November 13, 2011

November 13, 2011 = the best day EVER. Last weekend Brett and I took an awesome trip to Mystic, CT. It's a cute and quaint little New England town that I encourage everyone to visit if they are up in the Northeastern part of the country. It was the perfect weekend get-a-way with the perfect ending :) But I'll get to that after I explain the rest of the trip!

On Saturday morning we walked around town and did a little shopping, then afterwards we went to the Mystic Seaport. This is a very cool and interesting outdoor living museum filled with boats, houses, and artifacts from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is like Jamestown or Colonial Williamsburg where you can walk around and see how people lived back then. I loved it and would highly recommend going!

The next day we went to an old cider mill where we enjoyed a demonstration of how they make the cider and also devoured some delicious cider donuts and hot cider. After that begins the final/ best part of the trip! We made our way out of Mystic to Stonington Vineyards for an afternoon of wine tasting and a tour of the vineyard.

When we got there we bought a bottle of white wine to enjoy with some cheese and sandwiches we had brought with us. Luckily it was a beautiful, sunny day so we were able to hang out outside for most of the time we spent there. After enjoying a glass of wine, we took the tour and then went back outside to finish our bottle and walk around to explore the vineyard. When I suggested we go for a walk, Brett told me he wanted to wait until we could walk around alone (there was a big group taking pictures in front of all the grapes), at which point I became the slightest bit suspicious. Might I add, I was hoping that Brett would pop the question sometime in the next couple of months, so I was on my guard at this point haha! After the crowd had left we went into the vineyard to take a picture; there was a wine barrel that made for a perfect tripod for a self-timed photo that he set his camera on. The weird thing about the picture was that Brett wanted to take one with his camera. I'm ALWAYS the one taking pictures, so I was getting a little more suspicious, but nonetheless excited that he actually wanted a picture of us on his camera. I later found out the self-timer wasn't working so he settled on putting the camera on video mode (he got the whole proposal on video, so cool!). He came over to me to "take the picture", bent down away from me to "fix his shoe", and twisted around to face me on his one knee. As soon as I saw him on his knee facing me, the tears and "are you serious'?!?" started to flow. He told me sweet things that are now all a blur and then asked me if I would marry him! I asked him if he was serious just one last time and then of course blurted out YES! It was perfect and I have never had a happier moment in my life.

This whole past week has been filled with excitement and well wishes from everyone and it has been such a special time for the both of us. I still keep running the moment over in my head letting the thought that we will be married sink in. I could not ask for a more perfect person to spend the rest of my life with and I feel so lucky! Thanks for all of the congrats and love :) I can't wait to post more about the wedding planning process!

ENGAGED!

Brett popped the big question today! I'll give you all the details later but I'm just so excited I had to post something TONIGHT! But I will say this: I could not be any happier than I feel right now :D

guilty pleasure

We all have our guilty pleasures. Whether it be chocolate, watching a trashy or overly dramatic T.V. show, or making cookie dough with no intention of actually making cookies but just to eat the dough (I'm so guilty on this one!). I have to admit one of my favorite guilty pleasures are the Twilight books. I read them all almost as fast as I read all of the Harry Potter books and I'm obsessed.

I was watching T.V. last night and I was so excited when I saw that the Twilight movie was on! It was the first movie, the worst of the bunch in my opinion, but of course I watched it nonetheless. While watching I got even MORE excited because I remembered the first installment of the last movie is coming out in less than a month, ahhhh! All of this Twilight excitement and obsession prompted me to use the rest of my amazon gift card to buy the whole entire Twilight series on my Kindle, which after the gift card only cost me $22.00, what a steal!

I can't wait to re-read all of the books and see the new movie that is coming out November 18th. Looks like I'll be taking, or forcing, Brett out for a movie-date that night!!

i love sundays

Sundays are awesome. They are especially awesome when you have also had great Friday and Saturday nights. Case in point = my weekend. Friday was a chill night for Brett and I, we made a much needed Target-run, then just relaxed with each other and planned out what we were going to get done the next day. It was a perfect way to unwind after a long, busy week at school.

Saturday was crazy busy because we were preparing for our pre-Halloween party! We knew people would probably have big plans for Halloween so we decided to have our costume party a week early, and I'm happy to say it was a success! I love having people over and I feel like we don't do it enough, so needless to say I was extremely excited to have friends come over and celebrate Halloween a week early. The party was so much fun! Full of great costumes, games, and friends - a wonderful Saturday night :)

Now here is why I love Sundays so much: after an eventful (or even an uneventful) weekend, Sunday is the perfect day to hang out, relax, watch football or a movie, and reminisce about what a fantastic weekend I have had. I especially love Sundays during the fall and winter because I can cuddle up in a blanket while doing all of this relaxing. I hope everyone is enjoying this lovely Sunday as much as I am, and I know everyone in Denver is because the Broncos actually won a game today! Woohoo!

just because

I love Beyonce! She is so talented and I wish I could dance as fierce and as hard as she does. I think this song of hers is so cute and the video is fun too! It puts me in a good mood hearing it so I thought I would share. Enjoy :)

Love On Top

adorable!

I just watched this and it made my day! So cute!

update

It's been 4 weeks since school has started and it's been going well so far! We have a super cute class this year so I'm looking forward to teaching them. Even though I feel lucky to have a job at such a nice school, and I'm lucky to have such a good class of kiddos, I still can't wait to have my OWN classroom in a high school. Someday my school dreams will come true! Until then I'll enjoy my time with the little third graders.

Nothing too exciting is going on here, Brett and I are just enjoying hanging out together and loving the fall! I've never been so excited for the fall as I am this year, and it's turning out to be everything I've dreamed of so far. The weather has been absolutely beautiful (good weather always puts me in a good mood :)) and we have been trying to do some fall-like activities to take advantage of it. This weekend we went to a local high school football game and had a lot of fun. It made me think of the good ol' days at TJ! We also had a movie date last night and are going to play tennis today, so it has definitely been a good weekend for us.

This coming Friday we are leaving to go to Charlotte for the long Columbus Day weekend and I can't wait! We are going to the Davidson football game on Saturday and I'm sure we'll be having a lot of fun with Brett's friends the rest of the weekend :) Hopefully I'll get to see Beth too, she is living in Charlotte now and we haven't seen each other since we were in Holland together; such a long time! I hope everyone is having a great October so far, yay for the fall!

p.s. I am SO pumped for Halloween! What is everyone going to be this year?!