What I'm Loving Wednesday

I have seen the "What I'm Loving Wednesday" link up on a couple of blogs and thought I would give it a try! So this Wednesday this is what I am loving....

I am loving that my sweet Jerry brought home these awesome roses for no reason at all. He really does know how to surprise me. I am definitely loving him on this Wednesday!

Just like everyone else on the planet, I am of course loving Pinterest! I cannot get enough! This week I have been pinning lots of school ideas, house ideas, and to die for recipes!

Valentines Day is my absolutely favorite day of the year! (I even got engaged on Valentines Day!:) So obviously I am loving that it is right around the corner! I have all my Valentine Stuff out around the house and I am loving it! Makes me soo happy! 

And last but not least, I just finished the Hunger Games Series. I loved it! I cant wait to go see the movie in March! The first book was by far the best one, but I really liked them all!

Well that's it ya'll! Hope you are having a great Wednesday! :)

Christmas/Anniversary Trip to Chicago

In December, Jared and I celebrated our second anniversary! I still cant believe that it has been that long ago! I seriously remember it like it was yesterday! I hope I always feel that way! Jared and I had kind of an interesting/hard/sad couple of months leading up to our anniversary, so I wanted to do something extra fun for Christmas break. I started looking for trips in October and came across a trip to Chicago! For round trip airfare and 4 nights at a really cute/nice hotel it was only 290 dollars a person! I jumped right on it! We also invited our friends Jackie and Shawn! It really was one of the best trips I have been on! It was a tad bit cold so I cant wait to go back again when it is warm!

In our five days that we were there we packed in a ton of stuff!

We went to the Bean:

Wriggly Field-seriously one of my favorite parts of the whole trip! I LOVED Wriggleyville!!

We spent an entire day at the Field Museum and we still didn't see everything! But we did see Sue-the most complete dinosaur in the U.S.

I consider Jared to be a foodie-he loves trying new foods and any time we go somewhere he likes to eat what the locals eat. The food in Chicago did not disappoint! We seriously ate, and ate, and ate some more! I felt like I deserved it with all the walking we did! :) One of my favorite meals was at Gino's East. We got an AMAZING deep dish Chicago style pizza!

The first day that we got there we went to the observatory in the Hancock building. It had snowed that morning and it was kind of cloudy, but it was so much fun!

We did lots of touristy stuff and a little bit of shopping on the last day! This was me and Jackie's reward for being so good about the entire day at the Field Museum while the boys looked at and read every little sign in that entire building! :)

Jared even enjoyed some of the shopping! The Lego store was so awesome. They had the skyline of Chicago built entirely out of Legos!

If you know me, you know I like staying at hotels. I looked through all the pictures of our hotel on the internet that I could find and I read lots of reviews. I was so impressed with the hotel. It was so cute and the location could not have been better. It was not even a block off of Michigan Avenue and right next to the Louis Vuitton store. I mean seriously?! We could not have picked a better place to stay!

Overall, we had such a good time! I hope that Jared and I are always able to get away and remember our day from December 2009!

Bling Bling Show Your Ring

I was so excited when C. Mae decided to do the ring bling link up! I am seriously in love with my ring! I think that Jared did such a great job picking it out! About a year before we got engaged we went and looked at rings. This was one of the first rings that he picked for me to try on! I loved it but we both wanted the one he picked to be a surprise so he never told me that was the ring he was going to propose with! The middle diamond is just under 1 carat and all together it is about 2.25 carats. This Valentines day it will have been three years since we got engaged and I still love staring at my ring! 

Not only did Jared do a great job on picking out the ring he also did a great job on the proposal. On Valentines day we were staying downtown and he brought three wrapped presents with him. He gave me one present before we went out to dinner. It was perfume! I was hoping that we would get engaged that night but I figured if he spent that much money on the perfume there was no way we were getting engaged. (He is very frugal:) So after dinner, he gave me my second gift. It was a pair of really cute Valentine wine glasses. We drank a little champagne and he gave me my third gift. I opened the box and there was a large jar of pink, blue, and white M&M's. I was like "Oh Thanks, Jerry." He then told me to look and see what they said so I dumped some out of the jar. One said "Paige", one said "I Love You" and one said "Will You Marry Me?" I turned around in shock and he was on one knee with the ring. I was soooo excited and extremely happy!

Two Years

Today, Jared and I have been married for TWO years! I cannot believe it has already been that long! It seems like just yesterday that I was scrambling around trying to get everything ready for our wedding day! Last year was a little sad because I had to come to the realization that not only was our wedding over, but it had been over for a year! This year has had its ups and downs, but I am so excited for what God has in store for Jared and I in the next coming years. 

Here is Jared and I last year on our anniversary. Clearly, Jared was thrilled to take this picture in the middle of the Cowboy's game! :) I can't wait to do this every year wherever we celebrate! 

Jared took me on an early date celebration on Saturday. We went to Bailey's Prime Plus. It was pretty delicious and really cute! We are leaving on Saturday for our real anniversary celebration in Chicago! I am so excited to get away for a few days with my handsome husband! 

Happy Anniversary Jared! I love you more and more everyday and I am so happy that I get to spend my life with you!