Steelers Heaven

Eddie's parents came to Vegas to visit last week and it sure was nice to spend time with family. His parents flew out of the Pittsburgh airport and since I'm a Steelers fan they bought me a bunch of Steelers stuff... Steelers paper plates and napkins, Steelers socks, and this amazing Super Bowl XLV edition Terrible Towel:

I was so surprised and in Steelers Heaven!!

Although the Steelers lost we still enjoyed watching the game and eating gross fattening foods, such as: chili con queso dip, sliders, chicken nuggets, red potatoes AND pizza. It took me a few days to snap out of my funk since the Steelers lost the Super Bowl, but it's ok... we'll win it next year!

Wednesday is our date night

so we went on a double date with Ed's parents:

First, we went to our favorite Italian restaurant - Ventano's. Ed stuck to his usual (chicken parm with penne pasta); while I ventured out and tried their grilled salmon... ummmm DELISH!! Then, we went to see 'The Dilemma'; which was a pretty funny movie. Date night with the in-laws was a success!

Then on Friday, the hubster and I got dressed up to go to another fancy-smancy-pants restaurant for dinner with the entire fam at BRIO. Eddie and I usually don't go out to eat for dinner, but it seems like when we do we only choose Italian restaurants... hmmm wonder why? :)

 

Ed stuck with pasta (if you haven't noticed, I'm trying to fatten him up); while I tried their grilled salmon with asparagus and fried tomatoes... it was bomba-delicious!!

I'm on some kind of salmon kick, it's soooooo yummy!!

I had such a good week with my in-laws and am truly grateful to have them in my life. We won't see them again until July, but we're working on getting them here sooner! :)

Things That Make My Day...

Waking up to these two cuddle bugs:

Who wants to go to work after seeing this??

For my birthday my friend, Liz, bought me a handbag calendar.

Each day has a different handbag with a story.

It excites me - E.V.E.R.Y.D.A.Y!

Especially when this is the "Purse of The Day":

“Idol” metal mesh convertible tote and clutch with designer’s visage, Karl Lagerfeld, 2010

BA-NAN-AS!

Receiving gifts from friends just
because they know green is my favorite color:

Thanks Lizzilicious - 'Going Incognito' is AWESOME!

When people I haven't seen in awhile are in town:



Happy Monday Everyone! :)

Hump Day Tradition

I've been really busy with work, my horrible luck misfortune and something that's a secret. So Eddie and I have officially started a date night - WEDNESDAY! I know it's an odd day, but what better day to be devoted to your hubby than hump day. Whether we spend the night at home cooking together and watching a movie or going out to see a movie (we love movies), we've totally been enjoying our date night. It gives us something to look forward to during the week and makes me feel "special". Here are some of the movies we've got to see on our date nights:

This HIL-AR-IOUS movie:

Now one of our favorite comedies!

This sad movie:

This decent movie:

This weird movie:

Not highly recommended, but Jude Law isn't too hard on the eyes.

I know... I should be focused on my hubby during date night, huh?!

Last Wednesday, we couldn't find anything worth renting so we decided to venture out of our cocoon. I've wanted to see 'Tron' for quite some time now, but no one I knew wanted to see it. Since we just saw 'No Strings Attached' with some friends over the weekend (hilarious BTW), Ed was finally willing to sit through 'Tron' with me since it was date night and all - what a trooper! (Now that I'm writing this I'm realizing we watch/see way too many movies, but we love it and someone has to keep Hollywood in production... right?!) The movie was actually SUPER GOOD and we both enjoyed it. If you wanted to see it, you should see it in the theatre because the 3D is a-mazing and it would not be as good without it.

I've already been a big movie fan, but I must say I really love our new hump day tradition thus far! This Wednesday, Eddie's parents will be in town so our date night will be a double date.

YAY FOR HUBSTER/FAMILY TIME! :)

FIRSTS

So I've been MIA from the blog-o-sphere for a while, but I've had a hectic month to say the least. Not only is January the first month of the year, but it has also been a series of firsts for me as well. This month has been a roller coaster of HORRIBLE bad luck for me. I'm starting to wonder when my luck is going to turn around. In order to rid some of the stress I'm carrying on my shoulders I'm turning to the world of blogging to vent (how twentieth century of me, right?!). So here are my firsts for the months of January:

1.) First time I lost my wedding band...

On our 8 month anniversary (January 21st), Ed and I planned on watching a movie at home so I was about to wash my face so I could get all comfy and ready to cuddle... while I was taking off my wedding rings my wedding band bounced off and literally disappeared! We looked everywhere - under the sink (as if it had legs and could walk under there), in the trash can, in the toilet (as if it had arms and could open the lid to hop in), and we even took apart the sink and bath tub drains - my wedding band had DISAPPEARED! Naturally, I was hysterical the whole time and kept saying, "Why couldn't I have lost my engagement ring? It's our anniversary today; this is bad luck... I'm the worst wife." Although my engagement ring cost more money it does NOT compare to the meaning of my wedding band - it's priceless and could never be replaced. After 2 drawn out long hours of searching and crying, we gave up. Eddie went to go dump out the smelly sink water outside, while I remained inside - sobbing. I started to think **light bulb** maybe there's a ledge on the bottom of the cupboard and it bounced up there. While probing under the cupboard I noticed the bottom had an opening... apparently my ring is made of rubber because it managed to bounce off the ground and bounce off a ledge and land under the cupboard! When Ed came back inside he found me ripping apart the cupboard and thought I was nuts, but sure enough I found my ring so I'd say I'm a genius. Now, I no longer take off my rings in the bathroom and I bought this amazingly cute ring dish for our wedding rings:

Anthropologie: $10

2.) First time I got rear-ended...

After a long day of work, I'm headed home and I was getting off the freeway (stopped at a red light like a good law abiding citizen) when I was blasted from behind. It was the first time I was ever hit so I panicked and didn't know what to do. I didn't know if I was supposed to stay there (blocking traffic) or move. So I moved to a near by parking lot and called Eddie since this happened a block from my house (I know, right?). The guy who hit me, Victor, was really nice, but didn't have insurance. My bumper had some marks and my back-up sensor was broke; however his car was smashed from going underneath mine. I decided not to call the cops since he was nice and didn't have insurance anyways. We got his information because he said he would pay for the damage to my car... I just hope my headache and back aches don't last! I'm hoping that my good deed in sparing him a ticket will give me some good karma. Hopefully paying it forward actually works for us... that'll be a first!

There's even more, but I think I'm done bitching complaining about my life for now. Sometimes it is just necessary! According to the movie 'The Social Network', Mark Zuckerberg started FaceSmash or whatever as a way to vent over his break-up with his girlfriend and he's a multi-billionaire so sue me for venting on the internet too! :)

Heres to hoping I have a fanFRICKINtastic February!!
(I'm certain it's going to happen)
<3

Tri-Fecta Birthday Bash

My birthday was January 5th and it was a memorable birthday filled with birthday wishes that made me feel very loved. My birthday was on a Wednesday so in celebration of my Birthday, Courtney and Isaac invited us over to their house and cooked dinner for Eddie and I. It was a really nice night and we had amazing food, as always! I can't believe next year I will have been on this earth for 25 years... kinda scary!

My friend Francesca's birthday is January 8th; which fell on a Saturday this year so we decided to celebrate her 23rd, my 24th, and Kasie's 25th - a tri-fecta birthday bash!! We all met up at YardHouse and I bought us each 'Happy Birthday' party headbands so that we could stand out.

The Birthday Girls:



My Amazing Hubby:

Throughout the night people kept asking, Frannie and I, if we were sisters so we obviously went with it and claimed to be twins!  We're only separated by a year and 3 days... ;)

My other birthday girl:

Court  may be  born in March,

but she's still my lover from another mother:

And of course, it's not a party without mustaches:

Then we got our dance on (even Marcy joined)!

My birthday was amazing this year and I'm so glad I got to share it with such amazing people. Cheers to getting older wiser! ;)

Over The Hills and Through The Woods

Eddie and I were invited to spend the New Year with The Grubers and The Espejos at the Gruber's Cabin in Utah. We've been to their cabin before so we knew it'd be lots of fun. Eddie and I were a little weary about the drive there because neither of us have 4-wheel drive. We decided head to Utah when I got off work on Thursday night in hopes that the streets would be plowed by the time we drove on them. We made it all the way there until we got to the cabin... we got stuck going up the drive way! We arrived at the cabin a little after 10pm so we felt horrible about the timing, but we just couldn't help but laugh! My poor little Jeep... We parked my Jeep at the bottom of their gate and Rick came to our rescue. After four hours of driving, over the hills and through the woods to grandmother Gruber's cabin we arrived:

And this was our AMAZING view:

Since it was pretty late when we arrived we retired to the "Bear Room" pretty quickly. The next day we towed my car up the drive way and it was really a group project!

We started at the bottom of the gate:

And with everyones help... we made it!

Next time I will be sure to invest in 4-wheel drive! After we were done with the labor intensive work we got to have some fun in the snow.

Court and I had an icicle fight:

Ed and I posed for a nice picture:

(then he threw me into the snow!)

Then Gracie put on her snowsuit and joined us:

 

We thought it would be a lot of fun to jump of the balcony into the snow since the snow was almost as tall as us and well... yeah, it was a ton of fun!! Eddie and Isaac were the first to go and if you know Ed you know he's bound to get hurt doing just about ANYTHING! I mean this kid could break a bone in a padded room, but this was actually the first time he didn't get hurt goofin' off with Isaac (must have been all the snow padding).

The boys before the big jump:

Ed's graceful landing:

Then Isaac decided to face-plant in the snow:

(bahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!)

Then us girls decided to join in on the fun. It doesn't look that high in the pictures, but once you climb over the balcony it's actually pretty scary looking!

The girls before the big jump:

I went first:

Then Courtney and Allison followed:

Then we got ready to celebrate the New Year:

We even found our 'Happy New Year!' hats from 3 years ago:

The boys played poker, while us girls played pool and board games until midnight. When midnight rolled around we all gathered together upstairs and counted down to 2011 and I put a big smooch on my hubby! After that we hit up the Jacuzzi where we had a few drinks... the whole day was a blast! The rest of the weekend...

We had lots of fun relaxing with Grace:

And working out in this gym:

Unfortunately, we had to leave at some point... On Sunday, we all woke up early and helped clean up the cabin before we headed back to Vegas. Before we left we took a group picture in the snow:

We took a different/quicker route home,

but the streets were full of snow:

I was so scared!

Who wouldn’t be scared seeing this out their window:

From the pictures you can tell that the streets are narrow due to the amount of snow piled on the side of the street. We had to drive in the middle of the street since the snow was packed down there, but when a car was coming up the mountain we would have to veer off to the shoulder (towards the mountainous snow piles) to avoid the other car. As you read before, my car is NOT very good in the snow and as we were veering my car naturally got stuck… AGAIN! ::whomp, whomp, whomp:: Luckily, The Espejos were right behind us and the Grubers were not too far behind either. Everyone made sure we got out safely and we were on our way back down the mountain! We made it all the way to the end without getting stuck again, but I was nervous the whole time.



This was a very memorable trip… full of fun, laughter, snow, and LOTS of food! (I left feeling like I gained 10lbs.) Basically, our New Years weekend was awesome. The Espejo’s go to the cabin with their family a lot and I’m so grateful that we got to share this trip with their family because it was such a great weekend. We’re very grateful to the Gruber’s for allowing us to join them; their definitely the hostess with the MOSTEST. So a big thanks to both of those families for making our New Years truly special this year!

Hope everyone had an amazing new year! :)