Nov. 20-21, 2010

Our wedding was truly the best day of our lives! Although the amount and intensity of our projects at home have decreased since summer ended, we have not treated ourselves to a special night/day/minute since 2009 (every spare nickel and dime from 2010 was saved for a downpayment on our house.) Being able to spend two days completely alone together in a cutesy town and cutesy bed and breakfast was probably the most romantic thing we have done in our three years of being together.


Mike and I drove up to North Conway, NH and stayed at The 1785 Inn, where we also had our ceremony. Our room was cute and cozy, the food at the restaurant was EXCEPTIONAL, and the staff was extremely friendly. Here's a couple of photos from our weekend:

A chilly 34 degrees on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 3:45pm

Michael reading the vows he wrote that morning.

Reading the vows I wrote that morning.

I get a ring!

Mike gets a ring!

It's officially official!

Our first photo as husband and wife (and technically, our first family photo!)

Once the clouds cleared behind us, you could see the summit of Mount Washington.

The 1785 lounge where we had celebratory wedding drinks (a martini for Mike and the best hot choocolate I've ever had in my liiiiiiiiiife!)

This cute little room is where we nursed our food coma after an AMAZING dinner.

Mike and I doing a crossword puzzle the morning after our wedding (already trying to reach that "old married couple" status in under 24 hours!)

A super cute coffee shop full of art in North Conway

We can't wait to go back next year and do it all over again on our first anniversary!

Nov. 13-14, 2010

The bathroom is finished! Well, phase 1 of 50 is finished. Yesterday morning I spackled the walls with the only tool I had available:

Do I have to pay a co-pay for this use?

Thankfully I wasn't doing some sort of "super pro" spackling job in the bathroom.  I mean, I wanted to, but in turn that would have made every other area of the wall look even dumpier than the holes and cracks I was trying to cover up. Not worth going all OCD on walls that need to come down sooner versus later.

So here's the mis-tint paint I purchased a couple of weekends ago.  Note that even though this is a temporary fix, I still had to figure out a color that looked somewhat okay with those snappy yellow and brown tiles, yellow sink, yellow tub, and yellow toilet (barf barf barf!) So with those restrictions, light beige seemed to be the winner.

What says "high class" better than a white lid on a yellow toilet?

In other news, today Mike and I found out that someone else will be joining us at our wedding in the mountains next weekend. Although we didn't exactly send out a formal invitation to Baby Peterson, we certainly are thrilled and equally surprised with his/her RSVP! It looks like my help in our house projects will come to a screeching halt and our priorities will be shifting to prepare for our new arrival in July 2011.

Nov. 6-7, 2010

No projects this weekend; I went to my friend Tania's hometown of Armonk, NY for a fun night of singing, dancing, and a very fun game of Balderdash with her family and friends from home.


But you know what's even better than that? Mike proposing to me this past Tuesday. YEP! He totally and completely surprised me, and it was in a very "Michael" time/place/way of doing things, which made it even better. We plan on getting married, just the two of us, in the mountains before Thanksgiving - I can't wait!