The Little Victories

My amazing husband is handsome, talented, loving, .. and picky.
He had asked me to pick up some grape juice for him this week. So when I was at the store I walked by the Welchs juice and they were all out of the regular grape. But right next to it was Black cherry Grape juice. Now I am always down for trying something new while Luke on the other hand automatically doesn't like it if he hasn't tried it. But I decided I would give it a shot. Maybe he wouldn't notice that the label was different.

Anyways, he just walked into the room with a tall glass of grape juice with a huge smile on his face. I didn't say anything except," I sure hope you drink all of that".

A couple minutes later I look over and the glass is empty. So I asked if he liked it. He said yes. And that is when I dropped the bomb.

He said that there was no way there was cherry in it. He would absolutely have tasted it. He hates cherry.

So he walks into the kitchen, opens the fridge, and says,"No Lauren. It's Black cherry grapes. It's a type of grape."

I said,"No. Look again."

I wish I could have recorded the sound that I heard creep out of that open refrigerator. I call it the sound of victory.

It's the little victories like this that bring me joy.

What?........

Yes.
Today in the mail I received my official letter of acceptance to San Diego Christian College.
WOOT!
As Luke said,
" Look. It's the beginning of the end."
YAY.

NEW

I got a camera! YAAAAY!!!

BUT, I have a lot to learn.

Rain, Rain.. I love YOOOOOOUUUU

I live in San Diego. I don't know what to do in this situation.
Well, I know what to do, but not so much how to dress.

New Year Fun

So on New Years eve Luke and I spent the night on Brett and Heather's living room floor. We were woken up by Heather slaving away in the kitchen making AMAZING cinnamon rolls. Then we were off with Nick and Steph to Julian.

Baby Names

Tonight Luke and I decided that if we instantly had a boy and a girl their names would be Owen and Lily.

It will constantly change, so if you don"t care for these names
there is no need to panic.

Our First Christmas Tree

Tonight we went and bought our tree.(Thanks Mom and Tom!)
It was the first one we touched. I guess we are not really into digging around. It was already opened and ready to go, so we figured why not.

Not that this should discredit our tree.


It's just right.

Plus Luke looks so stylish inspecting it.

Two reasons it's called Black Firday

1. Because when you get up in time for the sales it is still pitch black outside. We woke up at 4:00 A.M and headed to Macys, then to Target, Bed Bath and Beyond and a few other shops. I personally thought it was fantastic. I love the adventure of it all! We bought decorations(the star for the tree. Yay!). Plus we are finished with our Christmas shopping.




2. Because when you are delirious from waking up so early you sometimes do things that cause you to black out. For instance, slice your knuckle with brand new knives, pass out a couple times, cause your husband to freak out and your in-laws to drive all the way out to tell you to go to the emergency room. (By the way, thank you Lana <3)
No stitches,...they just super glued it. Now we are waiting to see how much we have to pay for them to glue my finger together.
YAY BLACK FRIDAY!

My husband and his quick anti-traditions rant

He loves Christmas. But one night he decided that he wanted to explain why Christmas trees, ornaments, candy canes and snowmen should not be involved with Christmas! He says,"What do they have to do with Jesus". So I decided to be dramatic for our friends visiting and decapitate one of the snowmen (who's head comes off ). Well, Luke wanted to show me up so he grabbed the glass bowl off ornaments and threw them across the floor!!! The best part was the look on his face when he saw that he broke them. He thought they were plastic.
HAHA!!!!

Thanksgiving 09

THANKSGIVING!
Good food, great family, too much dessert. Just the norm.

Living in Point Loma

I just got cut off by two mercedes in a matter of two minutes. Its hard for me to not conclude that everyone that owns one believes that the reason they are so expensive is because they paid for the road they drive on too.

LUKEY POOKIE POO

Yesterday I came home from work to find our Christmas lights on, everything all lit up...AND our apartment clean...

I love my husband.

This Morning's Adventure

Well, lets just say we've been eating a lot of ice cream and goodies lately, so I decided that I should go for a jog this morning. I have only briefly explored the other side of Chatsworth and thought that this morning would be a good time to start.

After only turning a couple corners I see a white truck start slowing down next to me. So, naturally a slight sense of panic starts creeping into my body. Some people think I'm paranoid about these such things but I just think I'm prepared. I took a womens self-defense class. I can tell you what to do with a pen, high heels and keys in any situation. (Just ask.) Anyway, I digress...It was my brother! He was driving to his next house for work and saw me struggling to catch my breath on the other side of the road.

After talking with him a couple minutes he had to get going so I start my trek again. I didn't really know where I was going, but I always thought wandering was fun. No destination, just running around. Long story short, I got miserably lost. Absolutely turned around. At one point I thought that I had crossed back over Chatsworth all the while running towards where I thought Chatsworth was, but actually running farther away. By this time it has been way longer than I had wanted this run to be, I was beginning to be exhausted, I had forgotten my brace and my knee starting hurting. All I was thinking was,"After I get up the courage to ask someone in this extravagant neighborhood if I could use their phone, how I am going to describe to Luke where I am so he can drive me home?!"

So I turn around and start heading in the opposite direction, find some people working outside a house and in a last attempt I ask them if they could point me towards Chatsworth. The only thing I know out here that can get my home.. They both kind of smile, probably because my face was beat red, I was sweaty, and because it was just up the hill.

This is an exact representation of my trek.

A Couple Updates

1. Luke and I bought our first set of Christmas lights!!! YAAAY! They are definitely the first of many. And we bought them on Halloween. (I just thought that was ironic.) I am absolutely one of those people that completely skips Halloween and moves straight into Christmas. I'm sorry to those who think it's annoying. I try not to be obnoxious about it.
2. My brother came and saved them day. He sprayed our apartment for crickets. Unfortunately he forgot to warn us that the stuff makes the crickets that are trapped inside our apartment go insane. They came out of hiding and were jumping not caring if we were there. It was terrible. I found one, dying, in some of our mixing bowls and starting dry heaving. . . . Luke thought it was funny.
   

2 Crickets tonight

We have been home for less than three hours and already Luke has had to catch two. Bleh.

My morning walks/jogs/attempts at fitness

A couple times a week I love to go on morning jogs. I think that you need to get use to this because I often have many things that I come across while "workin' on my fitness" that interest me or are random and amazing. So in order to help you visualize whats going on around me for future posts I took a couple pictures this morning. I have a picture of my favorite tree that i love to pass by once I conquer the hill. Also, a picture of the most amazing view I found. It's beautiful. I told Luke that it is at this point in my walk that I usually start praying and thanking God for the beautiful creation that He has me living in the middle of. Enjoy.


Also,two last things you need to know to be up to speed on this adventures.
1. I will forever be searching for the most amazing door that I came across one day while weaving in and out of the neighborhoods. This is the third time I have searched to no avail.
2. There was an amazing cat that I met one time. His name is Smokey and I long for the day to pet his silver fluff again.
and an optional 3. It would be nice to see the three legged dog again. (I didn't give him a name like I did for Smoky because he was with his owners, so I assumed he already had one.)

These little things that make up our first year

After talking with a couple people I have decided that I honestly want to continue making posts,..I just didn't want to have to update everyone on everything that has happened. So, maybe eventually you will see honeymoon pictures, read the stories, find out the airport drama,..maybe not. Maybe everyone that is reading this already knows everything that happened. Well, that's good then. (moving on)

One thing that i hope to never forget about our first year is that our apartment has issues. It's lovely, quaint, but
-has a crazy, crooked corner that is between our bedroom and the hall closet. Where most corners are at a 90 degree angle, this one is about a 50 degree
-we are able to break into our apartment in less than 10 seconds
-this morning i was woken up by a homeless man collecting cans in the dumpster next to our window
-AND-
-the crickets.(or as we call them,"tritchets".)And this is really what i wanted to talk about. They sneak in under our screen and door. There have been times where we come home to find 5 JUST IN THE ENTRANCE WAY. (buuuuuuhhh)Luke hops around on all fours catching them. (its super cute. maybe i can get a video of it sometime.)
As the days and weeks go by they have gotten bolder and more sneaky. Now they come in and sing their little songs when they know that Luke isn't home and that i won't touch them. They jump at Luke (and our neighbor that i have called to get them for me)
Bleh.
Those sneaky tritchets.

P.S. I totally was going to put up an actual picture of the crickets that invade our home everyday, but i started to and then got super creeped out.