manly man legs

This is a serious subject that has plagued man probably since the dawn of time. Whats up with puny calves?? Every time I'm at the gym (which isn't that often), I see so many buff guys pumping big iron but then they have these skinny ol' chicken legs. Do they not know that their calves are the biceps of the legs and need attention too?!? Which leads me to my next point, my ginger has some serious sex on a stick calves! Sometimes when we're laying the couch I will kitty pounce and attack his legs! I just feel like they need the crap squeezed out of them once in a while cause they are so hot and I shouldn't have to contain myself all the time (is that TMI?)...Scott's not so much a fan of that though. He's a whiner baby and says it hurts and he's ticklish and blah blah blah, but really that's what he gets for having such sexy manly man legs. You would think after 5 years he would be used to it?? 

Here are the Steele bro's after a triathlon (mine is in the middle). They sure lucked out in the genetics department on having manly legs without having to work for them.Thanks God for putting legs like this on earth.

 PS- I think Scott should wear a kilt all the time...where do I buy one??

our first anniversary

As I was going through our summer photos and organizing them, I came across our 1 year anniversary photos from June. Since we had just gone to Thailand in March we decided to stay local at a bed & breakfast in town. I super love B&B's! Someday I will get to a B&B in the NorthEast and eat lobster, visit lighthouses, and look into their local ghost/witch history. You know all those old New England towns got em! Anyway, this was our day:

The Inn on the Hill

The view night and day

 first anniversary= paper gift

Scott gave me Alice in Wonderland from 1934 and Rubaiyat of Omar Kyayyam from 1909, which is a Persian poem about life, living in the moment, love, death, and god.
"Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow."
Sometimes the Ginger really surprises me with how romantic he can be.

I gave Scott the complete scores of every Beatles song so that he can play them on the piano, guitar, drums, or whatever he wants. The Beatles are one of his all time favorite band!

The day was a perfect mixture of chilling, food, and togetherness. After we opened our presents we ate a tasty bacon filled breakfast on a patio overlooking the city, played some pool, went to a matinee, ate snow cones, did a little bit of antiquing, took a nap, then ate year old wedding cake. Which was super yummy! I'd say that was a successful day....especially food wise...which my life may or may not focus too much around.

In conclusion, wedding anniversaries are so much more fun than dating anniversaries! Seriously kids. I'm super excited to plan something fun and different every year! Especially with the presents. Next year is cotton so I need to come up with something Scott/nerdy/cool. If anyone has any different ideas let me know! (don't worry the hubs doesn't read my blog cause he's terrible like that, so anything you say is safe)

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Sometimes when a friend has a family member die you need to make them tissue paper flowers and a cheesecake.

Cheesecake courtesy of the ginger of course (he's the best cook)!!

Me and Alex with our part of the gift:

On a side note I just got this sweater and super cool compass necklace! 

So of course I made them business posh for work.

 

This necklace is great because you never know when your going to need to find your way...also I think it could be handy during a zombie apocalypse...you know to find North and all.

 

 Pictures of my mom's 70th birthday weekend in Vegas to come soon!

mmmm....beards!

Guys, I just discovered the most amazing thing!

World Beard & Moustache Championships!!

This is real and it happens yearly.

When I was up in Portland I bought the hubs a book on beards.

Inside said book, was pure beard gold and talked all about the competition!

They travel all around the world holding the competition and the best part is that it will be in Vegas this year!!

Totally achievable distance!!

Since the hubs is a sexy bearded man of course we need to go an partake in this awesomeness!!

The competition is in November and I can't wait!!

good ol' Wes

Movies on summer nights are the best!

We finally went and saw Moonrise Kingdom over the weekend. I know, it's about time!!

Serious LOVE!!

Wes Anderson makes some of the most amazing movies!

He's actually my hubs favorite film maker, which inspired this costume of his a few years back

He even had a costume change that he was pretty proud of

(I was Iron Maven from Whip It, but next time I have a fur coat and blond wig to be Margot so that we both can be Tenenbaums together)

Life Aquatic & Royal Tenenbaums have been his favs for years, but Moonrise Kingdom may have overtaken them (which is really saying something for this movie snob).

Go see it if you haven't yet, I promise laughter will be had.

Also, this is one of my favorite summer outfits

The pockets are big enough to hold my phone, my Thor pez dispenser, & chapstick.

Love!

one year super model photo shoot

I just realized I haven't posted my favorite pics from our one year anniversary photo shoot with the amazing Duston Todd!

Prepare to be amazed and maybe a bit weirded out.

 

The red in the pics is holi sand used in the Hari Krishna Color Festivals.

We knew the red would have a horror movie effect, but didn't know it would look so bloody! Hey, we went with it and it turned out awesome! We're just crazy like that.

aaannd....action!

For those that don't know, my hubs makes short films with our friends.
Our friend Jon, aka Madbeard, is the main instigator, and he really has some good stuff!
You need to check out his You Tube.
Especially watch Chunderstruck, it's one of the most recents and some of his most genius work if I do say so myself.

Anyway...making movies is sooo much fun!!

No, their not big budget stuff,

but we have a good time regardless.

Here's the first one Scott helped direct:

THE LAST ZOMBIE MOVIE EVER!

(A rare moment with me in bangs and straight hair)

 

Eventually they'd like to get something into the Sundance Film Festival,

but that may be a ways off.

These last few years we've been doing the 48 Hour Film Project.

Which is a bit tiring!

They participated in one this last weekend and Scott only got a little over 3 hours of sleep the whole weekend!

You see, for the 48hr you draw out a genre and then you have to write, film, & edit all within the 48 hours.

If your late then you're out of the judging and you will never know how your film held up to others made.

Unfortunately the guys were an hour late this year :-(

Their film will still get viewed, just no awards for them.
Bummer, I know!

 I don't have this years movie yet, but here is the film they made last time which I really loved:

Horror is kind of our genre, but there are plans to branch out this summer.

Be Mine

I don't think I'm a mushy type person.

In fact I hate when people post mushy, lovey crap on Facebook.

I just feel like what you and your significant other have is personal.

You don't need to tell everyone how in love you are and how lucky you are to have found the "one". You should be living that way and showing and telling who your with those things...the rest of us don't need to hear it.

Now with that said lets talk about Valentines.

Haha!

Scott and I started a new tradition this year that instead of doing all the typical Valentiney things like presents, Hallmark cards, and expensive restaurants, we are going to make each other Valentine cards with our own written poems or reasons why love each other, then stay in for a special dinner of a homemade meal or take out.

I thought it was pretty funny that both of us made cards with kitties on them for each other.

Scott said he put his kitty on because he thought it looked like it had down syndrome. 

He's so romantic! :-)

All in all, this was the best Valentines, because I got a love letter from my husband!

 

 Oh and flowers...those aren't required, but they do make  me feel special! :-)

welcome to your Wedding Day!

Happy 6 months anniversary!!

  I realize I haven't posted on my wedding yet.
It's busy work getting into wife mode!
I would never in a million years want to plan another wedding,

but when the day finally came...it was perfect!!

The details:
I did a 40's do with the hair and took the pearl crown my mother wore to her wedding and twisted it into this accessory. It was my favorite!

How cool is my brooch bouquet?!? I love it for the fact that I can keep it forever! I have it on my piano right now in a vase. Notice the manatee brooch? Haha! That was for Scott.

Peacock boutonnieres for the men. Made that myself!

The day:
The wedding was at 1pm so I was able to relax and get ready with my mum, sisters, & bf Julie.
One thing I totally recommend is having your hair and makeup done for you! It was so fun and worth it to get pampered!
I had butterflies in my stomach the whole way to the Temple.

(I look nervous, but I swear I was nothing but ready!)
I just kept saying over and over to myself "I'm getting married today!"
It's was so surreal that the day had finally arrived.

Right before Scott and I went into the sealing room to be married we looked at each other and said "we should have eloped".
Haha!
It was just kinda nerve wracking to know that everyone was going to be staring at us and making a big deal of us tying the knot...which of course it is a big deal. We just weren't ready for people to be gushing over us.

During the ceremony I could not hold still!
I felt like I was going to burst out of my skin!
It was just a combination of it all.
Finally being there marrying my love; plus I had never seen Scott look at me like that before; plus the spirit was so strong; plus I was beyond happy!


After the ceremony we came out of the Temple to greet all our well wishers,

 and take the customary photos.

 



Scott and I couldn't stop smiling!
 
Doesn't he look happy? :-)

I can honestly say I had never felt happier!
After the Temple we had a luncheon with our family and close friends at Settebellos.
I love that place!
 It's true what they say that you never get the food on your wedding day though.
I was too excited to sit and eat. Plus I just wanted to be visiting with everyone.

After the luncheon we had more photos to take of the two of us, family, bridesmaids & groomsmen.


The whole Van Hoose Clan
(minus Christine & Benat)
 
 
The Whole Steele Clan
 
 
Groomsmen
 
(Chad, Santi, Scott, Jon, Zo)

  
Bridesmaids

 (Julie, Bexxx, me, Jenna, Jen, Alex)


We had the reception in the evening at Pierpont Place and it was epic!

 Chandeliers and white lights strung up, peacock feather centerpieces, mocktail bar, & yummy desserts!
 It was awesome!
I have to say I hate the whole meet and greet part, but I know it's something that must be done because I didn't know all of his extended family and he didn't know all of mine.
When we finally got that out of the way we were finally able to dance!
I love to dance!

Our first dance
 I had so much fun! I was a bit sweaty from shaking it in all the wedding dress layers, but who cares! It was my wedding day!
Scott was probably the better host because he mingled whilst I stayed on the dance floor all night.

I love all my family and friends and I'm so grateful they were there with me to celebrate marrying my love.

My only gripe is that I didn't get enough quality time with them all.

I wish I could re-live this day over and over!
(but with a smaller group so that I get my quality time)

It was the best day in the whole world!
Here are some more of my favorite pics of the day:

 
It really bugs Scott that his tie was off center...how did no one tell us during all these pics?? 

This is how Scott holds hands. He holds my neck.
 

 
I must say I LOVE photos! I love taking them and being in them.
Especially when I look like a princess! :-)