Things are peachy!

I just realized that I haven't blogged in a while. I'm setting out to remedy this right now:

Things I LOVE at the moment:

• New TV. I'm getting super into shows that I wasn't totally excited about last year...like Grey's, Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money. I've been in love with Pushing Daisies, so I'm happy to see that after such a long wait, HIMYM, Big Bang Theory and The Office back in business. Can't wait for fall premiers to start...oh and that little show I get obsessed with- Survivor!


• Clearly in love with my Dyson. Steven, against his better judgement, allowed me to purchase it shortly after returning from our Hawaiian honeymoon. Wow. I used to vacuum maybe like twice a month...because our old vacuum was disgusting...annnnnnd now I vacuum two to three times a week. And wow. Its just awesome. I find myself digging it out to show people when they come over. Annnnd now I realize I am crazy and just like Fletch from "Bitter is the new Black" By Jen Lancaster. Which is hilariously funny. I would very much recommend it for a beach read.


• Our fluffy towels. I generally praise all things fluffy, but these are super special, awesome towels. They are like magic.


• Cookbooks. I've decided I have enough now to call them a "collection" and I do have some really really good ones. My Mommy recently gifted me with the original Mastering the Art of French Cooking...which I read about (or you may remember from my Julie and Julia, and Julie post) in Julie and Julia, which is a great read. (Although terrifying, because the "Julie" in the book.... is just like this Julie!) I cannot wait to sink my teeth into some real french recipes!


• September. Bring on the apples and crisp evenings with the sliding doors open and mounds of blankets on the couch. Oh, and football.


• Miss Petigrew lives for a day...Movie of the Month for March, I think...and totally worth renting. I want the soundtrack sooooo bad. Just amazing jazzy music and a wonderful, uplifting story. Perfect girl movie for a lazy Sunday. In fact, that's how I spent part of the day yesterday!


• Our wedding pictures....yes, we did finally get our wedding pictures from our photographer (they were TOTALLY worth waiting for) and I have some albums posted on facebook. Please email me if you'd like the public link- so you can view them, without having to be a member of facebook.

Of course I love my Steven too...he's doing great and we'll be spending our first "month-a-verssary" together tomorrow with a fabulous dinner on our new china!

Julie's Birthday

Steven reporting here for the first time and just have to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my beautiful wife Julie.

Julie's birthday has been pretty laid back but fun. I let her open her birthday present from me on the weekend. It was a very nice Kenneth Cole laptop bag that she had wanted. On Tuesday My parents took us out to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and gave her their present as well as one from Tara. It was clothes and a gift card to J. Crew, probably Julie's favorite store.

Today the actual day Julie took key lime cupcakes to work and went to lunch with her project manager Shelly(sp?) at a new restaurant in downtown Portland started by the company that owns Portland City Grill.

After work she came home to me making potato skin snacks with our new mandillion(sp?) chopper, thanks June and Rich. Keith came over and gave her a funny card along with the movie Definitily Maybe, he had a little assist with the present selection but it was just what she wanted.

Of course she got cards from Gandmas and everyone has been remembering to write Julie Stanley on the envelopes which I think makes her happy.

Well that is all from me. Happy Birthday Julie and Good Night.

Honeymoon Pics!

We just got back from our wonderful Honeymoon vacation to Maui on Sunday. It was a great trip and I hope you enjoy this smattering of photos. More are available, email me for the links!

We decided that it would be totally awesome to go on a helicopter ride and it was the first activity that we did (Monday). Here is a shot I took of Steven videotaping it so we could relive it later :)
Our second activity was an AWESOME dinner at Mama's Fishhouse over in central Maui. They knew it was our Honeymoon and they brought me this fabulous lei. I saw this resturant featured on Food Channel (Giada's Weekend Getaways) and I had to have the dessert that she did. Little did I know that Steven had already made reservations! I'm so lucky!

Here I am hugging the tiki god on the beach that is right outside the resturant!

Later on in the week we went to a show in Lahaina and ate at Bubba Gumps. We were really disappointed when the waiter shorted us on our trivia. I still stand by the fact that my husband knows more about that movie than anyone else.

Our last adventure was The Old Lahaina Luau on our last night (Friday). It was truly amazing. I don't think I could go another luau now without comparing. We also had the best seats because Steven booked back in March!

Our table was completely honeymooners with the same anniversary and after the show was over they called all us up (there were more at other tables too) and we got to share a beautiful moon-lit dance under the stars on the beach. It was really memorable! This is the beach we were dancing on as viewed from our table. Spectacular!!

So, it was totally wonderful and we loved every moment of it. Getting home was a little tougher...we had a red-eye that was almost canceled and we managed to get a last minute seating change so we could actually sit together. It was a long day, but we came home and spent the day unpacking and resting.

We're already thinking of where we want to go next!