Celebrations!

Happy Friday everyone! Hope you all have a fun and/or relaxing weekend ahead of you!

A few weeks ago Andy had agreed to accept a position within the lab where his weekends would be thurs-fri and his work weeks would be sat-wed. It's really not too bad because it's rumored to be that weekends days are shorter, and Andy is happy to switch up his schedule a bit anyways! This position wasn't supposed to start for another month but Andy found out Wednesday that it starts this week, which is kind of a bummer since my darling hubby's birthday is TOMORROW! But, since we both had thurs/fri off this week, we've done some early celebrating :) We went to one of our favorite restaurants last night for a yummy birthday (and early anniversary) dinner! We discovered the place back when Andy was first stationed here and we LOVE IT, it's similar to Bennihanas but a million times better!

There were quite a few bday celebrations at our table! This was the bday crew...

Fuzzy picture but this was the best we got!

I gave Andy his present early, since it was a video game he's been dying to get and I figured he should enjoy it on his days off! I'm planning to wake up at 5:30AM with him tomorrow and make him a quick bday breakfast before work :) As for our anniversary on Monday, we both work, obviously, so I'm going to just make a dinner for us at home...with a nice big bottle of champagne of course!

It blows my mind that we've been married for a year (on Oct 1st). We were blessed with the most BEAUTIFUL and PERFECT fall wedding day last year, surrounded by all our family and close friends. If you were at our wedding, you'll know what I mean when I say that I crave our wedding food on a daily basis...gosh that meal was good! We had such a crazy first year of marriage: long distance marriage for 2 months, living in San Diego, adopting our puppy girl (aka our child basically), moving to Great Lakes and getting our first "house!" I'm thinking year #2 might be a bit calmer! I still can't believe that crazy, trouble maker, baseball player Andy Kurkowski kid I met at 15 is my husband! I never imagined I would have such a great husband, I am a lucky lady who's so excited to spend the rest of my life with my handsome stud of a hubby!

BEST DAY EVER

Re-creating our 2007 prom picture :)

And lastly, a picture of our fur child:

She looks so old in this I can't handle it....

Doggie Drama

Hi everyone! Hope all your Monday's went by smoothly!

I can't believe I actually am remembering to blog this week, hopefully I can keep this up. Well, for once there is big news to report that occurred last week. Unfortunately, our puppy Layla was attacked by another dog last week :( I was taking her on a walk through the neighborhood and another dog slipped out the door while it's owner was walking inside. The other dog went straight to Layla and immediately started attacking/biting her. After a lot of screaming, yelling and struggling to get Layla away and get the other dog off, I did manage to get a hold of it's collar and give it back to the owner. Poor Layla was left with about 15-20 puncture/bite wounds & scrapes, as well as had a chunk of her back leg ripped off. I thank God that none of her major arteries were affected and she didn't loose a lot of blood. She went to the animal ER that night where they cleaned her up, gave her some stitches and was prescribed pain meds/antibiotics.

Doesn't show all her wounds, but these are some of them

It was a long week getting all the legal things taken care of. But the county animal control is aware of the attack and will have it on record now. Layla is healing up well, her back leg seems much less tender/sore, all the wounds are scabbing up and her stitches come out Saturday. As for Andy and I, we're doin' okay as well. Layla is our baby and it was absolutely heartbreaking to see her so hurt. I know I will never get the images of another dog ripping up Layla's leg out of my head. But again, I just thank God that she'll heal up well and hopefully be good as new again! So if you read this and you live in our neighborhood, be careful!

Well in much happier news, it's basically fall!!!! I had a mini shopping spree for some fall decor for the house this weekend and the temperatures are dropping! We're supposed to get some rain here tonight and tomorrow and then it'll be in the 60s! YAY! While I do miss things about San Diego, I sure am happy we moved somewhere where I can enjoy the seasons. Andy's birthday and our 1st wedding anniversary are coming up in the next 2 weeks as well so it's just a fun time of year! Andy also has been playing for the hospital softball team a bit and he is loving that. There are also some AMAZING yoga workshops in Chicago that are coming up that I've been thinking of doing!

I know this was kind of a debbie downer post but I'll be back soon with more exciting updates :)

Ohhh Life!

Hey all! I know I'm not blogging as much as I used to but I figure as long as I'm still doing it occasionally, then it's fine :) I had all the time in the world while we were in San Diego to blog exciting things, but now I'm working again and Great Lakes doesn't provide me with much exciting blogging material!

We did manage to make a visit home to Minnesota over Labor Day weekend. It's always a breath of fresh air to spend some time at home! Fall in Minnesota is my favorite, so I've been missing good ol' MN. We hit up the MN state fair of course, where we all ate and drank way too much...but hey, that's just what you do there! The rest of the time at home we tried to lay low and relax with family :) But let me say, traffic on 94 in Wisconsin on the way home that Monday was a nightmare!

Last week was one of those crazy busy weeks, I feel like I blinked it was already Friday. Between my work schedule/errand running and Andy's work schedule last week, we only saw each other in 5 min chunks. By the time Friday came it was nice to actually see my hubby for once! Also, I taught 2 free yoga classes in-store at my work, Lucy, last week for Fashion Night Out. We had a smaller turnout than expected but it was a wonderful networking opportunity for me that I am BEYOND thankful for!

I'm hoping this week isn't such a crazy blur, so I can actually have time to get some stuff done (like an oil change for my car that's about 1,000 miles overdue, whoops!). The low 70s temps this weekend were AMAZING and I'm hoping they are here to stay, even though it's supposed to get back up to 80 this week, darn. Me and Layla did kick off our Monday with a bang by going to the vet so she could get a booster vaccine...which was shot up her nostrils, odd hahaha!

Also, I cannot believe my baby brother started his SENIOR YEAR of high school last week. What? I thought he was still that cute little stinker 5yr old running around! And the thought of my other brother already being over halfway through college is just not right. I know I'm not that old but thinking about this stuff sure makes me feel old!

Anywho, I hope you all have a fantastic week! Fall is basically here folks, enjoy it :)

Just shooting squirrels out of the kitchen window...typical MN!

We had to say goodbye to the motorcycle before leaving it in MN :(

I come home to this at night....