Home Again, Home Again

My first late entry and it's only our third entry, ahhh! Also bad because I swear I have the worst memory ever so it will be hard for me to recap Monday-Thursday... lol, how sad is that??

I won't bore you with the details of my work days Monday-Wednesday but after work Monday I went and purchased some items for a charity that my work is teaming with this year for at least the second year in a row (I've only been there since July of last year). We are putting together Holiday Stockings for low income seniors in the community. I am passionate about being involved in this for two reasons; I really enjoy volunteering and being a part of organizations that do good for others and I feel strongly about seniors being given the respect and resources they deserve. I love America but I must say, compared to most cultures I feel like our country does not take care of their seniors like other countries do. So please, if you have items like toothbrushes, cards, crossword puzzles, lotion, etc. please let me know or participate yourself, details can be found on nwpilotproject.org.

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Tuesday my friend Maima left for Liberia for two weeks and my baby came home after being gone a week and a half. It was our first time away from each other since we got married, we missed each other very much. I swear we're not codependant though! Lol. Oh and here's a funny story from his trip;

Whenever Mike travels to Omaha for work he stays with The Katzers across the river in Iowa. They recently moved to a new house so when Mike got into town, he went to the car rental place (more on that later, lol), got his car for the week and put in their new address into the GPS. Upon finding the house, Mike parks and starts hauling his stuff inside. As he's finishing up, an older man and his son come walking down the stairs with a puzzled look on their faces and asked how they may help Mike. Turns out he put the address wrong into his GPS and ended up walking into someone else's home, not The Katzer's! Hahaha. Oh yeah, and his rental car was a mini van. LOL.

Michael would like to add that the only thing that soiled our reunion was that The Blazers ended their 11 game winning streak and a single tear was shed. These are his words, exactly.

"He told me to say exactly this as he chooses his words very deliberately." <--- if anyone catches this reference, you get 10 brownie points ;)

And since mentioning The Portland TrailBlazers, here's a photo of Mike and I at a game earlier this month. This is where we beat the Sacramento Kings.

Lazy Sunday

Hey everyone! Hope you're having a great start to your week. Can't believe it's only three days til Thanksgiving! Boy does time fly. I'm excited to celebrate this year... I'm a holiday fanatic! I haven't gotten the chance to decorate much for this harvest season but you better believe I am all ready with the Christmas decorations *as soon* as Thanksgiving is over! ;)

Yesterday I FINALLY got a chance to sleep in. I was planning on attending church either with The Moreno family or my friends Paul and Jameis but I was so tired when I woke up in the morning and haven't slept in in over two weeks, I decided I needed some extra zzzs.

Katie and I met up for lunch at Sushi Hana and gobbled down some yummy food. 2/5 dishes were slices of pumpkin pie... I live for pumpkin pie haha. Mike's not too big of a fan however. After sushi Katie & I headed over to Payless Shoe Source. As we were walking around,we stumbled across the women's SIZE 13 SHOES. What! Honestly, I feel bad for women who have feet that big... not cause of the fact that they have large feet but because they are so limited in the different styles at hand. Like this one:

I mean, I like leopard print but this thing was like a boat. And the little kitten heel and cut of the shoe at the top was just too much. But that's just me. We can see in the photo above how Katie also feels about the shoe, lol!

Then we did some thrift shopping from there, parted ways and I got started on a little bit of early Christmas shopping, hoorah! I'm going to try to make most of my Christmas gifts this year... I love handmade gifts, they're so much more personal and it means a lot that someone would put time and effort into making something for you.

Welp, think I'm gonna sign off for the evening. I'm picking up Michael from the airport tomorrow so next blog post will have a little input/material from the hubs! 

Cheers!

The McCaffreys

The Married Life

We did it... we got married! As of November 2, 2013, we are husband & wife. This blog will be documenting our life as married couple and giving you a little taste of our daily life. It may not be the most exciting thing you've ever read but essentially I just wanted to have something to look back at in years to come to appreciate how we started our new life together :)

So first things first; the wedding! I mean to start the blog RIGHT after we got married but we were a little too caught up in the post-nuptials to focus on this. It's been three weeks since the wedding and boy has it gone by fast. The wedding was amazing. We were so overwhelmed by the amount of love and support that we received from our friends and families both on the wedding and leading up to it. The night was just magical. I wish I could have it all over again... any excuse to wear my dress once more!

Here's one of our favorite photos from the big day (fixed):

Right now Michael is out of town on a business trip. He is a senior financial consultant and I work for a health insurance company. He's definitely traveled less since we got engaged/married but he's good at what he does so he had to fly out last Tuesday to Chicago, then he went to Omaha and is now in Minneapolis. He gets back this Tuesday, can't wait!

Since I'm not going to recap every little thing that has happened since we got married, I'll just give a general overview and talk about yesterday. Each post will be about the day before, just a heads up! Since getting married we've officially moved in together into our new apartment. We love it!It's in the Garden Home neighborhood of Portland/Beaverton. It's super close to our work, has granite countertops, nice and new appliances, decent closets, great fireplace with mantle, etc. We can walk out onto our deck and Fanno Creek is close enough to throw a stick into (our stale bread, the ducks out there love it!).

Other events and happenings:
- lost my phone on my wedding night and got a new one the following week
- coworker of mine left the company, had a goodbye dinner/drinks with her
- been to a couple Blazers games (Go Rip City!!!)
- open/sort through the plethora of wedding gifts
- going to my yoga classes at 24 Hour Fitness
- working overtime
- dinner/drinks with friends
- we saw Gravity in 3D with Mike's former roommates
- attend church (we are both Christians :)
- post-wedding meetings with vendors/acquaintances
- hang out with my brother/go to the library
- work meetings
- having friends come over and check out or new place
- dinner with the in-laws
- warehouse party/fundraiser with friends


OKAY! So! Exactly 3 weeks after our wedding date was Saturday, November 23, 2013. Mike was in Omaha, Nebraska on business staying with our friends, The Katzers. I hung out with Dalila, Ricky and some other friends the previous night and stayed out pretty late. Which was not smart because the next day my family and my in-laws came over to help set up our new apartment, put appliances in the kitchen and exchange duplicates that we received at Target. This was simultaneously while watching the Ducks vs. Arizona game which was just TRAGIC. Mike and I both went to U of O so we're diehard Ducks fans and this was a hard loss to take... we already lost to Stanford but then after losing to Arizona there is no way of making it even to the Rose Bowl this year. So disappointing. We still love our Ducks though.

Opening packages and putting the place together took 5 hours altogether and I was just BEAT by the end of the day. It feels good to have the apartment more squared away though! Our kitchen actually looks complete with our toaster oven, toaster, blender, coffee maker, etc. on the countertops. That's another thing-- we might do reviews on this blog as well... of kitchen appliances, products, etc.

After they all left I took a nice, long nap. I had planned on waking up and getting ready to go to Jake's birthday celebration at the Jake, Justin & Patty's house and then cruise over to Jared's housewarming party at his new apartment by the Rose Quarter. However after waking up I had a huge headache and was just exhausted so I decided to watch a little TV and clean up the apartment a bit. Mike called me and we talked on the phone before bed. Then I was out like a light!

I realize this is quite a long-winded blog entry. I swear they won't be this long and boring in future entries... hopefully? haha. At any rate, thanks for reading! <3

Cheers!
The McCaffreys