Le Duck

April 5, 2012

We celebrated our anniversary tonight! We started with a romantic dinner. Pictured is the sauteed duck breast I ordered. Funny thing is, we had the whole restaurant to ourselves until the end of our meal. Really neat, retro place. From there we went to a hookah bar. That ended up being a little odd as we were the oldest people in the place! Ha! We finished the night with a rooftop cocktail with a pretty neat view of the city. It was a lovely evening. Even the games, champagne and cable at the hotel was pretty amazing :) 

In Preperation

April 4, 2012

Does this look like a romantic time or what?! While our true anniversary was Tuesday, Brian and I plan to take the evening to CELEBRATE tomorrow night. I have no school Friday so we are going to celebrate big. We are trying a new restaurant: http://www.eclipsestlouis.com/ and got reservations at a nearby Sheraton for the night. It's not very often (not since our honeymoon, in fact) that we let loose like this. It will be so nice to take some time to stop and smell the flowers. Friday we plan on breakfast (or brunch depending on when we get up) and a movie. Love, love, love, love it!

Think Impressionism

April 3, 2012

This hazy image represents my awakening at 3AM to find the moon right in view! I don't know why, but it makes me so happy and peaceful when I see the moon like this. I just had to snap a picture, even if it is a blurry mess. It sort of reminds me of an impressionist painting. 

Cheers to US

April 2, 2012

I honestly never thought I would be where I am. Happily married to an amazing man, teaching darling children and surrounded by so much love and support. Today Brian and I have been married one year! 365 days of bliss and that's not sugar-coating it! Our true celebration will happen this coming Thursday. We plan to make a night of it! 

Whiny Cat

April 1, 2012

Huxley the kitten does not like being left alone. He sometimes can't even handle us being away at church for a morning. He always whines when we put our shoes on to leave. When we got home from KC this evening he did nothing but tell us all about his weekend and how lonely he was. Refreshingly, the apartment wasn't wrecked as he's done in the past. Bathroom trash knocked over and I can deal with that. 

HST

March 31, 2012

We had a lovely visit to old Independence today. We visited the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. The exhibits were quite nice. We had lovely weather to be out and about. We ate dinner at a cute place on the square called Courthouse Exchange. It certainly had character. And good steak. 

Some Sort Of Hat

March 30, 2012

We rolled into KC this evening around 9. It was great to see the fam. You never know quite what you're in for on one of these visits. Daniel seems to have obtained a Russian-style hat.