5 Years

Last night we celebrated 5 years since our first date. I can't believe it was 5 years ago that he quickly went from a friend on my Austin Sports and Social Club team to my love. We met when a mutual friend invited him to play on our ASSC sand-volleyball team.

During the next season of kickball, we would always go to Doc's for cheap beer and food. One night I returned from the bathroom to find that my beer and queso were paid for. "Who paid for my food?" "I did," replied an unusually shy Thomas. He then went on to jokingly & awkwardly offer to come to the couples shower I was invited to that weekend and somewhat flirt with me the rest of the night. When I told my friends on the way home that "I think Thomas Moratto was trying to flirt with me tonight," they responded with, "no he wasn't, he was just being nice." K...

The next morning at 9:15 I received an email (because he was clearly too nervous to ask me for my number the night before) asking me to "hang out sometime." I forwarded it to my friends with a "Ha! I told you he was flirting with me!" 

Our first date was that next week. We went to Roy's to have drinks and talked for hours. Our next date was two days later, pictured below. We had our first smoooooch this night :) Sorry for the cheesy details.

We very quickly fell hard for eachother...

And the rest is history. Oh how our lives have changed, but for the better. Last night we celebrated by going to the new restaurant, Mule. Which is AMAZING. The macaroni pony was a sandwich with 3 cheese mac&cheese, pulled pork, corn bread toasted, and pickles, OH MY. When Thomas ordered he asked for a side of barbeque sauce for me... true love. The ginger beer and onion rings were the best I've ever had.

This is how we ended the night- cuddling with our spooning dogs and falling asleep to the movie Grease.

I'm pretty happy with our life, and wouldn't have it any other way. Love you Thomas Moratto.

My Favorite Thing

We all know I'm a fan of sauces, and my favorite foods usually consist of things I can eat with a variety of sauce: chic-fil-a chicken nuggets, macaroni & cheese, nachos, and ALL asian food. I LOVE sriracha sauce, soy sauce, peanut sauce, sweet chili sauce, chili paste, curry.... so anything that I can consists of these flavors I adore. My favorite thing Thomas makes, and he makes a lot of great things, is his chicken curry soup. He adds all types of delicious flavors- ginger, lime, onion, soy, sesame, chili, sriacha, etc. I posted a pic of his yellow curry soup and his red curry soup- both amazing. I'll have him add the recipe on here later. Any time I don't feel good (like last week when I had a cold,) had a bad day, or just ask sweetly (this weekend,) he gladly makes it. It is my ultimate comfort food. Such a sweet husband.



red curry with chicken





yellow curry with pork



Halloween

As you can tell by all the pics, Thomas and I LOVE to dress up! How disappointing to find that Halloween 2012 so uneventful. The last 3 years we have gone to the big law school halloween party, and in Austin there was always something fun to do. This year for the first time did not dress up together.



ugly troll dolls



popeye & olive oil





the year we went to houston- geisha and sumo wrestler



I can't find original pic of this one, so very blurry. One of my favs- figure skaters.





new years party...old school masquerade



40's prom





viola swamp



We did, however, get to dress up for work. This is new to me, as the last 2 schools I've worked for did not allow this due to religious conflicts. My favorite part of the day was standing outside my classroom door this morning and watching all the kids walk into school in full costume. We then did a big parade throughout the school, which reminded me of my elementary school days. Our costume box is in storage, so I went and bought a lame costume from a party store. I was a bumble bee. Thomas was the flash mob... something he was supposed to do with his team at work. Neither of us wore any make-up or wigs this time...LAME!







Our dogs didn't even dress up this year. I love nothing more than to dress Lola up. She so sweetly puts up with it. Luckie is learning. A little peak into the past...



Sweet Lola's first Halloween





Always wears a birthday hat for her birthday



Ok, Halloween wasn't that bad. I just wanted to be dramatic and display all of our old dress up pics. We went to Amanda and Kevin's and cooked dinner and watched The Adam's Family, which is by the way still an excellent movie! Amanda made delicious chicken tacos. I did the appetizer- Halloween eyeballs (stuffed mushrooms.) Oh how I love to make themed food.

I made them slightly healthier by adding chicken italian sausage & light cream cheese... Ok they aren't super healthy but it's Halloween. I added sliced olives to give the eyeball look. This is not a good pic but you get the point. They are so yum.