Is it over yet???

The world cup has taken over our lives. Here is a typical day in the Baker house....Scott get's up and goes to work....while at work the soccer games get TiVoed.....when Scott gets home he plops on the couch and watches ALL 3 games that played that day. I can do 1 game but 3....

I am not a fan of having a TV in the bedroom but I caved last week....I couldn't take watching that much soccer ALL night long...haha. It will be leaving the room promptly after the final game on July 11th. Scott thinks its funny that I lasted that long watching that much soccer and didn't put it in there sooner.

I did however have entertainment for a few days :) My friend Sarah (use to work with her) came to visit Wednesday - Sunday. I had a great time with her. Thursday we went to Aquatica, the Sea World water park. It was so clean and such a fun day. Friday we hung by the pool and went bridesmaid dress shopping for me!!! I am still picking between two but will hopefully have it ordered in the next few days!!! Saturday the 3 of us hit the beach. I do have to say it was a perfect beach day. It was nice and hot but there was still a breeze so we weren't sweating too bad. Sunday we went to the outlets and shopped. It was a nice relaxing few days and of course it was great to see her!

Other than that time is taken up by soccer at night and on the weekends. I asked Scott yesterday if he wanted to go to Disney this weekend and he responded "I am only available after 4 on the weekends until July 11th. So anything after that should be ok." hahahaha :)

The best part is that we are in a fantasy league with friends and Scott often gets frustrated because I am often ahead of him....meaning I have better picks then he does....haha. While he spent about a week making his picks, I spent about a half hour. I guess we will see who comes out on top though :)

My last day of work is Friday and I am still smiles and sooo excited about my new career :)

1 Year....already

Neither Scott nor I can believe it have been one year since our wedding....all last week we kept saying what were you doing at this time last year :)

To celebrate our anniversary we spent the weekend at a wonderful resort (Tradewinds Island Grand) in St. Pete Beach. It is west of Tampa and St. Petersburg on the gulf. The resort was way more than we could ask for...5 pools, paddle boats, cabanas on the beach, room over looking the gulf and of course fruity cocktails.

We started our weekend with a 2 hour drive to the beach. We ended up stopping for dinner at a local spot on a canal where we both had fabulous meals. Scott had blackened red snapper and I had lightly breaded shrimp and scallops.

















Here was our view while we were eating dinner

We then headed to the resort...checked in and hit the beach/pool (where we stopped for our first fruity cocktail). We were just in time to see the sunset which was just perfect.

View from our room

Sunset on the beach

Saturday we were up and to the beach. We got a cabana and the relaxation continued. We also decided to rent a paddle board which is a over sized surf board that you stand on and paddle. It was so fun and quite the work out. This may be a purchase in the future for us (I can actually stand up on it unlike surfing).




















Of course we took a lunch break around 2:00 to watch the USA vs England game. We were not the only people who decided to take a late lunch. We then headed back to the beach till the evening. We went to Crabby Bills for dinner. Neither of us were happy with our meals :(

Sunday we got up, got our cabana and then went paddle boating. The resort has a little stream where you could paddle boat through. We got about half way through and were bored so we turned around...hahaha. We then had another relaxing day at the beach and packed up and headed home mid day.

The weekend was more than relaxing and a wonderful way to celebrate our first year together :)

We also had another reason to celebrate............I got a JOB!!!!! A real JOB. We are both so excited!! I start on July 6th! I am going to be an Admissions Rep at a college. I will get to help students apply to college and help them through the whole college experience!

Tre and Sarah Visit

We had such a wonderful weekend with Tre and Sarah. They flew in and headed to the Cocoa on Wednesday. We ended up heading there Thursday evening and spending the night and hanging out on the beach during the day on Friday.

The boys took the surf boards out to catch a wave. We are still trying to decide if they just chatted out there......

Friday night we headed downtown Orlando to show them the night life. We went to a great Mexican tequila/taco bar for dinner and they hit the town. Scott of course had to show Tre Corona's, the cigar bar he loves.

We went to a few other bars and had a great time!


Saturday we just hung around the apt and the pool. The boys even "grilled" up a yummy lunch for us :)

We had a great weekend spending time with Tre and Sarah and showing them Orlando. Of course it was hard saying bye on Sunday when we had to drop them at the airport :(

We are now looking forward to this weekend and our 1 Year Anniversary. I still can't believe it has been a year already....

...oh yeah and the World Cup starts....

World Cup.......................

9 days 11 hours 39 mins till the greatest sporting event in the world.....

Really Scott....

I of course have to first comment on Scott's last post....hahahaha!!!! Oh does he make me laugh. He takes me to watch ONE soccer game and all of a sudden he thinks I am a fan. Please :) There is no way I said that quote either....baseball is still better and more exciting than soccer will ever be!

As you can all tell though he is VERY excited for the World Cup to start. The best thing about the post though was he was so proud that he did it and it took me a few days to see it...haha :)

I finally got my rental car last Wednesday! WHOO WHOO!!! It is going to take about 2 weeks to fix my poor car. The insurance companies finally figured things out and my car will be as good as new :)

Scott and I had a wonderful long weekend...

Friday started the weekend....I got called off of work from Williams-Sonoma :( Scott was out in the field inspecting signs.

That night we went out downtown with some friends to watch the Magic game. Unfortunately they lost but we had a blast. Orlando had several HUGE screen t.v.s throughout the city for everyone one the watch. We ended up going to Wall Street which is a "street" that is shut down all the time with several bars and a huge outdoor street turned into a patio.

Saturday it thunder-stormed almost all day. I had to work during the day and Scott went to watch soccer with a friend. In the evening we went downtown to enjoy some music. Orlando has an outdoor amphitheater and they have a FREE summer concert series that started Saturday and goes through September. I am guessing we will be taking advantage of this often :) Music, outdoors, and free!!

Sunday we stayed in....we were planning on going to the beach but it was suppose to rain again all day. We decided to stay home and relax. Of course it didn't rain one drop but it was over cast.

Monday started with waiting and hanging on the couch. I was on call for work which means I have to call in and see if they need me to come in. Well I did not have to go in so we decided to head to the beach. It was a beautiful day!

Half way through the day I turned to Scott and was like I still can't believe this is our life and that we can come to the beach whenever we want. We truly are so lucky!

We are really excited for June and all that is to come this month. Tre and Sarah will be here Wednesday and we can not wait to see and spend time with them :)