Tim and I had the best date night yesterday. We started out going to the bank to apply for a home loan :) Then we went out for Chinese and took a walk on the river walk. In the almost four years we've lived two blocks from the river walk, I think we've only walked on it like three times. We've made a pact that each weekend this summer, we will go on a walk. It's amazing how you can live in your city forever and not explore it. We plan to do that.

The graffiti in our town is AWFUL. Seriously? If you're going to write on a wall, make it legible. We stood in front of this for like 5 minutes trying to figure out what it said. We still have no clue.

Tim's fortune cookie said something in regards to whatever he needs, it's right in front of him...We were halfway down the river walk when Tim said he had to pee. We seriously looked up, and there was a porter potty...there is NEVER a porter potty near the river walk. We still have NO CLUE as to why it was there. It was outside a restaurant??? We learned our lesson though: always listen to your fortune cookie lol.

We are so awesome...

 I'll leave you with these...

Tim calls my pajamas big pants because I wear super comfortable pajama pants...and you know that means they're big lol. Those are the most comfy. That was a great night though; and I recommend watching The Hobbit. I was surprised-there was actually quite a bit of comedy...

And yes, our messages to each other are completely random. Letting Tim know I had a horrible dream that he died, and then he immediately switches to effects of broccoli soup...

Chocolate Chunk Cookies

what you can't see are all the burnt cookies lol...

I had a craving for some really good chocolate chip cookies yesterday, so I went onto pinterest and looked up "best chocolate chip cookies". THIS recipe popped up. These cookies are so good and soft and yummy. I did what Kelly at Eclectically Vintage said to do for my first batch, and they turned out harder than I wanted. I decided to try and lower the degrees to 325 and put them in for only 12 minutes. You want to take them out when they're puffy still, let them sit on the cookie sheet for a few minutes, and then transfer them to a wire rack. I also only put in a bag of chocolate chunks, which I think is 11 oz., unlike the 1 1/4 lbs. like in her recipe lol. So delicous. Especially with a glass of cold milk.

PAX 2013

Our first day in Boston was spent at PAX-after that Heather and I split up from the guys and explored Boston, Concord, and Salem.

Showing off their three-day badges :)

Heather and I got super hungry at 10:30am....so we split a burrito. It was awesome.

This is the the line we would have been in if we hadn't purchased our tickets 5 months in advance :)

Testing out a game :) By the way, I got my camera bag from Epiphanie...it's awesome. PERFECT size for traveling-I was able to fit my camera, charger, wallet, TWO water bottles lol, and more. It still didn't feel all that heavy :)

Elder Scrolls-Tim and the guys waited over 3 hours to play this game for 20 minutes! They did get a free t-shirt, so it was worth it, right? :) They even went back the next day and played again...and since Tim is such a sweetheart, he got his second free shirt in my size :)

The one group of guys I really wanted to meet...Mega64! They have these awesome videos called GameGurlz, where they go to E3 (largest video game convention in U.S.) dressed as girls and act like how they think girls would...I guess you'd have to see it. It's really funny :)

There were lots of people dressed in costume

Heather was SUPER excited when she saw Ghost Busters walking by...so later in the day when we saw them again, she sprinted to them and we got a picture :)

Elder Scrolls had a food truck! They must have spent millions of dollars promoting their game because this isn't the only thing they did, and they were even giving this food away for FREE.

I got a grilled cheese with pesto....SO GOOD.

I LOVE how this turned out-he just turned and looked at me like this. I hurried up, grabbed my camera,  and took a picture without even looking to see what I was doing. It turned out awesome.

They had this green screen where you could get your picture done...

We are pretty awesome lol

Some crazy statues

This was, I think, the happiest I've ever seen Tim. He smiled in so many pictures :)

Energy drinks :)

Disgusting, I know....I have a thing for guys from history lol. I've actually taken pictures with a guy from the 1800s in a photo at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, a knight at Universal Studios...etc. I'm weird like that lol

We were guilty of being the greatest Boston explorers of all time :)

That night we went to this place called Papa Gino's, and it was some of the worst food I've ever had. I got a pizza that was $12...tasted worse than a Totinos pizza. Tim got a meatball sub...it was cold. Heather's fries tasted like they were pieces of metal dipped in grease. Ben and Keith were the only ones who had decent food. 

Overall a fun day until the end lol

It's Sunday night....meaning back to work tomorrow. I'm trying hard to be optimistic, so I decided some wine with strawberries would help :)

I was looking through my pictures and realized I had yet to post pictures from Rebecca's baby shower! We had her shower in January lol (Micah was born in February), but I figured I could show you some pictures from the shower :)

My beautiful sister helping (helping? or eating…) make muddy buddies for the tables :)

Our friend Jennifer is extremely crafty and created the banner! It turned out great :) That's her in the picture with my mother :)

Prizes! We did mugs filled with hot cocoa packets :) Cheap, easy, and cute :)

We had each guest write an encouraging note for Rebecca and Sam to read while they change Micah's diapers :)

My sister and grandma :)

The "pine cheesecone" lol that I made :)

Delicious blueberry and cranberry muffins, pretzels with chocolate and m&ms, and chocolate cupcakes with chocolate whipped topping. And a gummy frog on each one :)

A tea tree :) We had a whole tea and hot cocoa bar, but, of course, I don't think I took a picture of it completely done :(

Bottle game…always fun :)

Lumberjack Micah :)

This picture below I took at my sister's BRIDAL shower:

We knew we had to reenact it :)

Me, my sister, and my mom :)

It was such a fun day.