A year ago today...

We were on a beach in The Bahamas getting married...

With so many of our family and friends by our side...

It was an amazing day and such a fun weekend!

I can't believe we've been married a year already... time sure has flown by!

Celebrating our anniversary and a Bears win at the PO today!

I'm looking forward to our dinner out to celebrate tomorrow night at The Girl and The Goat!

Just because...

Matt surprised me today at work with these beautiful flowers! Love him! : )

Sofie

Erin and Ross picked up their new little vizsla puppy yesterday. So, of course, we had to stop by their place and see her! She's about 7 weeks old and is super cute! She isn't very good on the wood floors, so she was like Bambi on Ice when she tried to run around. It was pretty comical.

She loves her bed... one day she'll actually fit the whole thing!

First lesson - don't touch Ross' beer!

Sleeping so cute!

Anyone want to play ball???

This was funny until she got a hold of my hair and yanked a mouthful out!

Sleeping with her tongue sticking out

Here's the story...

Of a man named Brady!

Last night we went to Witt's for my friend Angie's annual Halloween party. Matt and I went as Mike and Carol Brady. : )

These outfits are hideous!

Erin was beer goggles and Ross was Brett Favre

Brett was a Cobra Kai

Favre!

Cousin Eddie... shitter's full!

Besides Cousin Eddie (who won the male costume contest), there were some interesting costumes at the party. There was a couple dressed as the Candyland king and queen. Another couple came as Double Dare contestants with bike helmets with plastic cups glued on top. There were two couples that came as the Clue characters (Ms. Scarlett, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, Colonel Mustard). They even brought along a wrench, revolver, etc! The female costume contest winner was dressed as Ke$ha and she had a bottle of Jack with her. She actually looked like Ke$ha, so that helped. Some girl was dressed as "Waking up in Vegas" which no one could guess (probably because that's a strange costume). She was in pj's and had dice around her neck.

There was a Tiger Woods and Elin. Elin was carrying around a big check and had money stuck in her pockets and falling out of her purse. Tiger had a cell phone on his belt and it had a picture of Rachel Uchitel on it.

And then there was this girl dressed as Jane Fonda. She was a riot... she kept sticking her butt out in pictures.

Jane Fonda

After a few drinks, we always getting a little silly...

Mike Brady lost his hair and now has beer goggles!

He now thinks Carol Brady is hot!

Erin has a lot of hair!

Umm... not sure what is going on here!

Balance!

The ole wig switcharoo

This is what Erin would look like as a blond with short hair!

Of course, there are more pictures... you can check them out here. (password is mattstacia)

Happy Friday!

I went shopping for Halloween costumes for Matt and I today (talk about waiting til the last minute!) Is it just me or are the women's Halloween costumes made for midgets??? I know I'm tall, but I have shirts longer than those dresses they call costumes! It's like they took every normal costume, put the word "sexy" in front of it and cut off about a foot of fabric. There was even a "sexy hobo" costume... really? Yeah, being homeless is hot!

I managed to find something for Matt and I to wear. I really hope he likes his costume! I figure if I got him to wear what he did last year, I think he'll wear just about anything! Although he says he "hates" Halloween, I think he secretly loves it! : )

Have a great weekend everyone!

Slacking

I realized the last post I made here was over a week ago. Oops!

Let's see... what have I missed...

My fall volleyball league started back up, which I'm very happy about! We always take the summers off because everyone is so busy and we're always searching for subs. Plus, I'm not a huge fan of beach volleyball.

Matt and I refinanced and we closed last Friday morning. I'm now officially on the mortgage. Awesome. Pretty easy, lots of signing my John Hancock. I hadn't actually ever signed my new name with my middle inital. It was totally throwing me off. I think my signature looked different on every page!

Also, this past Friday, it was Halloween party day at my company. So, everyone brought in their kiddies all dressed up. They trick-or-treated around the office. I still have leftover candy, which taunts me every time I see it. "EAT ME"... "YOU KNOW YOU LOVE SNICKERS!!!" Yep, I'll probably finish the rest off myself. Awful.

On Saturday, we hung out at Kari's place to watch the Iowa game. We had lots of great snacks and we did a few Hawkeye bombs... but, Iowa couldn't pull it off in the end. Then we hung out with Andy, Michelle and Sam. Michelle made some super tasty chicken and dumplings and we played Scrabble. Fast fact: It was the first time Matt had ever played Scrabble in his life! I'm not even sure how that's possible.

Oh, the guys even tested out the 'quarter trick' with a few cans of beer. My uncle Chuck swears that if you shake up a beer can and then put a quarter on the bottom of it when you open it, it won't explode. Andy decided to not only shake the beer cans, but throw them full force onto the metal balcony. One can ended up totally flat on one side (that takes talent)! : ) I think one can exploded all over him, even with the quarter.

Sunday was 'catch up on everything' day... cleaning, laundry, organizing. Fun times, I know you're jealous. Matt grilled out turkey burgers = yum! We watched the Bears lose.

We've hired a cleaning lady... I'm very excited about this! I don't know why it's taken me so long to pull the trigger on this one. She's been cleaning a friend of Erin's house for over 8 years and has been cleaning Erin's place for a while now, so she comes highly recommended. She stopped by last night to take a look at our place. She starts Thursday!

The current discussion at our house is... what are we going to dress up as for Halloween??? I'm forcing Matt to go to the Halloween party we go to every year. It's at Witt's and it's for charity. Plus, everyone gets really into it and I love seeing what clever costumes people come up with. So, the costumes are TBD. I'm sure there will be numerous pictures taken!

Well, I think that gets me caught up!

Great day for a game

Matt and I went to the Bears game today. Unfortunately, they didn't win, but we had a fun time! The weather was beautiful... of course, we were in the shade so it was a little chilly for us.

We met up beforehand at Eleven for brunch with a friend from work, Bridget, and her boyfriend Jim. Good food and awesome Bloody Marys.

Not vegetarian! There's a hunk of salami in there!

Go Bears!

The line for the men's room = super long!

The line for the women's room = awesome! : )

Matt and me at the game