friends, oscars and thank yous.

I feel like we look super young in this photo! Maybe it's just my crazy hair?

Happy Sunday my friends!

You guys,

this is my first Sunday off in a year in a half!

A YEAR AND A HALF!

And it's Oscar night!

Woot woot.

I love love love love love being able to have the weekend with Zak.

It's been so nice to just have slow long days, not doing too much 

and not having to worry about work.

Counting my blessings tonight.

It's the little things that make life awesome. 

gotta love blurry iPhone pics.

that is two blurry iPhone pics. 

Don't they look like they're playing poker or something intense?

Yesterday we walked Romie, watched some more movies to prep for the Oscars, made enchiladas and then headed to a married to medicine get together.

It was a Mexican food pot luck, and it was so so good.

I wish I had all that food right now. 

It's always great getting together with our friends.

They really have become like family.

The past two years they're the ones who we've celebrated big moments with, gone through crazy schedules with, and really spent the most time with since moving to Omaha. 

After dinner, the guys went and played games while the wives had girl time.

And then we all stayed up till 10:30 just talking. 

We are going to miss these people so much next year.

Ah the Oscars literally just started, and the opening act has already been amazing!

We made our picks, 

and fingers crossed Eddie, Rosamund, Imitation Game and J.K. Simmons take it home!

Zak and I love movies.

You could also call it obsessed.

And I love that my husband likes watching these award shows

{and really getting into them} as much as I do.

From going to the movies and watching all these films, to the red carpet gowns, our Oscar ballots and now watching the award show-

we love it all. 

My best friend, and husband is pretty amazing.

Oh and we also had a sleepover to watch whiplash, in preparation for tonight.

Oh and I wanted to also say thank you to the people who have watched my puppy mill story.

I keep getting cards in the mail, I got the cutest puppy bouquet and the social media attention it has continued to get makes me so unbelievably happy. 

I wanted as many people as possible to watch this story because I wanted to educate people on what our elected officials are allowing to happen in Nebraska, and other states around the country-

and I can truly say I reached my goal.

So thank you. 

If you haven't watched it yet, you can do so here.

Hope you have a wonderful Sunday night-

I'm going to get back to the Oscars!

oh and ps I'm still going strong on my new years resolutions-

and they're slowly just turing into my everyday habits which is the bomb.com!

xoxo

valentine's day.

Happy Valentine's Day!

One of my favorite holidays, ever.

Well for the last six years it has been-

thanks to my hubs.

Each year he says, "I don't have anything planned,"

and then I wake up to a romantic surprise and it makes my heart so happy and excited. 

I'm forever thankful I married a romantic man. 

I know it may seem over the top,

but we love celebrating love.  

And each year we also switch off planning Valentine's Day,

so that it's a surprise for the other person.

This year it was his turn!

You can read about our past Valentine's Day here 

and a little more about why we love this holiday so much. 

So on Saturday I opened our bedroom door and found a trail of photos leading to our living room.

They had notes on the back of them that talked about the photo,

and then had what we were doing on it as well.

It was so sweet.

Then I found our office nook covered in wrapping paper!

Completely covered.

With the kindest card. 

After I unwrapped it, I found a bunch of presents, flowers and the wall was covered in our photos.

Every single photo we've ever taken since dating was on the wall. 

It was crazy to see how much we've grown.

How many adventures we've gone on.

All of the goals we've accomplished.

And the memories we've made. 

He went above and beyond this year with the presents.

Like really.

He took that little list I made to heart. 

And spoiled me rotten!

Thanks babe for all the gifts,

I'm so thankful for everything. 

Many missing from this photo- but I had to share my Rifle Paper Co goodies!

We hung out that morning, and took Romie on a long walk.

We were kinda dragging our feet to get out the door-

so we had a quick lunch at Qdoba-

our version of Chipotle. 

PS if you get one meal free there on V-day when you kiss at the counter.

Score.

Then we went to a local Museum that had a new Katherine Hepburn exhibit I really wanted to see!

Plus is was like 10 degrees out-

perfect indoor weather. 

I loved just lingering around, looking at all the art and being with my hubs.

Just us two in our own little world. 

The costumes at the Katherine Hepburn were amazing. 

The black dress I posted below was my favorite. 

It's flawless!

And I thought her vintage Chanel lipstick was so so pretty.

After looking around we went and had ice cream and cookies at the old fashion soda fountain-

it was darling. 

The waiters were even dressed in 50's diner uniforms.

We went back home and quickly changed into some fancy outfits and headed to the playhouse.

I've been waiting to wear this dress for a long time now-

I was so excited to put it on!

  

We had plans to go out to dinner, 

but our slow morning kinda made that not possible so we ordered take out from our fav little pizza place, ate in the parking lot of the theatre and then saw Little Women. 

This is one of the million bajillion reasons why I love Zak.

We can eat two pizzas in dressy clothes in the parking lot of a playhouse. 

Some photos from our seats.

He's my favorite person and this is our favorite holiday.

Thanks for another wonderful Valentine's Day babe!

You're my past, present and future Valentine forever and ever.

You make my life amazing, and I'm forever grateful to have you as my best friend. 

I hope you had a lovely Valentine's Day with your loved ones!

xoxo

to do lists shmodo lists.

So remember in my post, like two days ago where I said wish us luck at the DMV-

and that we were spending the afternoon running errands?

Welp that went out the window on Saturday.

 And we decided to ditch our to do list and go snowboarding instead!

Such a great idea. 

Seriously.

We needed time to ourselves. 

Some people might think, you're married without kiddos, you get plenty time together!

Ha! Not. 

With a hubby in medical school and me working nights- we really don't see each other that much. 

So we said forget our to do list, tasks, errands and studying.

We need us time. 

Away from computers, books and phones. 

So we headed up to a little ski park that's about 20 minutes away,

{why we've never gone snowboarding there before is beyond me- it's so close}! 

It was sunny and 54 degrees out, but there was still tons of snow on the ground so it was the perfect day to go. 

We didn't even wear jackets!

It totally reminded me of AZ. 

Score.

It was Zak's first time using a ski lift, so that was the highlight of my night. 

No one makes me laugh harder than him, and I freaking love it. 

LOVE IT!

And I love people watching with him. 

My stomach hurt from laughing so much.

We had the best time snowboarding, just the two of us. 

That was also a first as well.

We've always gone with other people in the past, and it was really nice just us two out there. 

Oh and it was dusk- so riding on the lifts while the sun was setting was gorgeous!

And very romantic!

I've never been snowboarding at night- it's so much fun!

A different experience for sure.

Afterwards we went to the lodge and hung out for a while.

Talked about our future, how our little family is everything and how being true best friends is a complete blessing. 

I love this man more than anything.

He's my soulmate, better half, high school sweetheart and most importantly best friend.

I wouldn't want to go through life with anyone else by my side. 

Marriage is amazing. 

People who knock it are crazy. 

Living with you best friend, chasing your dreams together, accomplishing life goals with one another and going through the day to day ups and downs in the best thing ever.

I love you Zak.

Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever. 

Thanks for an amazing day.

Oh and PS we ended the night eating Hardees burgers and fries in the and watching an episode of Sons of Anarchy {or current obsession} in the car.

Best day ever. 

xoxo