Tag #1: My Favorite Time of the Day
Like the other posts that I've read, my favorite time of the day is bedtime related. For a while now, Annabelle and I have had a bedtime routine of reading her "You're My Little Lovebug" book, doing nite-nite kisses and hugs, starting her nite-nite CD, then laying her down and saying good night. Recently we've added another step in the routine where instead of putting her to bed as soon as the CD starts, I rock her for one song and she lays her head on my shoulder. During that song, we are quiet most of the time, but occasionally we whisper things to each other. A common conversation between us goes like this...
Annabelle: Mama
Me: Yes, Baby?
Annabelle: Hi.
Such a simple little conversation, but it brings such a huge smile to my face, and sometimes even tears to my eyes.
With that said, as long as Annabelle is calm and the nite-nite routine goes as smoothly as it usually does, this time of rocking and when Annabelle says "nite-nite" and signs "I Love You" as we leave the room is my favorite time of the day. However, if Annabelle is wound up or overly tired and the nite-nite routine doesn't go smoothly, then my favorite time of the day is the few minutes after she's gone to bed and I get to sit back and take a deep, quiet breath again. :)
Tag #2: The Wedding Tag
1. Where did you meet your husband? The first time that I remember meeting him was at a career fair at the University of Alabama. I was recruiting for Harris, and he was submitting his resume for a job. :)
2. What was the first thing you said to your husband? Are you looking for a job? (I don't know... whatever the Harris recruiters are supposed to say to smart kids looking for jobs.)
3. Where was your first date? Ummm... date; huh? I don't know if we really had a first "date". It was more of hangin' out as friends, then it just became more.
4. Where was your first kiss? Probably not on the mouth. ;)
5. Did you have a long or short engagement? Is 2 months considered short? Yes? Then short. :)
6. Where did you get engaged? In our brand new dining room. We moved into our brand new house (now known as The Donald Barn) on a Monday, and got engaged over a candlelit dinner prepared by my favorite cook, Keith, on Saturday.
7. Where were you married? In our brand new backyard. We actually planned on getting married at our house, and crazily enough, that was one of the selling points of our house. We thought that with the big yard it would be a perfect spot for our wedding.
8. How did the reception go? I am not much for dancing, so instead of having a dance floor, a DJ, and dance music for entertainment, we opted for a casino setup. We had CRAPS, roulette, and black jack tables all run by the local Lion's Club. Each guest was given a bag of poker chips to gamble with, and at the end of the reception, the poker chips were turned in for raffle tickets. The raffle tickets were put into a drawing for various gift cards which were given away instead of individual party favors. Our wedding was in early December, so we had a vintage Christmas theme. The wedding cake was decorated with vintage-looking ornaments, the food was a buffet of our favorite Christmas meal dishes, the drinks were various drinks popular in the early 1900s, the music was a combination of favorite Christmas classics and other classic songs from the early to mid 1900s, and family heirlooms from the Donald and Kolumbus families were used as decorations. The entire wedding was extra-special because it was all made perfect with the help of friends and family who made the bouquets, cakes, helped with music and setup, actually married us (Ben's mom was our wedding officiant), and so much more! See pictures from the wedding (The pictures on kodakgallery look grainy, but I'm not sure why.)
9. How was the honeymoon? Wonderful! Since we had a short engagement and only 2 months to plan a wedding AND get all moved into our new house at the same time, we planned an easy honeymoon. A couple of weeks after we got engaged, we still hadn't decided where to go on our honeymoon when we went to the movies to see Elf. In the movie, they go to Rockerfeller Center to see the BIG Christmas Tree. We both commented on how that would be cool to see, and decided that seeing NYC in December would be a perfect honeymoon... so that's what we did! During that week, we saw 4 Broadway shows, walked through Central Park, toured all of Manhattan on foot and a bit on the "Sex and the City" tour, ate fancy NYC meals, and just enjoyed each other's company. It was a perfect cold getaway for a couple of Floridians. See the Honeymoon pictures (they're G-rated... I promise!)
Tag... you're it!
3 comments:
I've read the answers to these questions on at least three blogs now, including yours (Angelle and Nikki, I'm a secret follower of your lives - blame Keri for linking through to you), and I can't answer the questions because after 5 years, I'm still waiting for Rob to ask me... ;) But I did want to say that the casino idea is a great one! I'm not particularly one for a DJ etc either - I like dancing, but I know that not everyone does, and anyway, I prefer conversation and find a DJ usually kills the opportunity for that. For the last two years (and this year too) we've stayed at a hotel in the Lake District over Christmas and they have a casino night on Boxing Day. It's always loads of fun - last year Rob won the prize for making the most 'money', and the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced it's a better choice than a DJ. So if we ever do get round to walking down the aisle, I might steal your idea... hope that's OK!
Wow...I think that we must have all of the same books. The batteries in Zach's book have started to die and we haven't bought new ones. The song is awful sounding but Zach still makes me read it. It is almost painful to listen to the dying music! Make sure you buy an extra set of batteries before this happens. It takes a couple of weird watch batteries.
You "get to sit back and take a deep, quite breath again." Keri, do you even read your own blog entries?!
(haha!)
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