudge Cake" I had never made it before and so I'm pleased to say that it turned out great

We look really festive don't we? lol

It Happens Every Night

I eat fast, I know that. Joel east SLOW and we all know that. Every night when we sit down to dinner I try hard (really hard) to eat more slowly, so I don't finish way before Joel. Last night was a little worse than usual. Take a look at my plate. We had been eating for quite some time when I took this picture because I didn't scarf it down. Now look at the next picture. It is Joel's plate and the photo was taken at the same moment. :)

I guess there really isn't much that I can do about it, but I remind him to keep eating when I'm almost done and he...isn't. Then I jump into a chorus of "This is the way we stretch the stomach" I guess last night was worse because of Mr. iPhone.  Joel was looking at my blog during dinner last night, but now I am smarter. Tonight I won't tell him that I blogged until he has FINISHED eating. :)

A Concert

Since Duane T. was traveling through the area with a Mennonite Choir, we drove down for one of their concerts. They performed at an Indian church about 25 miles South of where we live. 

We wanted more proof that we actually saw Duane, so we took some pictures with him after the concert was over.
Joel wanted proof that he was there too. :)

Our Evening at the Ocean

Yesterday evening Joel and I went to Santa Monica to spend some time on the beach. We will have to go back someday soon during the day when it is a little warmer, and next time we will remember to bring towels. 

The sun set, the moon rose, and with it, the tide. By then we were freezing from running through the water, so we headed home.

Friday Night

Last night we had Graham over for dinner, dessert, and a movie. We had Black Bean Salad for dinner, and cream puffs (filled with vanilla pudding), and coffee for dessert. I still can't believe Joel and Graham agreed to watch the movie I picked. It is called "My Friend Irma". It is the first movie that Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were in as a team.  It's a silly one, but I love it. 

Joel and I doing the dishes
Our dining room table from Ikea. It isn't the sturdiest thing ever, but it looks nice and was affordable. 
Our living room 
Our yummy dessert 

My Wedding

Since everyone posted pictures of my wedding, it seemed like I should post up a couple of my favorites. I was planning on waiting until my new blog was set up to post them, but it is taking a little longer than I expected. Anyway...here are a few of my favorites for the time being. 

I wonder who these feet belong to. 
Our getaway car that was decorated by Shannon and Amber


I love how you can see us dishing up food through the doorway

I love this picture and will always be envious of the Alice-Sebastian relationship. :) True love, true love.

Place Cards

Here is what our place cards look like. We ordered some online, but when they came the part that was supposed to be ivory was yellow. Go figure. Anyway, it forced us to come up with a way to make them ourselves and I like them way better. I embossed them all in one day and then yesterday I wrote all the names on them in gold pen and trimmed them up. I used the embossing tinsel again, and I still have glitter all over my face and that is after 2 showers. :) The other picture is the first page in our guest book. Since we are having a photo booth at the wedding, the pictures from that get put into the guest book and then the people sign by their photo strip. It just seemed right to me that we should put the photo strip of Joel and me on the first page. I know everything else is gold, but I had to go with the sparkle silver letters for this one because gold just didn't go.

Hotel Bags

I finished making the hotel bags the other day, and thought you would all like to see them. They aren't filled yet, but that will soon be done. I'm really happy with how they turned out even though it was a bit of monkey business trying to get everything attached. All the supplies were purchased just after Christmas, so they turned out to be very affordable. Oh, and if you didn't already notice, the blog colors have changed to match the wedding. Well, not quite, but they didn't have an exact color match to the bridesmaid dresses...er...dress. There is only one bridesmaid. :)

30 Days

It is only 30 days until the wedding, so I hope you won't mind if I don't type much text anymore. I guess I didn't really type much text in the past, but maybe I'll try to get into that after the wedding. Maybe. For now I'll try to put up pictures so you can see what we are getting done. Our friend Sarah stayed over at our house after the wedding showers this past weekend, and she has been kind enough to help us get wedding jobs done. I'll leave you with some pictures of our table numbers. Aren't they pretty? I love how they glitter. Embossing tinsel is a wonderful thing.

My Apartment

Yesterday Joel and I went to look at our apartment because I hadn't seen it in person yet, and Joel hadn't seen it since the renovation was completed. It is really, really pretty and it's so amazing that everything is new! Something weird is happening when I try to type under the pictures so I will just tell you about each photo up here. Sorry! 

1. Joel and I in the living room

2. The living room from the front door

3. The living room from the other corner

4. The kitchen 1

5. The kitchen 2

6. The bathroom

7. One hall closet

8. A second hall closet

9. The bedroom

10. The big bedroom closet