yep...

well, it's 11:06 pm and almost every night, ryan and i are long asleep by this time of the evening. before we got married, we were up late every night and laughed at those "old" married people who went to bed at like 9:30 (dan and magen, *cough cough* ;). i don't know what it is about the married life that makes us so tired, but we rarely stay up late any more, unless we are just laying in bed watching a movie (takes such little thought and engagement, that it's no big deal). tonite, for some reason, is an exception. we aren't up for any particular reason, other than we just aren't sleepy (though, i think we'd both admit to being tired)...a lot is weighing heavily on our hearts and minds...it's nice, though, to be heavily weighted together. each chilling in our tiny apartment together doing things we love: me-blogging, ryan-eating reeses pieces! :D i love my sweet husband!!!

earlier this evening, i got to go BACK to sips n strokes, actually with the person who introduced me to the whole thing. we set a date to go over a month ago and the night finally was here! my mother-in-law, carol, and my sister-in-law, christina, along with my soon to be niece or nephew (soon being november, LOL) went and painted my favorite picture yet! isn't it funny how all three of our pictures look a bit different from each other? and there were like 35 other people there...and i'll tell you, not one of them looked the same. each something about it that made it look different than the one next door. pretty crazy, if you ask me!

well, i'm off to go watch a movie with ryan...later!