Not we, just me.

Ok, do you married folk remember getting engaged and making the trip to Target/Bed Bath/Macy's to register for gifts? Ahhh... that was a good day. Anyway, when Ben and I registered for gifts, I just wanted to find things that we both liked. Ben rarely gave an opinion regarding home decor and whatnot, so when we registered I was desperate to hear him voice an opinion. And as a twitterpated newly-engaged girl, I was willing to ok anything he wanted to register for.

Like our dishes:
Nothing wrong with them, they just aren't completely my style. Also, they don't go with my color scheme.

Now that I'm over the "Say ok to any home item Ben expresses interest in, regardless of what I think of it" phase. I'm in the "I want what I like" phase.

Which leads us to our new dish set:
I absolutely love these dishes because:
A: the colors go with the rest of my living/dining area (aqua,brown,cream)
B: they're just pretty. Do you see the cute flower plates?

Thanks Mom for the dishes! I'm a happy girl :)

Cannot wait for this one.

Less than 4 days until "Breaking Dawn" is released! I am seriously so excited about this book coming out- probably as excited as I was for HP7. However, I must admit that I wasn't this excited until about 2 weeks ago. Since reading Twilight, I've always been a lukewarm fan- sure, I loved the books, but I didn't feel tons of emotion or excitement over the whole story.

No, no, this is no longer the case. Two weeks ago I decided to re-read the series in prep for book 4. I'd never read Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse back to back before and oh my gosh I am now a super fan. Cannot wait for Breaking Dawn. Fret about what my happen to Edward and Bella. Paranoid that Bella will die before getting changed or married. Thank goodness for this little spoiler.

Ben has been warned not to bother me on August 2, as I will have my nose in a book the whole day.

No longer a solo hobby.

After weeks of begging, I finally convinced Ben to go to yoga class with me.

Guess what: He loved it! I totally knew he would, but it took him forever to swallow a big boy pill and come with me to class. For some reason, he has a phobia of going to classes at the gym. It's probably because most classes are at least 75% female. We go every Monday night at 24 hour Fitness, which is our little FHE activity. Ben on his blue mat, me on my purple one.

My next project is convincing him to go to spin class with me. Wish me luck!

Avoidance to the fullest.

In our little townhome complex, Ben and I have a certain neighbor that drives us crazy. We've actually taken to avoiding him. Yesterday, Ben's avoidance reached new heights.

Ben was about to pull into our parking lot, but he saw the neighbor. Rather than park in our assigned spot and undoubtedly get into an endless conversation with this neighbor, Ben drove around to the opposite side of our complex, (it's shaped like a square, with the houses facing the outside and the backyards on the inside) parked in a guest spot, cut through some random yards, snuck through our backyard, and slipped into the house.

We think it's hilarious that our lives have come to this- running and hiding from this neighbor. I kind of feel like Wayne from Wayne's World avoiding his ex-girlfriend Stacy. Just look down and maybe she won't notice we're here...

Random fact.

Here's a random fact about my Benjamin: he only has 9 3/4 fingers.



See?

There's no super cool story about this one, but Ben likes to make things up, like a dog bit it off or whatever, but that's so not the case.

Actually, when he was little (around 5 or 6) his doctor realized that he had a few tumors growing in his fingers. He had surgery to remove the tumors, but the doctor scratched the growth plate on his ring finger. Thus, the little finger was born. It's short and stubby and doesn't do well with rings. For that reason, Ben wears his wedding band on his right ring finger, if at all.

I didn't notice Ben's little finger until about our 3rd date- he was a little self-conscious about it, but I thought that it was awesome. Seriously, how many people have a little finger?

In case you were wondering...

As you can see, my blog address is christanka.blogspot.com. Christanka is the name my high school girl friends made up for me. I was such a brat about numerous things that they took to calling me Christanka. They even made shirts that said "We love Christanka." Not sure if I should've been flattered or offended. Hmmm. Just a little explanation for ya.

Vegas fun.

This past weekend Ben and I were able to visit some of our best friends, Nathan and Taylor. They moved to Las Vegas just a few months ago and we've missed them tons. We headed down Friday after work and stayed until Sunday afternoon.

On Saturday we all went shopping at Town Square mall, which is AMAZING. It almost makes me want to move to Vegas.

Ben dancing around Finish Line with a baby. I'm thinking it's Jordan, but it's hard to tell when they're not side by side.

Taylor and I also ate at my new favorite restaurant, Brio. This was the crazy-delicious salad I ate. Seriously, it was a head of lettuce, chopped in half. We also had spinach artichoke dip and pizza, followed by some Godiva, followed by a stomach ache...

We got to help take care of the girls- feeding, playing, and bath time...

Friends for the past 13 years.

Photo shoot on the way home :)

Feeling nostalgic.

Oh to be on a cruise again...

This will me mine.

I'm absolutely in love with this dress. It's almost like it's begging to be purchased- it's on sale, plus I have a 25% off coupon for Shabby Apple. Of course Ben will hate it and say it's too trendy, but do you think I care? That would be a no. This dress is also available in green, which is equally tempting to me.

For some reason it reminds me of this adorable outfit Drew Barrymore wore- I don't know why, other than the collar. I'm referring to the picture on the right, fyi. For some reason I couldn't find this picture without the sunglasses one by it.

Ben's new crush

We watched the "American Gladiators" marathon on Mtv today and he revealed his secret crush: Phoenix, one of the gladiators. This is so funny to me, since Ben doesn't really talk about celebrity/tv crushes all that much.

Anyone else have husbands with random celeb/tv crushes? Do tell!