Saint Louis

This weekend Brett and I went to St Louis to see our bestie Mary, who we met and fell in love with during our brief time together at Missouri State. She was a bridesmaid in the wedding and has known Brett and I as long as there as been a "Brett and I." 

Our visit coincided with The Loop Ice Carnival Pub Crawl and that event is virtually responsible for everything that follows. We had so. much. fun.

We started at Pi Pizzeria for lunch. I had a Schlafly Kolsh that could be my new favorite beer. 

Each stop of the pub crawl had an ice sculpture. This one was fairly intact, but the rest looked pretty sad because it was something like 60 degrees that day. Awesome for pub crawling. Less awesome for ice sculpturing. 

Second stop- The Eclipse Restaurant at the Moonrise Hotel. Rooftop bar. Half pipe. Skateboarding 10 year olds. 

 St Louis and The Mosers.

Third stop- The Pin Up Bowl. Brett ran into an old college friend here and Mary made a hole-in-one! I would say we were maintaining here.

 While we traveled, Mary stopped to lick one of the ice sculptures. You can see the state of it (and us).

 Last stop- Three Kings.  We had some tasty New Belgium Lips of Faith beer of some kind and had a really hard time finding it on Untapped.

I started texting everyone I knew would reply. Someone received this photo and I'm sure that someone was very glad.

We left Three Kings around 6 pm. It was time for laying around and taking a bunch of selfies while we waiting for our Chinese to be delivered.

Here is a real exchange I had with the delivery guy:

Delivery Guy: "You work at haircut?"
Me: (How does this guy know I just got a haircut?) "What?"
Delivery Guy: "You work at haircut? Your hair look good!"

The next morning we needed so much brunch. Mary took us to Square One Brewery in this adorable neighborhood called Lafayette Square. I attacked some Eggs Benedict and a mimosa. I definitely want to hit this place back up for lunch and brews on another STL go-round.

After brunch we went to Euclid Records (and by "we" I mean "Mary and Brett" and I followed along because I was in the car.) Brett picked up a Pixies record and I checked Facebook on my phone. I didn't find their sweet selection of poster prints until Brett was checking out, but at least I'll know where to beeline when we go back. 

Here's a sweet photo.

We had an awesome weekend. We don't really make it to St Louis as often as we should considering how close it is. 2013 is the year of fixing that!

We did miss this guy though!

Christmas/New Year's Eve

I had a really amazing holiday. Of course, I forgot to take as many photos as I would have liked, but here's a nice sampling of my Christmas and New Year's Eve.

I got really excited when it snowed- We had a White Christmas!

We watched a lot of classic Christmas Shows!

I also did some fun Christmasy work stuff- like showing The Muppet Christmas Carol...

And walking in our First Annual Christmas Parade with my friend's adorable daughter Macy.

There was a LOT of this..

And wrapping, eating, drinking, playing:

Our Christmas Eve Tradition- Chinese food! 

Christmas morning-

(Every Christmas morning we've ever spent together, I get out my camera and Brett exclaims, "Are you going to take pictures of me?!" The answer is always, "Uhm, yes.")

I felt like a princess when I unwrapped this! My favorite..

Hanging out at Brett's parents 

 And spending some awesome quality time with a couple of our favorites (Fries and Rachel and Kyle)

New Years Eve meant a new hair cut and some fun in Des Moines!

Confession: I still have not taken down a single Christmas decoration. Really hoping to tackle it this weekend but man! I really lost my fire for it!

Back in the Saddle

Well I've returned to the world of blogging. Won't lie- it was a nice vacation. BUT! Now I'm back and I'm totally ready to over-share and under-perform for my captive audience.

Isn't Thanksgiving the bomb? Or da bomb, rather. I just love it. So much food. So much family. I love my Iowa family and I don't get up to see them enough so when I do, it's a great treat. Food was awesome and I was so busy eating I neglected to take any photos.

Friday we drove to Kansas City to be with Brett's family for the rest of the weekend. It was our first trip to KC as a married couple, and look at this adorable way his family greeted us:

We had game night that evening and relaxed most of the day on Saturday, but did a little shopping here and there. We caught up with Chris and Sarah and we all ate and drank our weight in beer and pizza at Waldo's Pizza. Again, too much eating, no photos.

My wedding gift to Brett was a pair of Chiefs tickets and coincidentally, Sarah and Chris have season tickets and we were able to tailgate Sunday before (and after) the game. Photo time was totally on. Bask in the glory:

 Brett and I doing the tailgate thing

 Me and Sarah, whom I love

 At our seats

 With our treats

Game time baby! 

Outside the stadium, a little chilly at this point 

 The gang, cameo by other Sarah who looks cute even though she wasn't really in the picture which is something I never manage to do. 

Brett and Chris... True lovers. 

Yay for a photo-full post of fun things! We did it!