5 Year Wedding Anniversary!

Daniel and Robin on our way to dinner at B&O

Five years ago on April 21st we stood in front of our family and friends to commit our lives to each other.  It has been an amazing five years...we can't wait to see what the next five have in store for us.  Together we can do anything and our love only grows with each day that passes!

Wine Tasting in VA

Riding from one spot to the next
Daniel walking the vines

Lunch

Daniel, Dad, and Gail....Tasting

Our first stop, what a beautiful tasting room!

We spent our Saturday with the rents tasting some of what Virgina has to offer in the way of wine. Boy were we blown away! The views were wonderful and the wine was even better. We will have to go back again soon.

Vineyards we visited:

Delaplane Cellars http://www.delaplanecellars.com/

Three Fox http://www.threefoxvineyards.com/

Getting a head start on the Garden

Spring Blooms
Our pretty pink tree in the front yard

Veggie Garden

The fat squirrel that eats all the bird seed...but we like him anyway

We have gotten a good start on our gardening again this year. We hope to have mild weather and good crops! It's been a crazy weather year so far, we just hope to keep the extreme heat away. Wish us luck!

Pasta Making with the Italy Crew

Starting the pasta making lesson
Our pasta is resting

Sandy starting to stretch her dough

Gary cutting his dough

Look at all that beautiful pasta...homemade with love

The final result

Good times!

Wow how time flies...it's been a while since we've had a post. We're gearing up for our trip to Italy, so we had a little pasta night to talk about some of the details. Unfortunately Daniel was playing photographer so we didn't get him in any of the pictures, but he was there too :)

Happy 2012!

A Little New Years Kiss

We brought in the New Year with our good friends Gary and Sandy. Champagne, Crab legs, and caviar...can't go wrong with that!

Merry Christmas 2011

Christmas Eve Eve Dinner with Kenny and Val at the Chameleon Cafe

Daniel making our Christmas Eve Fettuccine

Robin helping cut the fettuccine

Yummm

and it's cooking...

Lovely presentation

Reggie Christmas morning enjoying his stocking

Sam doing the same

Some of our decor

blankets for the homeless

Gary and Sandy helping us for the second year hand out blankets

One thing is for sure, we are very blessed! It's easy sometimes to forget just how blessed we really are. While it's hard to be away from family this time of year, we have great friends here in Baltimore who fill the void. This Christmas has been slightly weird, it's been warm and didn't really feel like the Holiday Season we are used to. However once the weekend came and we started participating in our now traditions, it was clear Christmas was here. Typically we have dinner with friends on Christmas Eve. This year we moved it up a day and spent Christmas Eve Eve with Val and Kenny at Chameleon Cafe. Christmas Eve we stayed home and made ourselves some Christmas Fettuccine. It was so good I think it's now a new tradition. Christmas morning we woke to open all the gifts our families had sent. I'm not sure we deserve all the wonderful gifts but we appreciate the thought and effort that went into all of them. Lastly we hit the streets with our friends Gary and Sandy to hand out blankets to the homeless here in Baltimore. We were able to provide a holiday gift for 25 people this year, and hope to be able to grow our efforts in the years to come.

We hope all of our family and friends had a wonderful Christmas! We love you and miss you!

Holiday Party!

Daniel and Robin
Val, Kenny, Shawn, and Jenna

Val, Robin, and Jenna

The entire party gang

Just the Ladies

Our Beautiful Tree!

We hosted a holiday party for some coworkers and man did we have a blast. It was nice to get together outside of work and share in the holiday spirit....and some adult spirits as well. You know its a good party when there's nothing left the next morning. 'Tis the Season!