Occidental

This past weekend Jack and I headed up north for a romantic get-a-way in Occidental. We stayed at the Inn at Occidental, a quaint little cottage with perfect little themed rooms (we were in the Sonoma Lodge, hence the tree bed and antler obsessions) and spent the weekend hiking, driving around daydreaming about buying acres of property, and gazing at the beach. It was just what I needed to take my mind off life and to enjoy to beautiful weather with my love.

the Giants win the pennant the Giants win the pennant the Giants win the pennant!!!!

Monday night's Giant's game. Game 7. The game to determine who will win the pennant. One of the top 3 best nights of my life, hands down.

Just imagine...after eight innings of home runs, hot dogs and high fives, your standing on your tippy toes, with 43,000 fans in a downpour of rain, crossing your fingers and toes, hoping praying wishing that Romo's next pitch will strike out the evil Matt Holiday. And then, Holiday pops up a ball and it's game over. THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! And the crowd erupts and you're jumping up and down, screaming at the top of your lungs, hugging and high fiving a million strangers. There are fireworks blasting off in the background and you look around the stadium at the most dedicated fans all stoked out of their minds because THE GIANTS ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES! You stand, drenched down to your nickers, in the flooded bleachers, smiling from ear to ear because the giants did it.

Needless the say, every San Francisco resident was out of their minds crazy happy that night. Even the cops were initiating high fives.

I swear, it was straight out of a movie.

in charge of the world

source: Jennifer Causey

So apparently I talk in my sleep… Jack so kindly sent me this email recapping our unconscious conversation last night:
I am sitting here next to you working away as you sleep.... I wanted to record what you just said so you could enjoy it tomorrow

you:  ....of the world?

me:  what?

you:  in charge of the world.

me:  who is?

you:  I'm tired.

me:  what?

you:  you're in charge of the world.

me:  oh, ok well you can be in charge too.

you:  I'm tired.

I'm pretty sure I can foresee the future because Jack very well could run the world one day. Either that or I was just really really tired. 

dear new roommate

This is fun, you and me living in a little home of our own. We've dreamed about it forever. Searched for the perfect place. Planned cool ways to decorate. And now it's finally here, and it couldn't be more wonderful. 

I've loved every second of it so far, even when it's been hard to agree on decorations, or we're tired and cranky after a busy day. I love listening to you sing to Bon Iver in the other room while you organize the kitchen cupboards so they are perfectly categorized (even though we have millions of boxes in the living and bed rooms to unpack). I love sitting in our living room brainstorming how to decorate it in our "new traditional" design taste. I love how you wake up a little early so you can make my lunch in the morning. I love grocery shopping together and not having to separate our stuff into different bags. I love doing your laundry, even though you socks are kinda stinky. I love how you make me delicious dinners every night even when you are cranky hungry and want something easy. I love that I'm not as grossed out as I thought I would be by your beard hair in the sink. I love that you sleep closest to the door so if kidnappers break in you can protect me. I love coming home to you every day after work. I love that I miss you more than I ever knew I could when were apart.

You and I, we're a good team. I can't wait to explore our neighborhood together and make this place our home. 

exciting news

At the beginning of the year Jack and I decided we were going to move in together in August. After two months of seriously searching high and low for the perfect apartment we found it. As soon as we both walked in we knew it was the perfect place for us- with an awesome sun deck with beautiful views of the city, big bay windows looking out on a quiet neighborhood street, walking distance from our favorite part of the city, beautiful unique finishes and all new appliances... it seemed too good to be true. But last night, after shmoozing the landlord at the open house, we got a call from him saying he wanted us to live there. HE CHOSE US! 

The San Francisco renting process is so competitive these days and small, dingy apartments will go for unbelievable amounts, so we are so so so lucky and happy to have found this amazing place in our price range. So, come August 1st Jack and I are packing up our stuff and moving into our first little home together, and we could not be more excited! Pictures and decorating brainstorms to come.

tahoe bound

This week I'm off to Tahoe with Jack and his wonderful family for a nice little vacation. I can't wait to celebrate the birth of our nation by eating lots of watermelon, watching fireworks, lake swimming, boat riding, and having some good ol' family time. To tide you over, here's some pretty photos we took after dinner tonight. Hope you all have a wonderful week and a fun holiday!

love day

I love valentines day. Even when I was single I would always look forward to eating pounds of chocolate, making gushy love song mixed CDs, and snuggling up with friends to watch goofy love movies. But now I love it even more because I get to spend it with the most thoughtful, kind, loving best friend/ lova in the whole entire world! This v-day, instead of doing the whole dinner at a restaurant with flower and chocolates ( which isn't really our type of thing anyway), we both surprised each other with super sentimental cards (jack listed 100 reasons why he loved me and said that didn't even dent the surface everything he loves about me), got our FAVORITE Mexican food for take out ( don pistos is the bomb), and drove out to the headlands to have a picnic in the back of Jack's truck. This is such a special place for both of us since we used to spend a ton of time here when we dated in high school- on our second date in high school we went to the same look out spot and made a bucket list of things we wanted to do together and this was when we realized that this was turning into something more than just hanging out. So this valentines day as we sat in the back of jack's truck we started another bucket list of things we want to do with each other. I can't wait to do these awesome fun things and can't wait to add more to the list.

Jack and Anna's Awesome Life Goals:

Go on a hot air balloon ride

Drive cross country and see all the landmarks

Go to concerts where we don't know the bands

Go to more art shows and pretend we know what we are talking about

Run around SF during Santa Con

Explore Europe

Explore South America

Relax on a Tropical Vacation (possibly the Maldives if we become bazillionaires)

Re-fall in love in Paris

Explore the ocean by going Scuba dive

Bury a box (more on this later)

Go to movies at Sundance

Make a home together

Get hitched :)

Our Road Trip

This fall Jack and I took an EPIC road trip through Oregon, Washington, and Montana. It was the most beautiful time of year to travel in this area because all of the trees were changing colors and every day there was perfect crisp, fall weather. Our first stop was Ashland to visit some family, then we headed up to Portland, Seattle, Leavenworth, Coeur d'alene, and then Glacier National Park! Glacier was breathtakingly beautiful, despite the near freezing weather and occasional snow, and I took approximately 1,846 photos. No joke. But besides the beautiful landscape and awesome back road adventures and not having to work for two weeks, my favorite part of the whole trip was being able to spend every second of each day with my bestest friend and love of my life. I can't wait for our next escape! Here are some of my favorites: