Just a few things...

Hi Everyone!
Just a few things have changed since I last posted. My name, address and marital status would rank among the most important:)
I'll post a few of my favorite pictures from the wedding and honeymoon, and then I'll add a few of our apartment as it is this weekend.








I am so thankful for our friends and family who helped us make the ceremony exactly what we wanted. The whole day will forever be in my mind as the most beautiful and meaningful day of my life. Thank you to EVERYONE who came and supported our beginning!





Here, I'm pulling out the "nanny voice" (as Harrison calls it) to tell him that he can not have any cake until I get word that he has eaten his vegetables. He told me that I was the bride and not a nanny and that he was going to have cake no matter what.


I win! He's mine!


I have one major complaint about our reception. It went by WAY TOO FAST for us to even get CLOSE to spending enough time with our guests. There are so many people that we didn't even get to greet, and many more that I only got to give a quick hug. I feel really sad about that, but I loved seeing everyone there! It was the most amazing feeling in the world to have nearly everyone in our lives in the same place at the same time. All the different people in our lives came together for cake and dancing! Thank you all so much!



Then it was off to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic!
Our room was lovely!






If you look closely, you can see me at the edge of the pool on top. This pool was right outside our door and we spent most of our afternoons at this pool area. It was a perfectly relaxing week. Besides the scary peacocks.




Every night we ate at a different exotic restaurant. Luckily for me, each of these exotic restaurants served some sort of potato/bread/steak combination and I was able to find something to eat :) For Adam, it was a dream since he loves fancy-schmancy food and trying new things.




Oh, melt. What a handsome guy!




We returned to New York last Sunday, tired, but ready to get the house set up. I thought Monday and Tuesday would be spent shlepping all over the tri-state area hunting for bedroom furniture and then subsequently setting it up, all the while sleeping on the floor on the one piece of furniture we owned, a mattress. But when we walked in from the airport, Adam told me to take the luggage into the bedroom and ALL THE FURNITURE WAS ALREADY HERE!! It was my wedding present! There was also a giant new tv in the living room which we call Adam's wedding present:) So as of this weekend, most everything is in place. We still need to hang several pictures (the walls are depressingly bare) but everything else is done!













This one is for Mr. & Mrs. Sloat...here is my Mr. Wonderful with his new tools! They have had a HUGE workout this week putting together all the new bookshelves and storage options that I brought home.



All right, it has taken me over an hour to post all these pictures, so I really hope everyone enjoyed them. Again, I want to thank everyone who was a part of our wedding for everything that they did. I'm going to go enjoy a Sunday afternoon with my husband now.
Somewhere between the moon and New York,
Lauren Mott

PS....Hopefully we'll be legally married in NY within the week....hopefully.

March 7, 2009

Subtitle: The Promised Post



Well folks, you heard it here first. Well, maybe not. Maybe you heard it from my parents first, or maybe you're a Facebook stalker like me and read it on the inter-web first. But here and now I will confirm the news that I am engaged to Adam!

It happened last Saturday in Central Park at Bethesda Terrace, which is my favorite part of the park. It was a very thoughtful and meaningful proposal that I tearfully (and LOUDLY) accepted.

The past few days have been very surreal and exciting as we chose a date of March 7th, 2009 in Greenville, Ohio. I can't believe that I'm actually the bride and everyone has to listen to me. [Insert evil chuckle]

I feel like I should write more, but I can't think of anything else. I'm soooo happy and very in love. If you haven't met him yet, you're missing out! He's about a hundred different kinds of wonderful. See you in March....

Check your Pacemakers

Uh-oh folks. Brace yourselves. Two posts in three days. That might be more than I've posted so far in 2008. But I'm sure you'll forgive me.
Just wanted to show you the newest member of our house. The family that I work for won this puppy in an auction for charity. She follows me around everywhere and we are new bff's. According to my twelve-year-old, that means best-friends-forever.
Don't forget to read my other post, located directly below this one!!
Happy Weekend, friends!

So-Past-Due

It's just a little embarrassing how infrequently I post around here. Actually, I'd say that's one of the reasons I post so little, because I'm so embarrassed about how long it's been! But alas. Here comes fresh information from Connecticut.

I thought I should take a post to formally introduce my (small, yet strangely faithful) blog following to my dear boyfriend, Adam. We've been dating almost eight months now (which is practically nine). What words ensue will I'm sure be a less than perfect picture of someone who has turned out to be more than perfect for me.

Adam is originally from the Mansfield, Ohio area and has been living here in Stamford, Connecticut (just about 20 minutes up I-95 from me in Greenwich) for the past two years. He works for Alliance Bernstein in the Mortgage department, but will be transferring into the Derivatives and Swaps department in the next few weeks. That transfer will require him to work in Manhattan five days a week. I have no idea what derivatives or swaps mean, and I didn't have a firm grasp on the mortgage position either. But people who actually know better always ask me, so I included it. Hopefully he won't read it and be embarrassed again by my ignorance of all things pertaining to numbers.



This is Adam pretending to be co-pilot for our friend Rick who is an actual pilot. One time I went up with them....after that, I decided it could be their "special thing" together and I would stick to commercial flights.





This is a picture from the weekend of his cousin's wedding in Annapolis.











Another picture from that wedding...





This is the weekend that my parents surprised me by coming to CT for my birthday!!





Adam and I have lots and lots of fun together. We love taking the train into the city and just hanging out at the park. On Sundays, we are all together for church and lunch and then Alie, Rick, Adam and myself head to the Salvation Army where we volunteer at Kid's Church. It's always the highlight of my week to hang out with all those kids and teach them about Jesus! Plus, we're like celebrities when we walk in the door, which is a weekly ego boost.

Like I knew they would, my words are failing to paint the picture that I wanted you to see of Adam. Hopefully the photographs speak for themselves to tell you that even though I miss my friends and family, I have a little bit of home here in Connecticut with Adam.

This just in: I met Jennifer Connelly in Starbucks last Friday! She was with her son and she wrote on my Starbucks cup: "To Lauren, All the best, Jennifer Connelly". She was lovely and polite and now I've met an Oscar winner.









Know that I love and miss you all...please don't give up on me or my page! I'm here to connect YOU with Connecticut!!
*Lauren Faith

A Word to the Wise

Don't be a fool. Save your gold.
Go see a different movie.*






*An actual post regarding the going-ons of my life is to follow shortly. I promise.

A Few of my Favorite Things

Here are some of my entertainment highlights from the year 2007.


30 Rock (named for NBC's Manhattan address) has taken the Thursday night slot of Seinfeld on NBC and in my heart. Tina Fey writes and produces this sitcom about a problematic variety show. On the show, she plays a senior writer trying to keep sponsors and network executives satisfied, while micromanaging her staff and the eccentric and mislead egos of her cast. Tune in for off-color jokes, excessively witty and politically incorrect banter and major celebrity cameos.
*Due to the writers strike, this show is of course on a break. But I'll be right here waiting for it to come back.
**Tina Fey may or may not be behind my decision to start wearing glasses again.



Ok. Let's take a look at this show and go beyond the superfluous violence, disturbing drug use and a dialect of foul language that I didn't even know existed. The underlying themes of this HBO drama are that of morality at all levels, family, trust, psychology in its most raw form and pure Shakespearean irony. We follow Anthony (Tony) Soprano through six seasons of his life. Our first encounter with him is in his therapist's office where he is seeking help for panic attacks. This show is about a top wiseguy who is having legitimate psychological problems due to the nature of his position. We learn to care for his family, both immediate and criminal. As the seasons progress, La Cosa Nostra starts to become this thing of OUR'S, not just theirs. You will find yourself wanting the FBI to fail in their efforts to bring this crime family to justice. Plus, there are so many Godfather references in this show, just waiting to be discovered.
*I have yet to see Season Six, part two.



This film is a musical that follows several characters as their lives intertwine. Jude, Maxwell, Lucy, Prudence, JoJo, Sadie and several other psychedelic personalities run around the turmoil-covered 60's and completely reinvent the Beatles' catalog. Now. I grew up listening to the Beatles. Their music comforts me, inspires me and makes sense to me. Nothing about their music needed to change. However, seeing and hearing it completely re-done with completely new meanings was simply a treat. Hearing these songs that spanned several decades come together to form a single musical with one main plot was like magic. However, it must be watched with an artistic eye and not the idea of don't fix what's not broken, as my dad said about the concept.
*But don't worry. Nothing's gonna change my world. I still love the originals.



Move over "Little Miss Sunshine." There needs to be room next to you for the next irreverent comedy. Excellent acting, perfect writing and lots of sarcasm was the recipe for "Juno" a story about a teenage girl who gets pregnant by her best friend. She decides to give the baby up for adoption to a young couple who have less in common than they think. Juno (not like the city in Alaska) definitely marches to the beat of the drums in her head. As she navigates the pregnancy with the help of her family, friends and the adoptive parents, you'll see why this movie is already winning awards and is sure to win more.
*Not to mention, I've wanted a blue slushy real bad ever since seeing this.



Well sports fans, those are just a select four entertainment choices that I enjoyed this past year. I laughed, I cried, I ate a lot of Milk Duds. Just in case you were wondering(and you probably weren't), you probably shouldn't watch most (make that any) of my picks with most (make that any) of your children under the age of 25. It's true. These picks are adult in content. But, to me, that doesn't take away from their artistic value. If you have any questions, or would like to leave your own favorite things of 2007, just say it at the beep!

The Pirates Who Don't [Usually Have Time To] Do Anything!

Well folks, welcome back to the Connecticut Connection: the show where everyone who cares gets to read about how my life is going out here in Greenwich. We realize that we have an audience of about three, but hey, we do it for the viewers.

The biggest news here is that Greenville, Ohio's very own JENNIFER REIFSNIDER came for a visit a few weekends ago!! Yes folks, it's true. My mommy came to see me, and it was wonderful! We had a great time, even though it was very short.

Moving on to other news, I went to Boston with my "family" a few weekends ago. My best friend Alie (a nanny from Australia) and my boyfriend Adam (what?!) and I left on a rainy Saturday morning for one of the most historic cities in the country. Alie and I had never been there before. Unfortunately, we visited Boston on the same day as Hurricane Noel. Hurrican Noel made Boston very cold, rainy and WINDY. I would show you documentation of this trip (and actual proof as to the exsistance of a boyfriend), but the weather was too depressing for pictures. The high point of the trip was teaching Alie to play Euchre, so she is now well exposed to the entertainment of the Midwest.

This just in, the color is still FABULOUS out here! Every day I see new trees ablaze with new hues of red and yellow. It has been the most beautiful fall that this reporter can ever remember viewing.

Moving on to more current events, my job is going well. I love my children and we have been getting along so nicely. They make me laugh every day. Harrison (4) is my youngest and he just doesn't know what to do with me. The other day, I bent down and pointed at my cheek and said "Lay one on me, Harrison!" He looked at me with a really confused look and then slapped me gently across the face. He had no idea that I meant for him to kiss me! He is also hooked on the Veggie Tales cd that I made for he and I to listen to in the car. We have dubbed ourselves the pirates who don't do anything. Stay tuned next time for more stories about the rest of the munchkins.

My (non-imaginary) boyfriend has been studying diligently for months for a very difficult exam that he will take on December first. That's why an outing to Boston was such an anomaly in our plans. Alie and I usually sit quietly (or not so quietly) watching movies or playing cards while he studies away about things that I can't even understand.

So....
I've never licked a sparkplug
and I've never sniffed a stink bug
and I've never painted daisies on a big red rubber ball
and I've never bathed in yogurt
and I don't look good in leggings.....
but now I've been to Boston in the fall!!!