Day 345, January 29th

Back to reality for us!! We drove back to America on Sunday, and created our intense laundry piles and got to work.  Tomorrow is also Ryan's birthday, so I headed to Mike and Mary's house to pick up his gift, it was delivered when we were out of town, and wrapped that present right up! 
Gus loves to wrap presents! Christmas is his favorite time, but any time there is a celebration, he always jumps in to help get that gift wrapped!!  After birthday celebrations were ready for the morning, we just hung around, enjoying Ryan's last day of 27!

Day 164, August 1st

Monday was back to work for us after a few days of relaxing.  After work on Monday, Ryan hit the town with some of his friends so it was just me and the fur kids at home.  We still had Sam for a few more days, so I got home from work, went to Piyo, then just came home and relaxed.  Caught up on girl shows I don't watch when Ryan is home, and played with Sam.
Pretty uneventful night for me.  I am sure Ryan had a grand time, but he didn't take any photos of his night out!

Day 67, April 26th

Tuesday after work and dinner and of course Glee, we decided to start packing for our upcoming weekend trip to San Francisco!! We have a ginormus suitcase which is nice because it means we can just have one bag for the trip!! I wasn't stoked about packing, it's hard for me to focus on a task like this so far in advance...what if I want to wear something now but then change my mind on Thursday!?! 

So I talked about what I wanted to pack while Ryan actually packed.  I was super impressed with his pack job so captured a photo of the perfect stack of clothing.

Day 66, April 25th

Monday was business as usual for us.  Most exciting thing was my morning ritual of going downstairs for soda pop was back!! Although saving $.86 each day was nice, it's not as nice as a refreshing diet coke.  With all this DC talk these last few weeks, I feel like they should send me cases and cases for all my advertising...think about it!
After work we hit the gym and then had a healthy meal to try and counteract all our Easter indulging.  We ate dinner and chilled to the max.  We really should start doing exciting things on Mondays, I feel like these posts are always pretty lameski.

Day 61, April 20th

I stayed home from work on Wednesday, that darn migraine continued on.  I slept most of the morning and  started to feel a bit better late in the afternoon.  Enough about me.  Ryan called me around 4 telling me he had quite a day at work and wanted to go to happy hour.  I obviously wasn't totally feeling hitting the town so I offered to just have a cocktail at home.  I felt like maybe my offer to just stay home wasn't totally excitedly received, so I figured I'd kick it up a notch.  Our favorite spot is seriously Z Tejas which I'm sure you know because in the 2 months of this blog I think I've mentioned it a zillion times! 
Anyway, I love the Tejas Trio and those shrimp tostada bites, yumtastic!!! Our little serving thing has four spots for dips, so I had to add a salsa to the trio, but I for the most part replicated the Z Tejas wonderfulness.  I even tried to recreate the Chambord Margarita, good, not as good as theirs, but okay for the most part.

I could be wrong, but I think Ryan throughly enjoyed our at home Happy Hour. I didn't have to put make up on or do my hair which always make my day!! We enjoyed our snacks and watched our Wednesday night shows.  While in Tucson I watched Happy Endings and thought it was hilarious, so I had to get Ryan hooked too! So funny...watch it if you haven't! A nice relaxed night to feel better and chill out from the day.

Day 55, April 14th

Thursday was spent at a table in Tucson watching high schoolers wander around and talk to vendors! I must say though, it is impressive there are so many kids who in high school know they want to be in the medical field.  
I left Tucson early to head home.  Ryan had been going on and on about how sad he was without me Wednesday night, and how he couldn't wait for me to get home.  So I was able to leave earlier than I thought, and thought it would be so lovely to get home early and Ryan would be so excited to see me!! :) I got home, unlocked the door, walked up the stairs, and saw this...

AN EMPTY HOUSE!!

Obviously Ryan wasn't missing me THAT much as he didn't come home for another hour!! Once he finally did get home and I made him feel bad :) we talked about our days and vegged out.  Had a lovely time in Tucson, but happy to be home!

Day 46, April 5th

On Tuesday evening I had lots of work I needed to get done, so Ryan jumped into homemaker mode.  As I sat at the table on my computer all night, he headed to the gym to give me some quiet time, then came home and made dinner.  I took a quick break to capture the moment.
We had a delicious meal of steak, sweet potatoes and spinach then I went back to work.  We were having a hard time not just sitting around chatting so Ryan headed back to the bedroom so I could focus and finish.  Once I finished I headed back to the room to see what Ryan was up to, and this adorableness is what I saw!! 



I hate ironing!! I love that Ryan irons!! I would have had a stack of clothes for him if I knew this is what he was going to do for the evening!! :) Once Ryan finished his chores we spent the rest of the evening chatting about all things we hadn't been able to talk about yet because of my need to focus! Lovely Tuesday!!

Day 44, April 3rd

A normal Sunday on the home front.  Once Ryan headed out for baseball, I threw some laundry in, vacuumed then headed to Costco.  Once I got home, I slowly started putting everything away...lazy day from our tiring Saturday I suppose.  As I sat down on the couch to check what was on the tube I heard the garage door open, strange since it had only been two hours and I've never known a baseball game to only be two hours.  Ryan stomped up the stairs, I looked at him and then he told me he was kicked out of the game!! Hahaha, funny news considering how even tempered Ryan is, but perhaps all our Saturday running around and made him tired and cranky for today!! Ryan took a shower and plopped down on the couch next to me.  Seven was on tv, so I stopped, then Ryan told me he had never seen it!!! 
WHAT?!?! How is that possible?!! I instantly was like, ugh we have to check to see if Netflix has it on instant cue, well it didn't...so we went back to watching it on tv. Then, like the slow gal I can be I remembered I owned the movie!!! So we threw that in so Ryan could finally see this amazing movie, sans commercials and edits.
After we finished Seven we made dinner and then watched another movie, A Serious Man, it was an Oscar nominee last year and we vowed to see all of those movies.  It was good, odd, but good.  Lazy Sunday for sure, but at least we had clean clothes and food in the house!

Day 37, March 27th

Sunday here again.  But, this Sunday was a tad different as Ryan didn't have a baseball game!! So we cleaned the house up and did some laundry then the unthinkable happened...Kansas lost...

We spent most of the afternoon watching the madness of March, even though today was the end of my brackets, we had a fun day watching the games.  

To try and cheer myself up in all the loss of the day, I made some Oatmeal Raisin cookies.  I eat Coach's Oats for breakfast and one morning, I saw a recipe for the cookies on the bag, so bam, I was like, yo, I need to make these!! They were scrumptious.  We ate dinner and caught up on Six Feet Under, which whoa, season 3 really kicked it up for us!! 

Day 31, March 21st

Monday was unusually cold in Phoenix, I won't say what the temperature was since I'm sure people who live in actual cold climates will scoff at me, but for us, we were freezing.  When we got home from work, we headed to the gym and then back home to make dinner.  I found out at my bridal shower that Ryan's favorite restaurant was PF Chang's (judge me if you must for not knowing this beforehand), and I never want to go there, so I thought I'd bring Chang's to him.  

I made Kung Pao Chicken, which by no means was as good as Chang's but pretty good otherwise.  We actually have chopsticks too so it was quite an authentic night!!  Ryan wanted to enjoy a cigar on the patio on this chilly evening, and I finally had my laptop up and working so I joined him and blogged while he smoked.

As you can see it really was cold!! I had 26 layers on and I was still freezing.  Don't mind the mop, just proof I really did clean yesterday!

Day 23, March 13th

Ryan had a baseball game on Sunday morning, so once he headed out, I decided to tackle the one room we had both been putting off...the guest room/office.  This is where most of my stuff has been thrown since I moved in, there is no organization, no real starting point, let's say it was a disaster.  I cleared a path to put the bookshelf together, I pride myself on putting things together, especially from Ikea, this particular bookshelf is very easy, it's mostly those little wooden things, dowels are they called?! So I thought this project would be a snap...it was, until the last step, putting the top on, I could not get it to properly screw (that's what she said) and it honestly took me probably an hour to get it right.  Once I finally got the bookshelf done, I got to putting away my books, pictures and office stuff, after 3 hours, I finally finished with the room.  Ryan came home not soon after which is a testament to how long that darn room took me.  But it looks wonderful, minus the things Tommy has yet to come pick up...Tommy, come get your ish!!

Since the weather is warming up, I decided tonight would probably be the last night I could make Tortilla Soup.  So Ryan went to the store and I finally took a shower, remember I was working hard on the room!! As I cooked we turned the tv on, which was the first time it was on since Thursday, isn't that weird how that happens?!? Anyway, Ryan let me watch Kourtney and Kim take New York since I was cooking and I got to catch up with my gals. 

We had dinner, savored soup for the last time before the Phoenix summer takes over and caught up on our favorite show Parenthood.  Lovely little Sunday.  It was even better because now that the second room is clean, the house is honestly a home, and if I can be cheesy for a moment, it feels wonderful.

Day 22, March 12th

For my birthday Ryan promised me a day of shopping, so this is what we did on Saturday.  Woke up, went to the gym then got ready and headed to the mall.  We went to H&M first, as it's my current favorite, and Ryan spent the first 20 minutes shopping for himself, which was confusing since it was my birthday gift!!! :) The very exciting part of this stop was that Ryan realized he is in fact the type of guy who shops at H&M and bought two shirts...he's so hip.  We headed to Pita Jungle for lunch to fuel up for the rest of the day and ran into Steph's stepmom and sister, Theresa and Sam, they were shopping for Sam's prom dress.  Chatted them up until our food arrived and then we went back to our shopping spree.  Went to a few more stores, I got a few more things, and then the most wonderful thing happened, Crate and Barrel called us to tell us our wine tower was in!! Best birthday gift ever!! So we finished up shopping, got the car and headed to the delivery area for C&B, which was exciting in itself. 

We took everything back to the house and immediately set up the wine tower.  It was a beauty.  Plus, now we have room to put all of our wine glasses away, we could even get more!!  My family has a weird thing about glasses, my dad, sister and I probably combined have 200 glasses, they are just so wonderful! And options are a must! Once we set up the tower, Ryan had to go buy scotch to fill our decanter, obviously.  So we set off, stopped at Ikea first to get the bookshlef for the second bedroom I have been wanting, then over to Total Wine and More to pick up some scotch.  Got home, opened up a bottle of wine and enjoyed our first night with our wine tower.

Day 21, March 11th

So Friday night Ryan hit the town with his crew to have his day away from me.  With him away, I was able to get all crazy about cleaning without having to worry that Ryan would leave me for my ways.  I cranked up the tunes and got to work.  I did a massive clean of the living room, put all my birthday presents away, cleaned the kitchen and dining room area, which isn't big so don't be too impressed and vacuumed the whole place.  My sister called during my mad clean, so I took a break and chatted with her for a bit.  We compared wild lives since we were both home on Friday night, I was cleaning, so I think I'm lamer.  I hung up with Ann and then went back to it, we seriously had so much trash which I think I've mentioned before, but you have to know...there was a lot!!  

Once the house was to my liking I poured some wine and decided to work on some thank you notes.  Such a daunting task, engagement party thank you notes I wrote the next day, in like an hour, the bridal shower thank you notes took me a couple days, but really no time at all, when I looked at the stack of cards I just knew this task would be one of my greatest.  This was also the first of many nights I debated which is more important, thank yous or the blog.  Thank yous won out, honestly mostly because of all the mess the cards were making.  So I wrote probably 10 cards before Ryan got home for the night and caught me up on all the manliness of his night.  I then serenaded him to songs by New Kids on the Block, Debbie Gibson and Boy George...in my opinion, the perfect way to end the night!!