Monthly Archives: July 2010
1…. “You and I”
Gaga did not disappoint!!!! It was amazing. I loved the music, the production, and most of all I *heart* Lady Gaga.
We started the evening with a new restaurant. Again, it exceeded my expectations. I was pleasantly surprised.
Law Man gave me amazing tickets….3rd row… just high enough above the general admission that we had a perfect view. I had some camera issues, but I managed to snap a couple.
I am not really sure what my favorite part was, but at the top of the list was Gaga playing a new song that is not yet released. I heard it a week or so ago on the Today Show. It was amazing! I love the passion in her voice….just enough crazy for me to relate!!! 
2….Wedding Picture Woes
Major down side of getting married pretty young is that you don’t know what you don’t know. I would have loved to have some really great, timeless, artistic photographs to mark the occasion. Something that showed our personality.
Instead we have a lot of Bride and family, Groom and family, Bride and Groom and brides family, and so on….they are pretty, but not a lot of personality.
There are a few….that make the shortlist of my favorites.
This is us taking our vows. I love the front of the church…..I have been to so many weddings, funerals, baptisms, and just regular Sunday morning church. This is the image of the pulpit that I will always have in my mind.
Another favorite! I have enough southern girl in me that I really do not like to make guests wait for the 8 zillion pictures between the wedding and the reception. So, as a compromise we Law Man and I met in the sanctuary, just the two of us, a couple of hours before the ceremony. He waited at the alter and I walked down the aisle….I was very nervous, hence the wringing of the hands, but it was a very sweet moment and one I will always remember. This picture was taken a few minutes later when the photographer joined us for the pre-ceremony pictures.
This is my absolute favorite. This is of us leaving the church. I love it because it has our parents, our grandparents in the background smiling at us. I loved it the first time I saw it, but it is even more special since four of them are no longer with us. **Note the dirty steps. They were clean the night before, but the day of our wedding it rained…..enough that we should have bought our ring at BC Clark….and it poured…..I wanted to ask someone to clean the steps before the wedding, but I knew this was being a little neurotic and it was the first thing about the entire event that I just “let go”. Now, I see it in my favorite picture. I think it makes it that much more memorable. ***Also note the dried rose petals…..those are from all the roses Law Man had sent me over the 5 years we dated. There were a lot!
5, 4, 3……..How Europe Changed Our Marriage!
***Note on 5 and 4….. It is not that I didn’t have anything to say…but, if you know me at all, you know that I take my weekend time with Law Man very seriously. We do not have a lot of family time together during the week, so the weekend is Family time….not enough time to blog. Sorry! 
Now, back to How Europe Changed Our Marriage!
Law Man and I had been married for two years, he had just taken the Bar Exam and we opted to spend our one month between school and the “real job” in Europe. We had been talking about it since the summer we got married and several of our friends missed the wedding because we were studying at Oxford. We decided then, that we would go and we really wanted to go together. I loved the time we spent there…. but more than that, I love how it changed our marriage.
- I realized that we would be okay, just the two of us. I know, it took me two years, but I am slow.
- We both discovered how much we LOVE to travel….and by travel I mean…see every site, walk instead of ride, eat everything, sleep little….except when I am on a train.
- Italians will kick you off a train and leave you in a town where no one speaks English. This is how we learned to handle conflict. ***this is also how I became Methodist…long story.
- Law Man finally understood how big my imagination is…..I thought the Eiffel Tower would be bigger and the London Bridge would be small enough to “turn the key and lock us up.”…I know this is not the “real London Bridge,” but in my mind it is…..and that is all that counts.Â
- There is no place more romantic than Paris at night.
- Forget New Mexico and Colorado. I want to “summer” in the Alps. I *heart* Switzerland.Â
- I get grumpy when it is hot, I am hungry, and there are too many people….Italy in August is rough.
- You can go to Europe on a Credit Card….and pay it off in a few short months.
- We should have bought a digital camera on before mentioned Credit Card.
- It would be EIGHT years before we got to spend another full week just the two of us….Canada, here we come!
6……Miles to go before I sleep.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
7….Date Night
This will be short and sweet…………..It’s Date Night!!!
Not to be confused with Prom Night.
