Weekly Recap & hello February.

On the blog:

Monday: Happy Birthday to the first man I ever knew.

Tuesday: Enjoying the present.

Thursday: It's all about the money, honey.

I got a few questions on the blog and facebook regarding Thursday's post about money. 

I find that ironic since I don't necessarily consider myself good with money as much as I am cheap.

But I'm thinking about doing a post in the up-coming week answering said questions.

Should be interesting!

Also this week we said goodbye to January and welcomed February.

It's always exciting to welcome a new year but once January is over it's amazing to notice how quickly and easily we fell into that new year. It happens every time!

So in the first month of 2013 we got a facebook page and made a blogger button.

Revealed my success at last year's resolutions.

Went to dinner with family, celebrated Three Kings Day and my dad's birthday.  

Showed our home on the blog here, here, here, and here. 

Had date nights with Sean and received flowers at work.

Got really sick, almost died, and fell hard. 

I revealed facts about me and Sean launched his new band.

We also booked our first summer vacation (details to come), 

spent every Sunday night with family,

celebrated Sean's brother's birthday,

hung out with friends,

saw many, many movies,

and spent all our spare time with our favorite feline.

Happy February!

I'd make goals, but it's too cold to do anything extra.

Maybe once spring comes, I'll be more up for accomplishing things. 

:)

A sweet gesture.

When Sean and I started dating, he bought me flowers. They were beautiful. I had been in Mexico and he bought them for me to welcome me home. It was sweet.

When I was bringing them home to my house, I placed the vase on the floor in front of the passenger's seat. Naturally when I was backing up the car, the vase tipped, I leaned down to catch it, hit the gas instead of the brake and hit his brother's car. In the driveway. Yup. I was that girl.

It wasn't a light tap, either. It was a huge ordeal. An honest mistake but clearly an embarrassing moment that is still referred to... "hey, remember that time you hit my car and practically totaled your car?"... "hey, remember when you crashed the car in the driveway?"

Yes, I remember.

Needless to say, Sean's rarely given me flowers since. And when he has, he's had them delivered to the house to avoid any necessary travels.

Well, this week he surprised me and sent flowers to my work.

The best part? He sent them just because.

Not for a holiday, or birthday, or anniversary. Nope.

Just because he felt like it. :)

Of course, inside the box was a note that said "please don't crash your car". I didn't.

And I love them.

...Apollo is learning to cohabitate with them.

January is almost over!

Yesterday was my dad's birthday! We celebrated by eating chinese food, having cake and talking about our upcoming trip to Puerto Rico. :)

Sean and I are still finding a routine in our new place -- unpacking, decorating, making meals, working, hanging out, catching up on all our favorite shows. etc. Unfortunately, this means the blog has been taking a backseat.

Honestly, it's a little overwhelming. I have about 1,000 unread blog posts in my Google reader and after trying to read so many every night I no longer have the drive to write a post. Today, I didn't even look at the unread posts and just decided to write away.

So, here we are.

I can't really believe January is basically over. This month...

- we rang in the new year with friends
- we moved into our apartment
- were both pretty sick at some point
- Sean's band went into recording for their new CD
- we celebrated our 6 month anniversary
- I spent 5 days at a seminar
- we watched the Patriots win the AFC championship game
- we had our first snowstorm in our new place

Here's what we have planned for February:

- all-day scrapbooking event
- the superbowl
- Sean's band's premiere of their newest music video and lots and lots of shows
- movie date: the vow
- valentine's day
- a long weekend :)
- a trip to ikea to buy some furniture

Stay tuned :)