Showing posts with label anniversaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anniversaries. Show all posts

Thursday, August 29, 2013

greatest hits: summer edition

a friend recently asked me when i was bringing my greatest hits back, and my reply was "end of the summer".  well friends, late august only means one thing.
sorry for the little hiatus.  our summer was jam-packed and for some odd reason i rarely had my camera around to document the fun.  i did catch a few goodies, so i bring to you my abbreviated greatest hits: summer edition.
i'll be back to regular programming now that our schedule is back in tact.

this summer we:
made some potential love connections,
 practiced flying,
 welcomed visitors,
 added new/old faces to our bedtime reading rituals,
 went to the children's aquarium,
 oohed and ahhhed at sea-life,
 pet sting-rays (no thankyouverymuch.  blech.),
 raced cheetahs (and did not win),
 ate downtown,
 visited old friends,
watched some turtles "wrestle",
 ate ridiculously delicious pie,
 found art everywhere,
 primarily snacked at a spraypark (which are overrated according to my baby),
 saw a couple of half-moons,
 bounced on a birthday,
 admired a friend's reemerging gymnastics skills (that is, before all that bouncing caused her to pee her pants),
 observed a boy's committment to birthday rituals,
 celebrated nine years of marriage at one of our best places,

 took lame selfies,
 recruited our boy to mop,
 unsuccessfully searched for ducks to feed,
 made slime,
 went to the car wash,
 swam and snacked with our besties,
 walked the dog,
 swung in the yard,
 added to our  their collection of cicada shells (nasty),
 showed the city how big we are,
 ate popcicles in the park, 
snapped photos of gorgeous ladies,
 hung out on the adair's patio (in due time boys, in due time),
 worked on those gross-motor skills,
 bonked heads and lived to tell about it.

how was your summer?  what were some of the highlights?

love,
coco



Wednesday, July 10, 2013

nine years


nine years ago today, i married my best friend.  it feels like just yesterday and a million years ago all at the same time.

we wanted our wedding to be a party.  we were just a few years out of college and saw our wedding as the perfect opportunity to get all of our favorite people in one room and dance.

as you know by now, we are big music nerds, so deciding what music we wanted to play at our wedding reception was a task that we embraced.  we found a great dj and he wanted to meet with us to get an idea of what kind of vibe we wanted.  we gave him some ideas (some which were dumb, like no dollar dance.  were we idiots?  did we not understand that people give you money to dance with them?).  we specifically wanted some hip-hop mixed in to get people dancing (the electric slide did not count).  our conversation with the dj went something like this:
(please don't click these links with children in the room.)
dj: what kind of hip-hop songs are you looking for me to play?
us: well, off the top of our heads, maybe this (the clean version, please).  and this one, for sure.
***long pause***
us: but there are some songs that are great to dance to that wouldn't necessarily be appropriate to play considering grandparents will be in the room......
dj: like what for instance?
***another long pause***
***uncomfortable silence***
us: well....(in a whisper) this song.
dj:  never heard of it.

so. embarrassing.  

why would we utter that word to a perfect stranger?  why would we assume he would play that at our wedding?

we were young and dumb and ready to party.

and a good party it was.

happy anniversary, dance partner.  

xoxoxo


Thursday, November 8, 2012

nine years ago



nine years ago today:

me
chris
girlfriend and boyfriend
road trip
college station
walk around campus
old times sake
reminisce
bench by the library
on one knee
sweet stuff said
(of which i have no memory)
ring
proposal
oh shit!
yes! yes! yes!
tears
"meet a friend for a drink"
favorite bar
surprise!
oh shit!  again!
family and friends
hugs and tears
congratulations
pitchers of beer
more pitchers
after party
dance party
on repeat
off-to-bed
permanent smile
love of my life

some choices i made in my twenties were questionable, but not this one.  you know me so well, chris-bo.  i love you.

{give me a shout if you were there that day.  so much fun, right??}