3 months and counting...

There's just a little over three months now until the wedding. Sometimes it seems like way behind on planning, other times it seems like we're ahead of the game. We go in spurts, really.

Hana (one of Amanda's bridesmaids, friend from U of Iowa) was in town this weekend and she was helping us with the music - she brought two burned cds with everything from Lady GaGa to, well... other things that will make you want to dance (even if you're Dutch and you know you full well have no rhythm!).

Amanda enjoyed her first three day weekend in quite a while. She's been working for over a year at an assisted living community on Saturdays (in addition to her 9-5 job at the University of Colorado) and this was one of the few weekends she took off to spend some quality time with her friend. Between planning the wedding, working and sleeping she hasn't had much time for anything else... except researching the new diet we're on and cooking meals that will keep me around longer! (More on this diet in another post)

At any rate, she's enjoyed some well deserved rest. And next weekend I'll be taking her away from her job again up into the mountains, weather permitting, for a little birthday adventure :)

Date Night

Our typical Friday night lately has consisted of watching Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. Last night we had every intention of returning home from our date night to watch the show, but our artistic side got the better of us... or maybe it was our lack thereof which led to a three hour painting extravaganza!

We went to a craft shop called Color Me Mine where you can paint clay pottery of many shapes and sizes. Amanda painted a plate while I decorated a vase, which was obviously hand selected by Amanda, with the less than subtle hint that something needs to go inside it! Anyway, despite our collective grumblings about a lack of creativity we managed to produce two pieces that we were moderately proud of. Now we have to wait a week before we can pick them up, to allow time for them to fire and glaze them. Soon enough we'll have some decorative pieces to match our blank walls...

At any rate, our outing was very much worth the cost of missing our weekly program. Now I'll have to surprise her with flowers soon... conveniently, her birthday is less than two weeks away :)

SNOW DAAAYYYY!!!!!!!!

This is no April Fool's joke... I am currently enjoying a sunny snow day in beautiful Denver, CO! We got 2-3inches of snow last night - most of which has since melted - but my school district felt it good and right to let us have the day off. I think this is more a gift due to sympathy for teachers' stress levels, having to deal with restless kids who already seem to be mentally checking out for summer break... still 8 weeks away!

Anyway, I got to finish off my paper (for my Saturday licensure class) and catch up on grading, so it wasn't as if I was outside all day building a snowman and making snow angels... oh wait, the snow's already gone so I couldn't do that even if I wanted to!

Amanda's birthday is only a couple weeks away now - she'll be my age for just over a month! I'm still trying to think of how I can top last year's gift of spa treatment... any ideas?

Well, I'm currently sitting in the library at University of Colorado (I know, it was so sweet of me to drive Amanda to work in these "treacherous conditions"!), and it's bringing back some fond memories of the time I spent in school. Almost makes me want to go back... minus the loans and late night study sessions :)

Anyway, gotta go pull up the car so we can get out of here shortly!