Day 8: A Piece of Advice

Challenge: Day 8: A Piece of Advice

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I have a few pieces of advice for all of you out there...
Marriage Advice: Do some sort of pre-wedding counseling.  Whether it be through your religious affiliation or not, it is really important and I can't stress this enough. Yes, you know your future spouse, I mean, you agreed to marry that person! But there are inevitably topics that you have yet to cover. Trust me! Rich and I only had phone calls and skype dates for the majority of our relationship, so we pride ourselves on our communication skills. Even when the marriage counselling came up, there were topics that we hadn't really talked about and this was a great way to get the conversation started.
Wedding Day Advice: Take about 20-40 minutes to spend time alone with each other. This just happened upon us. We hadn't thought about it. No one told us to do it. Between our ceremony and the reception (and all of the pictures and bustling my dress and and and) our caterer/day-of coordinator set up a tray of hors-dourves and champagne for us in a tucked away room. Away from the guests and the cameras, the flowers and the food to just be together. The room we were in was upstairs and had a big window looking down on the entire reception venue so as we basked in this amazing day we watched our guests enjoy the reception venue. It was magical. We were able to sneak away and spend some alone time together in peace and quiet and shrieks of excitement!
Work Advice: Make sure you are ergonomically set for your body type and drink a lot of water. I can.not. stress this enough. With the way technology is advancing these days, I cannot see moving away from sitting at a desk all day, typing away on a computer keyboard and staring at a computer monitor. Make sure that you are in an as ergonomic friendly position as you can be; if you can stand, stand! And make sure to drink a lot of water, for 2 reasons. 1) To stay hydrated! Obviously. And 2) So it forces you to get up from your desk and walk to the bathroom. Take frequent 1-2 minute breaks to stretch and look at something aside from your computer monitor. Break up your tasks with computer and other tasks that you may have that involves other muscles, and limbs! (Need help: check this out)
Life Advice: Your body is a temple, you only have one so take good care of it. Thanks, mom! This cannot be more true in more ways than one. Keep your mind learning, your body active and your heart loving. If you are lacking stimulation in any of the aforementioned categories, change up your routine! Run a new route, eat a new food, read a new article. Keep up with current events so you can engage in intelligent conversations with people aside from your spouse and your parents. Teach yourself a new language, start a new hobby, don't dwell on the things that hurt you in the past, forgive. All of these things keep us young at heart and wrinkle free!
Happy Hump Day everyone!

I love my Husband

I saw this picture floating around on Facebook and I had to share.

#1. I love squirrels - I am an Alpha Gamm, so, that's a no brainer.

#2. I love this picture and the caption.

I seriously have the sweetest husband in the world.

He is the one person who:

Can make me feel better

I want to share all of my hopes and dreams with

I want to grow old with

Can understand my quirks and love me for them

Shares my humor

Wants me to be successful and happy

Loves me just for me (alright, I stole that line from Darius Rucker, but you get the picture)

I am so grateful for this man!

He makes me heart smile!

Thursday Night =My Friday Night

Every few months, I do not work Friday so I can work the Saturday shift.

It can be nice to have a week day off to get some errands done, or to just have a nice break from the normal work week.

Last weekend was that for me.

Which means I have 2 Friday nights and no Saturday Nights during the week ;-)

It was rainy and gloomy in 'always sunny' LA and it was a rough day

Thursday was a rough day, so I texted Rich and asked him if we could have a quiet evening in.

He was more than on board!

We made soup, rented Inception (to watch again) from Redbox, lit all of the candles and snuggled on the couch with some wine!

It was a perfect Friday Thursday Night!

(Soup Recipe here)

Blessed on Tuesday

I am feeling incredibly blessed that I have had this beautiful love with my sweet sweet husband!

What are you feeling blessed about on this beautiful Wednesday?

Wedding ReCap: Day of the Wedding Part 5

You can catch up on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Day-Of Part 1, Day-Of Part 2, Day-Of Part 3, Day-Of Part 4!!

Once we were introduced, we went straight in to our first dance!

We danced to Nat King Cole, "When I Fall in Love"

After the first dance we had the first course (salad) and listened to the toasts!

Our cake

MOH Toast

Best Man Toast

What a view of the reception

At the end of the toasts one of my very best friends surprised us with a video where she interviewed our family and guests and asked them questions about us compiling video clips. 

It was extremely special and I will hold that video close to my heart, forever!

(Plus, it will be pretty hard to top at her wedding...we have already started brain storming!)

The video was funny at some parts....!

After the toasts, I danced with my dad. We danced to Stand By Me ~ Ben E. King

After I danced with my dad, Rich danced with his mom to What a Wonderful World ~ Louis Armstrong

We ate dinner and then cut the cake

We promised to be nice ;-)

After we cut the cake, we did the money dance. We danced to Dancing in the Moonlight ~ King Harvet

After the money dance, we opened the floor to everyone to dance!

Love this shot of my dress!

Looks like people were having fun!

Stop making us all look back your pros!

My Alpha Gamm Sisters!

In the midst of dancing we squeezed in the Bouquet and Garter toss

Garter toss

The gorgeous Caitlin caught the bouquet

Garter toss

Where is it?!

Colin caught it!

Then of course, we were put on the spot and asked to make a speech!

Then back to MORE dancing!

We had the BEST time!

We stayed and danced the night away until the last guests left and then we had the town car pick us up and take us back tot he hotel!

We drank champagne, ate yummy chocolate and truffles and talked and laughed the night away!

What a special and magical night!

Wow this was a lot of fun!
I loved reliving this!! How fun!

Wedding ReCap: Day of the Wedding Part 4

You can catch up on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Day-Of Part 1, Day-Of Part 2, Day-Of Part 3!

After the pictures at the church, Rich and I got into our town car and headed over to the reception site - The Blackhawk Auto Museum

We took some pictures out side before we went inside. 

I was having too much fun!

Love this picture!

After the photo shoot, I got my dress bustled by the lovely Melissa & Christine

The dress was heavy and it was pretty intricate! 

Love the dress bustled too!

My mom did the centerpieces! 

The gorgeous reception room!

After all of the photos, we headed in and were introduced to the guests as Mr & Mrs by my Mom and Dad!

Tune in tomorrow for the last part of the updates!!

WEIR Celebrating!

Because I have been a Weir for a Year!

Woohoo!

Today is our first anniversary!

I, sadly, am at work and Rich is at school :-(
Tonight we will make a yummy dinner and relax at home.

Last night we went out to a beautiful restaurant! And celebrated :-)

We also celebrated all weekend!

Friday night we stayed in, watched TV, ate roasted artichokes and drank wine!

Saturday, we went to Santa Monica and walked through the Farmers Market and had lunch and coffee.

In the evening, we went to LACMA and enjoyed a free, live, Latin concert and I made a yummy picnic for us! The weather was perfect, and we had a blast!

 Our Picnic:

Salad

Asiago Bread

Cheese

Sun Dried Tomato Pesto

Asparagus & Gruyere Tarts 

(amazing, recipe found here and make them, you wont be disappointed! The EVOO that you spread on the asparagus I mixed with the White Truffle Oil and it was food-orgasmic! I mean, WOW!)

Nothing Bundt Cakes

Our professional spread!

If I do say so myself ;-P

Gorgeous day to be outside listening to music!

Sunday, we had brunch with some friends, went on a run and had Happy Hour drinks in Venice Beach.

Monday we rode our bikes to our favorite coffee place in Westwood.

I ran some errands, came home and relaxed in the sun and read.
In the evening we got all dolled up and went out to a fancy schpantsy dinner in Santa Monica!
We had beautiful ocean and city views from the restaurant, it was amazing!

We arrived early to have some happy hour drinks and appetizers

Then we headed to our table and enjoyed the yummiest dinner!

Part of the view from the restaurant!

Yeah we were sitting next to Mayor Villaraigosa (Mayor of Los Angeles) at dinner!

Happy Anniversary to my sweet sweet husband!

I love you more than there is water in Venice and sand in Iraq :-)