Happy St. Patrick's Day

Pretty low key St. Paddy's Day for us. Bob enjoyed a Guinness and I enjoyed some green water-no lie. Here are pictures of our St. Patrick's Day celebration. Hope you all were able to enjoy something more fun.

Wedding Reception Shopping.

Wedding Planning so stressful. I have been kind of anti-wedding planning b/c I feel like I could care less about the wedding and more about the marriage. But some things needed to get done. So because we have the church all set we needed to get a reception location set. Bob and myself were joined by my parents and Bob’s sister and mom to go reception site shopping this past Monday and Tuesday. I think by 2nd location I wanted to be done and after the first Bob definitely did. What stress? Well we saw three locations on Monday and two on Tuesday. Four of the places we saw had great aspects to them. We needed to make a tough decision between The Science Museum, The History Center, The Hilton Garden Inn, and The Crown Plaza. Bob and I ended up with the decision on our lap, which was really nice that we were able to make the decision based on what we as a couple wanted, not just our families. It was so tough because I loved each place for a different reason. There was not one thing that I didn’t like that I could not get around. We ended up making a decision and I think that not just Bob and myself, but everyone attending the wedding will be happy with. However one of the great perks is the awesome bridal suite that we get-leather couches and a whirlpool! Here are some pictures of the reception site location-The Crown Plaza. Hip Hip Hooray-that is all I have to do with planning now isn’t it?

Here is the view from the outside, you can see all the windows in the Great River Ballroom.

Ignore the creepy guy in the photo, but this is a view of the dance floor where we will be partying it up all night long.

3G, yeah I have it.

While Bob and I were up in the Twin Cities we did something really exciting, well at least to us, we got new phones. Bob needed to get some sort of Blackberry, Palm type thing for the hospital rotations next year. He was great at doing research and decided that the Apple Iphone 3G was the thing for him. We decided to get a family plan for us to share and my phone had seen better days as it was not working 100% anymore. When we got to the store I looked around but just couldn’t find anything I was super thrilled with. I didn’t want to be a tool and get an Iphone 3G when I didn’t think I would use all the applications. As I continued to look every phone seemed so much more difficult to navigate than the Apple. So yes we both bought them. You can call me a tool, but I love my new phone, I love all the access I have and this will definitely help get me through the next year of wedding stress!

Bob's Spring Break

I usually get in at least one blog a week on what my weekly update is. I guess I have been busy. Well at least busy with other things.
Last week at work I cranked out some mad technical writing and finished writing all of my departments Standard Operating Procedures. Well at least I thought I finished writing them. I was rudely awoken when I returned to work this week to a CEO who thought I needed help on a definition of a policy and a procedure, yet she had not even read my work. Sighh at least it is Friday right?

Bob and I finished our FOCUS with Marcia on Friday of last week. We just need to do the re-focus and all of the other marriage prep, but we are slowly but surely making headway and things seem to be a little more real.

Saturday we headed up to our favorite spot the Twin Cities. We were able to spend some quality time with Bob’s family. Addy, Bob’s niece, is so adorable and incredibly smart. I can say that and people have to believe it b/c I’m not her aunt officially yet. She answers questions and her little voice is so cute. I asked her about my tattoo on my neck and she said “A”. Then later we were talking about it and she asked and pointed to the back of her neck to see if she had an A back there. Oh little girl, you are going to be a heart breaker!

It was so nice to see Bob’s family. They are great hosts and even let me use the treadmill early in the morning so I could still get my work outs in, and boy did I need it after eating so much delicious food. Thanks for being such great in-laws.

We did make some time to see our good friends Mesa and Tony-can't say how much I love them and Ali Gray and her new boyfriend Robin who was great to meet.
We made it back south on Wednesday evening. It was -2 degrees when we left Roseville, what a temp change in the 6 hour drive.

Hopefully Bob was able to enjoy a bit of his Spring break as this last little bit has been spent studying for that great test in June!