Love story link up

I am linking up with  Becky from Mrs to mama (http://www.frommrstomama.com/) and doing a cute survey that she has on her blog for Valentine's day. Check it out, it's a lot of fun.

 

1. How long have you and your significant other been together?
We've been together for almost 6 years

2. How did you meet? {What's your "love" story?}
We met through mutual friends. My friend Melissa was studying abroad in England and dating my future husband's friend. When I went to visit her spring break of 2005, we took a trip to Spain with my future husband and other friends. I posted the long version of the story a few post back. Never in a million years did I think that this would change my life forever for the better.

3. If married, how long have you been married? If not, is this the guy you hope to marry? {do tell}
It will be 3 years in July

 

 

 

4. If you are married, where did you get married at? Big or small wedding?  If not, where would you like to get married? And will it be big or small?
We had a big wedding with 380 guests. My husband is from London and over 60 people traveled from overseas to be at our wedding. We got married at the Church that I attended since high school, 10 minutes from my parents house. We had our reception 5 minutes away from the Church . My wedding was everything I could have dreamed of and more, more importantly, it was a beautiful and fun day that we got to spend with our friends and family.

 

 

5. Do you have any nick-names that you call one another? Do share!
We call each other "baby", we are pretty lame like that but we have so much fun together :)

 

 

 6. Name 3 things you love most about your honey.
 - The way he is with our son. He is the best dad ever. I fall in love with him more each day that I see him with our baby. I can't wait to have more babies with this man
 - He is such a fun person to be around. His sense of humor is definitely different but once you get it, you just love it.
 - He always put me and our family first. He moved across pond to be with me, just to move again across the pond for my job, just to move again across the pond because I wanted to be close to my family for our baby. He is great.

7. Tell us how he proposed? Or your ideal proposal?
Funny story actually. It was on April fools day of 2008, so typical for my husband. We were in DC checking out the cherry blossoms near the tidal basin. My husband got on one knee and asked me to marry me and the first words out of my mouth were "do you have a ring?"...hahahaha. One it was April fools and who does something like that on that day and two we had only been in DC for 2 days when did he get a chance to get the ring. Yep he had a ring. I knew it was coming but it was so nice when it actually happened. In good old Englishman fashion, he actually asked for my parents' permission before asking me. How sweet is this kid?

8. Is he a flowers and teddy bear kind of guy for v-day, or strawberries, champagne, and rose petals?
He is definitely a flowers and teddy bear kind of guy.

9. Are you a sunset dinner on the beach kind of girl, or pop a movie in and relax on the couch?
I am totally a sunset dinner on the beach kind of girl. However with a little baby in tow, relax on the couch is more practical. We did take the baby with us to a dinner set up on the beach in Cancun and let him sleep in his stroller while we had dinner, we are those parents.

 

 10. Tell us one thing you'd like to do with your significant one day. If you could do anything? Go anywhere?
I would love to go to Bora Bora on one of those private islands with a house on the water kind of place. I've seen pictures and it's like nothing I could possibly imagine.

11. Tell us what you plan on doing on this Valentine's Day.
We are not really big on Valentine's day. There are just too many things to celebrate and frankly I don't need or want to celebrate our love only on one day. We'll probably do our usual dinner and chill in front of the TV. Take that Valentine's day.

12. Are you asking for anything this Valentine's day?
Nah, I don't really care to get anything for Valentine's day. I am sure hubby will get me some flowers (he always does even though I told him I don't really care).

13. Give us one piece of advice of keeping a relationship strong and full of love.
Communication is key. Making sure that you are always communicating with each other and letting each other know how you feel about any issues that may arise in your relationship. Also very important is to always show your significant other that you love and cherish them. Everyone wants to feel loved, you love them so make sure to show them. Another great advice is continue to have fun with each other like you did from the beginning of your relationship. Having fun together solves a lot of problems :).

14.  Show us a picture of what love means to you.

Ode to a great weekend

This past weekend was great. The week sucked (I got into a minor fender bender which totally ruined my week) so it was nice to get a break.

We did absolutely nothing on Saturday and it was great. We lounged around and watched Leverage all day. Great TV show by the way.

Check out my T-man passed out after a day of doing nothing :)

Because we got so much rest on Saturday, we actually got up early on Sunday. We were fed and ready for Church an hour before we had to leave. This never happens, usually we are running out of the door. So I decided to have a little impromptu photo shoot with my little one :).


Me and my big boy, if only he could stop playing with that juice bottle

Trying to get a close up, T-man was just saying "Hi" the whole time. He is funny like that

 Took the juice bottle away and now he is not even looking. At least we tried

We then hosted a Super Bowl party later that evening. We had a few friends over. It was good times (I should have taken more pics.) The best part of the night for me was T-man playing with his friend Ethan. They are only a few months apart and this is one of the first times that they are actually playing together and enjoying each others company.

Aren't they just so cute together?

Oh and it was a bonus that the game was great and the Giants won. I was totally rooting for them, suck on that Tom Brady.

Baby fever

I had huge baby fever when we were trying to conceive our little man. I day dreamed about getting pregnant and holding my baby.

I just never imagined that I would have baby fever with baby number two. How is that even possible, I have this amazing baby already who keeps me really busy, I have a full time job, I don't have enough time off to stay at home with baby number 2 more than 6 weeks, and I am not sure how I am going to manage 2 kids with our busy lives. But here we are with baby fever. Does it ever end?

Did you have baby fever before your first baby? Did you have baby fever with subsequent babies?

Since we are talking babies, I would love to share some of our favorite maternity pictures. We had them done at 27 weeks. Our friend took these pictures for us and we were so pleased with them.

I was truly in love with my bump, I found this shirt at H&M and I was in love

 I love these next 2 pics of us, no belly on them but we have the best faces :)

 Look at that belly, I was only 27 weeks, you can only imagine how much bigger I got

 This is my favorite of the bunch, she truly captured how happy we are

 I love this one too, such a great pic of our growing family

Honeymoon Hawaii style

With the cold winter out there (actually not that cold, it's about 60 degrees here), I figured I would take you to a warm place called Hawaii where we spent the most amazing time for our honeymoon.

Two days after the wedding, we were on our way to Hawaii. We stayed on Oahu and took a day trip the the big island. We didn't want to stay on Waikiki because we figured it would be super busy so we stayed at the Marriott in Koalina. It was far from everything (which meant we needed a car) but it was definitely worth it for the days of just relaxing and soaking up the sun.

Here is the view from our room, this hotel was really really nice

 Sipping on some tropical drinks by the pool bar

Checking out the beach and taking self portrait :). We did that the first two days before even heading into town. It was a great break from the busy week of the wedding.

Going to a Luau at the Polynesian Cultural Center. We spent the whole day here learning about the culture and enjoying the sights

 Night Luau 

 Checking out the sights in Waikiki

 Pool side pictures (yep, I used to be pretty skinny)

 Self portrait in the elevator :), I love self portrait and luckily the hubby indulges

 On the plane on our way to big island, this was a great day trip. It was cold there though so I had to buy a sweater

Getting ready to go swim with dolphins, I was so looking forward to this that when the hubby said he was game I was stoked.

Parasailing, we both had never done this so it was great to do it together. A little scary but definitely fun

Beach Luau at Paradise Cove, completely different than the PCC luau and so much fun

 Dinner cruise and the perfect end to our trip

It was such an awesome trip. I want to go back to Hawaii. The weather was perfect, people were super nice, the food was great, what else can anyone ask for on vacation.