Recent Holiday Celebrations

I absolutely love Valentine's Day! I think we need more holidays that just celebrate love! Instead of just buying Tony a present this year, I decided to make him something too like my mom always did. Not only did he get a way-too-expensive new pair of basketball shoes (he saved up and paid for most of it), I made 2 delicious kinds of brownies - the frosted, sprinkled hearts, and the even better strawberry shortcake brownies. I also am really getting into making cards and I made this one all by myself without any starter ideas or anything. I think it turned out pretty good :)





Oh, and this is what Tony and Georgie did while I was making it all





I thought I took a picture of what Tony gave me too but I can't find it. He surprised me with beautiful flowers - an arrangement of my favorites: gerber daisies and stargazer lillies, and a super cute workout suit. My mom also gave us Valentine's presents. She gave me a super cute red maternity shirt and heart necklace, and Tony some red and black plaid shorts perfect for golfing :) We spent the day having an amazing prime rib sunday dinner at my Grandma's with my family, and played apples to apples with them afterwards.


I was also feeling like cooking for St. Patrick's Day. (I had to make up for forgetting to wear green! Luckily the kids at my work couldn't pinch me!) I made this green-themed dinner of stuffed bell peppers with shamrocks, green beans, raspberry limeaid, and "taste the rainbow" cupcakes complete with a "pot of gold." Tony loved it and even ate the leftovers the next day (which he rarely does)!








I love celebrating holidays, especially being married and surprising Tony and making our own traditions together :) And we really can't wait to celebrate them all with the baby soon!

One spoiled dog!

So we took Georgie to Petsmart just to get her nails trimmed and ears cleaned, and ended up getting talked into a whole spa package that came complete with nails, ears, exfoliating shampoo and conditioner, teeth cleaned...and oh yeah her nails painted :)






When I picked her up 3 hours later, they explained that she was a very good dog and couldn't believe it was her first time getting something like this done. Unlike other dogs who are usually barking and trying to get loose the whole time, they said the only problem they had with her was that she was lazy and didn't want to stand up the whole time! After her bath she was so relaxed that all she would do is plop down and wouldn't stand up until they forced her too! Haha, that's our girl! She was stll exhausted when we got home as you can see here - she could barely keep her eyes open for a quick pic :)





Oh yeah, this is what Tony and Georgie did while I wrote yet another APA research paper. 5 hours and 11 pages later, they decided they couldn't wait up for me any longer. We have gone from them spooning together to now Tony using her as a pillow, and she doesn't seem to mind :)