Happy Anniversary

So, yesterday was the big 1 year. i could really go hard core lovey to the point of gross. however id rather just tell you about our day/night. it was awesome! we had so much fun.  it was pretty low key when you look at the basics of what we did but its the fact that we actually got a chance to remember that we can have fun doing nothing as long as we are together. ok that was my cheesy moment. 

here is the overall list.
    -room at the hyatt place by renissance
    -dinner at biaggi's
    -walmart while waiting on the movie to start
    -a movie
    -then bailing on movie
    -then back to the hyatt

now to the details. i went ahead and went to the room to get ready. michael met me there about 530? he came in and i gave him his card and i expected a card, but i didnt get one.........

he made me a slide show instead! it was all pictures of us and music by some of our favorite artists about love. ok maybe that was my cheesy moment? ha but anyway, we finished getting ready and then went to biaggis. now since we didnt have elizabeth ann we actually knew what we wanted and had ordered and eaten by 7:06. which means we had been there a total of 30ish minutes.

                 i naturally pouted about us being boring old married people so quickly, which sparked an interesting conversation about having some drinks and staying a little longer. the most i have had to drink since august 2011 has been 3 amaretto sours, which i think is practically candy. this is a key ingredient to the "interesting" part of our conversation.

im not sure how, but we ended up on me taking a shot of my choice and him having a beer. i know it started with reading the cocktail list and not wanting any of theirs. they all sounded very strange. im as finicky of a drinker as i am an eater so im kinda hard to please. dont be offended if you love the drinks at biaggis. so. we decided a shot was the safest choice....yes shot and safest choice in one sentence. im pretty much limited to vodka or tequila when i drink. 

when i mentioned tequila michael made a face so of course i had to prove i could do it. however i wasnt expected what they brought me.

possibly one of the biggest shots ive ever seen. other than the shots they were giving a group of us at an engagement party in summer of 2011. and that is a lime not a lemon but it looks like a lemon. so apparently biaggis thinks that this is a single shot of patron. took me multiple tries to get it all down butttt

mission accomplished

after that extra 35 minutes we left and decided to use our movie passes that we got in dirty santa to go to a movie, Silver Linings Playbook. it didnt start until 10 so we decided to go to walmart and pick up a couple things....total parents. trying to use time efficiently. got some stuff for some pinterest projects we are working on for around the house. we actually tried michaels first which of course was a bust. im a total HOBBY LOBBY girl all the way.

    when we finished at walmart we went back to the movie stood in front of the door to our theatre and took pictures of ourselves. im sure people thought we were insane but we didnt care we made ourselves at home. at 9:40 we decided this movie wouldnt be over until really late and we still had to eat our cake! we decided to bail and we actually were able to get a refund since the movie hadnt started!

whoo hoo for malco!

So we went back to the Hyatt which was also really nice! we loved our room.

     now one of my friends asked, why a hotel in your hometown? well we really just wanted to get out but neither of us wanted to leave town without elizabeth ann. its also just a strange peace of mind to be in a place that everything is already clean and ready to go. there are virtually no consequences to eating in the bed and leaving your plate on the night stand. not to mention the fact that I as a woman, am easily distracted. if we were at home id be thinking about all the things i could be doing or getting michael's help with or a project for our master that has nothing but mismatched furniture in it and nothing but our tv on the wall.
this way we could truly relax and know our daughter was being taken care of and watched like a hawk and we could just kick back and have other people cater to us! 
so, we tried to stay at the hilton on county line in the room we stayed in on our wedding night. but that didnt work out due to problems on their end. so we decided to start a new tradition! we actually loved it and i cant wait to do it again next year! maybe not biaggis every year but staying by renaissance gives us close proximity to shopping and a spa and movies and restaurants and a bar! plenty of entertainment and ways to enjoy each others company safely for years to come. 

we truly had a blast, even just riding around in madison. we saw two, count 'em TWO older couples parking. one in Michael's parking lot and one in Wal-Mart parking lot. they were having a major old-fashioned make out sessions. we saw them going in and coming out! it was hilarious. we joked about going whereever elizabeth ann is and doing that and hearing a tap on the window and a muffled scream, 

   "MOM?? DAD?? GROSS WHAT ARE YOU DOING? YOU ARE EMBARRASSING ME!"

haha! our response would of course be, oh hey honey did you say you'd be at the movies tonight? i am so sorry!

we are going to be interesting parents of preteens/teens. i love my hubby. =)

there are so many more things i could say and post but i dont feel like words are even doing the experiences i shared justice. and even though i was still a total mom and forgot to put my tan on and i didnt have my toes painted and i of course didnt wear any jewelry in preparation for elizabeth ann to pull it off (force of habit), i was on cloud nine. i still think michael enjoyed me being dressed up. he smiled a lot so i think the outfit was a hit.

all that aside, it was a perfect night just in and of itself. i got treated like a total princess with the man of my dreams acting like the weird people we are. what could be more perfect than that regardless of what we did?!

here are some pics! hope you enjoy our retarded-ness :) thanks for coming by and reliving our anniversary! see you soon

outside the movie theater...had to rock the updo due to the weather!

we thought we should feed it to each other again, we werent as graceful this go-round.

top tier and champagne. and yes that is my cake plate that i brought from home.

hey.....presentation is everything.

love ya. ;)