The Amazing Adventures of Mandi and Alex.

“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”  - Karl Lagerfeld

      While cleaning out my iphone to make room for the new ios 7 update I realized I have so many pictures and then I thought "Who better to share them with than my fellow bloggers!" Enjoy!! :)

This is our doggie Carter! He loves to play frisbee golf with his daddy.

My 1st subway ride! Going to downtown Baltimore! 

Inner Harbor-Baltimore Maryland. 

Spencer at Dick's Last Resort! 

Flynn at Dick's Last Resort! 1st time ever!! 

Alex and I loved our stylish bibs, and awesome hats! 

Gotta love this picture<3

Downtown Baltimore in a DRAGON PADDLE BOAT!!

1st time in DC!! Gotta love all of the history and laughs! 

1st street vendor hotdog! I know I know it is probably the same hot dog you can make at home, but I had never bought a street hot dog. Needless to say I was so excited! 

Vietnam War memorial, Im not to sure if Henry F Nugent is family or not but hey we have the same last name! Thats pretty cool in my book. Thanks for your service Henry! 

Fist bumping President Abe! 

Honest Abe:)

Pound it! 

Fingers crossed nothing crashes into the reflection pool like in EVERY movie based in DC! haha:)

White House:)

Chicago White Sox game:) 

The game was so hot! Here we all are sweaty and gross! 

The Bean-Downtown Chicago! 

Reflection<3

    Well now that we have seen all of the amazing times we had in Baltimore and Chicago (Miami's Pictures will come in another post!) Now let me show you why Alex is my best friend and why I love him oh so much:)

We fight crime together! 

How could you not fall in love with that smile:)

We pinky promise in the middle of grocery stores <3

And last but not least we work out together and we are always pushing each other to be the best us we can:)

 So there you have it, five months of the Amazing Adventure's of Mandi and Alex!
(Coming soon- The Adventures of Miami!)

Our little one:)

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.-Author Unknown

My last post was long and I apologize for that but I have so much to share:) So here we are, the proud new owners of a growing baby! Since I am just starting this blog I didn't share any of my 1st trimester, which honestly was a little rough. I had a hard time with morning and all day sickness:( Luckily I had Alex to help me and he has been so understanding. However, now we are in the 2nd trimester and I am finally feeling so much better!! Since we just moved we had to find a new doctor and we had a 16 week ultra sound done and we got to see our little munchkin! He or she was an active little thing and made very dramatic arm movements. Everyone says that our baby is already as dramatic as I am! I just laugh at them! haha. Anyway we are so excited and I can not wait to share our journey with you all! We find out the sex of baby hasenzahl or baby hazy for short on October 3rd!!! Ahhh! I can not wait, and either can my mom! She is dying to go shopping, and honestly I am ok with that! Here is our little drama queen or king! You can see baby's little are bent and on his/her head:)

Mommy and Daddy cant wait to meet you little one! We love you already. Infinite x's and o's!! 

The last six months.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and dong new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney

      I recently stumbled across this quote and I thought it was very fitting for the last six months of my journey. Lets start from the beginning shall we? I had a banking job at the age of 19, and I thought I was a "big" girl. I had always had serving jobs or worked in a restaurant. So here I was 19 all dressed up and ready for my first day of my new "big" girl job. Little did I know that this day would also be the day I met the man that would turn my world upside down. This was the day I met Alex. We worked together a few times and christmas time had come around and it was time for our work christmas party. Alex had hinted at wanting to hang out sometime so I invited him to the party as my "date". We went, he drank and we all laughed and had a great time. From that moment on I knew I wanted to get to know him more and more. So that is what I did, We began to hang out together and then one thing led to another. I found myself on new years eve at one of his friends house parties and when the ball dropped I found myself wrapped up in the arms of the man I now am so in love with:) Enough with all of the mushy gushy talk. We started to date and then before I knew it he had a new job offer in Baltimore, Maryland.

       In March of 2013 I had to say goodbye to someone I was falling for and someone I called best friend. Well lets just say we couldn't stay away, and he moved me out there with him:) So there I was in Baltimore, everything was going well. I had made new friends and we lived in a really nice apartment in a nice little town. A few months went by and it was now June 18th, Alex's birthday!!! The big 27:) I had gathered our friends together and we were going to go to the pool, grill out and just have a good time. Well, this was also the day that I peed on 4 yes I said 4 plastic sticks, and to my surprise the all say POSITIVE! Not only did Alex get to have a super awesome birthday with his friends he also got the news that he is going to be a daddy! We were filled with so many emotions, as Im sure pretty much anyone would be. What would our families think? How would we tell them? How were we going to raise a child and teach this child everything it needs to know for the ultimate test we call life. The only things we knew for certain were that we would love our child and each other until the end of time. Oh yeah and that we were moving to Chicago! 

      When Alex's company transferred to Chicago we thought " Oh man! We can do so many cool things!" Except that wasn't the case, money wasn't as good in Chicago as the company thought so they shipped us to Florida! Miami to be exact, which I didn't like at all! It wasn't all that it is cracked out to be, especially if you are some average joe and not a million dollar celebrity. Anyway once the summer ended, we decided to move just north of Miami to Sarasota to live with my parents:/ UNTIL WE GET ON OUR FEET AND THEN IM OUTTA HERE! haha. I love my parents but I am about to be one of my own so its time to get our own place. I couldn't be more excited to start our own little family.