Very Important

I’m kind of a big deal guys.

It’s true. A local fast food chain said so.

(What? I’m a substitute teacher. I’ll take any semblance of importance I can get!)

Burgerville is a local chain. They’re fast food, but with an emphasis on local, sustainable, and in season. They do giveaways on facebook every so often for Very Important Fans. And I WON.

Well, me and 149 other people.

Whatevs.

I got free Burgerville.

And they called me important.

And the free food came on a day when I had some medical stuff done and wasn’t feeling 100%. Free food = no guilt over being too lazy to make dinner!

Right now their seasonal sandwich is a roasted portobello focaccia sandwich.

Love my friends. Love. Big ol’ roasted mushroom with onions and sun dried tomatoes on delicious bread.

Weirdly enough, my husband didn’t try any. Shocking.

We shared a berry smoothie

(Hint for my Oregon readers: the smoothies and the shakes taste identical. One’s made with yogurt and one with soft serve. My husband and I have ordered the same flavor in a shake and a smoothie and not been able to tell the difference. But a smoothie has like half the calories.)

Burgerville shakes are supah thick

I’m realizing how many dirty things I could say to follow that line.  Holding it in.

My husband had a bacon cheeseburger

He was happy.

So happy he even shared his fries with me!

Also making me feel important? Getting gorgeous Valentines

It’s from my darlin’ friend Liz, who is super talented and made it herself.

Not only can she make pretty things, she’s getting married and my valentine was asking me to be a bridesmaid!

Don’t worry Liz, I already have the perfect outfit

We’ll have yours redone in white.

 

Bliss

In celebration of 6 months of wedded bliss

We added into our house baby Bliss!

Takeout is currently very suspicious.

Let’s hope the love grows!

“Cinderella Get Married”

So, earlier this week, one of our groomsmen IMs me, asking if we ever got our pro wedding pics, as he hasn’t seen them.

(That, clearly, was my fault, as I thought, you know, my husband would share them.  Which he would.  When he remembered.  Somewhere around our third anniversary)

And that made me realize I’ve never put the pictures up on here!

Sorry if you’re sick of wedding stuff!  I wanna share

Pictures were done by the lovely Smita and her assistant

She was absolutely lovely-I actually went to high school with her.  She’s clearly magic, as we got this picture of my parents

My mommy hates her picture being taken, so it’s hard to find smiling pics of her.  Magic.

In real life, my church isn’t so pretty.  But I think it looks pretty rad in pictures

If you were to find one picture of the day that was the most me, I think this is it

THE ELEPHANT SLIDE!  This was in the park when I was little.  I got way too excited when we found it.

My husband and I both tend to make faces in pictures.  Which means I have a lot of wedding photos like this one

Serious wedding photos are for serious people.

That, clearly, is a giant fish.  That we’re sitting on.

You may think “oh look, a picture of the guys”

Except this was what you saw from the back

My mom just about died laughing at it.

Overall the boys just had a little too much fun in the park

We girls took prettier pictures

And we did manage some normal pictures too

One of the flower girls was…. helping my face be pretty?  Who knows

This was spontaneous “let’s twirl together” adorableness

It made my ovaries melt a little bit.

My maid of honor pointed out in this picture

If you look closely, she and Liz (in the black dress and the red dress, respectively) are so not excited about the idea of catching a bouquet.

My husband clearly was excited to leave…

You’d think we hadn’t been living together for the past year…

And we now live happily ever after…

The End

(well, the end of the wedding pics at least)

The Best Wedding Gift

Guys, I’ve been an old married lady for a whole month now!

(Yes, Baby Brother, I’ve been old for far longer)

Getting married means you get lots of fun new things.  You also get two crockpots you didn’t register for, but that’s beside the point.

I have a food processor now, and it’s become what was missing in my life.  We’re besties.  It makes me banana soft serve

And also makes me pie crust.  To fill with pudding and strawberries

Or more banana soft serve!

We  also got a picnic basket and blanket

And used them to have a picnic a few weeks ago

(guac = food processor.  pesto on the pasta salad = food processor.  cookie = mixer.  love the new toys)

But…..today I got to use the thing I’d been most excited about using since tying the knot.

New dishes?  A mixer?  Large checks foolishly made out only to me and not my husband?

Nope friends, I was using THIS

True story:  I haven’t had health insurance in over a year.  I’d been staying healthy the old fashioned what since finishing grad school.  You know, doing things like eating my veggies, taking my vitamins, and driving across state lines for allergy meds.

But now friends I can sky dive and eat candy for breakfast!

Know what I got at the doctors?

Prescription headache meds!  For a DOLLAR!  Health insurance rocks!

(Also, how big is Takeout now?  Unreal.  She’s 5 1/2 pounds now.  When we brought her home she was 1 1/2 pounds!)

So friends, what’s your favorite kitchen appliance?

And let’s be honest…. when was the last time you saw a doctor?

Honeymoon!

When we booked our honeymoon, it was still more or less winter in Portland.

It was also the end of May.

I hate you Portland weather.

Sunshine sounded like the best choice EVER.

Then it finally started getting nice, and I wondered if I would still be as excited about Hawaii.

The day we left?

Portland wanted to make sure I really appreciated Hawaii.

I mean, we went from that to these views

Diamond head to our left

Ala Mona to the right

And Waikiki in the middle.

Redic, right?

(Room itself?  Not so fancy.  But the views?  Amazzzzing)

We were on the 37th floor of this thang

Once we checked in, we walked around a bit and found…

Umbrella drinks!  For $3.50!

The fiance My husband (totally just typed fiance there.  Still getting use to this!)  tried to be a man or something, and had a beer

Silly choice.

I mean, my drink came with pineapple.  I got a snack AND booze.

And it cost less.

Winner winner pineapple dinner.

The next day we hiked Diamond Head

This sign there amused me

Confusing fact:  Diamond Head looks remarkably like Surreal America.

Seriously.  Weird.

But there were cool trees

We don’t have trees in Surreal America

Like seriously, we don’t.  Shrub-Steppe ecosystem yo.

Married people, were did you go on your honeymoon?  Singles, where do you want to go?

I totally wanted France, but Josh had to be back at work last week.  And trying to do anywhere in Europe for only a couple days would be lame, you know?