Happy Happy Times, and a FIRST blog post from me!

Okay, so it has been awhile that I'm pretty sure I was required to be blogging that I have not been blogging at all. How long has bloggery been around anyway? I think a long time. I think a lot of years. Anyway, now that Petey and I have been married for almost a year and a freaking HALF or so, I have finally gotten myself to create a semblance of a blog of our own! Yes, it is here. This is the first post we will be putting out. Man. I gotta create some kind of story here, yes? Ooookayyyy. (My ineptitude has become evident because I can't un-underline these lines...)

So of course the holidays have been amazing, and other than lounging, eating, thrifting, card playing and celebrating various things, I think two pretty sweet things happened that merit a bit of a post. First, in Peter’s words, he "resurrected" the Mighty Mighty Metro from the grave. I like his words; they're a little nutty, but quite accurate. I got out of school at a great time to go up to visit the family in Atlanta pretty early. We weren't sure that Peter would get leave for such a long holiday trip, so I bought meself a one-way ticket, while planning on driving home with him whenever necessary. It turned out that he got the leave we wanted, but decided to use a few of those early days to just stay home and finally fix his miracle car. This car is awesome, and many of the people close to us know its story, but basically Peter spent a mere $400 on it approximately, what, five or six years ago, and it has lasted FOREVER! We thought it was dead due to a fender bender (a tiny one, which somehow TOTALED the car...obviously not our safest automotive choice,) but lo and behold, Peter was able to fix it for a little over $600 (yes, more than the original price paid, but STILL! There was a lot that needed fixing) and a mere 2.5 days of his time (literally though. Probably 2.5 days in hours. So that's a lot.) Thankfully, he is a very talented mechanic, among many other things, and we now have two cars to drive again!

Gorgeous!

The other cool thing that happened during our fabulous break was that my mom hired me to cater my sister Rachel’s second wedding reception! Yessss. Score. Double score, since I love both cooking and my sister. I planned a really fun and delicious menu made up of a lot of different finger foods, or for the fancy people out there, hors d’œvres. Either for the fancy or the French. These included leek bacon and gruyere tarts, antipasto, prosciutto-wrapped asparagus, stuffed mini peppers and mushrooms, three kinds of hummus, puff pastry-wrapped brie, bacon-wrapped tenderloin with blue cheese, tiramisu, cheesecakes, BTS cake, macarons and a fruity grenadine punch. These foods were awesome, but the ordeal of planning, purchasing and cooking everything from scratch was quite challenging. Still, it was very fun and satisfying with the help of lots of cool people.

We have had a fabulous vacation with our whole family (a bit of a rarity) for both Thanksgiving and now Christmas. We got some really needed R&R, and both Peter and I were able to keep up on our “healthy lifestyle” as much as humanly possible too. In other words, in the two weeks, we went running at least three times!!! At least we did something I guess JWe hope that everyone had an equally awesome Christmas/holiday and that you’re enjoying your return to normal life. We definitely are. I somehow caught the “spring cleaning” bug early and have been running around the house getting rid of/organizing everything. This bug is necessary for me, since I don’t catch it often enough. Anyways, we love you all, and hope to see so many of you in 2012!!! It’s worth hoping for, at least.

Bisous/Kisses!!