Shawn's new toy

When we moved to Oak Park this past October I spoke with a banker at Chase and discovered that I can earn points when I use my debit as a credit.  Since then I have been doing that and I found recently that I had earned quite a lot of points!  I was trying to decide what to cash the points in for when I realized that I could get an Amazon.com giftcard and use that to buy Shawn something he has wanted for quite awhile.  So...I got him a gift that he loves!  He new friend, the Voice-Activated R2D2!

This is R2D2.  Personally, I am discovering that he is actually pretty annoying, but I can't make him listen to me.  He seems to prefer Shawn!  He has a pretty handy little cup holder (as you can see in the picture, he likes Keystone Light too!) and he has a bunch of preset commands that he is supposed to follow.  For me he just wanders around the room and makes a lot of noise.  The important thing is that Shawn likes him!

Blackhawks Game

As anyone who knows Shawn or I probably already knows, neither of us is really very keen on Valentine's Day.  We both think it is a fairly lame holiday and that people are lazy in their relationships if they think they need a special day set aside once a year to tell the person they love how they feel.  So, when it just so happened that there was a Blackhawk's game on Valentine's Day and I didn't have to work we decided to go!  We had so much fun!  The place was packed and they were celebrating Valentine's Day as you can tell from this picture!

The Hawk's were playing the Dallas Stars and it was a great game from the start!  The guys sitting next to us were pretty annoying and seemed like total jackasses, but we didn't let them ruin our fun.  Our seats were pretty shitty, way up at the top, but the view was still great.  We didn't have any trouble seeing any part of the game.  We are going to be going to another game in March and we have much better seats for that game...so excited!

We had never been to the United Center before, so we made sure to stop on the way in for our picture with Michael Jordan!

Overall we had a great night, but then again we always have a great time when we are together doing stuff we both enjoy. With me working nights and Shawn juggling 2 part-time jobs, anytime we can spend together doing something outside the house is a great time for us!

Engagement Pictures

Yesterday our photographers came up to Chicago to do our engagement photos. They will be making our save-the-dates from these pictures so we schedule this last month. The plans were made but unfortunately the Chicago weather decided not to cooperate. It was raining all day and it was cold! We still managed to take some pictures, but not as many as we would've liked too. I was pretty bummed about it. Hopefully the ones that we got will turn out well, but I think we're going to try to make some plans with the photographer to take some additional pictures next time we're in Indianapolis.

Stuff

The last couple of months have been so busy with wedding planning, the holidays, work, etc.  I feel like time is just flying by.  I don't like that anymore! I wish time would slow down and let me enjoy each day a little more.  I guess there's nothing I can do about that except make sure that I make everyday count.  I'm going to try to remember that I said that everytime I get offered an extra shift at work so maybe I won't take them all...

My wedding plans are coming along really well.  I am getting a lot accomplished and Shawn & I both are really looking forward to it.  We're still trying to decide if we're going to go on a honeymoon after the wedding or wait to do that later.  If you have any suggestions on places to go, let me know!  We are taking our engagement pictures on Wednesday.  Our photographer is coming up from Indianapolis to take the pictures here.  I really hope the weather cooperates!  I am really excited to do the pictures, plus they photographer is going to make our save-the-dates, and sending those out makes the wedding really official :)

I finally have medical and dental insurance again through work!  Now I have appointments with a ton of doctors!  My neck still bothers me quite a bit, so I think I'll go see the doc who will be my regular family doc.  That way she can be aware of what happens and maybe give me a referral for some physical therapy or some pain medication that works better than ibuprofen.  We'll see.  I also will be able to go to the dentist again...and I never thought I would see the day I was excited about the dentist!   I am though because it has been too long!  

Mimi will be coming to visit soon...yay!  She's going to come visit while Eric is on Spring Break that way Mom and Eric can come up to Chicago with her for a couple of days before we head back to Indianapolis to do wedding stuff.  We have to have a massive bridesmaid dress hunt and we're going to do the tasting for the reception :)  Yum!  I can't wait until she gets here!