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| Lily - 8 months old |
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| Melissa and me in Cinque Terre, Italy in 2008 |
All in all, it was a great night with the future Hogan family! I'm looking forward to the next time we can see each other!
Monday, December 17, 2012
Friends, Food, and Fire
Last Thursday night, Danny and I went over to our friends, Doug and Melissa's house. They bought their first house a few months ago and moved in 3 weeks ago. Their house looks amazing! Not only do they have a house now, but they have a new family member too. Melissa has been excited to get a kitten as soon as she moved out of their old apartment. Her name is Lily, she is 8 months old and the most adorable little kitten.
Doug and Melissa made us a wonderful dinner comprised of homemade pizza and fresh salad. After dinner Doug and Danny hung out in Doug's new closed-in front porch, while Melissa and I caught up about our upcoming weddings and life in general. Melissa and I have been friends ever since freshman year of college. She lived in the dorm room across the hall from me and we were in the same major. We stayed in touch, but after freshman year we joined different sororities and had different friends. We became close again when Melissa and I decided to study abroad in Europe with the business school. Because of all of our adventures in Europe like navigating our way through Paris or getting pick pocketed in Pisa, we've remained close.
That night at Doug and Melissa's house, Melissa and I built a fire for the first time in their new house. It was a fun experience since I used all the tricks of the trade that my Dad taught me as Scoutmaster of the Boy Scouts, he would be so proud!
All in all, it was a great night with the future Hogan family! I'm looking forward to the next time we can see each other!
All in all, it was a great night with the future Hogan family! I'm looking forward to the next time we can see each other!
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Danny's 26th Birthday
This past November, Danny and I had a special milestone, Danny's 26th Birthday! Plus, it was the first birthday of his that we spent together which made it extra special. Danny decided he wanted to go out with some of our friends that Danny has become close with since he moved to Cleveland and some of my friends that I had already known since living here.
We had people over at our apartment first and had food prepared for everyone to munch on before heading to downtown Willoughby. I also wanted to do something special so I got him a cookie cake with his name on it in red icing for IU basketball of course!
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| The food table and Danny's cookie cake |
After hanging out for awhile and playing a few games, we headed out. We enjoyed a great night of food, friends, and fun! It turned out to be a successful night out together.
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| Celebrating with the Birthday boy! |
12.12.12
Today is 12.12.12. This is a really neat concept. To the average person this might not mean anything, but to me, I love number sequences. Today marks the last time in our lifetime that we will experience a three digit combination like this.
Danny and I are getting married on March 16, 2013. We didn't choose the date specifically because of it, but it is a palindrome of numbers (31613). I actually stumbled across a wedding website that had upcoming unique number combinations as the dates for brides that wanted to be married on a special day. My brother and his wife were married in 2007 and I recall that this was a big year for couples to get married on 07/07/07 since it landed on a Saturday. They decided to be different and get married the week after on 07/15/07.
I am a very logical thinking person. I love numbers. I was always good at math in school and it was part of the reason why I wanted to become an Accountant when I was little because I liked to add and subtract numbers and saw different patterns within them. Even though I'm not an Accountant today, I still work with numbers and sequences in my everyday job as an IT analyst.
There is also a pattern of dates in my family. My close family has four members and we all have the number 3 in the day we were born.
Mom- May 3
Brother- December 13
Me- April 23
Dad- October 30
My sister-in-law felt left out when she joined the family that she was really excited when Danny didn't have a 3 in his birthday either. What's even crazier is my niece was born on May 23rd and oddly enough my nephew's due date is December 23rd. I hope he stays true to the day so he can go along with tradition, although I think my sister-in-law is secretly hoping he is born on a different day!
Danny and I are getting married on March 16, 2013. We didn't choose the date specifically because of it, but it is a palindrome of numbers (31613). I actually stumbled across a wedding website that had upcoming unique number combinations as the dates for brides that wanted to be married on a special day. My brother and his wife were married in 2007 and I recall that this was a big year for couples to get married on 07/07/07 since it landed on a Saturday. They decided to be different and get married the week after on 07/15/07.
I am a very logical thinking person. I love numbers. I was always good at math in school and it was part of the reason why I wanted to become an Accountant when I was little because I liked to add and subtract numbers and saw different patterns within them. Even though I'm not an Accountant today, I still work with numbers and sequences in my everyday job as an IT analyst.
There is also a pattern of dates in my family. My close family has four members and we all have the number 3 in the day we were born.
Mom- May 3
Brother- December 13
Me- April 23
Dad- October 30
My sister-in-law felt left out when she joined the family that she was really excited when Danny didn't have a 3 in his birthday either. What's even crazier is my niece was born on May 23rd and oddly enough my nephew's due date is December 23rd. I hope he stays true to the day so he can go along with tradition, although I think my sister-in-law is secretly hoping he is born on a different day!
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