Anniversaweek

This past week was our anniversary and Kevin took to calling it our anniversaweek since the festivities were spread out. Since Kevin had class till 8 on Wednesday (our actual anniversary) we went out for dinner on Tuesday to my favorite, Macaroni Grill. Kevin is very longsuffering to go there considering he is not such a huge fan of Italian food!

On Wednesday night we went to Baskin Robins for ice cream since neither one of us have gotten a cone there in ages. About a half hour after downing the ice cream the baby starting kicking like crazy. I guess he likes the sugar too!

Thursday night we were supposed to go to the symphony but it fell through. All in all though it was a great anniversaweek!

Tribute to Kevin

So, I have never done one of these pass it on blog entry things, but I thought it was be fun to give Kevin some credit for being the great husband he is, especially since our anniversary is around the corner!

how long did you date? We knew each other for about 6 months before anything happened and then we dated for over a year before we got married.

how old is he? he just turned the big 2-8

who said I love you first? Kevin did in a moment of weakness ;)

who is taller? thankfully Kevin is (and gets annoyed if I get up on my toes to be closer to his height)

who can sing better? I would say Kevin. He secretly spends his Sunday mornings practicing the tenor part to hymns.

who is smarter? This is the fight of our marriage. I honestly think we are each stronger in different things, although I give him major credit for going to law school.

who does the laundry? Ha! We had this conversation tonight. I told him I do the laundry and he said lately he has been doing loads of whites since he runs out of things before I do. Mostly though, I do the laundry.

who pays the bills? I started doing it when we got married and Kevin said that since I am doing such a great job I can keep doing it. (I think he likes not having to worry about it!)

who mows the lawn? Kevin is such a super husband and he does it with a push mower, nonetheless!

who drives? Mostly I do, since I take the car to work and drop Kevin off and pick him up on my way back and forth.

who is more stubborn? Most definately me! Kevin is so kind natured and easy going it is rare he is stubborn about something.

who kissed who first? It was a really long time ago. I think it was Kevin, but it is hard to remember.

who asked who out first? I don't think there really was someone asking someone out. We were friends that just kind of evolved.

who proposed? My sweet husband has proposed now three times. He reproposes to me each year around our anniversary because he says there are so many great ways to propose, it would be a shame to only pick one. (This year though he thinks I should do it since it is a leap year. Anyone have any good ideas?)

who has more friends? I think we would both agree that I do.

who is more sensitive? Again, Kevin is so easy going, I am definately more sensitive.

who has more siblings? Kevin does. He has four brothers and one sister, which definately tops my measly three brothers.

who wears the pants? I think Kevin does but he probably thinks that I do, so who knows!

I tag: Whoever feels like doing this.

Birthday's and Holiday's

Let me just tell you that Kevin is great! The poor guy has a birthday only two days before Valentine's Day, which is cutting it pretty close. It means that this time of year for us is really busy and Valentine's day just kind of gets forgotten about, but we usually do his birthday up right. The wrench to the plan this year was that I have the flu. Poor Kevin didn't say a word about the fact that for his birthday we stayed home while I lounged around and did the same thing for Valentine's day. He didn't even really get anything, but he was a great sport about it!

The Down Side of Up

So the other night Kevin and I were having the age old debate about what to have for dinner. Considering my aversion to chicken this is actually a hard thing to come up with. We FINALLY settled on homemade nachos and got out the stuff to start making it, but we had one big problem, the ground beef was still frozen. Kevin started defrosting the meat while I pulled out a frying pan to cook it in. I put the pan on the stove and turned it on. Kevin brought over the meat and chipped off the first bit of meat that had defrosted on the outside of the ball before throwing the rest in the microwave. I started to cook the meat he had thrown in only to notice a roach walking across the meat in the pan. Kevin reached in there and got it out and was shocked when I told him I REFUSE to eat that meat now. So, the meat had to be thrown out and we started all over again. The wonderful thing about living in Hawaii is that no matter what time of year or how clean your house is there is always a roach to be found! I more than happy to send some to anyone who feels roaches are just what their house is lacking...just let me know.

Hiking Diamond Head

On Friday we decided to go hike Diamond Head, an inactive volcanoe not far from our house. The hike isn't too bad but it was packed with tourists. We did the hike Hawaiian style, in flip-flops. It really was pretty from the top!
Here is the view from the top of the crater of the volcanoe. The only thing in the crater is the visitor's center and the people collecting money for you coming in. For walking into the park we had to pay $1 each. I figure that money goes to pay all the employees they had down there to insure they got their money. They even yelled after a couple that didn't realize they had to pay.
Here is a look at Waikiki and downtown Honolulu farther in the distance. It looks like quite the mass of buildings when you look at it from this angle.
Isn't Hawaii pretty?!? It almost looks like a painting because the water is so clear. Proof that we really were up there and didn't just steal the pictures from someone else's website and post them as our own! The sun up there was so bright it hurt to look at the camera.
The worst of the staircases we had to climb. In my dislike of heights I was not excited about having to go up these, knowing that I would have to come back down them. As you can see people go up and down these at the same time when really there is only room for traffic going one way. Definately not my favorite part of this hike.

Christmas Came and Went

We hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday. It always seems like Christmas takes forever to come and then is gone in a flash. We went to a holiday party for the firm Kevin will work for next summer. I definately felt too poor to be there. It was interesting to watch their gift exchange. Lawyers jumping up challenging the rules about how many times a gift can be stolen and whether or not a trade counts as a steal. Very interesting!

We had a wonderful holiday and hope that you did as well!

Christmas Rush

You know, every year you have good intentions of doing nice things for people. You start early and you think you have planned well until it all blows up in your face. Take for example, our adventure the other night to deliver goodies people. Kevin and I came home and started making the goodies right away. Then we realized we needed wax paper which really only set us back by about 10 minutes, but the whole process of making the goodies (seeing that we decided to double the recipe) took longer than expected. By the time we got in the car with our 14 plates it was 7:20. We decided to hit the people close by first and get them out of the way. Now, driving in the dark to places you have been only once is hard enough but over half of the people we had never been to their houses before. We made it through our neighborhood and then set off for the directional nightmere that is Waikiki. We went to the places we knew for sure first and then tried to find a place that we thought we knew. We drove down this alley of a road in what looked to be a shady part of town (later confirmed by the person who USED to live there). We knocked on what we thought was their door only to be greeted by an elderly man who was very confused as to why we had knocked. He said they didn't live there, but we were so sure, so we looked around a little, decided to go another place and come back. Again we still didn't see their car, and seeing as it was after 9 and we were counting on them to give us the addresses for the other places we called it a night. This is why we now have something like 7 plates of our goodies in our freezer to save for another night, or to eat alone in pleasure.