Friday, October 2, 2009

I'm Baaaaaccckkk!

Well my awesome friends Sam & Elise have inspired me to jump back on the blogging band wagon! My intentions for writing a blog are to be more of an online journal for my future self rather than to have a lot of followers. So before I bring you up to speed on how my life has been since my last post on 2/19/09, let me just say “Hello Future Self"! I hope this post finds you skinny and wrinkle free! MUAH!



This year has been a big exciting year in my life! Let me give you a little recap of 2009 thus far!
We have added two more babies to our family since I last wrote. Now along with Gidget we have our 2nd child Felicity aka Miss Kitty. She is a beautiful, spunky Persian cat that I received from Elise’s Mom on Christmas Eve. Long story short, Nani was moving to a new house and couldn’t take Miss Kitty with her. She is my first cat ever and it took about 6 months for us to get used to each other!!! I love her now, and wouldn’t trade her for the world.












Next we move on to our 3rd and final child, Buddy! Buddy is the baby of the family! He is a rescue pup we picked up from SACARC…the Springfield Animal Care and Rescue in March. His is actually an interesting story! I will spare you the details now, but will maybe post about it later.


One of my favorite accomplishments of the year was losing 40 pounds! Woohoo! In March I started walking the bridges downtown in the evenings with David’s Mom. It started out as a way for me to spend time with his Mom and get to know her better, but grew into something that I really, really enjoyed doing for myself! David’s Mom was definitely my motivation every day, and I am grateful that we did this and continue to do this together. I will not tell you where I started out on the scale (neither will I tell you where I am now…I know you, you’re smart…you can add/subtract and then my secret will be known!) but I will tell you that I am at a very happy weight now. I have not reached my goal yet but I’m still working towards it and hoping to reach it before my BIG day in March 2010! This leads me to my 3rd exciting detail of the year!
David and I are engaged!!!!


Finally the day I waited for came on July 3rd. David planned an extraordinary weekend getaway for the 4th of July (my fav holiday!). We started out with a helicopter ride over St. Augustine which was unbelievable!
I have never been on a helicopter ride and what an adrenaline rush it was. From there we headed over to the Alligator Farm. I have lived in close proximity of St. Aug my entire life. I couldn’t count on all my fingers or toes how many times I have been there through the years, and I have never gone to the Alligator Farm. If you haven’t been, you aren’t missing much, but it is pretty cool! I think we spent maybe an hour walking around. Next we headed to a lunch of oysters & beer. This was our first oyster meal of the weekend, and I have to say the best, but not the last. I now know how David grows pearls in his belly button….he loves him some oysters! From lunch we headed across the street to hang out on the beach for a while. We had a good 30 minutes to cool off in the ocean before a storm came through. After the beach it was time to check into our hotel. Let me tell you the Casa Monica in St. Augustine is the end all, be all of hotels. I felt like a celebrity being able to pull my 04 Ford Mustang under the building to valet with all the Beamers & Mercedes. I avoided the bewildered looks from other Louis Vuitton luggaged patrons as the hotel employees wheeled up my generic hot pink bags and David’s 20 year old back pack….and I felt like a million bucks! Seriously, this hotel is beautiful and the staff could not be any better! Anyways, after much hesitation, (because of nerves) David wanted to play a song he learned for me on the guitar. He was so nervous and I didn’t know why! I was trying to make it easy on him, so I didn’t sit there and stare as he played and sang me the song “Green Eyes” by Coldplay. It was so sweet, and he sounded SO good and I couldn’t believe that he learned and practiced all of that by himself just for me! His original plan was to propose to me then, but he got cold feet. Instead we headed out to sit by the pool and drink a beer. When we came back to the room, he finally proposed. It was a very sweet proposal, down on one knee, holding the MOST BEAUTIFUL ring I have ever seen!
I was mesmerized as soon as I saw it. I grabbed it right out of the box and put it on my finger…and then said yes! The ring is so special to both of us. The middle diamond belonged to David’s Great-Grandmother Hap. Hap was her nickname because she was always happy! David says that he thinks she would be proud that I am now wearing her diamond! His Great-Grandparents moved to Orlando, Florida from North Dakota. They started a jewelry store called Swalsteads 100 years ago this year. So on the 100th anniversary year of their jewelry store, their Great-Grandson took Hap’s diamond from her engagement ring to be set in another ring for me! After we called all of our family & best friends to share our exciting news, we went to meet my Mom & Dad and friends Rob & Karen for dinner to celebrate.

It was a really special day and weekend that I will never forget! Thank you to my sweet engagementor for planning the weekend and for choosing me to spend the rest of his life with. You are who I waited for my whole life and everything I could ever want or need. You make me feel special and loved every day, and I still can’t believe how lucky I am to have you!
We are now up to #4 exciting detail of 2009! The day we returned home from our engagement weekend was July 5th. Since January we have been looking to buy a home in Springfield. Springfield is a historic district in the city that we live in. Most of the homes in this area were built in the very early 1900’s and in its day Springfield was the most prominent section of our city. It is downtown and has been known as “the ghetto” all the years of my life. Over the past 10 or so years the city, along with quite a few people with a heart for historic areas, has worked really hard to put Springfield back on the map. I have gotten to know the area better because David’s parents bought and restored a beautiful home down there. Anyways, David and I have fallen in love with the area and the homes and decided that we want to live there too. The Sunday we returned we received an email from Reggie the Realtor about a home down there in foreclosure. We liked the pictures so we asked Reggie to take us that day. We fell in love and made an offer! Our offer was accepted and as of August 19th our new home is here:
The house was already fully restored, but with the help of David’s parents we have added more closet space and put in new wood flooring. The floors are still being worked on and I can’t wait to see the finished product. I will not be moving in until after our wedding on March 20th. I can tell you that I am elated to be able to live there. I can’t wait to spend my nights relaxing on that balcony with David, or having my girlfriends over to drink wine on the porch.

Whew…I’m out of breath and my typing fingers are about to fall off. Now that you are privy to all of the important matters of my life I can’t wait to keep you updated on what’s to come.

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