Smiles all around

Surprise, surprise I'm back with more basset goodness.

It's just impossible not to take pictures of these two together.

Which is what we spent the majority of our weekend doing.

Well that and running, sporadically DIYing furniture (tutorial coming soon!), dinners with friends, gardening, Whole Foods wine tasting, puppy walking and dog parking and, of course, puppy snuggling.

I'll let the pictures do the talking though...

Is there anything better than 2 bassets tromping around in life jackets?
Answer : no, except for that smile on Pierre's face.  That will brighten up anyone's day.
I've never seen a dog so happy as Pierre running around that park.  That is enough to warm your heart for days.

Weekend Wrap Up: Run, Party, Party

That was one solid weekend if I do say so myself.
Floyd agrees.

He had a dance party with papa on Friday- he's quite the party animal. 

Saturday morning started bright and early with my first ever 10k!
Bethany and Autumn were awesome superstars and cheerleaders and ran the race as well.
They were at the finish line with Mister cheering me on with this adorable sign that Autumn's son helped Floyd make for me and flowers!

The race went really well and I was very happy with my time and even happier to cross it off the list!
After the race we went out to a celebratory yummy breakfast at Mimis. #yum
 
Later that afternoon, we headed over to Katie and Dereks for their gender reveal party!
Every single decoration and detail was beyond adorable and carefully thought out.
The reveal was done via THE most delicious cupcakes.
I'm still thinking about them.  They were by the same bakery that did my basset cake and they never disappoint. 

You will have to head over to Katie's blog for the big reveal!!

 The rest of the evening was spent relaxing and watching Zero Dark Thirty.

 Sunday was spent at the pool with friends, a graduation party for one of my coworkers daughters (check out her YouTube channel here--she is amazing and girlfriend is going places) and grabbing a drink with friends.

Annnnd I need a weekend from my weekend to recover from all of that.

And I want to say a special happy 'I love you anniversary' to Mister.

Yes, we are TOTAL dorks and celebrate when we first said I love you to each other.

But there's a reason, I promise.

See, we shared our first kiss on December 10th and then 6 months later on June 10th he told me he loved me for the first time (and I, him, obviously).  He told me right after we had watched Tin Cup. So for obvious reasons that movie has always been special to us.  So much so that when we met Kevin Costner last September we felt it necessary to retell the entire story to him. 

He was utterly enthralled as you can imagine...#not.

Actually he was very kind about it and chuckled.

And then probably called us crazy.

Have a great week friends!

Linking up with Sami

A Birthday, A Basset Cake and an NYE Wrap Up

I hope everyone had a fantastic evening celebrating NYE (or my birthday...whichever you choose).
I know we did!
We rented a cabin in Hocking Hills with Katie, Derek and our friends Nick and Emily.

We grilled out steaks, got in the hot tub and played some super fun games that Katie put together.
If you ever need fun games for any sort of party, Katie is your girl!

It was a very nice change of pace to have a low key NYE and ring in the new year wearing sweatpants.

Although Mister may need to take me on a date soon so I can still wear my new dress. 

And it's not a birthday without a cake...is it?!

Katie and crew really blew my socks off with my cake this year.

I am actually sad we didn't have this for our wedding cake.

I mean, have you seen a more perfect cake?!

It looks just like Floyd!
I seriously still can't get over it!

As much as I hated to cut into it, I certainly am not one to let cake go to waste :) 

It was all sorts of red velvet deliciousness.

A huge thank you again to Katie and Sweetly Wild for the bestest cake ever. 

 And another thank you to all of my blog friends for all of the awesome birthday well wishes, tweets, emails and all of the love! 

Happy 2013 to all of you, friends!
Can NOT wait to see what this year holds!

Linking up with Shanna for Random Wednesday