Tagged - Facts About Us

1 – We love the great outdoors. Both of us grew up camping, fishing, skiing, etc and it really describes us as a couple. We love to get out and be active. Summer finds us in the mountains with our ghetto camper and beagle, wakeboarding with friends, or trolling for fishies. In the winter we are on the slopes or freezing our bums on a frozen body of water. And I have to say, no one is as sexy as my hubby when he has his mountain man beard and is doing such masculine chores as chopping wood and making fire for his wife (while I sit in a chair snuggling in his coat).

2 – After being married for 5 years we finally decided to try the whole kid thing – and are expecting our first in Feb (boy). We are both a little bit nervous and have been procrastinating on our baby preparation (including a name for the poor guy). Somehow all of a sudden more than 30 weeks has gone by! Our reassurance to ourselves that we will like being parents is that we are so crazy in love with our dog, we are likely to be at least half that much in love with a kid right? :)

3 – Though it might seem weird, we like going to the gym together. I enjoy having him there so I don’t get stared down as hard (the worst is some guys will try to tell me what I’m doing wrong lifting when they have no clue themselves). And it’s a lot more fun to work out with someone else. Sometimes I make him get a spotter with a bit more substance to help him though…can you imagine if he got really stuck on the bench and I was trying to help lift off a bar weighing almost twice what I do? We have a sort of tradition to go to the gym on Thanksgiving morning – its craziness but fun.

4 – Casey’s favorite food is chicken fingers with multiple dipping sauces. Unless you count ice cream as a food – he is in love with hoagie’s corner shakes. My favorite is harder to pin down. Its pomegranate season and I absolutely go crazy for those. But I could probably eat french fries and salad bar every day and be happy (this actually IS what I ate every day in high school).

5 – Funny childhood memory of Casey – he loved Garfield (the cat cartoon). He used to pretend he was Garfield and his mom would have to serve his dinner in a dish on the floor.

In the field behind my parent’s house there is a pond and a willow tree hangs over it. As kids we would always swing on the vines over the water. Once during a family party I was swinging and the vine broke. I fell in, getting my favorite white sandals with jewels all muddy. But what made me really mad was when my uncle told me I looked like a drowned muskrat.
6 - I had a hard enough time coming up with 5! Anyone have any ideas?