Senator's game!

I had so much fun tonight! Scott and I went to the Senator's baseball game in Harrisburg. Afterwards we went for a walk  down the lit up bridge connecting city island and Harrisburg. Then we hit some baseballs in the batting cages. I started at the 35mph balls to warm up then moved up to 55 mPH and hit a few!  I was so excited. :-)

The Senators stunk! It was 9 to 2 (Baysox against Senators)...Though our team stunk, we had a ton of fun.

So excited!

Scott tried his luck at winning some prizes by throwing tennis balls from where we sat at targets in the field. We didn't win anything, but it was fun.

Our personal Kiss cam. :-)

Once I got the hang of swinging I tried the 55 MPH and hit 3 out of 12 my first try. I was pretty dang excited.

Scott batting at the 55MPH. He's a hunk :-).

A sick weekend

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been suffering some pretty annoying health issues and I'm usually too exhausted by the end of the day to write anything here. I've gone to several doctors and had several test. They have not figured out what's going on yet. It's a frustrating process.

Sooo I was excited for this weekend because my friend from work invited us to go country line dancing Saturday night. But lo and behold I didn't feel so good Saturday. Then I was pretty much bed ridden all of Sunday. Scott is so sweet and understanding, he didn't complain that I was boring or ruining his weekend, he just took care of me. He cut me up watermelon (because that's the only thing that didn't make me sick) and he even read to me (Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson) to help me get my mind off of the pain. He really makes me feel special. I'm just shocked that I've gotten such a caring guy. Yes, I know you guys are gagging and like "seriously, stop being a romantic", but I'm just telling the truth. All I can say is I'm very lucky to have found a guy I just click with. We are definitely not the same and don't agree on everything, but I just get him and he just gets me. I thank God for these blessings.

I made mango Sticky rice (for recipe see MilkandHoney blog: http://ginnymaemilkandhoney.blogspot.com/p/cooking.html )  for Scott because he had a craving for it and we got mangos for really cheap at BBs. First time I made it by myself (and I substituted brown sugar for the palm sugar) and it tuned out pretty good. Also, the night I made this, my mom and sister (Julie) came over to watch Penelope with me. It was so nice to just chill with them and have a nice girls movie night.

So this isn't really exciting but it was a Saturday breakfast that we used a pepper from our garden to jazz up the taste! :-) I love being able to just walk out to the garden for things. Like the other day I made taco salad and I needed tomato, I just walked out to the garden for some :-))

We have a Cucumber growing!

Charlotte's web

8/15/12

There was a huge thunder storm! I was out watering my garden, which is doing alright:

 and the sky started lighting up and the clouds were spectacular. I also noticed a ginormous spider building her home on our porch. I named her Charlotte. Her body is about the size of the top of my thumb!

Working feverishly on that web.

This picture was not taken with a Macro.

BBs!!!!

8/11/12

Today we went to BBs! It was so great. We got groceries to last us the whole month pretty much. :-) It was great to hang out with my sister and mom as well. Just like good ol' times.

Happy Bell Peppers

Our first garden (a learning experience)

Yay! I think we're doing something right with at least one of the plants. The orange bell peppers have begun to turn...though they look like they will be more of a red bell pepper.

Our Chives have been doing pretty good too!

So I need help. I've lost my imagination with cooking. What are some filling recipes that aren't too boring or too expensive that I can feed my husband? Anyone have ideas? I seriously need help. I'm not so good at this wifey thing while working full time.

Whatchya think?

Hey to all who read this blog. Today is one of my "half work days". I work ridiculously long hours every day so I can have Tuesdays and Fridays as half days. I needed it today. I've been so incredibly tired lately. I have been having some health issues, which we don't know what is wrong yet, so I'm fatigued. But life has still be wonderful.

Update on our garden-->
Our garden is doing okay. We have some tomatoes and peppers growing. I'm happy to see some of the watermelon is growing, we have cute baby mini watermelons. But our other plants are seriously lacking in something. I was told by a friend that if you crush up egg shells and mix it in the soil that it's supposedly great nutrition for plants. So I think I will try that and let you know what happens.

 Our Pumpkins, Peas, and Beans are doing horribly!!! I have no idea how to save them. Any ideas!? :-) I would appreciate it.

So Saturday night we had a family bowling night which was fun. And then Sunday we were able to go see my grandma and aunt and uncle in West Virginia. While we were there, we were hit by a huge storm that seamed like a tornado or hurricane. I was very scared. Some trees came down and blocked the roads so we had to clear them before we could leave for home.

Being at my aunt's and uncle's house was so inspiring! I really want to eventually have land and be sort of self sufficient. You know, have my own garden and some animals (sort of a mini farm). By the looks of how my garden is doing now, I don't think that'll be any time soon. ;-p  Hopefully by the time we can afford land, I'll figure the whole gardening thing out.


PS. To page viewers, I would really like some feedback :-) It's encouraging to get comments and such so I don't feel like I'm writing to an empty internet space. :-)  Feel free to write something!

My Cousin Got Married!

7/27

I find my friday's are excruciatingly painful. I have a half day of work friday, so I get home around noon/oneish  and run errands or catch up on project. Doesn't sound bad huh? It would be wonderful if it weren't for the fact that by friday I have a huge build up of missing my Scott....so it's hard to concentrate or be motivated. All I want to do is wait for 9:30PM, when I can see him. Today, however, I was extremely happy to find that Scott had taken a shift differential so he was coming home around 5PM. I was so happy to have a little time to talk with him before we headed over to my cousin's open house to celebrate her marriage (not her reception, that's tomorrow).

PS. Our garden is producing and growing! :-)

These are supposed to turn orangeish yellow, so we can't pick them yet.

I ran outside and had to pick these cuties before the storm blew them off the plant, they were so good!

7/28

Today I was so happy to do a 6 mile run with my mom. I Love going running with her, it's so refreshing. But I've been out of the habit for so long I got quite winded and had to stop a few times. I need to get back on the band wagon of running a race in every state of the US.
Scott and I went shopping today for things we needed, it was nice to walk around and just talk with him and not feel rushed. We tried a new sushi place as well called Sapura's....not bad, and cheap...but I have to say I wasn't impressed. Our favorite is still Miso's. We then went back to our place and caught up on laundry and chores and such.

Tonight was my cousin's second wedding reception. Scott and I had a lot of fun, it's nice to get all dressed up and feel pretty for a date. I wore this beautiful red dress that my mom had made me (I had mentioned I didn't have a good modest classy dress for fancy dates, and she took it upon herself to make me one), I love her so much. She is so selfless and such a lovely woman. So, I got all ready and Scott came home with a surprise. He got me a set of pearl earrings, necklace, and bracelet. I felt so lovely and special. That man spoils me, I Love him so much. He is so good to me. I was on cloud nine tonight. We enjoyed the beautiful reception and company, but I couldn't help but be in my own little world with Scott. I just enjoyed every second I had with him. (Yes I know that sounds way too sappy, but it's true. ;-p)

Congrats Christopher and Becky!

A Spontaneous Weekend

FRIDAY 7/20:
So today after work, I received a call from my mom. Her and my brother had decided to make a spontaneous trip to VA to attend an art reception my aunt was working. It was so much fun and great to see Laura.

These are the stairs that my mom used to run after high school.

Laura and mom

After the art reception, we walked around the city.

Ew gross! ;-p

Perty mom

We saw a huge crowd outside a restaurant. Apparently Christian Bale was at the restaurant and drove away on a motorcycle. I got a few pics but couldn't see him.

Then we turned around and traveled back to PA, fun night.

My brother is crazy

SATURDAY and SUNDAY 7/21-7/22:

Saturday morning I couldn't sleep in, so I jumped on the internet. I saw one of my friends posted that she just got back from the Palmyra Pageant. Scott and I had wanted to go but for some reason I thought it was in April. I checked the website and it said the last showing was that night! I asked Scott if he was up to go last minuet (it's a 5 or 6ish hour drive  away). He wasn't too thrilled at first but agreed it was a fun opportunity, because we don't know if we'll have another opportunity to go. Our trip was quite the adventure...from not being able to find a gas station in the middle of the night to our car battery dieing to protestors to our car making funny noises and running low on oil.....to having a wonderfully fantastic time with my husband! :-)

                                   

Anniversary (officially one year of being together)

July 14th: Scott and I hosted our very first "party" at our apartment. We had a few people (family and friends) over for treats and a game night. We played Rummy (sp?); my dad won and I got second place. 

I also made myself a dress (earlier that day) with some material I've had since I was like 14. Thanks to Mom, I have a working sewing machine. I've missed sewing so much. I've already started 5 more projects! :-)

July 17th: Scott and I have "officially been together" for one year. To celebrate, Scott and I took off work so we could spend the day at Hershey park, we got free tickets from my sis. This is significant because our very first official date was at the Lagoon amusement park in Utah.

We had so much fun, though it was extremely hot! I believe it was 98 degrees and felt like 103 with the humidity, we could hardly breath. Thank goodness for the water park. We brought 5 bottles of water and a big water bottle full of Gatorade, but we went through all of it and were still thirsty.

Scott and I posed for a western picture.
I've always wanted to do one, though we did it at the end so my hair was soaking wet, but it worked out.

After Hershey Park, Scott and I were exhausted and famished! We went to Longhorn Steakhouse for dinner (thanks to the PT I worked with, he gave me a gift card). I got an amazing stuffed mushroom topped steak (which was heavenly) and Scott got Ribs. :-) I usually can't eat my whole dinner when I go out, but I packed that thing down!
For "dessert" we had sparkling grape juice, and used our nice "wine glasses" we got for our wedding. We were entertained by the glasses the rest of the evening: (Watch the video)

Sushi and Shoes

 

On Saturday, Scott and I ran some errands (shoe shopping at the mall). And went out to Sushi for lunch. SOOO good! Working with rich doctors has it's perks! ;-p Since I switched over the the other office location, one of my co-workers got me a sushi gift card to say goodbye, which was sweet of him. We were able to have a feast!

At the mall, they were having a shoe sale at Boscovs, which was were we found our shoes! And for cheap.

We both decided to try Nike's. It's crazy, we got them both for way less than what one pair of shoes would cost us at the other places we looked.

Then dessert and we watched the "Corpse Bride" since Scott had never seen it before.