Happy 2nd Anniversary!

Today I have been married to my best friend for 2 years. It's been a long couple years and so much has happened, but there's no person to better share my journey with.

These are the beautiful flowers Justin brought home for me this morning. They're the same kind of roses we had at our wedding.

Happy Valentine's Day!

10 reasons why I love my husband:

1. He lets me sleep in when he has to work and I don't
2. He takes Lola out most mornings so I don't have to
3. He does the dishes without being asked
4. He won't let me do laundry
5. He lets me watch my girly shows
6. When I am upset, he knows when to say something and when I just need a hug -- most times.
7. He is an amazing listener
8. He's a problem solver
9. He lets me change the radio station in the car
10. He is dedicated, loyal and understanding -- he's my husband.

Happy 1st Anniversary!

August 1st was our 1 year anniversary.

Justin had coordinated with a coworker of mine, Kendra, to plan a great day. He'd booked us a room at Harvey's, planned a trip parasailing, a champagne cruise at sunset and then dinner at the Hard Rock.

I ordered our anniversary cake from Sweetie Pies Bakery and we picked it up Saturday morning before we left. We left around 8:30 and got to the hotel around 11:30 and checked in. Our room wasn't quite ready, but that was ok. After we dropped our luggage (and the cake) off with the bell hop, we went to gamble a little.

Justin found a poker tournament that was starting at 1 at Montbleu, and signed up. We played a little video blackjack until it started. We were both up about $10 before the tournament, so I took my ticket and played some slots. Now, I'm not exactly sure how they work with all the lines, so I usually just place Max Bet on all the lines and hope for the best.

This time I lucked out. After about 30 minutes playing the penny slots I realized I was up about $210! I was feeling pretty lucky so I decided to stick it out a few more minutes because I knew Justin wouldn't be done yet. Unfortunately the second 3o minutes wasnt as lucky and I walked away up about $100. Even so I felt pretty good about it. I knew we should be getting ready for our parasailing trip so I went and retrieved Justin, who was just finishing up his tournament. We walked back to the hotel to see if our room was ready.

Once we got our room keys we went up to get ready. As we were just getting ready to walk down to go to the boat dock, we looked out the window and discovered that between the time it took us to get into our room, it had begun to rain. Needless to say the parasailing trip AND sunset cruise were both cancelled.

Since we had a great room we decided to just hang out there. It was an incredibly comfy bed with plush linens and lots and lots of pillows. Before we knew it, 4 hours had gone by and it was dinnertime. We walked downstairs to the Hard Rock, bringing along the cake of course. We each had a delicious cocktail and ordered yummy dinner. After we finished dinner, the waitress brought out the cake and a plate. Yes, I said one plate. I say that because unfortunately, yet luckily for me, Justing does not eat cake. I was able to have as much of the personal-size cake as I wanted. It was delicious.

After dinner we walked around the casinos for a while, stopping only every once in a while to play a slot that might be "hot" even though none actually were. There was so much we could have done, but we decided to to go to bed early. It was so nice to just climb into bed, snuggle up, and watch a movie. We didn't have to argue what to watch, because with only 10 channels, you don't have many options.

Sunday morning we woke up at around 8 and got dressed. We walked down to the outdoor mall down the street and browsed the shops, got lunch, and a bowl of ice cream. Checkout was at 11, so we loaded up and headed home.

Even though we didn't get to do the things that Justin had planned, it was a wonderful weekend.

Happy Anniversary, Husband. :-)

Mt. St. Helena

It was a beautiful Sunday morning today and Justin and I made plans to hike Mount Saint Helena. Since I've been doing Adventure Bootcamp I felt I was in good enough shape to keep up with Justin. Armed with only the information I got from the Robert Louis Stevenson State Park website and the determination to make it to the top, we loaded up our backpacks with waters and a sweatshirt each. As always, my backpack included the essential sunscreen and first aid kit because inevitably on of us would need one of them, but more about that later.

Waking up a 8:00, we dressed in layers, grabbed our backpacks and off we went. We stopped at Ranch Market in Napa and got some sandwiches (with condiments on the side to prevent soggy bread, of course) then we were on our way.

We got about a mile into the hike and realized we'd bitten off more than we could chew. We decided that even if we did make it the 5 miles to the top, neither of us were in good enough shape to make it back down. So we continued on for a while more until we came to an outcropping of rocks over a cliff that had some benches. We sat down and broke out the sandwiches. Neither of us a big fans of mayonnaise so I grabbed some packets of mustard from the deli along with a bio-degradable knife. As we ate I explained to Justin the novelty of biodegradable plastics. I'm not sure he was entirely convinced that a plastic knife has the ability to be composted but we will find out the results to that in another post.

Once we finished our sandwiches we turned around and started back down the mountain. I'd have to say that the hike down was much more enjoyable than the hike up. It took us about 2 hours to make it half way up and about 50 minutes to make it back down. Perhaps the accelerated speed down contributed to the slalom ski Justin did on his butt about 30 feet down until ultimately coming to a rest amongst some young saplings. As a good wife I called down to make sure he was alight before bursting into uncontrollable laughter.

Ultimately we made it back in one piece. Even though we didn't make it to the summit I am very proud of our accomplishment. We will add making it to the summit to our list of 101 things to do in 1001 days.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Since this was our first Valentine's Day as a married couple, but our 5th overall Justin and I went back and forth over what we should do to celebrate.

After much discussion and failed attempts at dinner reservations, we finally settled on what we enjoy most. We rented a movie (Justin let me pick: "Nights in Rodanthe") He's not really a romance-movie type of guy, but since it was a day of love, he let me have it. :-) So we snuggled up, popped some popcorn and started watching the movie. I thought for sure he'd fall asleep half way through. To my surprise, he not only stayed away for the entire movie but was just as interested in it as I was.

Needless to say I think we found our new tradition. Thanks for such a great evening honey! I love you!

2 Month Anniversary.

So October 1st was our 2 month anniversary and we are officially settled here in Idaho! Justin finally made it and most of our things have been put away in our new home! Its so cute & I love it. It's a two level, two bedroom, two bath townhouse with a little patio, but we love it just the same! I have taken some pictures of what we have already and I will post more when we are ALL done. (Although, I'm not sure anyone is ever really done decorating.)

<--Here is the front door to our humble abode. It's one of the units in a 4 unit building & our building is one of 6. (Each building is painted a different color but I like our blue the best.)

My favorite part of our new home is the living room. We have enough room in our new place for both of our couches, we have a fireplace and a built in nook for the TV directly above it. The best part of it all is that none of the walls are white! It really does feel like home even if it's not our own. As you can see, Justin is laying on the couch watching what else? ESPN of course.

Normally I would be in the kitchen (my territory) cooking or coloring with Kayla (Justin's niece), but I thought I would post this blog so I also took a picture of it. It's not very clean right now since Justin hasn't finished the dishes yet since the show came back on :-). As you can see here, there is plenty of room to make yummy meals so feel free to come and visit and I'll whip you up something delicious!!!!

-The Nunleys

First things first...

So it was just a normal Saturday when I was returning home I decided to check the mail. Then it happened! I got the greatest thing of all! My first piece of mail as Mrs. Brenda Nunley!!

It is such a great feeling! It was one of my credit cards sending me my new card in my new name! So now every time I use it, I will be reminded what a wonderful man I married. These last few weeks have been pure bliss.

I love my new husband. XOXO