Anniversary, The Bachelor, and the Cold stone Dilemma.

So this post is a random compilation of a few things. 

Thing one- Our Anniversary. 

On the 17th we celebrated being married for 2 years and still loving each other.  Justin surprised me with an overnight getaway at a resort a little south of the city.  We LOVE to get away overnight and stay at a hotel so it was awesome.  We went to dinner at P.F. Changs which I decided is one of my new favorites.  Seriously people have you tried their lettuce wraps.  TO DIE FOR!  Later that night we got all cozy in our hotel bed and popped some bubbly (aka sparkling pear cider from ikea) and toasted to 2 years while we watched our wedding video  I love that video.  I love seeing how happy we were on that day.  There is not one shot of me without the biggest grin on my face! 

My gift to Justin, was a scrapbook/storybook with pictures and it is basically "our story"  starting from the day we met to being married for 2 years.  And what else did we get you may be asking yourselves..... okay probably not but I am really excited so I am going to tell you anyway.  We got a Canon Rebel SLR Camera.  I am so excited to have such a nice camera.  Now I just need to learn how to use it.

Our Anniversary was great!  We had so much fun spending the day together, buying new dishes at ikea, going to the mall of america, and playing at our hotel and going to lunch and dinner.  Thanks again for spoiling me as always babe!

Thing 2- The Bachelor

Okay so I am taking a giant leap here.  Up until very recently I had never seen an episode of the bachelor and I thought people who were addicted to that show were so lame.  But I like to watch free tv shows online while I scrapbook or do other things in the house.  While browsing the shows ABC had to offer I decided to see what this stupid show was all about and......... well I kinda sorta got totally hooked.  But the reason for this post is not to admit to something I am a tad bit ashamed of, but it is to tell Jason ( the bachelor, we are on a first name basis since I practically feel like I know him) that he is dumb.  Why oh why did you send Jillian home?  She was gorgeous and so funny and lively and down to earth.  She has a great family and an adorable canadian accent.  What is not to love here people?  And I am sorry but Melissa just seems sooooo fake and tan and stuck in her cheerleading days.  And you know something is up with her family.  She says she is close to them but then admits that they never came to watch her cheer and have never been there for her and things.  That is messed up.  And molly... wipe that fake smile off your preppy little face my dear.  Her dad taught her that crying is unacceptable and that only winners are accepted and there is just something about her that seems arrogant and fake.  I just don't see either of them as mature and fit to become a mom over night.  I don't know, but frankly if you are weird enough to go on a tv show to find a wife, then I guess they all deserve each other.  

Thing 3- The Cold Stone Dilemma

Cold stone creamery.  Known for their unique flavors, plentiful mix ins, and incompetent staff.  That is right, you heard me... incompetent.  

Flash back to late last fall.  Justin and I needed a few little gifts for a friend and a gift exchange and all that sort of stuff so we decided to go to cold stone and get some gift cards.  We went in and told the girl at the register that we would like some 5 dollar gift cards.  So what did she do?  She handed us a bunch of gift cards off the counter and said here you go.  We  said something along the lines of, " Um... don't you need to put money on these first?"  She was like "oh yeah sorry" and took the cards and charged us.  She gave us our receipt and we were on our way.  Some of the cards were distributed but a few weeks ago we found the last gift card that never got passed out.  We went in to cold stone tonight to get ourselves a treat and use the gift card.  The girl at the register tried running it through a couple times and said that there was nothing on it, the card had never been activated.  I instantly felt sick!  I started thinking of all the people that we had given cards to in our very same situation hearing that there was no money on the card.  We bought our overpriced ice cream and left.  On the way home I started making some phone calls to those who we gave some cards to and miraculously their cards worked, (or they are being way too nice and lying to me).  As we went down the list we still had one gift card remaining that we could not remember where it went.  Then after a little while it finally hit me.  It was part of a gift exchange present that we gave away at Christmas along with some other things.  The girl who got it knows it was from us and she is one of Justin's classmates.  He is going to talk to her about it, but keep your fingers crossed that hers worked too!  I still feel a little sick to my stomach and sooooo embarrassed.  Justin calls it our " George Castanza gift". I could see him doing something like that, but believe me, if you ever received a gift card from us and it did not work let us know and you WILL get your ice cream! But let it be known, this is not an open invitation for me to take all of our blog readers out to ice cream (unless you play with my hair and give me a back rub)!

Sorry this post was REALLY long. So to sum up I hope I will get some great pics on the blog soon from my new camera.

Do any of you watch the bachelor like I finally do?  And who was your favorite and who do you think he should pick?  I am still trying to decide between the last 2.

And finally, cold stone, once I fell in love with your cake batter goodness, but now I am afraid you have put a damper on our relationship with this little mishap.  I think I will be seeing more of my good friend Sebastian Joe and his famous Pavoratti ice cream.