Be still my coeur!

Brand and I had a beautiful Saturday in Coeur d'Alene, ID. We had so much fun and relaxation! We ate, swam, and then ate some more (Gooey's!!).

At one point I asked Brand if he too felt a little like we were on a honeymoon. He said yeah! I think it was because we were away from the routine, from the errands, and were able to just focus on each other. It was a lot of fun :)

The lake :)

My sweet

Post-swim

Brand with our Huckleberry Gooey!

Me with our Hucklberry Gooey (yes those are two chocolate covered strawberries, yum!)

Conquered!

W00t!

I'm pretty excited for the next few weeks!
Here's why:
1.) Brand is taking me to an outdoor performance of Much Ado About Nothing which will be awesome because I love the Idaho Shakespeare Festival (For you Non-Idahoans..it's brilliant and it's all outside in this beautiful ampitheater) so I'm pretty excited to get my fix which I haven't had for awhile!
2.)Brand and I are going swimming at Lake Coeur d'Alene this weekend and I'm excited to get the HUGE ice cream afterwards :)
3.) Part 1 of our anniversary celebration is going to take place 5 days before in Seattle when we get to see Blink-182 and My Chemical Romance in concert! We're going with my little bro Stevo and his friend and we're pretty excited for the whirlwind day!
4.) Part 2 of our anniversary celebration will take place in Boise! We're going back to B-Town for Labor Day weekend to see family, eat Brazillian, and of course...nervously watch BSU play their opener against Georgia...THEN we'll be taking the 4th to spend time together  in the city we got married and spend a lovely romantic evening somewhere special to us.(We will be taking a break to meet the sibs and friends to do some fantasy football drafting)
5.) Part 3 of our anniversary celebration will happen on our actual anniversary and basically it means I get to eat the best Kobe beef ever. We also get to keep up some traditions we started last year. I'm pretty stoked about it :)


And not in the next few weeks but coming this fall..
1.) Cassie's birthday celebration! Mollie and I always get together with Cassie either in Spokane or in Walla Walla to get the gang back together and rock the world together.
2.)NYC trip!!! Plane tickets aren't bought yet but they might as well be. So excited to see the Big Apple with a few of my favorite girls in the world (Dani, Mollie, and Cassie!)


But tonight..
I have a special date night planned just for Brand. I'm excited to drive him around Spokane blindfolded...so he can feel what it was like when we got engaged and I was blindfolded half the time haha.

Anyway, have a lovely week, fall, year!

Reunited

I've started working out again. Makes me feel old but rejuvenated at the same time.
I wish I could just go for a nice run like most of you but it's incredibly painful and I'm pretty sure it has to do with my low blood pressure. So I've resorted to my 8 years of conditioning in gymnastics to create my own little routine. It's fun to be back in the metaphorical saddle again.

In other news, I've cut down my soda intake to one a day...which has been helpful in the "eating right" department.

In "Brand was right" news...Brand always thought that despite my love of junk food, I wasn't eating enough calories every day. Thanks to a handy dandy Android App (My Fitness Pal if you are looking for a handy calorie counter) I found out that I'm short about 200-500 calories a day! Sheesh! So I've been working on that which is really hard when you're trying to eat right but I'm looking for a healthier lifestyle in all arenas.
Speaking of which...I'm hungry...I'm going to eat some cookies (Thanks mama Adams!)

A Date Night for the Books

Wow! With a title like that we must have done something huge, spectacular, romantic, and something extremely expensive...
Well if that's what you thought then you really don't know Brand and me very well.

As Brand and I near closer to our two year anniversary I constantly find myself finding more things that makes me fall deeper in love with him (ahem...sorry for the cheesyness..that may be the last for this post..I can't promise anything).

So what was this amazing date?

1.) Branderpants made some yummy tacos!
2.) We played Scrabble...at Brand's request...Brand hates board games..so this was out of pure love (P.s. I beat him finally..by a lot! Losing millions of games of Words with Friends on my phone mainly against my brother have finally paid off!) Then this exchange totally proved that we are definitely made for each other:
(Showing him the picture I took of the letters I had during the game that spelled Ass Text)
Me: A message sent from your pocket!
Brand: OR...
Allison: An ancient Mexican people!! (Aztecs)
Seriously..no one else would have given me this comic gold, and no one else would've not flinched when I totally knew what he was talking about.
3.) We watched Dead Alive. Which is the bloodiest movie ever made (seriously, most fake blood ever used in one movie...for instance, the last scene had 300 liters of fake blood) I almost puked a couple times. And I definitely laughed until I cry...I could have not watched this movie and enjoyed it THIS much with anyone else. (Yes we will be owning this movie someday!)
4.) I get to share my love of British TV with him. I didn't think he would enjoy it as much as I do even though he loves the Monty Python crew. But he certainly does! It also proves that we would totally survive in Ireland. (P.S. Check out The IT Crowd...it's brilliant! We are a wee bit addicted. British comedy with an Irish man in the lead? Sounds like good craic to me!)

God really got this one right. He definitely picked the best partner in life for me.
I love you Brand to Caprica and back :)