It's Official (Well, almost)

Mark and I have a house!!! If you know us well, then you know how excited we are to FINALLY have a home. Not that we haven't loved living in our apartment! Hope you caught the sarcasm! Mark and I counted today and in the past 15 months we have looked at 12 homes, had inspections done on 3, made offers on 4, gave up and talked to a builder, when out of the blue, our sweet friends at church (and now future neighbors) told us about our house! We loved it! Bless our realtor's heart, I know she was thrilled for us! We love you Kate. We really felt God's hand in this whole process. Our house is actually right next door to a home that we came very close to buying last summer. That's a long story that I won't bore anyone with. Anyway, we close on our new house April 30th and move in May 1st. I'll post more pictures once we've moved in. We are so excited and feel so blessed. We're looking forward to having our family and friends over soon!

Perspective

Ok, so I have a confession, Mark and I are LOST fanatics. There, I admit it. They say that's the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. However, this has not always been the case. Last year, Christmas of 2007 to be exact, was when this obsession, for me, began. Mark had always been a fan of the show from day one. Not I. When we first began dating, I made so much fun of him for watching what I called, " an upscale Gilligan's Island." He begged me for almost two years to watch the show, but I refused. FINALLY, since I had two weeks of vacation, I sat down to watch the first episode of Season 1, thinking the whole time that I would certainly not care for it. Well, needless to say, by the end of the very first episode, I was hooked. I mean I was like someone on crack, I just couldn't get enough. One Saturday, Mark and I got into a HUGE fight because he refused to watch anymore. ( In his defense, we had watched about six episodes in row) I just couldn't believe that he refused to watch anymore since he was the one who had gotten me hooked in the first place. I realize now that I was being ridiculous, but at the time, I was truly mad at him....until he sat me down and made me watch the video below. If you are a true fan of LOST, you will most certainly find the humor in the video, if not, well, it's still funny.


*You'll have to mute the music at the bottom of this page to hear the video!

Holiday Recap

The holidays went by way too fast this year. Below is a slideshow of pictures from our family trip to NYC and my annual girls trip. Each year my friends from college and I get together to shop, eat, and celebrate Christmas. This year (well, technically last year) we chose to meet in Charlotte. Our friend Isabelle lives there, and she was so sweet to let us all crash (and trash) at her home. As you can see, we had a blast. Mark and I spent Christmas in Corinth, but were able to celebrate with his parents after Christmas. We had a wonderful holiday and hope that our blog friends did as well. Happy New Year...20 days late! :)

4 MONTHS!!!!

I decided to finally sit down and update this blog since it's been 4 MONTHS!! I realized last night than an entire season has passed since my last post. I think that might be a record. Mark and I have been busy working and just hanging out with friends and family. I won't bore you (if there's anyone who still checks this thing) with a recap of the last four months. I will say that Mark and I, along with my mom and dad, are leaving for NYC this Friday to visit my sister. I will definitely be posting pictures from our trip. This will be sort of like a two year "engagement" anniversary trip for Mark and me. We were engaged almost two years ago in NYC. We're jamming a lot of stuff into one weekend, lots of dining out, sight seeing, shopping, and broadway. I have been counting down the days. We're going to celebrate my sister's graduation. She just graduated with honors from the French Culinary Institute as a pastry chef. I'm so proud of her! Mark is already talking about how much weight we're both gonna gain once she moves back to Corinth! I've missed her so much. In honor of her, I'll post a picture of a cake she made while she was home for Thanksgiving. She made this thing like it was nothing! I was amazed, and I promise you, it tasted just as heavenly as it looks! More posts to come!

Oh, and I had to add a random picture of Mark with Oscar on Thanksgiving. Oscar had too much turkey, and this is how he was the rest of the night! He was just like a little noodle! Love him!

Cardboard Testimony

A friend that I work with told me to watch this video. You need to silence my playlist in order to hear it. I may be the only person who hasn't heard of this You Tube video, but I wanted to share it anyway. It's wonderful!

Boston 2008

Happy Anniversary

Mark and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary on Monday. I have been planning and saving all year for his gift. On the day of our wedding, Mark joked that the only other place he would have wanted to get married, other than our church, was Fenway Park. I knew right then what I was going to do for our first anniversary!!! It took lots of planning and help from friends, but last Thursday, I surprised Mark with tickets to see the Red Sox. He cried. I tried to film it on my camera, but the battery was dead from Mexico. He was so excited, but so rushed to get things packed!! We flew out the next morning and were in Boston in time for the Fourth of July Spectacular with the Boston Pops. We went to the Esplanade to watch the fireworks show, but it was crazy. We ended up going back to the room. To our surprise, we were able to watch the fireworks show from our hotel room.
The next day we did the tourist thing. We walked all over Boston and crammed a lot into one day! Sunday, we spent the day with Mark's family. His grandfather, aunts, uncles, and cousins all live in Salem, and were so sweet to have us over for the day. Thanks again Mike for driving us all over Boston, and Cathy and Pips for opening your home and feeding us so well. It was a great visit, and I'm so glad to have finally met the rest of the Mazurkiewicz crew. On Monday we took a tour of Fenway and stopped at the Yawkey Way store for souveniers. The game started at 7:05, and I have to say, for someone who claimed to not like baseball, I had a great time. Our seats were awesome, and I was surprised how fast the time flew. I was sad to see the game end, but at least the RED SOX WON!!!!! Mark had a great time and that's all that mattered.
Without sounding too corny, this past year has been the best year of my life. I married such a wonderful man. I could go on and on and "goob" everyone out, but I have to say that with each day that passes, I love him more and more. There's noone I'd rather go through this life with than Mark. I'll try and post pictures from our trip tomorrow. If you know Mark, you know we have a hundred to put on the computer!!! I also added two songs to our blog. The first song is the one that Papelbon walks out to, to "close" the game. The crowd goes nuts! You might recognize it from the movie The Departed. The other, which is actually played by the same band, is the "unofficial" song of the Red Sox Nation! Their called the Dropkick Murphys and they are all from Boston.