the notebook

This movie gets me EVERY time. I've seen is so many times, and by the end of it, I'm crying my eyes out. It never fails! And I love it. I watched it last night and it is one of my faves :)

the BEST city in the world

I just got back from my spring break trip to the best city ever, Denver! The trip flew by way too fast and I wish I was still there. I have the greatest family and friends and getting to visit them for a whole week was awesome.

Just being in Denver makes me so happy. Adding family and friends to the mix puts my happiness meter off the charts. Not to mention the weather last week was absolutely PERFECT! I obviously had a great time, can you tell?! I have been to a lot of different places, but being home in Denver is like nothing else. I am biased because most of my favorite people live here, but it's still the best city ever. Alright, enough of my love for this amazing city. Let me tell you about my trip!

Since Brett and I got engaged in November, we have been searching for the right place to have our wedding. When he was in Denver in February for work, he had to chance to check out a couple of venues, and this past week I looked at a few with my fam. I am super excited to say that we chose a place and picked a date, so it's official! July 26, 2013 is the day! We will be getting married at the Inverness Hotel and I know it will be beautiful and perfect. I can't wait!

Other than searching for our wedding venue, I got to spend a lot of quality time with my family and friends. I went to the Avs game, ate tons of good food, laughed a lot, enjoyed the weather, hung out downtown, and caught up on everyday things that I have been missing out on while being in Connecticut. It was such a great trip and I am so lucky to have such great people in my life.

For the second week (yes second) of spring break I'll be hanging out in Connecticut enjoying the spring weather. Brett will be gone for work in Florida so I'll be missing him, but he gets to go see his family too so he will have a great time. I promise I will not wait so long to write my next blog post, I need to get on the ball! Hope you all are having a great first day of spring!

have you seen this?

If you are not watching this show, you need to start. It is hilarious and I love it!

i guess it's true what they say....

When you catch the bouquet at someone else's wedding, it has to mean you're the next to get engaged/ married right?? Even though I'm pretty sure it was rigged, this was true for us at Erick and Kim's wedding in Florida last summer! Here are some pictures that captured this fun moment :)

questions for 2012

I got this in an email from Jess and thought it would be the perfect blog post. Thanks for the inspiration :) I skipped some of the questions for length's sake, but I kept most of them so ENJOY.

1. What is one thing you would work harder on this year that you did last year? My fitness! I miss being in ridiculous shape from sports, and I'm seriously ready to get back somewhere close to it. Also, I want to work harder at eating better, and cooking more delicious meals for dinner!

2. What is one thing you are happy with that you would keep doing the same from last year to this year? Living with Brett. It's the best thing EVER getting to hang out with each other all the time.

3. If you had to choose one year to go back and re-live (without changing anything) what would it be? Why? This is such a ridiculously hard question to answer Jessica! How can I possibly choose just ONE year to go back to when I've had so many years I would love more than anything to re-visit? OK fine. But this is not the first or last year I would like to re-live, just one of them. I would go back and re-live my senior year of high school. Playing all my sports, having the best time ever with friends, yearbook, my perfect and sweet dog Bo, getting excited for college, driving my subaru, Mr. TJ, 1st and 2nd period announcements, etc...... I could go on forever. This was definitely one of my favorite years and I think it would be SO much fun to re-live it (the good and bad)!

4. Name three events in your life that forever changed you. Have any of these been in the past year? In no particular order... 1. Living in the Netherlands. 2. Getting engaged 3. College

5. What age are you most looking forward to? Why? As of right now, I'm looking forward to 28. At this point Brett and I will be married and maybe thinking about starting a family. I can think of nothing better than that :) Oh, and I'd better have a Social Studies teaching job by then too.

6. What was your favorite moment(s) from last year. So far this year what have your favorite moments been? There were a lot of great moments last year, but obviously one of my favorites was getting engaged. I get to spend forever with Brett, and he's my favorite! This year my favorite moments have been hanging out in NYC with friends, my trip home to Denver was PERFECT, and starting to get into wedding planning has been fun.

8. Look forward to 2022. What would you like your life to look like? Where are you living? Whom with? What kind of job do you have? Kids? Pets? Are you still doing anything the same that you are doing now? What do you do for fun? Are you truly happy? I will be happily married for 9 years, with kids (not sure how many yet), definitely will have a dog, hopefully living in Denver, teaching at an awesome high school with awesome teacher friends, and I will do what I do now for fun which is hanging out with friends and family and all the other super fun stuff I like to do!

9. List three New Year's Resolutions you have this year. 1. To stop biting my nails (this is my #1 resolution literally every year). 2. Start swimming a lot more. I would love to join a master's team. 3. To do the dishes more. I HATE dishes and I should try to contribute more when it comes to this terrible chore.

10. Name one thing that you think would be out of your comfort zone but you would be willing to try in the next year. Ummmm, go skiing. I would for sure be nervous at first since I have only been once, but of course I would be willing to try it again! I want to learn how to ski and dominate some mountains when we eventually move back to CO.

11. Name a crazy, hilarious. scary, adventurous, nerve racking or just ridiculous thing that you would probably never do but if you were to lose your mind this might be the year to do it in. If I lost my mind this year, I would definitely go sky diving. But only if I lost my mind :)

What would your answers be?? Thanks for the writing prompt Jess!

GO BRONCOS!!!!

What a great day to be a Broncos fan!!!! Can't wait for the game next week against New England!

is it really over?

The realization that my winter break is coming to an end is starting to hit me and I am having a hard time coming to terms with it. I know, I know. I am really lucky because I get two weeks off of work to relax and enjoy the holidays when some people have to go back to the real world the day after Christmas, those poor souls. But it still sucks knowing that in a few days, I can't sleep in until 9:30 (10:30 some days) and watch 1,000 episodes of Lost in a row, and not worry about what I have to wear or putting make-up on or any of those daily things that take effort. Having two weeks off is the best thing ever, but it also makes it that much harder to go back to work because you get so used to not having to work for such a long time! Now that the dreaded time has finally come to mentally prepare myself and get back into school-mode I am doing a great job of putting it off as long as I possibly can. Which is exactly why I am writing in my blog! Nothing like procrastination for a little blog inspiration. Anyway, wish me luck on getting prepared for school, I am not ready for the break to be over!

In other news, Brett and I have gotten to do a little wedding planning together this week which has been fun! Everyone says one of the best parts of the wedding is planning for it, which I have found to be totally true. But, it would be even more fun if I had an endless budget and didn't have to worry about the prices of all of these fun wedding plans. Can I please win the lottery? Thanks. We are currently looking for a venue in Colorado and I think we have settled on a date! I will wait to reveal the date until we have actually booked a venue, then I know it will be 100% official :) What I DO know is that it's definitely going to be in July 2013, yay! So you can also wish me luck in looking for and finding a perfect venue and winning the lottery ;)

The bottom line is, whenever and wherever we have the wedding I know it will be absolutely perfect because Brett and I will happily be husband and wife. And that's all that really matters! Let this blog be a reminder to me to remember that when the planning gets less fun and more stressful, haha. What were the best/ worst parts of wedding planning for you all?? Fill me in!

I hope everyone had a great holiday and let's all look forward to a great 2012!