11 Weeks

Yep. That's how long I've been married. And guess what....

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My eggo is preggo!

sorry for the disgusting pic. I'm a little tired lately :)

details to come later

Honeymoon Lovin

I know this is 2.5 months late but since I never got around to it, here's the honeymoon post! Our honeymoon was...surprising to say the least. In the end I needed a vacation from my vacation!! But because of Mr. Holmstrom's and my extremely conflicting schedules before and after we got married it was fabulicious to spend 24/7 with him for an entire week!! That was the best part. Well i'll get to it and tell you all about our honeymoon!! It started with a one night stay at a freaking awesome resort out in Gold Canyon, compliments of the parentals. Thanks madre y padre! I would recommend it to anyone.

This picture is in our hotel room, though the pictoral doesn't show the awesomeness of this place. Notice the big smile on Mr. Holmstrom's face? Oh that's just because this is after the pillow fights and deep conversations about our endless love for one another. Ain't no thang.

After spending the weekend here vegging and relaxing together, we headed out Monday morning to Cali to leave for our cruise! We were going on a 4 day cruise down to Mexico before our open house in Palmdale that weekend. I was STOKED to say the least. We were cruisin' along, loving life, and then BAM:

(literally)

Yep. This fantastic little adventure happened. A gas truck a few cars ahead started skidding out and sliding, causing everyone behind it to slam on their brakes, including me. Except Ol' Blue here decided to be a hoe tart and lock her brakes so I literally just skidded into the truck in front of me. All the while screaming loud enough to wake a dead horse and Albert screaming at me to stop. "Thanks honey! I wasn't trying to stop before but now that you mention it I should probably hit my brakes before I ram into this unsuspecting dodge in front of me! You're the best!" Anywhozer, long story short: the accident happened, stood on the side of the freeway forever talking to the cops, got towed to a nearby garage that would let us store it there for the week while we were on our cruise, waited 8 years for the rental car to get there, worked all that out, and were back on our way to try to make our cruise. Oh, little detail, when the accident happened we were an hour from the dock and about 3 hours before check in ended. We should have been able to make it, but everyone was working slower than snails and by the time we left the rental car place we were 20 minutes from check in ending and still an hour away, in 5 mph california traffic. Yes, I cried. And Albert felt bad. But...there was nothing we could do so we pulled over at a grocery store to collect ourselves and decide what to do for the week.

Luckily Albert's best friend works at a Marriot and got us a sweet deal in Anaheim. We decided to go to Disneyland and the Newport/Balboa area and just relax for the week before the open house. Not a cruise, but I knew we could make the best of it. So we did!!!

We visited the amazing Perry's pizza in Newport

Climbed up on the lifeguard tower to watch the sunset

Then the next day we went to California Adventure!!

I introduced Mr. Holmstrom to Tower of Terror, he had never been. Loved it. We may or may not have but definitely did ride it 4 times in a row. Mr. Holmstrom lost his cookies!

We found a turkey the size of New Guinea, slaughtered it, and devoured it right in the middle of CA Adventure. The looks from fellow theme parkians made me question my morals.

We turned into bugs for a little while

and took advantage of every possible space we could! We were on our honeymoon for crying out loud! Don't judge

After a fabulicious day at CA Adventure we went back and relaxed at the hotel then the next day we went to DISNEYLAND!! If you know me, and I assume you do if you're reading el blog, then you know my heart resides at Disneyland. For reals. I've wanted to go with Mr. Holmstrom for a while and I was so happy we finally could!! We were celebrating our new marriage after all!

We made pals with the locals...

and headed out on a pirate adventure where we found the lost treasure of El Capitan de Bustaba

We explored caverns and caves

and posed with the famous Cinderella's castle. We're cute.

At the end of the night we became besties with Brer Bear, Fox, and Rabbit over at Splash Mountain. My super sleuth water preventitive technique worked like a gem, thank you very much

Indulged in the FAB-U-LISH-US Gibson Girl Ice Cream while watching the fireworks. There is nothing more magical than being on Main Street, eating Gibson Girl, watching the fireworks. Have you seen those fireworks? They're bomb. dot. com.

Mr. Holmstrom and his wife were very sad the fireworks were over. Disneyland closed early that night so that marked the end of our D-land experience together. Until next time!!

The next day...what day was that? This post is so overdue I can't remember everything. This was Friday, I think. Yes, because after this we drove back to the garage to clean out Ol' Blue before they totalled it :( RIP Ol' Blue So Friday morning we got up, checked out of our hotel and drove out to Newport where we rode the ferry to Balboa Island!!! Oddly enough, Mr. Holmstrom is from California, lived there his whole life, and has never even heard of any of this stuff! It was like we spent the whole week doing Cali the Neel way!

Ignore the no makeup. The second I got married I stopped getting ready!

I heart Balboa Island. I always imagine what it would be like to live on one of those streets in one of those cute little beach houses. There's a street with lots of little shops and it's really fun to walk down and window shop. Too bad we spent a year just trying to find the street! I had never walked there before we always drove there as a family. We finally found it though, don't worry

We also found a very colorful Cebra!! Or a Zow, I'm not really sure what it was. But I liked it!

I introduced Mr. Holmstrom to the World Famous Balboa BarsI wanted a picture on the Balboa Island bench but you can't even see it. Tear

Yep. He's wearing a Curly t-shirt. Did I mention I married a ten year old?

The weekend ended in Palmdale for the open house. We stayed with his best friend Zane and his wife Emily and hung out Friday night with some of his friends I had never met and some of his family. I know it's not ideal when you're on your honeymoon, but the whole week wasn't exactly what we expected. And it was nice to meet the people he grew up with. The open house went so great! I was nervous because I meeting people I had never met but it was so wonderful to see so many people who have known him his whole life and love him so much! Definitely reassured me I married a great guy.

My parents came over for the open house, which worked out perfectly because without them, how would we have gotten home??? Ol' Blue was a wreck!! So...our honeymoon ended by us turning in our rental car and riding home with my parents. Fantastic. Oh well. Despite everything, all the stress, it was still a fabulicious week with my man!!

Oh...and a lot of this!

Well there it is. A rundown of our unexpected and surprising honeymoon. But....considering the car is totalled and we both walked away with absolutely no injuries or even soreness, I would say we are pretty dang lucky.

I'M BACK

Welp, it's ofish. I am the worst blogger in the history of blog world. But I'm back! And, for your viewing pleasure, I'm back with a fabulicious update of the last 2.5 months of married madness. I'm talking honeymoon, our housey, marriage shtuffff, etc etc. You know you're excited! Buckle up because it's going to be great. Oh, and because we all know posts aren't as much fun without pictorals, here is a treat for your eyes my mom found fit to email me. I'm so glad she did.

Titled: The Flasher

Another Neel Bites The Dust

Apparently Amber and I getting married 9 weeks apart wasn't hectic enough for the Neel fam. Last night, my older sister got engaged!

FINALLY.

Her and Nick have been dating for 5 + years and he finally popped the big question.

The tentative date is March 2010

so we'll see how la madre holds up with planning another wedding!

(off the record, I think mine and Amber's about killed her. 3 in a 14 month span is just craziness)

THE MADNESS BEGINS!!

ps: this is not a picture from last night, it's just the only one I had on the lappy