Easter = 2 celebrations!

Happy Easter! One year ago from Easter Sunday, a ‘new guy’ walked into my house and little did I know how much this guy would mean to me exactly one year later! Brandon and I met when I had an Easter potluck lunch at my house for all the singles in town with no family in 2011. Brandon had only lived in Dallas at that point for a few months and at church that morning, one of our mutual guy friends randomly invited him to my house for lunch. Brandon showed up not knowing anyone but that one guy (and the guy was about an hour late getting there). Brandon being the ‘never met a stranger’ type of personality walked in, introduced himself and got to know everyone. He claims to have been VERY interested in me from that day we met. He asked around about me later but was told I was dating someone else so he never pursued me. Jump ahead a few months and I see a pic of him tagged on facebook, I think, ‘hey, I know that guy and I haven’t seen him around in months!’. So I friended him on fb and we started chatting immediately that afternoon…and he asked me out for the next night (August 14)…and things have been AMAZING since the first date.

So, last weekend, Easter Sunday we celebrated our 1 year of ‘meeting each other’ anniversary! We had a wonderful day just hanging out, cooking and being productive around the house. We went to early service at church, grocery store and then we made all kinds of food for the day and for my lunches the following week. I did laundry while he ‘mowed’ and we both watched the grill. That grill is our favorite!! We made steak and potatoes for lunch and then chicken/veggies for dinner and my lunch. Plus we tried out a new recipe for homemade guacamole which was fantastic!! We ate the entire thing that day….we love us some food!! What a perfect day…celebrating our Savior and the blessing of each other all in the same day. I can’t wait for many more Easters together…hopefully with a few Easter eggs involved in the future!

Getting it all prepared!

 

Let the grilling begin!

Brandon mowing his itty bitty lawn!

One Tough Mudder!

A couple of weeks ago, Brandon and his roommate signed up for and completed a race called the Tough Mudder...absolute insanity! It is a hardcore 12 miles of obstacle courses designed by British Special Forces to "test your all around strength, stamina, mental grit, and camaraderie". It's craziness. Brandon loves to challenge himself like this and this was the ultimate test for his endurance...and he surpassed and LOVED it. You should google it and watch the videos but the obstacles include stuff like electrical wires hanging down that you have to run through not knowing which ones are live and which aren't (Brandon hit one and before he knew what had happend, he was lying face first in the mud)...run through huge dumpster type things full of ice up to your waist that you have to wade through and then dive down to get under large obstruction in your way to get to the other side to climb out (Brandon said he was completely numb and it took him a few minutes to be able to breathe normally again)...run through fire pits, over hay bales...15-20 obstacles of this type of pain. Uhm, no thanks. Proud of my boy...but I'll watch from the sidelines!!

I didn't get to go to this one because I had to work the day he did it...but we did get one pic emailed to us from the race photographers. Crazy kid!!

Grill Master

A couple of months ago, Brandon and I were running errands and he said, ‘Hey, let’s go look at grills…just for fun’. ha! Brandon doesn’t like to shop unless he’s going to ‘buy’ so I knew what I was walking into but I decided to just go with it. Brandon and I are very different from this perspective. I am very indecisive, especially when it comes to big purchases so I tend to shop around, take pics, compare prices and stress a little (or a lot!) over it until I drive myself crazy and then make Lisa go with me at lunch to make the final decision! Brandon…not so much. This idea comes to Brandon, we walk into Home Depot, we look at the grills in stock for about 15 minutes and we make a purchase and roll our new grill out to the truck. Done. I was hesitant and wanted to protest but I didn’t and I haven’t regretted that purchase for one minute! Technically, he bought it but I ‘let’ him! ;)

Brandon loves to cook (and grill even more) and I love to let him. We have used that grill on average about 5 days a week at least. We love it. All food just tastes so much better on the grill…we grill everything! Plus, it was a nice little ‘team building’ experience as we opened the box of about 10,000 pieces and spent Saturday night putting it together! It's a win-win all around!

Brandon is proud of that grill...he is the grill master for sure!!

Not only does food taste amazing on the grill...but it's also helping us to eat a lot healthier which is great for my weight-loss competition right now!!

Grilled chicken, bell peppers and carrots with a salad on the side...yum!!

Grilled salmon and asparagus...so pretty and tasty!!

Day Thirty One: You, Again

Today's post is Me, Again...this time in dedication to my 'future'. You all know my mom...and you all know how nice, thoughtful, caring, sweet...and a little 'nutty' this Nonie can be! Besides the fact that I occasionally have too much of my daddy's hard-headed, stubborn, "I'm always right" ways...I am sometimes a lot like all the things I make fun of my mom. Let's face it, I don't like to admit it, but we all have our 'nutty' moments and I only hope that I can be exactly like my momma in the future!!