Happy 34!

This past weekend Tim and I went home. While there we celebrated

Tim's birthday. Mom has been teachin Aiden the birthday

song, and we got to hear how well he could sing it!!

Tim opening his gift from Aiden and I.

Every time I go home I have to stack blocks with Aiden. I usually end up stacking them

and Aiden will knock them down with his race cars.

This time he wanted to stack the blocks by himself. He did a really

great job. His towers were pretty tall!!!

Another one of our highlights this weekend was racing cars with Aiden. He had the Hot Wheel

track all set up for us when we got home!! Aiden has a pretty neat set up...he has ramps, a tunnel, and

even a loop-de-loop!!

Paid off

I was paying bills tonight and had one last bill to pay....SallieMae. I logged on to see how much more I had left. I've been out of school for 7 years and have paid on this thing for what seems like FOREVER! Well, tonight, I am so happy to say I am PAID OFF!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!! :)

Now I get to put that money towards something else. It feels so good to have this debt paid off!

FREE gifts!!

Who doesn't like a free gift? I went to the bridal fair a few weeks a go and signed up for anything and everything. Quite frankly I don't remember every booth. I got a call from Celebrity Chinaware. I won toasting glasses for my wedding!!!! I was pretty excited (one less thing for us to purchase).

One catch, though..and there's always a catch. :) Tim and I had to go pick out a china pattern!! Actually we had to listen to their sales pitch and then we could pick up our stemware.

We went and we fell in love with their line of cook ware. I fell in love with it because of the ease of cooking and it all stacks inside of itself for easy storage..something this girl needs! I think Tim was excited because he's gonna get some really great meals out of the deal!! With our purchase we got to pick 2 free gifts. We picked a set of steak knives and a kitchen set.

THEN we got to upgrade our toasting glasses!! I let Tim pick out what set he wanted.

 Our free kitchen set and knives..I'm so excited to start slicing and dicing with these!!

Our upgraded toasting glasses! I love them!! They are so pretty...

Tim did such a great job picking these out!

I'm just waiting for our set of pans to arrive in the mail.

Valentine's weekend

 

 Tim and I were able to spend the weekend before Valentine's Day together. I tried out a couple new recipes on him, including SWEETHEART DESSERT! It was strawberry cheesecake topped with chocolate and strawberries, dusted with sugar...it was so yummy!! It was definately a hit with Tim!

Celebration had a dinner/dance on Saturday night so we thought that would be fun to go to. It was something different for us to do together, and we had a great time together. We don't dress up too often, so we had to make sure and take a picture!! :) 

 

We kept things simple this year for Valentine's day gifts. I've always said I don't like this holiday and didn't want to make a huge deal out of it. Tim did such a wonderful job of honoring my wishes!!

These beautiful roses came on Valentine's day! I was working, and was absolutely suprised!

I didn't expect it at all. Tim said he picked them out himself, and thought the arrangment wasn't too over the top. I thought it was perfect; especially since he put so much thought into it!!

Bridal Showcase 2012

It was kind of a big day today. Today was MY first bridal show!! I got to be "Bride-to-Be"! Now I know its not official yet, but I'm planning ahead and getting ideas. I also went to shop around and see what vendors are available for my big day. Below are a few cute ideas I saw.

 This is a closeup of the branch. It was decorated with little crystals wrapped around the branches. This was so simple, but really elegant too! Below are a set of floating candles. The vases are wrapped with twine...still simple, but very pretty!!

 This was from a cake vendor. She said this was made of rice krispies!

Below she had heart-shaped cookies decorated as a bride and groom.

 Some of my magazines and handouts Becca helped me pick up today! 

I had so much fun going around to the different vendors with my mom and Becca!

We were able to get some great ideas.

 I'm looking foward to planning this big day with my groom-to-be!!