Tuesday morning we got up, still full from dinner the night before, so we decided to walk some of it off! We headed for Navy Pier. Navy Pier is full of lots of fun. During the summer at night they have firework’s shows. The last one, Sept 4th, our wedding day so we weren’t able to witness one of those. See another reason to go back 🙂 Not that I really need a reason other than I want to 🙂
I feel like a gal out of a movie, like I should be singing and dancing (and no not “pole” dancing…)
I love Mac & cheese THIS much!
My honey and me!
Ok this is how windy it was… look at my poor hair!
I was aiming to get the skyline in the background… I don’t think I succeeded!
The beautiful skyline!
My baby with the skyline
and me with the skyline 🙂
Pretty flowers 🙂
I asked someone to take our picture with the skyline.
I had to hold my hair b/c the wind was wicked wild!
The Anchor off the U.S.S. Chicago
I was attempting to shoot it like he was touching the top. I misjudged just a bit 🙁
And of course, me with the sunglasses….
We ate lunch at Capi’s Italian Restaurant. PC RAVED about the tomato basil soup. It was pretty good and I’m not a fan of tomato soup.
His Chicken Parmesan
My Cavatappi and Mushrooms in Gorgonzola Sauce
Then we went to their botanical gardens.
Next came the BIG Ferris Wheel. I’m not a fan of Ferris Wheels but I couldn’t pass up riding it either. It never stops, it moves slowly and you “run” to jump on it. It is 150 ft tall. It’s a replica of the 1893 World’s Fair Ferris Wheel.
See I’m doin good… 🙂
And it’s a breeze for this one!
Once you got to the top it felt like you weren’t moving b/c the wind was whipping the car around so bad….
Here are some views from the Ferris Wheel:
Once we got off the Ferris Wheel we went in and had this ring made and did a build a bear. The build a bear we named Honeymoon and she sits on our bed with the ring bearer pillow when we get the bed made 🙂
I have a lot of photos from this day as well so I’ll break it up into a 2 posts so you don’t go on photo Over Dose 🙂
Ok I jumped on the bandwagon! Although this is difficult!!! I used help from Amber at The Survival Guide for the Young, Fabulous & Newlywed, Jordan at The deFlon Family, Lindsay at A Small Town Kind of Life, as well as Day Zero Project and then continued to rack my brain. Coming up with 56 was fairly easy… 101 took me a while… oy! So here are the things I would like to try and accomplish in 1001 days (2.75 years). Starting day: September 29, 2010, ending day: June 26, 2013 (boy I hope I did my math right ;)).
To help me keep track so I didn’t hopefully put something twice I broke them down in categories but I seriously could have even put something twice :(.
Wish me Luck!!!
Health/Personal 1) Complete 15 push-ups in a row 2) Set a weight goal 3) Reach my goal weight 4) Wear the “skinny” jeans hiding in my closet 5) Floss every day for a month 6) Donate hair to Locks of Love (again) 7) Donate blood 8) Find a dentist and go regularly 9) Find a new hair dresser that I like! 10) No pop (soda) for 1 month 11) Improve my Posture 12) Join a book club 13) Dye my hair 14) Get the Pink Hair extension for Breast Cancer Awareness Month 15) Join a Relay-4-Life Team
Financial 1) Create an Emergency Fund 2) Increase contributions to church 3) Save for/buy a safe 4) Have emergency fund of at least 3 months pay 5) Pay off my Mustang 6) Enroll in 401K 7) Start a savings account for PC’s future business 8) Start an Etsy (shop, page, whatever their called) 9) Get everything changed over into my new name 10) Save for an upgrade on my camera
Domestic 1) Make a homemade berry pie from fresh picked berries 2) Host a holiday party at my house 3) Make a “from scratch” dessert 4) Keep my car clean for a month straight 5) Find a red wine I like to drink 6) Try a drastic new hairstyle 7) Host a dinner party 8) Make my own jam 9) Grow a garden and eat something from it 10) Can my own tomatoes, sauce and salsa 11) Make homemade soup from scratch 12) Print out digital pictures and make a photo album 13) Make 1 new meal per month 14) Take a monthly photo and change it out on my wall for 1 year 15) learn photo shop 16) Learn the ins/outs of my camera 17) Make my floors clean enough to eat off of for 1 week 18) Make a quilt out of PC’s old Army uniforms 19) Make PC’s quilt (bought the material last year) 20) Finish Evelyn’s blanket and get it to her 21) Go through my shoes and get rid of some 22) Get everything put away in our house 23) Plant a garden 24) Learn to can my own vegetables 25) Purchase all equipment to can my own vegetables 26) Remodel my bedroom 27) Keep our house picked up for one month
Professional 1) Take the GRE 2) Love my job or find a job I love 3) Decide if I want to get a Master’s 4) Learn Spanish fluently 5) Take another Photography Class 6) Take an office in PEO (again) 7) Write a book 8) Enter into a Master’s Program
Travel 1) Go skiing 2) Go berry picking 3) Fly in a hot air balloon 4) See the Grand Canyon 5) See Niagara Falls 6) Swim with a dolphin 7) Do a wine tasting 8) Visit Canada 9) Go on a vacation with just PC and myself 10) Go on a road trip and site see along the way 11) Spend a night at a Bed & Breakfast 12) Visit 3 new states 13) Do the wine stomping while at a vineyard 14) Try 15 new Restaurants 15) Plan an unforgettable 1 year wedding anniversary 16) Go to the lake for a weekend 17) Go Camping 18) Go to the Dixie Stampede 19) Visit Apple Butter Makin’ Days 20) Go to the Maple Leaf Parade 21) Qualify for the AQHA World Show
Just for Fun 1) Take Scuba Diving Classes 2) Read the Bible cover to cover 3) Read a new book a month 4) Show grace when it is undeserved 5) Have a garage sale 6) Build a snowman 7) Go to church every Sunday for at least 2 months 8) Surprise someone with a random, generous gift 9) Join a Bible Study 10) Pray each day 11) Sleep under the stars 12) Watch 26 movies I’ve never seen starting with each letter of the Alphabet 13) Kiss in the rain 14) Visit somewhere out of the norm and speak with an accent for a day 15) Take Ballroom Dance Lessons 16) Do a photo shoot for 5 friends 17) Keep up my blog 18) Make all recipes in the Pioneer Woman’s Cookbook 19) Do a yearly post wedding Scrapbook page 20) Write a blog entry for each item crossed off my list
Whew I set the bar high… let’s see if I can do it 🙂 Wish me luck!!!
A few weeks ago we went to PC’s mom’s house and Bear went with us. I guess there was a neighbor dog in-heat and Bear jumped out of the truck and came up missing. We found him 6 hrs later waiting for us at PC’s mom’s house looking like, why’d ya leave me?
PC said we weren’t taking him anywhere anymore if he was going to do that. I agreed! Then he became a “Good Bear” and stayed with us. So the 23rd we took him to my parents house with us and my dad’s dog was in-heat… oy! All the male dogs got into a huge fight! He loaded up and went home with us just fine!
Friday night (the 24th) we went shopping for groceries and while we were out we bought “Bear” bread (my dog LOVES white bread, it’s his treat). Then we went home and while I was mowing the lawn and PC was re-wiring a light bear was around. We got up Saturday morning though and he was nowhere to be found. I figured he was out gallivanting or something but he’d be back. Here we are, Wednesday and he still isn’t home. We can’t find him anywhere :(.
Here are some photos we took of him Thursday night on our way to my parents house 🙁
Peace, Love, and I miss you Bear Bear!! (I just hope if someone stole him that they realize he smiles and he isn’t aggressive when he shows his teeth!)
On a quick side note, my friend Jacin over at She Said Yes is on her honeymoon and I’m a guest blogger there today. Go check out her blog and of course while you’re there read what I wrote :). It’s about the Love List. It looks/sounds like she planned a beautiful wedding (Sept 25) and I can’t wait to see photos!
Ok here’s the rest of the Monday Photos from our honeymoon. So I found some photos I took on my phone also so again as usual, this blog is Jam Packed full of photos! What can I say, I love them!!!
This was just a skyline shot. It’d have been great if that light pole hadn’t jumped in my way 🙂
Oh wow!!! I got a lot of photos from Monday so I’m splitting it up into 2 posts! Otherwise you’d see 55 photos and trust me, I got more than that 🙂 I’m sharing 23 with you right now and 22 in the other unless I look at them more and decide, nah don’t like it after all 🙂 Stay tuned to find out 🙂
On Monday we got up and ran across the street and ate breakfast at a Dunkin’ Donuts and then headed for the double decker tour buses. Most all my info is from the tour guide… he could have been pulling my leg and I wouldn’t know the difference so if I tell you something and it’s wrong, it was his fault! Don’t kill the messenger!
These are the “Corn Cob” buildings. I’ve seen them on some of my other excursions to the city however didn’t know about them… They are located on the Chicago River and are a city within a city.
Ah! We were finally on our honeymoon! So you remember the day after the wedding (this same day) I posted a blog up saying it was official and on a side note I set off airport security. Well we took my hair out later that night and counted the bobby pins. There were 28 bobby pins in my hair so between the bobby pins and the flower I set off airport security and got patted down at 5:30am by a very nice lady. LOL. Then while she was patting me down she was up around my head and asked if I had a hairpiece in my hair. I was like, Nope, that’s my hair with bobby pins.
Here we are on our flight to Minneapolis. We had a layover there and then headed to our final destination. There were 4 (yes you read that correctly) of us on our airplane plus the flight attendant, pilot and co-pilot. We were lucky they didn’t cancel it on us but the flight attendant said that they had a full plane to pick up in Minneapolis and head to Lincoln, NE. Whew!
Oddly enough, we don’t look like we were running on 4 hrs of sleep… well I don’t anyway, I think PC looks tired here!! He’d had less sleep than me in the days leading up to this.
Out the window of the plane somewhere between NW Arkansas and Minneapolis.
I was really tired and trying to keep myself awake. We played Bejeweled 2 A LOT! PC snoozed some.
Ah! Coke my friend! How I’ve missed you!!!
I gave up drinking Coke or pop of any sorts 2 weeks before the wedding. It was difficult!!!
Yes I’m one of those people. I LOVE skyline shots. And at this point all electronic devices should be put up and stowed for landing… I didn’t listen. PC watched guard and I took a photo, REALLY FAST. That’s the closest I’ve ever been to Minneapolis or Minnesota for that matter… the Twin Cities Airport 🙂
I put this photo on facebook with the caption:
You’ve heard of waiting on a woman… well we’re waiting on a plane!
This was somewhere between Minneapolis & our final destination
This plane was full!
And here was our final destination (which a few new but I didn’t tell everyone…)
Chicago, The Windy City!!!
We had a lot of people questioning us as to why we didn’t go somewhere tropical.
We had our choice of staying at one of the older known hotels in the city or a brand new one. We looked at all our options and finally decided to go with The Wit. I’ve been to Chicago 3 previous times with my mom/aunt but PC had never been. With the time we were allotted for our honeymoon this seemed like the perfect destination! The Wit is the building in front of us with the lightening bolt going down it. Oddly enough at night, it doesn’t light up! I would highly recommend this hotel to anyone looking for a place to stay. The best part, for $2.50 you can jump on the “L” right inside Chicago O’Hare Airport and ride it all the way to 2 blocks from the hotel!!!
We were attempting to get a shot of the hotel in the background. Look over PC’s shoulder, you’ll see the lightening bolt!
When we got there it was right around noon. We were hungry and tired. We went to check in and they told us our room had been vacated by the previous night people but it hadn’t been cleaned for us yet. They asked if we planned on venturing out in the city. We laughed and said, no we want to sleep. But we decided to go and get lunch to kill time. We wound up eating in the hotel lobby’s restaurant. It was awesome! She took my cell number and said she’d put a rush on our room and once it was available they’d call us. Sure enough, just as we were finishing up lunch the phone rang! Thank God! Did I mention we were exhausted :).
I didn’t take my big Canon Rebel with us, I took PC’s Nikon Point & Shoot so unfortunately I made this shot a little dark but here was our room for the next few days.
Dunno what the deal is, I just feel the need to flash you all again today 😉
We took pictures of the bathroom because this is so how we want our bathroom someday if we ever get to remodel ours!!!
We had a lovely view of the Chicago River out of our 16th floor room!
Once our bags had been brought up to the room, we crashed. We set 4 alarms so we’d be sure to wake up and not miss our nights activity.
My head looks so misshaped in this photo!
We had tickets to see Shrek the Musical!
Front Row tickets to be exact (they were the same price as higher up seats… so heck you’re only on your honeymoon once right!!)
PC had never been to a broadway musical so it was perfect.
And the show was phenomenal!
Once we got back we opted to go to the lobby restaurant again for dinner. I love Mac & cheese but I’m picky on how it tastes as well… Theirs was excellent!!!
When we got back to our room this was waiting for us from the hotel.
I truthfully think I’m going to wait for actual wedding photos until I see Mindy’s, so I guess I’ll start with us leaving. I know, that’s mean of me but I’m so torn, so that means I really want to wait. I can’t wait to see them and I keep thinking/expecting any day now to see photos! I promise when I see them I’ll share!!!!!
Until then, we must roll on! These pictures don’t give away how we were dressed either 🙂
So now we are leaving the Reception. After the reception we went to our house and unloaded presents out of PC’s truck and unwrapped them. Then we headed for Fayetteville.
Thursday night we were up later than normal getting things done. Awake at 6am on Friday morning. I went to bed after midnight on Friday night (Thanks for Talking to me Stef!!) and PC admitted to going to bed closer to 2am. My mom woke me up at 6:20 just before my alarm went off Saturday morning and I went strong all day long. Once we got to Fayetteville we ate dinner at PF Changs and by the time we got to the hotel and checked in it was 10:30. Then we had to un-wind which took forever. We finally made it to sleep around midnight and were up at 4:20 Sunday morning to catch our 6:30am flight for our honeymoon. (more on that later!!)
PC and I decided NOT to have either of our vehicles at the wedding so they didn’t get “dirty” or “Messed up” or whatever you’d like to call it…
PC had his dad over on Tuesday night and when he came over, he brought us all the photos from yesterday’s post as well as photos he took on Wedding Day Eve and the Wedding day. I felt like you guys should see more photos… haha 🙂 Not like I don’t cram my blogs with enough photos anyway! Sheesh, what am I thinking!
So yes, I’m back tracking a little, but you know a year from now it’ll be great that I included these! You’ll thank me then ;).
PC and I both finally wound up at the Phelp’s House to set things up for Rehearsal Dinner that night. I was in a real in depth convo here 🙂
Apparently whatever I was talking about was IMPORTANT… LOL
So this last weekend was our FIRST weekend as a family. We haven’t seen PC’s daughter since the wedding (we only have her every other weekend). I’m doing my days out of order, because well I haven’t dumped Saturday’s pictures on my computer yet, they are still on the camera, but Sunday’s pictures were on the computer so you know what… we’ll go in reverse order b/c that’s the way I roll 🙂 Sunday was PC’s dad’s company picnic and he got a few extra tickets so we could go with him. It was held at a small amusement park type place (like my explanation) called Carousel Park.
**Warning… This is another extremely photo-o-rized blog post** Wow Now I’m making up words! But I like pictures, it’s all good!
And I know it was the last weekend of Summer, but holy moly was it hot! We hit up around the 94 degree mark that day. It was a warm and toasty one but we had a blast!
PC and Tbug
Me and PC
I learned last year when we went to Silver Dollar City, NEVER ride the Tea Cups with PC! He made me sick last year so I didn’t even attempt to ride with them this year!
My Father-in-law didn’t think I could do this and get both of us in the photo. Boy little does he know about my ability to get people in photos when I’m taking the photo 😉
Standing in line waiting to ride the big pirate ship. You know the one that swings back and forth…
Our cute little family… waiting for everyone to get seated on the big pirate ship…
The big Swings that swing you way out!
Tbug and Grandpa
Oddly enough, I can ride the Tilt-a-Whirl… Go figure…. PC is getting good at taking photos like that too!
We then went to play Mini-golf (still at Carousel Park) As you can see my FIL is with the big Gorilla.
Miss Tbug with the Gorilla.
I needed my turn too I guess 🙂
The bat was swinging and getting in the way 😉
Oh no do you see her? I lost her!
She’s winning that Gator over!!!
Seriously dude, you’re going to have to speak up, I can’t here you!!!
TBug on the Hippo
Oh No Save me!!!!
He’s a hungry hungry Hippo!!!
Riding the Ferris Wheel
I’m not a big fan of ferris wheels and no I’m not afraid of heights, I’m not sure what my deal is…
That was our view. And that’s Route 66 to the left there.
Oddly enough, I managed just fine!!
Bumper Cars!!!
Tbug got in on the side with the gas… we should have swapped places, her drive, me run the pedal!
Bumper Boats. These felt great since it was so hot out!!!
We were after each other!!
Man if looks could kill! That’s a terrible picture of me but it’s funny, I thought I’d still share… don’t hold it against me!
Miss Tbug looks refreshed! And look at PC’s face. haha 🙂
Then we went to jump on… well… this thing… It was fun. Bad part was the sand all around it. We had sand in our shoes/socks afterwards. But if you go down it (like I did a time or two) it’s fairly soft landing!
We ended with Go-Karts!
ha Eat my dirt 😉 I was leading, the were right behind me!
Step carefully!
Tbug’s hair is always in her face… 🙁
So I know, these aren’t wedding photos… but if I let it go by too long, we’d be way late on seeing these :). I’m still not 100% sure what to do about the wedding photos. I hope I get to see them this weekend… fingers crossed!
Love ya guys!! Peace, Love, and Eating Dirt (haha)