Sunday, November 15, 2009

Our ONE YEAR anniversary!!

I cant believe its really been a whole year since we got married! This year feels like it just flew by. Seems like just yesterday that we were in Dallas for our amazing wedding weekend with all our family and friends. It was so nice to have everyone there to celebrate! I can't remember the last time we were all in the same place at the same time! Everyone is so spread out everywhere and I know I miss all my family in Texas and Seattle so much!! Mike and I were talking at dinner about what a wonderful family we have and how lucky we are!

We had an amazing anniversary:-) Mike made me a "Happy Anniversary" cake!! so sweet:-) He got our marriage license framed in this beautiful black frame and got me pink flowers, I made him a gift (a jar that says LOVE on it and I filled it with little goodies and sweet notes), we got the "Live, Laugh, Love" words to go in our apartment, and we both gave each other some sweet as well as some funny cards. We relaxed during the day... Mike got a much needed pedicure that I knew he had been wanting for a while! I went to the mall and got my makeup done. We just hungout most of the afternoon at home with Dylan. Then around 5:00pm we went up to grandmas house to drop dylan off for his night of fun with Amy and Claire! He had a blast with them, he loves his aunt amy and his cousin claire so much. They got some really cute pictures throughout their night. Me and Mike headed out to Scottsdale for dinner at the Hyatt!! It was amazing!! We got there early so we could walk around a little before dinner. The hotel is on a beautiful golf course with a lake and water running throughout the entire grounds. Beautiful waterfalls, the pool was unreal, and the view was amazing. We went to dinner at Alto (an italian restaurant at the hotel). We got great seats outside on the patio, which had a beautiful view. It was chilly outside, but we sat next to these big fire pits, so it was perfect. We had an amazing dinner then they surprised us with a "Happy Anniversary" dessert. The dessert was arranged like a gondola. Then he gave us our complimentary passes to take a gondola ride after dinner. The gondola ride was so nice and relaxing. We rode in a real gondola named "isabella" and even had real Gondolier sing an italian song just like we were in Venice:-) It was beautiful at night because everything was all lit up. As we were leaving there was a live jazz band playing in the sushi bar. We listened to a couple songs...the atmosphere at this place was so romantic and relaxing. It was a perfect evening. Thank you so much Amy for watching Dylan so we could go out and celebrate!! Just the beginning of many more wonderful years to come!!!











































Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Monday, November 2, 2009

Sunday, November 1, 2009

happy halloween:-)

We had a great halloween!! I was so excited to find out that halloween was going to be on a saturday this year. That meant Mike could be there for trick-or-treating! We had a nice relaxing saturday at home and then went up to grandmas house for a yummy dinner. After dinner they got their costumes on, we took lots of cute pictures and we headed off on our mission for candy!! Papa was off to the church for the halloween party. He even dressed up, he was a very authentic cowboy!! Grandma stayed home to hand out candy to all the little trick-or-treaters and the rest of us were off buckets in hand. Dylan's line of the night (that we had been working on for a while) was, "trick-or-treat, need some candy please:-)" The best part was that he would say it over and over on our walk from house to house, but as soon as we reached the door all he would do was smile and reach out for the candy and put it into his little bucket. Claire was so cute in her little geisha girl costume. She was so happy to be wearing a cute and comfortable costume this year!! She was a trick-or-treating pro and she showed Dylan the ropes. What are cousins for?? They were a cute little duo and we all had a blast. Mike Amy and I all LOVED watching them run around in those cute costumes!

The cutest cousins!!
mommy and her little geisha girl

The kids with Papa, so cute
shes going to be a great big sister:-)



Daddy and Dylan, my boys


putting his candy into the bucket


we were trying to smile for a group shot, but I think Dylan got distracted




My favorite!






Thank you!!
He was trying to figure out how to get his candy and hold his juice at the same time


Watching grandma handout candy to the trick-or-treaters!
This was the first of many lollipops... he loves them!
my cute little fireman:-)
watching some wiggles with his candy stash


trick-or-treating at the church
We went to go visit Papa at the church halloween party... look at those handsome Alvidrez boys!!