How was your holiday?

image from here

Hope you enjoyed! What was your favorite moment? favorite moments???

Mine included having time to walk the beach and see the surfers ride their boards...

and watching movies with Mr. Wonderful

and a few night swims with a margarita or mojito...

and having Mr. Wonderful outdo himself with the holiday menu... I think a cooking tornado occurred in Miami Beach this Thursday... I made a pecan-topped pumpkin pie and some dark chocolate macadamia fudge, but the rest, the rest of the holiday extravaganza was in his hands and he delivered above and beyond!

My favorites were his oyster stuffing and the four cheese macaroni... and the Provence-spiced roasted potatoes, but the vegetables he used to hold up the turkey while it cooked were incredibly yummy, and so were the mashed potatoes... not to mention the french bread and brie and gouda with grapes on the side...

Fortunately we had the weather for walking the beach a lot and jumping in the pool a lot...

What moments did you enjoy most?

Men who cook for you on Thanksgiving...

Mr. Wonderful is grocery shoppping with a list and his friend, our South Beach neighbor, while I am home relaxing. They are like men on a mission.

This is his second shopping trip of the day.

Apparently, he has many things planned.

These are more reasons why he is Mr. Wonderful.

Pictures to follow!

How are your holiday plans coming???

They're back.... "Boys with Food!" he is announcing...

Perfect Saturday Evening...

1.) Mr. Wonderful making a delicious dinner

2.) The Blues! BB King, John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, Muddy Waters, Chuck Willis... crooning into the night....lilting saxophones and jazz piano keys and electric guitar and the voices...

3.) candles flickering on the table

4.) flowers in the vase

5.) perfect red wine

6.) palm trees outside our window

7.) our neighborhood hotel bar, the Blue Moon for a few more drinks and its heated pool calling us for a night swim under the stars....

How was your Saturday night? What is your perfect weekend evening?

pics: 1,3 and 2, here

What are YOU doing for the holidays?

shiny?

bubbly?

bird-watching?

wet-suit testing?

or.... where will you be?

what will you be doing?

hope you are looking forward to it.

We are almost there!

-Miss Bliss

The adventures continue...

(where he proposed and where we lived as newlyweds)

To update you on Mr. Wonderful's adventures, he is now a member of the Atmospheric Club at the University! He is taking Spanish, History of Religion, and Evolution of Jazz. Seeing him take these courses and meet people, and enjoy the university makes me happier than I could have imagined. I wanted him to have the opportunity, and seeing my childhood sweetheart head off to his classes and thrive is one of the best things I've seen in my entire life.

He is going to attend the American Meteorological Society conference in Atlanta this January, as a student conference worker, and they will cover his hotel and other expenses. He will get to meet other fellow weather/science buffs! The conversations he will have...! I am so excited for him.



It has been quite a journey since we got married in May, 2007...as our blog readers know, I convinced him to leave the corporate world and return to school to follow his passion, involving a move from Colorado to Miami to do so.



I am extremely proud of this update!!! He is taking a great group of classes in the next semester, including his second composition class, with the focus of The Big Lebowsky (!), his first meteorology class, and a communications course from our amazing communications school.



In between our semesters, we are going to Colorado. I will be trading in the December Miami weather for snow in Boulder... the adventures continue!