"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die today."
~James Dean



Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Four Years Ago Today....

it was a  Match Made in Mexico...

Our First Picture Together 2006

It was August 2006 and at the urging of some of my friends a four day vacation was in store and the destination was CANCUN! I was hesistant at first because I had already been to Cancun once and there a million places to go so why go somewhere twice? But then again it was spending time with my friends and the destination really didn't matter because we can have fun anywhere. We land in Cancun and there weren't many people on vacation so we pretty much had the entire island to ourselves!!! So we check into the hotel and head to the pool...

Enter day 2 (Augsust 25th) when Alex enters the picture. Mind you we are at a huge resort that had three pools and Alex and his friends were staying on one end of the resort and we were on the other. For some reason the boys aka "Gotti Boys" were on our end of the resort in our pool. So this is how our paths crossed when we were at the bar I asked in my sweet Texas accent "Where are y'all from?" He replied "Jersey!" I was thinking what are they doing in Cancun of all places?
Low and behold all of the clubs we went to the Gotti Boys were sure to follow. (Alex tells a different story that they didn't know where we were and what we were doing.) The remainder of our vacation was spent together at the pool with our friends. I remember my friend Lidia asking "Do you like him?" and my reply was "It's Cancun!". The last day I gave him my phone number and was on the plane back to Texas.

Four years later we are married---who have thought! You hear about these stories happening but you never think it will ever happen to you.  I am very thankful fate intervened and we met that day in Cancun and thankfully I wasn't able to change my friends minds about a different destination. I cannot wait and see what else life has in store for us...

Monday, August 9, 2010

Birthdays of the Christians

It seems we have been busy celebrating birthday after birthday...

This past Friday was Alex's brother, Christian's 24th birthday in which we went to Arirang Hibachi Steakhouse.  As in most hibachi places, it was very good but we all ate entirely too much. 

Singing Happy Birthday to T...



On Saturday we celebrated our friend, Christian Mazzie's (I promise these two guys are the only two by the name of Christian we know) birthday in Hoboken.  I love Hoboken and go at any chance I get! Alex and I went with Chris and his wife, Rachel.  We started off at Teak on the Hudson---fabulous food!!! (Even better if your husband spills your wine on your sirloin--hint hint Chris). 


Stuffed French Cut Chicken and Grilled Salmon

Following dinner and drinks we stopped by Hoboken Cigars so the boys could enjoy cigars.


The night continued into the early morning hours when we met up some friends at Lana Lounge.  (In which we could feel our age the next morning and realized we can't party like we used to.)


Happy Birthday Titi and Mazzie
(which are the names we call them) 
and many many more....