around town

Today we all piled into Jeepy Jenkins [the Jeepiest of all Jeeps] and drove around to some of my favorite spots in town.  We left a few out because of my unwillingness to get ticks.  Here are a few shots.

My favorite view of town.  From the old apartment.

Looking over Dubuque from the park.

Loving the breeze.  Note: We can't roll down the window further lest the idiot jump out.

The countryside.  Lookit!  Cows!

The old homestead.

Did you notice?  My flowering crabs finally flowered.  Well, one of them anyways.

Beautiful.

Happy Mother's Day

My mom is in Germany at the moment visiting my younger brother.  Normally, I talk to my mom everyday.  Occasionally not on weekends, but usually no less than 6 days a week.  These last two weeks of her being abroad have been hard for me.  I'm glad she got to go on a wonderful trip with my dad, but I've missed talking to her.  Thank goodness for Skype!

  Since high school my mom has been my best friend on the planet [excluding Justy, but that's different].  She's the person I call when I'm having a crisis, anywhere from which dress to buy, how to make prime rib roast, all the way to when I'm having a real breakdown.  One day a year is not near enough to celebrate how wonderful my mother is.  

Happy Mother's day, Mom, I can't wait to see you in less than a month!

Loving

What I'm loving right now...

The sun. It's beautiful. It's warm. My soul is singing. Clearly I'm deeply affected by vitamin D.

Florence + The Machine is singing to me on pandora.

It's almost Friday- in a couple days.

I've been wearing sandals all week.

My lunch today. It's gonna be delish.

a collection of photos from anniversary weekend

Here is what we did [but mostly ate] this weekend.

Wonderful.

Brisket.  I called the caterer to get the recipe.  

Also mashed potatoes and asparagus.  Let it be known; I hate asparagus.  There.  It's out.

Worst picture ever, but one of the only ones we have together from the weekend.  Also how weird does my arm look?  Whoa.

Because he looks cute in it.

Raspberry lemon bars.  

Mini golf strategy right here.

So this course you had to ride this thing across the putting green to get to your ball....?

My form.  Poor quality form right there.

Justin is much more of a professional glidey thing rider.

But not as good of a putter.  Just saying.

Feliz Cinco de Mayo.  Tacos yo.

And margaritas.  Poor Justy looks a little pale in this picture.  He caught a spring-time cold.

Holla!  Angel food cake.  Homemade.  Gluten-free.  It's gone now, and we shall mourn.

Es el fin.

one year

Today is our one year anniversary.  On cinco de mayo.  Which is terribly convenient if you're a lover of mexican food.  Have I mentioned that I love tacos...

I'm too full to write about our lovely weekend tonight.  I just wanted to let the internet know how very blessed I am to be married to my dream boy.  The boy that I daydreamed about as I sat in a window watching the snow swirl down when I was 18.  I pictured our whole life together.  Sometimes it still surprises me that dreams really can come true.