Snowstorms & Valentines

Well since I got publicly shamed on facebook by a certain blogger, (I won't name names, LIBBA!) I figured I could come up with something to blog about. Matt and I have not had a lot going on lately. We have been busy hibernating, getting some projects done, paying off debt, saving money, going to movies, and scooping snow! Now if that is not exciting I don't know what is! We are very excited that we now own two cars outright, that are basically worth nothing to us... but we are going to drive the shit out of them. That was probably our biggest accomplishment this winter!

We have been hit with a couple good snow storms this winter. So bad so that the roads in Omaha were not drive-able. When we were back in Algona sometime this fall, Matt grabbed his coveralls from his construction days in high school and college, thinking he could maybe use them. Well use them he has! We have a really LONG driveway that we are responsible for scooping. I have helped a bit, but Matt has become the scooper of the residence, luckily to my appreciation and the appreciation of the two girls who live on the other side of the duplex!


Look at my Man!


Showing off his technique

The other exciting thing for us is that we have finally planned a honeymoon! I am SO EXCITED! Matt and I have never really been on a REAL vacation. Well Matt has more than me. As a kid Matt's family would take car trips all over the U.S. He has seen the Grand Canyon, Glacier National Park, Yellowstone, Badlands, Jackson Hole, Grand Tetons, Rocky Mountain National, Miami and Jacksonville Florida, Vegas, Dallas, Michigan, Canada, Boston...you get the picture. I went to Okoboji as a kid. My family could barley handle the drive to Sioux City, so Okoboji is about as far as we could ever get without a dead body..

Matt and have done a couple short trips together. Matt won a trip to Vegas in 2006 which was awesome. We had a blast and I developed a bad habit of losing money and still having fun. We also went to Breckenridge for Jess's Wedding, but no "real" relaxing vacations here. Well we looked at places in the Virgin Islands, Cabo, Caribbean, Mexico and we choose a Resort in La Playa Mujeres. We wanted relaxation, food, and nice place to stay, and after lots of research on travel blogs, websites, conde nast, opinions of friends we choose the Excellence Resort: La Playa Mujeres.

We are going the week of Matt's 32nd Birthday. We also met in April of 2005, and figure we will have been together 6 years and married a year and a half, so a good time to go! We are going to do a full week of sleeping, eating, drinking, reading, sunning, and NOTHING! We are looking to do a couple fun things, and of course work in some spa services. Matt loves a good mud bath and seaweed wrap!

This weekend my lovely husband brought home flowers for me. Now in the 6 years we have been together, this is my 3rd time I have gotten flowers. One Christmas, the Bar Exam, and this Valentines. Gifts are Matt's thing, but usually not flowers. But this time it was the best because I got beautiful flowers and a gift! I got a gift card to my Mecca, VON MAUR! I have said it before Matt is a great gift giver. Of course I am bad wife and valentine, as his valentines gift was just ordered and will get here in a week... sucks to be Matt! But he is getting fancy sandals with a botle opener/church key on the sole, which I know will come in handy in Mexico and at the Lake! I wonder how long we can keep our little gift rituals up. Hopefully forever, if not forever, hopefully Matt can keep it up!


Matt's Version of Romeo


Such Pretty Flowers!



Well this blog is a little too lovey for me. Talk of honeymoons, valentines, gifts, makes me feel like I need to tell a tasteless joke or steal candy from a kid to compensate, but I won't...I hope I pleased Libba on the blog post, but this is really how lame we have been lately.. hopefully we can come up with some fun things to post about soon!