Our long term plan...

I sent Joe the picture in the top left corner of this screen.. he sent back the rest. The drawing made me smile. What do you think of his long term plan? I like that my ring is bigger then our house in the expensive Philly suburbs. hahah. I think Joe looks pretty sexy in his hard hat in Ohio.

Our family really looks like winners too...

Valentines Day 2011

I had a great Valentines Day this year. I cant believe that this is Joe and I's THIRD Valentines Day together. You may remember back to the first Valentines Day back in 2009. It was the first Valentines day I had spent with a boy in a long long time. I was so shocked that Joe actually had ordered flowers and had them delivered to my house and planned a nice meal for me. This was UNHEARD OF in the relationship I had been in previously. I came to find out that although I was impressed by his effort, he hated the restaurant he chose. He still talks about how that restaurant was no where near good enough for a V-day dinner... and how he was so embarrassed about it (I think that's cute). And so, every year since, he tries to out-do the infamous restaurant that he so despised (*but I thought was more then adequate*). This year, we went to Smith and Wollensky's on the Saturday prior to Valentines day. Before dinner, he gave me a beautiful card and Godiva chocolates... and I did the same. (man we are original) Anyways, the restaurant was so good. For an appetizer we had crab cakes which were outstanding. While looking for a dinner choice on the menu, I noticed that they had a raw oyster bar. Joe and I had been talking a few weeks prior that he had never had an oyster because he never had the guts to try one. So, we ordered two raw oysters, one for each of us. He ended up really liking them, and now has plans to go to an oyster bar in the near future. For dinner, we ordered a porterhouse steak and truffle oil mac and cheese (which was my absolute favorite). Next time, I'm going there for lunch getting a glass of wine and a side of mac and cheese. We also had some of there private label wine, which they make on site. All and all the meal was very good.. although I don't know that he will be able to continue on this upward trend of outdoing the previous year!! After dinner we stopped at Jolly's, which is a dueling piano bar in center city. I really enjoyed it, they played some fun music, although I do think it's more of a GNO kind of place, I don't think Joe was feeling it too much.

The next day, Manayunk was having "Manayunk on Ice", where they invited master ice sculpture carvers to come do demonstrations. I was kinda in a bummy mood because my roommate and her boyfriend were going to took at engagement rings and for some reason all my insecurities about being alone and never getting married started to come out. Not to mention I was bummed he was heading back to OH for work for the 2nd two week stint in a row. To try and cheer me up Joe took me down to look at the ice sculptures. We walked around a little bit and had a nice day.

On Monday, I got home from work and got an unexpected bouquet of roses from Joe with a note explaining how sorry he was that he cant be around for me more often, and how much he really does care about me. In retrospect, I way over reacted to other people getting engaged. I have a great boyfriend who tries most days to make me so happy. We do so many fun things together that a lot of couples never get a chance to do and if this is the only engagement ring that I see for awhile, I am ok with that...

Utah.. better late then never

So, I've been procrastinating writing my blog about my vacation to Utah becuase I have a lot to say about it and writing it all down seems like a lot of work everytime I consider doing it. I have decided to go with the highlighter version since I have some extra time on President's Day at work.


On the last week in January my family went to Park City, UT for the Sundance Film Fest and a week of skiing. We had a great time, we skiied two different slopes and each day the skiing was perfect powder and the weather was sunny. We skiied Park City & Deer Valley, out of the two I think I liked Deer Valley better, the skiing was a little easier, and the trails were beautiful. Although, you cant really go wrong when skiing out west.



Park City is a cute little town with shops and restaurants. A few of the days we just walked up and down the street looking at stores, getting food, and looking for celebs who were there for the Sundance Film Fest. I met/saw/or took a picture with the following people: Paul Rudd, Ross the Intern, Carmen Electra, James Franco, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Elizabeth Banks and Taylor Armstrong from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. It was so exciting to be there with the celebs and all the stuff going on. The town had a great energy, and its nice to roll in the fast lane with the A listers every once and awhile.. hahah.

It was so nice to get to spend a week with my family, enjoying the sunshine, and out of my cubicle. I am definitely planning on going back next year. I didnt catch any of the Sundance movies that were playing so I'd like to go back and do that. If you are looking for something different, I would definitely recommend checking out Utah.

xoxo.

26th Birthday!

I have been very busy the past few weeks and have quite a few blog posts swimming around in my head. But since its late and I am tired, Ill start with the short one. Saturday night I had a few of my friends over to celebrate Joe & I's 26th Birthday. I had a great time celebrating and I am so lucky to have so many good friends. One funny thing did happen though.. check out the video! I am thinking about submitting it to Americas funniest home videos in hopes of winning the grand prize. What you dont see is that at the end, I smeared the cake all over joes face like a wedding gone bad, he was not pleased to say the least :) but a good time was had by all anwyays.