Gamer Night

On Saturday night, Aybars and I had the guys in our youth group and their Xbox's over for Gamer Night. We moved all of the furniture around and projected the games up on our livingroom wall, and the boys stayed up all night playing football and ping pong and guitar hero... Aybars managed to stay up until 6:30 when I woke up to relieve him. Then I made pancakes and watched as 5 teenagers passed out one by one all over our livingroom!

Here's my guitar hero... :)


Aybars doing his loser's penalty - push-ups!


Puffy and Aybars recovering from the madness...

First snow!

I'm on campus between classes, looking out of the window instead of doing my homework because it is finally snowing! Some people hate it, but I will always love the snow. We didn't have nearly enough of it when we were kids, but when we did I remember making snow mazes in the front yard with Eddie and Josh, or Dad valiantly pulling me on the sled when I was a much smaller girl (thanks, Dad!). I remember building lopsided snowmen and freezing while I made snow angels in the snow. I remember how the whole world slowed down, and I always hope that maybe it will slow down my world a little right now... or maybe tomorrow when I'm supposed to go to work! Another snowy memory? Aybars drove through piles of snow to meet me the night of our first date, and somehow found out my little Paseo was covered in several inches of snow. So that night he brought me the first gift he ever gave me - a snowscraper for my car. Later that night, we spent over two hours walking around and around in Rittenhouse Square admiring the snow creations - 6" tall snowmen, snowmen bums sleeping under newspapers on the benches, snowmen walking snow dogs... Mmm....good memories. :)

Something New

They say you learn something new every day. Well, today it was my conductor's name - Sean. If you have an hour commute on the train each way every day, I highly suggest making friends with the conductor. So nice to have a friendly face when you're groggy in the morning and dragging yourself home at night. Of course, the friendliest face is the person dragging himself out of bed to drive me there, and picking me up every night, often bearing chocolate for his weary wife. What a sweetie. :) Acquiring one of those friendly faces comes even more highly recommended.

But I digress from my original intention of this post, which was to mention the "something new" I picked up earlier this week, which is that Turkish coffee is not compatible with drip coffee makers. Not one of those "something new's" that you really want to learn at 6:00 in the morning. Take my word for it! :)

I can't help posting more of our wedding pictures. They just make me smile. :)

Some small changes...

So I've made some small changes. Everybody reading this blog probably already knows that the boyfriend from one of my most "recent" posts turned out to be such a gem that I couldn't resist - I just had to marry him. :) Yesterday marks two wonderful months since our wedding on November 5, 2006, in Jackson, NJ. The engagement and wedding were so much fun, but marriage is SO MUCH better. Now I am officially a Jersey girl, living in a cute little 2 bedroom house with my best friend. :)

Both of us are getting ready to go back to school next week. Aybars is finishing up his Associates, and I'm plugging away on my degree. This semester, it's Old English and Formal Semantics & Cognitive Science. I love being married, and I love school, but we'll see how well the two go together!