A Super Fabulous Time Together

I am so glad I decided to make the drive to Rhode Island last to spend some time with my husband.  We had a super fabulous time together.    We spent 5 great nights in a beautiful hotel, spent time with my husband's family, shopping, eating great meals, and just spending quality time together with one another.  We explored our new town to be (as of August 1st we will be residents of Rhode Island).  I really learned to love our new town when we were there and I am so excited for our future.

As we approach the end of our first year of marriage (our anniversary is July 17, 2011) we looked at this trip almost like a second honeymoon...and to be honest it was way better than our honeymoon.  As I got into my car on Wednesday morning to drive the 9 hours back to Virginia to pick up Madison... I was filled with so much hope and excitement for our future.

Our first year of marriage has not been awful, but it certainly hasn't been all unicorns and rainbows either.  We have had our shares of ups and downs... We were both in jobs we were not happy with, we were dealing with the orchestrating of an upcoming move which at times did not go as smoothly has it should have, house-hunting, raising a pre-teen, and some other minor things that added a bit of stress to our relationship.

I am definitely excited to see what year 2 has in store for us.  We only have three + weeks until we are reunited again for good...and in the middle of that we get to meet up again for a fabulous wedding (which I am doing the baking for...more to come about that soon).

The countdown is on to our big move.

FREE Canvas Deal through Wink Flash

Ever since my wedding photos came in I have been obsessed with canvas prints.  I have purchased and used Groupons to get 2 canvas prints that are 16x24 that are hanging in my living room!!  These are the two I already have -

Today I got an email from Winkflash for a free 8x10 canvas for new customers.  I have never used them before...but I will be ordering a canvas from them this evening.  Check out the deal HERE if you are interested or use code MYFREECANVAS at checkout.  

 If you make one, leave a comment and let me know what photo you used.  You have until April 4th to make your canvas.

Here are the photos I am deciding from.  Let me know which one you like best -

Gone Are the Days of Summer...

Tomorrow I return to work after about 10 weeks off.  It has been an amazing and busy summer. I finished planning a wedding and got married -

We spent a lot of fabulous days at our neighborhood pool . Madison and I took a lot of trips to Target where we shared lunch at the Target cafe-

We had fun painting pottery at Color Me Mine -

We had many great family days watching movies at home, going out to eat, Madison took a trip to Vegas, and Chris and I took a honeymoon cruise.

Tomorrow I go back to early wake-ups, a 30 minute drive to work, papers to grade, meetings to attend, and students to teach.  I will remember as the school year progresses how wonderful the summer of 2010 was for me and my family.