The family that was going to watch Ballpark the first week still wanted him for the weekend, and they suggested that take a weekend away since we're not going on our greatly anticipated vacation. We ended up heading over to Pittsburgh, because neither of us have ever been there, and Adam wanted to go to the Church Brewery. 
We used some of dad's hotel points to get a free room at the Marriott downtown, and made reservations for LeMont (a 5 star restaurant). We had a really good time! Dinner was paid for by Adam's grandfather who gave us money for a nice dinner in India, but when we tried to give it back, he told us to use it at a nice place here. WOW! Was it a great meal! We started off with Spring water (because I guess the tap water that I asked for wasn't good enough), and a HUGE basked of assorted bread. (Like, over 10 pieces for 2 of us). I am such a bread eater, but I kept it to a single roll so that I could enjoy the rest of the meal. We got some shrimp and scallop Parmesan appetizer that was absolutely amazing, and even at $18, I would get it again and again if I had the opportunity. Adam ordered a NY Strip Steak while I ordered Salmon Wellington. A salmon steak, with a crab cake on top, rolled in some kind of fried flaky tortilla with some sort of Parmesan sauce. YUM!! Both plates came with mashed potatoes, green beans and a couple of carrots. I don't think either of us finished our meals, but then the dessert tray came around, and Adam ordered green apple sorbet and I had a white chocolate cheesecake with strawberries and blackberries on top (YUMMY!) All in all, it was a great time, we were very cold walking back to the incline where we had to meet our shuttle from the hotel (which made us wait over 25 minutes for it to come. At least we were sheltered from the wind since there was no heat.
The next morning Adam and I had breakfast at the hotel, and walked across the streets to see Walking with the Dinosaurs. It was VERY expensive, but quite a good show. There were only a handful of couples that did not have kids with them, lol us, of course, being one of them. We then paid a lot of money for parking, and went to the Hard Rock Cafe for a shot glass and walked around a small mall. Everything was Steelers. There was a 4pm home game against The Dallas Cowboys, so we made sure we were out of the city by 2pm. After a quick lunch at Big Boy's (Frisch's for those Cinci people) we were off to pick up our puppy. I'm pretty sure he had a good time as he slept the ENTIRE way home, all evening, and all through the night. Thanks again Comella family!
'Nuff said. It's -13 right now. The pup won't go outside unless he's wearing a sweater. I try not to go outside at all. Poor Adam works outside and is ALWAYS cold. Would have taken me 2 hours to get to work today, luckily, I heard the traffic report, and after talking to my mom (who was already in the car driving) I decided to sleep in for another hour. I still got stuck in traffic and it took me an hour to get into the office. 
on the baby's new scrapbook (which I'm really excited about). After all of that fun, Adam and I took Ballpark for a long walk. He didn't like it when Adam threw him into the deep powdery snow, but he enjoyed the fact that he found TWO half eaten chicken legs in the road. It's amazing how strong 
a 7lb dog's jaws are! 
se is monstrous! I cannot believe I have a television that big. Now we have to wait for the wall mount to come in so we can hang it up. That would make it a tiny bit smaller, but probably nothing noticeable. Hopefully our next house is much larger to make the size of this TV look small! 
We spent New Year's Eve with friends at Bryan and Sarah Gallo's house in Twinsburg. Our typical group of friends (minus the typical few that don't come to many events) all got together and talked and played Wii and acted stupid (most of us without any alcohol). Adam brought some bright green absinthe to the party for the gentlemen to drink, it looked like the Ecto-cooler Kool-Aid drinks, haha. It was nice to have the First of January off, because we both worked a full day on the 31st, and both had a full day of work on Friday 1/2. We went to my parent's house to prime their basement walls. Yep, ladies and gentlemen, the basement is nearly finished... It was an early night though as we both had to work the next day. 
t to pick that up, and put it together, only to find out it was already one giant piece in a box! Great news for those people who hate putting things together, bad news for poor Adam who took it upon himself to wrap a rope around the HUGE box and then around his waist and heave the entire thing up our stairs with no help from me (although I tried to push the box when he wasn't looking). I told him to wait until someone can help him, but he insisted (another reason I love him so much, he knew that inside, I really wanted to see what it looked like). It's so awesome! I love the way it looks, I am very happy with our choice of baby furniture, and it is VERY solid, and will last for our next child, and then as a full size bed later. 
The best part of the weekend was Sunday. We did nothing. I slept a lot (I've been really tired lately), read a book about getting out of debt, and then logged onto every site I know that we have student loans and car loans with to find out what the real damage is. Funny thing is, the book tells us that we're in some terrible position with our debt, but really, it's all student loans (and it's only getting worse as we speak). Adam played video games the entire day while I read and Ballpark slept the entire day away. I think the play date with Josie yesterday exhausted him. One of his favorite places to sleep is between Adam's legs resting his head on the bottom of Adam's foot. See left picture. He doesn't mind until Ballpark starts to lick, and then it tickles *grin*. So far, 2009 has been a pretty good year, of course, it's only 1/4, but with roughly "79 days" until the baby is born, it can only be a good year =)
d both. I read some gruesome details about labor and watched Pirates of the Carribean with Adam (one of his fav's). 
joined us. It was really nice having everyone together, and of course, many pictures were taken, but none of the entire group, but a partial group is posted. Khirsten, Braiden, Derek and Aunt Carol joined us for breakfast on Sunday before we left to go back to Cinci. 
(I say limit) to spend on me this year was hit and exceeded. But he got me such a cool coach purse. I love it! I took him to the Vertical Runner to get some custom fit running shoes for his marathon. He ended up looking at Brooks and New Balance, and liked the way the New Balance hugged his feet. So I thin
k I surprised him with that gift. Something he never asked for, yay me! 
So we got to see lots of Adam's family, and my ENTIRE family over a matter of a week. It was nice, and for the most part relaxing. 
the color and to get us started... it is SOOO awesome! The room is so bright! I love it! The day after Christmas we went shopping for the new crib and dresser and I am SOO excited that I make Adam attempt to get it out of my car. He had to call my dad to help, but my father, knowing how impatient I can be, lovingly drove all the way to our house to help carry the sucker up the stairs. Unfortunately, there were no threads in one of the holes in the wood, so we couldn't complete the crib. The company is going to send us a whole side piece that has threads next week. It was such a bummer, because I wanted to get the thing put together that night. Ah well, I have something else to look forward to. 
