Little girls are afraid of Batman

Little boys always love Batman, but without fail, every little girl under the age of 5 literally froze at the sight of Zach Batman. 

Tonight Zach and I answered the door for trick-or-treaters as batman and catwoman/a cat (depending on if Zach was with me). When I got home from work we ordered pizza and got ready for our costumed visitors. Oh man so cute. We had a lot of Mario, Luigis, Princesses, Lions, Darth Vader, and even one Ring Leader. The ring leader was my favorite. His dad gave him a mic (ya know the one from the dollar store that has a spring on the inside so it really does make your voice seem louder and and you loved it when you were younger and you still do because it's awesome). Anyways his dad gave him this mic(rophone) and was all, "What do you say?. . .What does a ring leader say to his lions." And the kid got all serious and put his mouth into the mic and says, "I don't know what you want me to say. . . . I don't want to say anything." It was really funny. Plus he was wearing a giant home (awesomely) made top hat. Then there were all the little girls that just stood in front of our door looking scared sh*tless (kid friendly?) at Batman. They obviously had no idea who this creature was, completely forgot about the candy, and quickly became aware of their short lives. Poor kids. 

But then there was this one kid right at the beginning that was like, "BATMAANNN, BATMANNN, IT'S BATMAAAANNNN!"  Which made Zachs night. 

All in all it was a pretty awesome Halloween. 

Love you and miss you all. 

Just in case you forgot. . ..

The Halloween movies are still very scary. Who knew?! But they are still soo sooo good. I wish scary movies were still made this way. The blood is fake but not too fake. The bad guy pops out and makes you scream. There's just stabbing and then it's over. There are no torture/rape scenes. The bad guy can walk anywhere and still catch up to the running/driving in a car victim. Scary movies these days are too realistic and too morbid. The Hills Have Eyes made me never want to watch a scary movie again. At least not a new one. 


I still mute the scary parts. 


Happy Halloween!
Miss you and love you all. 

Date Night

I love weekends. Clearly. This weekend is extra long for me because I took off Friday! We only had one doctor working in the office so it would have been horribly boring and the "boss" would have been constantly lurking around trying to find us busy work. So instead I ran errands and brought Zach lunch while he finished his paper. Friday night was GRANT-MCNEAL DATE NIGHT!!! I type it in caps because that's how you say it. . .all excited-like. 


Now, unfortunately for my spouse, I will forever pump up date night. I will imagine that we're going to be doing something amazing and new and inevitably something way too out of our budget. Which is really dumb and I completely acknowledge this and yes, I do know that I am being silly. When I found out what we would be doing there was that initial bit of disappointment (which I know is stupid so I try my best to ignore myself). We had a wonderful simple night of fun. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that--simple.


The McNeals and I left their house to go pick-up Mr. Grant who had just personally handed his paper into his professor's hand as he was collecting them from the mailbox. I told him instead of saying "mercy, mercy. . " while handing in his paper he should have told him he just prefers to have a more personal experience and shake the hand of the man who will be grading his papers. Ya know with a, "Here you go fine sir, I hope you enjoy grading this as much as I enjoyed writing it." If I was a professor that would certainly make me laugh. Moving on.

**Every picture on this blog came from the McNeal camera.
 I just edited their perty lil' colors.**

Zach and Kevin like to play.

We headed to New Hope, PA. It's a lovely ride along the Delaware River and then you turn and you are instantly in this cute little town. Well actually there's Lambertville--so cute complete with a wonderfully charming and tasty little coffee shop--then you cross the small rickety bridge --by car-- to get into New Hope. Find parking and then walk to your yummy dinner. That's typically the plan whenever we go there. 

haha. . .I love this one. 

So we walked a bit then headed to Havana. When Zach and I first went to this restaurant about a year and a half ago we shared two sandwiches (we like sharing); a cuban and a Thanksgiving sandwich. Oh man they were both soooo amazing. And so ever since then we go there in the hope of finding something equally as amazing. I don't think we have done that yet, but we do plan on going there after Thanksgiving to get another one of those amazing sandwiches. This time we started with amazingly huge onion rings and baked brie (yummmm). Then Zach and I semi shared a burger, fries, and BBQ pulled pork tacos. 


After dinner we slowly headed back to the bridge. Rae wanted to take some pictures of the water before it got too dark, which it did. We were too slow because we were too full. So full. 

We eventually headed back to Princeton, went to our separate homes, got into comfy clothes/pj's, headed back to the McNeals, and ended the night with wine and Mario Party. We had a lovely night. I love GRANT/MCNEAL DATE NIGHT!

Style Blog

One day I will take a picture of our kids just as awesome as this one. 

Relaxed.

Enough said. 


Miss you and love you all. 

Shower Time

 

This past weekend Zach and I flew to Tampa to join in on Lindsey and Joes pre-wedding festivities. We got in Friday, napped a bit, then headed to paint some pottery for Lindsey and Joe---while enjoying some Sangria and wine---Afterwards we met Dad at the Wine Exchange and enjoyed a delicious meal and caught up a bit. Saturday we went to one shower where we met a lot of Joes (the fiance/friend/great guy) family. It was relaxing and in a great location. That evening we went to another shower thrown by nine lovely ladies at the Starkeys house. Zach and I had a wonderful time catching up with/hugging family friends that we hadn't seen since our wedding. 

The party was fantastic, complete with seafood & chicken paella made right there in the backyard. And a dessert table. Soo great. I love family. 

Sunday we watched Lindsey and Joe open a few of their presents then headed to the airport. They asked two people to step down from the flight because it was too full. So Zach and I eagerly stepped forward, accepted our $950 worth of flight vouchers, and headed home to enjoy one last unexpected night with family. We headed back to Princeton Monday morning. So now we are home and cozy and the kitties are still alive. Back to work tomorrow. 

I talk about food a lot in this post.

Where to start? I have had a wonderful past few weeks. The other weekend I took the train into NYC to be reunited with fantastic friends from high school. My good friend Katie Meehan is getting hitched in November and the other weekend we celebrated her bachelorette party. We all had a wonderful time. Even though I hadn't seen some of the lovely ladies since my wedding (almost three years ago--what?!) it really was as if we had never parted ways. When I finally arrived at Meg's apartment we couldn't stop updating each other. Which meant we were running too late to follow the original plan. . instead we headed straight to dinner. I felt a little bad for our waitress. . . right up until she just went ahead and added a %20 tip to our bill. After a delicious dinner we went---how do you say---clubbin'. The weekend included eating more, mani-pedis at one of the million salons, drinking, being a bit hungover, more food, a lingerie shower, more clubs, more taxis, laughing, dancing, drinking, catching up, etc. We had a wonderful time. (sigh) I love good friends. 

Immediately after I got off the train from NYC in Princeton. . .Zach and I headed to Saint Augustine. In our car. Sixteen hours later we were there. I spent the first day with my lovely friend Jenni. It was wonderful to be able to sit there, enjoy the sun, listen to the waves, and catch up with such a great gal. We relaxed at the beach for a couple hours and then met up with Dani and J-9 at Stir It Up. Oh how I miss that place. In fact I miss a lot of restaurants in Saint Augustine. Here are a few that we ate at while in Florida. Food is a big part of visiting Saint A.

The rest of the week included catching up with our lovely and very much missed friends, eating, and going to the beach. The week was perfect. Zach and I stayed with Cally, J-9, and Dani. They had a cozy spot waiting for us when we got there. They had to work during the week days but we got to hang out with them at night. Boo work. On one of our last days there Jenni, Cally, Dani, and I purchased bright tubes and played in the water. It was amazing and probably one of my favorite moments in the past year. 

Here's a little video. . .not sure if I knew whether or not the camera was on. . .

Our last night there we went out to dinner at a yummy new place and then played games and had a jumping contest?

 

After a wonderful church service at First United Methodist we ate lunch at Sonnys (the usual) and then headed back to Princeton. Zach and I could not have asked for a more perfect vacation. I can't wait until we live in Saint Augustine again. . . though I know that time is just around the corner. Right now it is 62 degrees outside, I have pumpkin muffins sitting warm on the stove-top, a cup of coffee by my side, and little Scooby sitting on my feet. Life is good. I am excited for the cooler weather and even more excited to see what the next(and last) 8 months here in Princeton have in store for us. 

Miss you and love you all.