Celebrating Our 3 Year Anniversary!

Our 3 year anniversary!  I can't believe our wedding was 3 years ago.  It seems like yesterday and forever ago all at the same time.  Brett surprised me with the prettiest flowers, including a sunflower (our wedding flower)!  We celebrated with dinner at Thai Bamboo, a cute little restaurant only a short walk from our apartment.  And after a stop for some ice cream (!!), we strolled home to continue our yearly tradition of opening our wedding box!  We drank wine, read our letters from the previous year, and reflected back on our amazing wedding and all the excitement that has happened since our last anniversary. It's been quite a year!  And I couldn't imagining spending it with anyone other than Brett.  Now, our new letters are written and the box is locked back up until next year... I can't wait to see what's in store!  

I love you times a million, Babe!

I can't wait to celebrate even more this weekend!

xoxo

 

(We are heading out on a little anniversary getaway this weekend!  Cheers!!*)

3 Years of Marriage!!

~ August 7th ~

The best date of all time.

Our wedding date!

Today marks 3 years that Brett and I have been married.

I can't believe it's been that long already.

Being married to Brett is seriously the best.

I'm pretty sure this picture sums up our marriage pretty well...

always smiling, always laughing, always enjoying ourselves.

 Brett and I live for our great adventures we take through this life,

but I have to say this adventure in marriage is the best one of all.

Babe, you are the best husband of all time.

I cannot wait to celebrate tonight & open our box!

xoxo

{More photos from our wedding here!}

Fire in the Sky

The sunset was incredible last weekend.

Scenes from the Weekend

Amazing sky & sunset Friday night
Aunt Torg & Chelsey came to visit!
Saturday beach day
Introducing the family to our favorite spot: San Clemente
Beers & "salty balls" at Blue Palms Brewhouse in LA
Strolling Hollywood Blvd
Tailgate beers before a concert at the Greek Theatre
The amazing Greek Theatre!
I think I got the shaft on the beer situation here...
Warren Haynes and the Greek Theatre Orchestra performing Grateful Dead songs all night long!

Family visits,

amazing weather,

awesome beers,

and live music.

I'd call it a great weekend!

That Time I Ate Freeze Dried Lasagna...

Happy Friday!!*

Last weekend, Brett and I spent the entire time outside.  And it was glorious.  We headed up to the San Gorgonio Wilderness near Big Bear Lake (close to where we hiked on Brett's birthday a few weeks ago) to do some backpacking.  We haven't been backpacking in foreeeever (and never on this side of the country), so it was quite an interesting experience.

We headed out Saturday morning, after spending Friday night car camping near the trail head.  It was a 6 mile hike up the mountain to Dry Lake (which gets it's name because it's a lake that dries up during the summer).  How clever.

Off we goooo...

Really cool views on the way up!
And after a strenuous climb carrying all of our camping stuff,
we finally made it to Dry Lake and the camping area!

We made it to the top decently fast and had a loooot of downtime.  If I'm being completely honest, we kind of got a little bored even... haha.  We set up our camp site and wander around the lake area.  For dinner, we ate freeze dried lasagna (because it is extremely light to carry hiking) and that was an interesting experience in itself!  We meant to bring some playing cards for something to do, but forgot, so Brett created a checker board out of rocks.  Ha!  We spent a lot of time hanging out at the dried up lake and watched the sun set behind the mountains.  You weren't allowed to have fires, so we ended up going to bed at like 9pm because there just wasn't much to do.

Since we went to be so early, we were awake by 5:30am!  We ate a quick breakfast and then hiked back down the mountain in the early hours of the morning.  And found some gigantic pine cones along the way. :)

It was definitely an interesting experience, backpacking again.  Though I think we enjoy staying at a campground (where you can have your car close by and don't have to lug all your camping gear on a hike!) instead.  That way, we can do huge killer day hikes and rack up the miles, with only needing to bring along some water and maybe a snack!  Much more enjoyable in my opinion.  Regardless, anything that gets us outdoors for any amount of time makes us happy campers.  Literally! :)

August Already?

Happy August!*

 

I can't believe it's August 1st.  Holy crap.  Where has the summer gone?  This summer has been really weird.  It doesn't even really feel like summer.  Maybe because we aren't home in Pittsburgh doing our normal summery things.  I feel like we are just on a really long vacation right now, but have to work on said vacation, ha!  Our cross-country trip and moving has thrown us all off balance!  Plus, now that we're living in Southern California, seasons don't really exist...  still getting used to that!

Regardless, happy August!  I love the month of August because it's the month of our wedding anniversary!  Come August 7th, Brett and I will have been married 3 years already.  Wow, does time fly!  Our anniversary falls on a Wednesday this year, so we are planning on doing a little anniversary getaway the following weekend.  Still trying to figure out where we want to go!  And this coming weekend, we will be getting our first visitors!!  My aunt and cousin have been in Las Vegas all week for vacation and decided to rent a car to come visit us for a few days before flying back home.  Excited to see some family!  

Enjoy the rest of your week!

We are soo close to the weekend!*

{Photo - A little ocean snapshot from my run on the beach in Laguna a few weeks ago}

Scenes from the Weekend

Spending the weekend among the forest trees

Backpacking to Dry Lake (separate post coming!)

Half way up the mountain!

Our little secluded campsite near Dry Lake

Back to civilization on Sunday morning

Hanging out, enjoying the sunshine at Big Bear Lake

Stopping by Hangar 24 Craft Brewery on our way home

And a relaxing stroll to dinner (Thai!) to round out the weekend

A weekend spent completely outside is my idea of perfection.  And getting away from crazy Orange County for a few days was juuust what we needed.  I can't believe it's Monday already... Hoping this workweek speeds by though, 'cause we've got family coming to visit on Friday!!  Hooray!*