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New Year’s at Schubert HQ

SUPER exciting …. Andrew and I both had New Year’s Day off.

Between his crazy work schedule and my vacation black-out dates, we don’t get hardly any days off together.

In fact, in the 10+ years we’ve been together, we’ve only started to get weekends off together in the last couple months. True story. [...]

Happy Anniversay: 7 years today

Happy Anniversary to my favorite person! (also, happy election day).

Today we will be hanging out at home and going to work.

We’re pretty low-key for our anniversaries … here’s a look:

last year (house hunting and visited our now-house for the first time)

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currently

self-portrait from Aug 5, Phoenix, AZ

Loving: The weather will be changing soon…. Summer has a magic to it but my heart belongs to fall. This will be our first fall in our new house and I’m looking forward to Scary October, apple cider, and walking around with slippers on all of the [...]

AUGUST BREAK

This is not my brilliant idea – thank  you Susannah Conway – but I am happy to embrace it this year!

The original idea is to post just a photo each day instead of a whole blog post ….. but I am not even going to commit to that.

There *may* [...]

News from Fangsana and Khaleesi

They are getting SO BIG!

They went from this on June 10 :

To THIS a couple nights ago:

 

Reminder: Khaleesi is the tortoise-shell, Fangsana (who we inevitably call ‘Fang’) is the gray one

Some kitten highlights from the last few [...]

new “family” “portrait”

Both ‘family’ and ‘portrait’ in quotes as this is not exactly a real family and not exactly a real portrait.

And DEFINITELY not a family portrait.

But still SO fun!

Thanks to Liz for taking these of us while she was here!

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Introducing the newest members of Team Schubert

Last weekend we added to our team!

I loved having cats growing up, but A) Andrew is allergic and B ) We haven’t ever had a permanent-enough-home to bring in a pet.

But ever since we got a house, Andrew has been OBSESSED with getting pets. We need to do a TON of work [...]

I have bad luck with toes

Only 12 hours before I got the phone call to meet Andrew in the emergency room, he SWORE to me that he’d pamper me and take care of me and make sure I stayed off my feet.

That obviously didn’t work out.

But, you see, [...]

Schubert HQ: naming the new house

The first Anne book I read was Anne of Windy Poplars – which I read for the first time when I was about 9 or 10….. and hadn’t the slightest idea what the ‘Windy Poplars’ of the title was supposed to be until about halfway through.

But then I really *got it* …. The [...]

The perks of Andrew’s job

So Andrew has been working A LOT.

With paying clients and everything….

But recently he got a couple fun little *extras* from a client that he shared with me….

First: A cake.

Chocolate cake with buttercream frosting …. YUM! You don’t want to know how much I ate in 2 days (knowing I was [...]

Andrew-isms

You really have the best face.

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I always think you look internet-ready

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I’m only going to be there 5 or 6 nights a week. It’s not like I’m going to be there every night. _____

{watching HP7.1, Emma Watson’s scene}

I hope Miranda never has to obliviate her parents

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Happy Thanksgiving!

I am thankful for ….

My best-friend My husband that my best-friend and my husband are the same person seeing the new Muppet movie tonight house shopping having this weekend off work living in hoodie sweatshirts in the winter living somewhere where it doesn’t snow Harry Potter marathons coffee and this fantastic video [...]

marriage and laughter

(Happy 6th anniversary to my favorite person EVER!)

want to read more?Happy Anniversay: 7 years todayHappy 4 Years to the tiniest of wives4 years married, 8.5 years dating, 10 years friendscheapreading is everything

The Schuberts go house hunting (part 9)

News! News! We have news!

This is actually kind of a super-exciting edition of The Schuberts go House Hunting – complete with ACTUAL NEWS!

For past chapters:

The Schuberts go House Hunting part 1 (October 2008) The Schuberts go House Hunting part 2 (November 2008) The Schuberts go House Hunting part 3 [...]

Andrew-isms

Ok, honestly, Andrew is the funniest person in my life …. Here are some real gems that came out of his mouth in the last few months….

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Kissing you is like kissing a rainbow!

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Time is hard!

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(While reading book [...]