erin gale & christian vance

Sunday, November 7, 2010

happy halloween

we had a lovely evening eating fall foods and watching an alfred hitchcock movie. halloween was particularly pleasant this year.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

"great date night with my hubby!"

a few saturdays ago, i came home later in the evening from grocery shopping. i was pretty sick of the grocery store and glad to be home, especially because christian was home. he could tell i was tired. he looked at me and said something about appreciating what i do for him. (side note - he is good at that whole gratitude thing.) then he proceeded to tell me that he was sorry we hadn't been on a date in awhile. he said he often sees status updates on facebook that say, "great date night with my hubby!" he was concerned about the fact that i didn't have any "great date nights with the hubby" to share. he was worried that i might be feeling like ever since we got married we were boring and didn't do anything. i proceeded to remind him:

1) even if we were going on all kinds of adventurous dates, i probably wouldn't post it on the fb for everyone to see - not that it is bad to have status updates, just that i don't post status updates all that often

and

2) we don't have to do anything crazy for me to think it is fun - i mean, most of our dating experiences consisted of sitting on the couch watching food network shows or project runway because i was battling headaches

so, that night we drove up the road to the 7-11 and got a slurpee for our date night. fun and fun. i almost posted "great date night with my hubby!" on facebook to make christian feel better about things. i told him i'd let the world of facebook know that he is a wonderful husband if he really wanted. he declined. then he proceeded to tell me that he wouldn't mind if during our whole eternity of marriage i didn't call him "hubby" or "my hubby". it isn't his favorite term of endearment. so, i plan on not ever calling him "hubby". other than in this post.

the next saturday, my hubby took me on a great date night. we went to the opera. la boehme, a love story, was our opera of choice. he had been wanting to see that opera for years - ever since his mission, i think. it was a lovely evening filled with beautiful voices, an almost non-existent plot, and enlightening companionship. because we were early, we had the chance of walking around the block of the capitol theater. we reminisced about one of our first dates where we walked around the same block because the wait for beni hana was pretty long. it was fun to remember all the great date nights i've had with christian, and look forward to all or future dates. here's to my wonderful hubby and all our great date nights!

Friday, October 29, 2010

i miss the rain down in africa

it rained quite a bit when we were in africa. we got in on some great weather. from what i hear, the heat can be suffocating, but when we where there, it was quite pleasant. here are a few pictures from our adventures in ghana. more to come.

batik workshop - we used wax, dye and boiling water to print cloth. when i say "we", i mean our friends at the batik shop. they did most of the work, but let us feel like we were contributing.

learning about weaving at the kente village

the slave castle - a sobering experience

standing inside a ficus tree at the monkey sanctuary

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

excuse?

i have a friend names jeanna. jeanna posted the following comment on my last post:

JeAnna said...

I don't believe that summer pics are coming.

It is almost November.

October 17, 2010 3:27 PM

she has a good point. i promised summer pics were coming, and it is almost november. wow. i'm slow. i figure i've always been slow though. i'm more about endurance than speed. right?!?! i figured i better keep my word though. "summer pics coming soon..." i thought i'd post a few. we had plenty going on - a wedding, a honeymoon, africa, montana. i decided i'd post at least a couple. i signed in to the blog, opened up a new post page and this is what i saw:

Image uploads will be disabled for two hours due to maintenance at 5:00PM PDT Wednesday, Oct. 20th.

now, i know it is a lame excuse, but i can't post pics, even though i want to. i'd like to think that i'm a solution-based person. because of this, i came up with a little solution. kim, our lovely photographer, just posted some of our wedding pics to her blog. they are simply divine. take a look at them:

http://kimberhansen.blogspot.com/

enjoy! i do. all the time.

Friday, October 1, 2010

honorable mention

okay, summer adventure pics are coming. i promise. okay. i promise.

but, i wanted to be sure and finish out with all the lovely people who made the moving parts of our wedding come together. last but not least - dad and mom. they were just amazing. ever heard of milkglass? the second i mentioned it, my mom started looking in every antique store and d.i. from logan to salt lake to find the stuff. in fact, she is still finding it. ask her about the cute cake stand she found for $1 at a yard sale. my dad did what we asked, when we asked, no questions asked. then, when i'd be ready to crash, they'd swoop in and save the day. it is important to note, that the wedding is one aspect of all they have done for me. my whole life has been filled with my mom and dad loving me unconditionally and teaching me the most important lessons of life through examples. so, the honorable mention goes to....danny and terry petersen - the best mom and dad in the whole wide world.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

alert

the blog title has been changed! we're married now, and have been for over three months. you know that, right? i've slowly been changing my name on my passport, drivers license, social security card, bill, etc. i'm making my way through these changes. i haven't yet changed my e-mail address, but that will come soon. just thought ya'll should know, the blog hasn't been hi-jacked, i'm just making changes.

i'll add updates of our summer adventures soon. it's been such a grand summer.