D, E Dates, Thanksgiving, Birthday

This post is going to be a long one, no worries it is going to be filled with pictures and fun ideas. So it has been a crazy couple of weeks, with Matt coming back from his trip and getting ready for Thanksgiving and my birthday a lot has gone on. First I want to talk about what we did for our dates. For the D date, it was planned spur of the moment due to the fact that Matt got back from his trip so our D dates was just a simple one. We decided to go to a new restaurant here called Due Amiche.

It is this nice little Italian restaurant that reminds us of Vinny's back home. The whole time we were in there we kept thinking, "oh my gosh it is like we are right back at home!" It was at a nice reasonable price and their food was delicious. It was just one of those hole in the wall places but it was fantastic! So that is what we had for our D date.

So for the E date I was pretty proud of myself for coming up with some ideas. So I started off the date with an "Easter Egg Hunt" I didn't have Easter eggs so I balled up pieces of paper and hid them around the apartment for Matt to find. Inside each of the balls told of what the rest of the date was going to be.

After he searched and found all of the papers it told him we would be going to eat at "El Acapulco" Afterwards we went to the dollar tree and tried and to find things that began with E so we ended up getting "exploding angry birds." aka pop rocks, and glow sticks.

Since we had the glow sticks and we decided to go home and have an "electric dance off" So we turned off the lights and began our light show, and danced to music.

That was the end of our date and it was so much fun. So now we fast forward to when family came down! We were lucky enough to have Thanksgiving with some family members this year. We had Momma Wehle and Jono to come down and visit us for a week!

We had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner and Momma and I cooked a good portion of the day and it came out beautifully. [Of course Matt helped too and Jono did dishes! Thanks!] Look at our masterpiece! Our stomachs were certainly stuffed and we even got to skype family for a bit. While they were here we showed them around Conway a bit and took them out to dinner a few times. We even saw Catching Fire...twice. Everyone needs to see it. Seriously.

We had so much fun, [Doesn't Jono look so happy?] playing board games, we learned how to play Ticket to Ride and played it twice. It does take a while to play but it is a very fun game once you get started, I won the first game and Momma won the second one. Also after Thanksgiving dinner I was just too dang excited...so I put up the Christmas tree! At least I waited until after Thanksgiving dinner was over.

Doesn't the tree just look so beautiful? I couldn't help it! I was so excited and our tree isn't real I know, but since we will be out of town I don't want to clean up all the pine needles when we come back. So instead we put some scented pine things in the tree and our ornaments are our wedding colors  blue and purple! I just love it..probably too much because I keep it on all day and it just makes me happy.

I know, I know. You are probably sick of it but in my family we take birthdays very seriously. So my husband and I have a running joke that he has to make my birthday awesome. He does a great job every year and treats me like a princess and this year we had family which made it even more fun!

I only have two pictures of my birthday because funny enough one of the last gifts I opened was my brand new camera from my love! I thought this picture was funny because it was unintentional because Jono was testing out the camera but it made me laugh so I thought I would share.

Momma gave Matt and I this for an early Christmas present she brought it down here for us. We loved it so much! {Thank You!} I got spoiled for my birthday with gifts from my mom, momma wehle and jono and my hubby. Afterwards we went to Buffalo Wild Wings and went to watch the Capitals game. They placed it on a tv for me but funny enough...we got to see the end of the game EVERYONE is talking about Alabama verses Auburn and everyone in Bdubs was cheering and screaming. It was so awesome! They came and sang happy birthday to me and it was such a great week!

All in all we have had a great couple of weeks and I just thought I would share. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and happy holidays! Christmas is coming up and we will be leaving to go back home for a few weeks to spend more time with family!

Until Next Time.