Anniversary Trip

We are back from Colorado and we're back in to the crazy swing of working, graduate school homework, business trips and chores around the house. It was so nice to get away from this madness for awhile!

How could 365 days have already passed?

Husband and I are off to Colorado for a week to celebrate our first anniversary!

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The JJ and Caylin Show

Our trip to Colorado was perfectly full of hiking, delicious food, sunbathing and lots of quality family time.  JJ spent most of his time with this little peanut:

I stressed about packing before we left but ended up spending most of my time switching between sweatpants and a swimsuit.

It's nice that this will be an extra short work week. Then my sister comes to town to look for an apartment. She is moving to my city! 

Travelin' Woman

We leave tonight for Estes Park, Colorado to celebrate the holiday weekend with my family and to watch my cousin get married. My family has been going to Estes Park in July for my entire life and it feels so special to me. My Dad and all of his siblings share a house there that has become so full of traditions and memories.

It has felt like an extra short week- getting caught up at work after the big Mud Volleyball fundraising event and taking Friday off. I packed my carry-on full of all of my favorite things to keep me occupied on the flight: magazines and snacks.

Minneapolis Trip, in pictures

We hosted husband's sister and all of her friends at our place this weekend for her 21st birthday celebration. It was fun and stressful to have so many people {enjoying large amounts of cocktails} sharing our home. Cleaning up today was a reminder of how old I've become...

Here are some pictures from my sister and my adventure to Minneapolis last weekend.

 My sweet {and adorable!} friend Allie who let us stay at her place 

 Embarrassingly excited about IKEA

 We were the third car in a three-level parking garage. That's our reward for getting there almost an hour before they opened...

 Success!

 The famous "cherry and the spoon" at the Walker Art Museum

Husband was so excited to get to put together all of my gadgets!

Weekend Bliss

Perhaps the fact that there are zilch pictures from the holiday weekend further proves how blissful the weekend truly was.

Three days, three different cities.

Saturday: St. Louis with my friends from college
Sunday: Winery tour and a bed and breakfast with husband
Monday: Soaking up the sun while husband golfed with his friends

Just what the doctor ordered!

Saturday at the City Market

I need a vacation

I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling a little pent up! Too much to do and not enough time to do it…..

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I'm going to try to put all of my day dreaming into being in a hammock somewhere, looking fancy, with a cocktail in my hand. This seems safer than what I've had my mind on lately: becoming a home-owner. Luckily my bank account {and my husband} have put a big 'ol halt on that. 

Weekend Round-Up (warning: picture overload)

As promised, here are a few pictures from the busiest weekend ever {er, I mean, this weekend I was privileged enough to celebrate lots of things with lots of people!}.

My sister graduated from college! 

Here are a few of the reasons I'm proud of her:

She won a trillion awards at graduation (hence all of the medals, etc around her neck)

She has the most caring heart - and wants to share it with children

She is freakin' gorgeous 

She moved to a new state and became everyone's favorite person

One of my childhood best friends got married! She looked STUNNING and the wedding decorations looked like an anthropologie window display. It was perfect!

And the icing on the cake?

I got this sweet fabric flower pin in a charity auction for a family trying to adopt a baby. I wore it today to pretend it wasn't rainy.

Cinco De Mayo

Today my work cohorts and I celebrated Cinco De Mayo at the Olive garden. Then we came back to our office and ate strawberry shortcake. Ole! I don’t really think that is what the Mexican’s had in mind for the anniversary of their independence.

I’m confident husband will make us some margaritas tonight. That man loves margaritas. And white chocolate mochas. And diet coke. But mostly margaritas. Phony holidays like Cinco de Mayo make me miss being an undergraduate student- when everything litterly was a party.

I am anxious for tomorrow to come. This weekend is full of so many eventful and JOYFUL things. I am interviewing for grad school {what?!}, my little sister is graduating from college with about a million different awards for being a superstar, two of my childhood closest friends are getting married and I get to be at home with my Mom for mother’s day.

I’m sure I’ll have lots of good stories when I return. JJ and I will have 11 hours in the car together so pray for him!

the caboose of tax season

Tax day came and went and I say "good riddance!" Hallelujah!

Don't get me wrong; I think paying the government is fab but I am very ready to have husband working less than 75 hours a week. Things like conversations, meals at a table, an entire movie have been foreign concepts to us the past few months.

With the caboose of tax season brings the promise of newlywed-ness again. I plan on spending so much quality time together this summer that by the time tax season rolls around next year we'll cheer. I'm kidding.  About the cheering that is. We aren't really cheering people.

Check Check Check

I've got the first three crossed off my checklist...

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Honeymoon Pictures

Just shy of four months after we got married, JJ and I took our honeymoon trip to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. We have a friend who is living there teaching art at a private Dominican school and she recommended some resorts for us to stay at. What we enjoyed even more than the 90 degree weather and the scenic beaches was that we got to spend time together. Time together is something all wives of accountants wish for!

There was a pretty severe language barrier, as the Dominican Republic is not a very popular vacation destination for Americans. Everyone at our resort was European or Latino and spoke only French or Spanish. Most of the time this was wonderful {as if we were on our own deserted island where no one could understand us} but when it became necessary to speak I would tap into my days of high school Spanish class to get us by.

Perhaps we can go back every year for our anniversary?