Our first anniversary

Our first anniversary was an amazing day and such a success, well, kind of. You will hear why at the end. When we woke up that morning, we walked downstairs and there i found a huge bouquet of blue hydrangeas, the flowers we chose for our wedding, my favorite bottle of Chanel, a right hand ring with the birthstone of our wedding month and my favorite color, purple (amethyst), and the sweetest card I have ever read! We had breakfast at First Watch, followed by our usual Gymboree class on Sundays. After Gymboree class we headed downtown and took pictures by the Arch on the water. It was so beautiful! Our next adventure was to the incredible Missouri Botanical Gardens where we walked around the entire park laughing and holding hands as if we just started dating! We got some great photos at the gardens and kept saying how lucky we were to be able to spend our day at such a gorgeous place! This place is like paradise! After this romantic adventure comes our not so successful, but kind of funny situation. My husband had a surprise location for dinner that I was not supposed to know about until we arrived. Well, half way there I knew where we were going, India Palace! This was the place we ate at during the time when we came here for his interview. It's an intoxicating atmosphere filled with authentic Indian Food and views of the runway at the airport on the 11th floor of a hotel. I am beyond excited that this is the chosen place. We run to the hotel from the car freezing our behinds off, get on the elevator, hit number 11, the doors open and BAM! Steel bars saying they are closed for super bowl! We both stood there like deer in the headlights! After several minutes of disappointment, we decided to drive to Ruth's Chris. Twenty minutes later, we arrive in Clayton only to find that Ruth's Chris was also closed for super bowl. OMG!!! We were ready to go to Mickey D's at this point and cry on the way home! At this point, I pulled out the iphone and put Urban Spoon to use. I found a 5 star restaurant on the same street that had great reviews, so we figured we would give it a shot! After terrible service and even worse food, we couldn't help but laugh at this point. I thought our night was complete at this point and was expecting to drive home to see our baby who was being watched by his parents. I soon realized we were driving in a different direction than that our house. I was so confused! Next thing I know we are downtown on Washington Ave. Not sure what to expect, I keep asking, "What are we doing?" So, we park and i looked in front of me and see a hookah bar! Yay!! Something we have not been able to do since Gabby was born, but it used to be our favorite thing to do for fun. We sat at the hookah bar with one of the best hookahs ever made! We continued talking and enjoying each others conversation until all of a sudden the streets went nuts and people were screaming. We realized the super bowl was over and the drunks were going nuts! It was time to go home. Exhausted from such an eventful day, we drove home to see our little angel nestled in bed with her blankey. Such a sweet thing to come home to! So, this sums up our first anniversary.

My first post

Finally posting to new blog after a week in Chicago with Andres and Gabby. Andres was there for work, so Gabby and I found ourselves at the mall every day on some pretty amazing shopping extravaganzas! We even stopped in for a photo shoot in the mall to get some Valentine's Day pictures of Gabby. Being the little diva that she is, Gabby loved every minute in front of the camera, which led to some pretty incredible and memorable photographs. We surprised Andres with the photos when he got out of work. He was so excited!! We are back home now and enjoying time with the inlaws. They came in the night we got back and I had no idea. My husband planned it out for them to be here all weekend for our  first wedding anniversary on Sunday, Feb 5th, so we have a baby sitter for our special night he has planned for the two of us. Details on that to come! ;)