guest blogger??

i'm so excited! emily from once wed stumbled upon our blog and wedding photos and "instantly fell head over heels" for our "lovely wedding"!!! i was so excited to get her email just because she loved it, but then when i kept reading and she asked me to guest blog i about fell over!

i'll keep you updated and post a link! 

maybe things are looking up...

creamy rosemary penne with chicken

i have enjoyed 3 + weeks of not having to cook, but the real world is back. i spent 2 hours saturday night meal planning/grocery list making and 2 MORE hours sunday grocery shopping at two grocery stores.

found this recipe at dinner's on me. this blog is in my reader, but this is the first recipe i tried. i am NOT a casserole person. i swear my dad went through a few years where that is all we ate and i haven't been able to go back. i decided this was going to be ok because it was pasta based so i could pretend it was just pasta with sauce. hmmm...

grant claims not to be a casserole person either, but he was OBSESSED with how good this was. (i warn - he is very easy to please) i thought it was ok. very easy to make. VERY RICH. i ended up adding a cup of milk to my serving to water it down and found it much more appetizing.

PS - if your oven breaks while making this just heat each serving in the microwave. if your oven breaks while heating a papa murphys pizza cook it for 45 minutes and then turn it upside down and cook it another 20 - so easy......

seriously could anything else go wrong lately?? oh and i'm home sick from work cuz my tummy is STILL upset.

things i am loving right now...

1. this handmade holiday gift planner from Skip to My Lou

2. this fun meal planner from futuregirl. i am not a big fan of meal planning or cooking and this makes it just a little bit better!

3. our new camera. i somehow lost the battery charger between the wedding and when we left for mexico. i was FREAKING out. no camera for the honeymoon AGAIN. well for 1 lindsey is an angel and tried to mail us a new charger but mexican mail sucks and 2 the battery STILL hasn't died!! isnt that insane??

4. rainy days inside with cozy fires.

update and a new do...

a just for fun picture of G.
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update: still not feeling great. went to the doctor and they can't tell us anything before they run nasty tests on stuff that comes out of us...so sick. i have the worst case of creepy crawlies. sounds like we most likely have a parasite of some sort. i'm hoping whatever it is it is something that they can find. being sick and all of this unknown is very not fun/scary.

to make matters worse. while we were gone some moths decided to start procreating in our pantry. eggs, larvae, hatching - SICK! why is this all happening???? we had to throw EVERYTHING out and will bomb tomorrow. so yes on weak stomachs we (read:grant) cleared out our pantry while moths hatched and crawled (really there were only a few so don't picture our house filled and for the record i keep things clean so i have no idea why this happened..)

in other news. i cut my hair. it was necessary. my hair was the longest it has ever been and i had been growing it for almost 2 years. it was a long, uncontrollable, frizzy mop. i think i like the new do... still trying to decide if it makes me look like a boy.

our western honeymoon (aka honeymoon#2)

this photo is very pioneer woman



***i think the video tells it all...such a sweet man i married***

our mexican honeymoon (aka honeymoon #1)

oh mexico. it is beautiful, amazingly beautiful. our resort was great - the food was great, they greeted us with drinks, begged to clean up after us, and we had everything at our fingertips. (the scenic picture above is a view from our room).

***we took some video - they are kind of weird so be prepared...***

we spent our first few days taking it all in. getting used to the idea of being married. laying by the pool and relaxing. on our third day we rented a wave runner - it was SO nice to be out in the cool water unable to feel the humidity!

this was the fateful meal. something wednesday night made us sick. so sick that grant was up all night feverishly vomiting and so sick that we are still (10 days later) sick.

we spent the next few days trying to get better. we mostly hung out in our room, but we had already booked and paid for a sunset sailboat cruise. it was supposed to be romantic and intimate with a maximum of 3 couples. well 2 other couples signed up, but they never came! we had the whole ship to ourselves. it was a fantastic time and sunset (when i wasn't seasick)... (oh.. and the foot pic is for eric)

the time in our room allowed some craftiness....

by saturday we were fed up. we still hadn't recovered from our illness and we were supposed to be in mexico til tuesday. we bought tickets home for the following day. we got ourselves up and ready for one last nice dinner.

can you tell we were a little cooped up??