44 days to go......

For those of you who know me well, know that I love scrapbooking. Of course I never have enough time to do it, but I love it anyway! One day I'll be all caught up.... one day. ( A girl can dream can't she???!!!) Well, every once in awhile I will think of something to do because it will be a great scrapbooking page. This day was one of those days!

I decided one Saturday morning in October, that we needed to go to the pumpkin patch. Lance gave me that blank stare and said, "why?" Then I told him it would be a great scrapbooking layout. I just love this guy. He plays along with my craziness. Before he new it, we were in a pumpkin patch picking our pumpkins! Say that 10 times fast.

We actually had a great time. Though it was awkward at times being that we were the only people there without kids! Apparently people without kids don't randomly go to the pumpkin patch. Who knew! This place was so cool though! There were so many pumpkins to pick from and they even had donkey rides. Which we didn't do! We'll wait for the kids to do that one! hahaha

We went home that night and carved our pumpkins, and Murphy helped too. We got some great pictures. I would love to show you how great the layout turned out for these pictures. But, unfortunately, I'm about 3 years behind. Yikes! hahahahaha

Love,
Suzanne

45 days to go.....

Oh, boy, our bitter football rivalry. See, I've been a Buffalo Bills fan since Georgia Frontiere took my Rams and upped and moved them out of Anaheim. I was bitter, and angry, and absolutely, positively would not become and St. Louis Rams fan. And I surely wasn't going to become a Raiders fan. Negative. Nope. No way Jose! So, I picked Buffalo and they have been my team ever since.

In June of 2003, I started dating Lance. It was baseball season which was great because we were both Angel fans. Football was not even spoken about until right before the football season was about to start. Lance pulls out this Troy Aikman plaque that his brother Ryan got him when they were younger. I said to him, you're just a Troy Aikman fan right. Please tell me you're not a Dallas fan. Please please please! No such luck. He's a huge Dallas fan. And I think he became an even bigger Dallas fan once he found out I was a Buffalo fan.

Pretty much every football season since, he has tormented me. He bought me a Buffalo Bills Drew Bledsoe jersey which I love. Then the very next season Buffalo traded him. To what team you may ask??? Dallas. Then Dallas sighed Terrell Owens. The lone cancer cell to every other team he has played on. I knew I would get redemption when T.O. infected Dallas like he did his other teams. He didn't really do the damage I expected him to do. Then before T.O. could go into his full blown attack on his team, Dallas released him. And who signed him for next season you may ask... my stinking Buffalo Bills. You know when Nancy Kerrigan got hit on the knee by the guy with the pipe during the Olympic trials? And she laid there moaning and crying WHY WHY WHY........ya, that's what I'm doing right now. WHY WHY WHY Buffalo must you bring this cancerous cell to our team??? And, you know what Lance is doing? Smiling from ear to ear. He is so excited to watch this guy ruin my struggling team.


I love the fact Lance and I don't have the same favorite football team, (even though I wished he liked anybody else other than Dallas!) it gives us some friendly competition around the house. Of course some smack talking too. None more than this last week, thanks to T.O. Maybe, T.O. will be good for us..... maybe, just maybe.

My jersey is way cooler than the lame star on his jersey! =)

Love,
Suzanne

46 days to go.......

Aahh, our DC trip. I loved this trip for so many different reasons. Work sent me to DC in February of 2008. See those big coats we are wearing? Ya, we had to buy them before we left for our trip. We are Southern California people, we don't own heavy coats! =) I was so excited to take this trip because Lance was going to be able to come with me. I had never been to DC and he had only been there when he was in middle school (when he threw up, but that's a different story for a different time!). It was awesome being there in 2008 because it was the beginning of the election year. And oh boy, is hind sight 20/20! On every corner, in every store you could buy McCain and Clinton stuff. Not much Obama stuff at the time. Funny how in February he didn't stand a chance, and by November Clinton had lost her steam and Obama was chugging along to become our next President!

I was sent to DC for a 4 day conference and we planned on staying the whole week so we could do some sight seeing. I'm so glad we did! Even though I was the coldest I had ever been in my life, I was still glad to be there exploring a new city with Lance. At one point in our trip we were walking from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capital. Which probably can be done a lot easier when it's not 30 degrees outside! We were continuing on with our trek and I looked at Lance and said, "thank you for asking me to marry you in Hawaii and not here." He busted up laughing and asked why it mattered if it was in DC or Hawaii. Here's the thing, I really really really thought he was going to ask me when we went to DC. It never in a million years crossed my mind that he was going to ask me in Hawaii. I was completely and totally shocked. If he would have asked me in DC where I was suspecting he might the whole time, I would have been walking around without my gloves on (so I could easily slip my new ring on of course!!! ;-) ) I probably would have had frost bite on my fingers. I would have been trying to make sure I was photo ready and I wouldn't have been able to enjoy our trip; waiting and waiting for him to pop the question. And Lord help the poor man if I would have gone home from DC without an engagement! hahahahaha I mean really, how long does a girl have to wait. Just kidding Lance!!! I would have waited forever...........maybe! hehehehe

Lance was also able to introduce me to Scott and Stephanie and their two kids, Nate and Hannah. I just have so many great memories of DC. I'm glad we got to go in February. I learned that I can handle the cold much better than I can handle 100 degree heat with 100% humidity aka Miami in August. That blog will be coming up at a later date!

I love love LOVE traveling with Lance. We make such great travel buddies and we love exploring new things. I also loved when he pointed out the planter that he threw up in, and the bench he had to lay at. He is one funny guy!

Love,
Suzanne

47 days to go........

We are on day 47 and I've already given you 3 reasons why I love my future husband. By the time this is over I will have listed 50 different things/or memories that have happened with him that I have loved dearly. The great thing about Lance is that daily he does things that make me want to hug him a little tighter. This post is an impromptu post. It wasn't in my original 50. But that Lance, he keeps me on my toes!

On Friday, I did a trial run with a hair dresser to see how we were going to do my hair. She was slightly overwhelmed because my hair is so thick and there is just so darn much of it! See picture below and you'll know what I'm talking about!

I had made an appointment with my normal hair dresser to get my hair cut before the wedding, so I told this hair dresser, don't worry, my hair will be a little* shorter for the wedding. I'm getting it cut tomorrow, so there won't be as much to work with!

Well, I did end up getting it cut. But the few inches I thought were coming off turned into half my hair. As seen below.

I was so upset when I got home that I walked into our bedroom and just started crying. Poor Lance thought something was wrong. When he finally realized I was crying over my weed whacked hair he started laughing at me. Oh, yes, I do love this man. =) My hair is growing on me (though it's not growing fast enough!). My main concern is that it's not going to be long enough to do the up-do that I wanted for the wedding. My hair dresser swears it will be and I hope she's right. I wouldn't have really cared that much if I didn't have a wedding in a month an a half!

Maybe after the wedding I'll start growing it out again and then donate it to Locks of Love! Or, maybe I'll like the short do so much I'll keep it. Only time will tell!

Thanks for being there to laugh at me Lance! You always know how to put things into perspective! =)

Love,
Suzanne
*Apparently a few inches to a non hair dresser (me) means something totally different to a real hair dresser! =)

48 days to go!

Time is flying by! Only 48 days to go. My next stop down memory lane is my last day (from Disney) party. My last days at Disney were a little bitter sweet. I was happy to be leaving, but after 8 years there, some of my best friends were still there. And I loved being able to see them every day! 

It was time to go though, I had advanced as far as I had wanted to there, and frankly, I was tired of working every stinking holiday! 

Lance of course was awesome on this day. He was working at the STA at USC and I was already at Northrop. I was so sick on this day. Lance had taken the train from LB to LA then he was going to take the train from his work to my work. We were then going to drive to Orange County and have my last day party.* My boss at Northrop let me go early that day because I was so sick, but I couldn't go home because Lance would be left without a car. So I drove to the train station and slept. When he got there he drove me to the OC and to the party and then took care of me when I had a bit too much to drink!

My sister Cat did everything in her power to embarrass me..... hence the pink tiara! I had a great time that night. After a few drinks I didn't feel sick at all! =)

*One would think that most people would have their "last day" party their actual last day. Nope, not me. I had mine about a week or two after I had already quit! =) I was busy what can I say! hahahaha

Love, Suzanne

49 days to go!

49 days to go, and after only doing 1 blog, I almost forgot about doing this one! Oops! At least I remembered before we had to head off to work. 

This post is about our trip to New Zealand. There will definitely be more New Zealand posts since we had so many special memories there! Lance and I are Amazing Race fanatics. We have watched the show together since we started dating and we love to check out all the cool places they travel too. Watching it with Lance always cracks me up because he watches it and tells you before hand which flights will get you there the fastest and which one has long layovers etc. His travel agent skills come in handy watching this show! 

In one of the seasons, the players went to an ice bar in Russia. It was the coolest thing ever! Everything was frozen, from the bar, to the chairs, to even the cup they were drinking their drinks out of. When we got to New Zealand we started checking out different things to do. We found a brochure for an ice bar just walking distance from our hotel. We just had to try it out. It was so awesome. It was everything I expected, and more. They would only let you stay in there for about 25 minutes. My guess is that getting drunk in a freezing bar is probably not good for your body, so everybody had a 25 minute time limit to enjoy the bar. Of course they ushered you out into a non ice bar because they still want you to drink! hahahaha

We had such a great time at the ice bar and it was such a great experience. We actually felt like we were on the Amazing Race!

Love, Suzanne

Countdown....50 days to go!

Well, we only have 50 more days until Lance and I say "I do"! I wanted to do something special as we countdown to wedding day and I have decided to do 50 blogs in 50 days. I can't believe I'm about to commit to this during the final stages of wedding planning, but I really think Lance and I will be able to look back at this and enjoy it a lot. Plus, I think it will be so much fun traveling down memory lane as we approach our wedding date!

The stories I'm about to share with you over the next 50 days are stories from the last 4 1/2 years Lance and I have been dating. They are stories and pictures of some of my favorite moments over those years. I hope you all enjoy the next month and a half of stories!

50 days to go......... This picture was taken about 2 weeks after Lance and I started dating. This trip to the Long Beach Aquarium was our first big outing; and the first picture we ever took together. This picture has such sentimental value to me because it is our first picture. I remember printing it off a few days after our trip to the aquarium and putting it up in my cubical at Disney. 

One thing I remembered about that trip was me talking to him about the fact that I was about to go back to school soon. We had started dating at the end of June/beginning of July and my college classes started soon in August. Come September I would be going to school full time and working two jobs. I wanted to make sure he was going to be ok with the fact that my time with him was going to be very much limited once that happened. He was so sweet and supportive. We had only been dating a few weeks and he said to me that it didn't matter, he would still be there for me. Yup, I pretty much new at that point, the day we took this picture, he was a keeper!

                                                 

Lance had that thing growing out from under his lip when we first started dating. I hated that thing........and as the pictures progress you will notice that it disappears......hhhmmm wonder how that happened??? hahahahaha

Love, Suzanne