My Husband

I would like to introduce you to my husband. This is imperative to understand most of what I do in life. He is my own living cartoon character and my favorite traveling partner. He gets along best with those 10 and under, but is extremely intelligent and a successful Bond Analyst. I thought I could come up with some snippets of stories to describe him but I thought the best way to introduce him would be through a series of photos.

Phil Hooks

 

                   Just skipping around!                         Weeeeeeeeeeeee!

 

This last picture was taken by our friend Walt. He said "This is my friend Phillip Hooks, All other photos of Phil from here forward, will forever be measured against this one "

I am laughing out loud as I post these and this is just a selection of my favorites.  I have the most hilarious husband in life who loves me so much and so unconditionally. He is my entertainer 24/7 and gives my life so much joy. He loves to entertain like I do and we live for hosting dinner parties, happy hours and themed costume parties. A few years ago we instituted a Hooks Fiesta Night that is usually just the two of us with blaring Mexican music, sombreros, Margaritas and tacos. I feel like every couple needs a weekly night like this.

Hooks loves to travel and he has continued to spoil me as my parents did and take me on many adventures. We took a Europe trip back in 2010 and last year we did a New England vaca starting in Bangor, Maine and ending in Newport, Rhode Island. We drove the coast in a rented car and over 6 days we never turned on the radio. We just talked and laughed the entire trip. I dream that we still do this at 80 years old:)

Hooks is definitely our cook in the house (see massive piece of beef above), and is currently obsessed with cocktails. He goes through cycles of obsessions...but we'll get to that later. While the obsession with wine is ongoing (see our 600 bottle wine fridge behind him as a Mexican), his current major obsession is Prohibition Era cocktails. He has every shaker, strainer, stirrer, bitters, vermouth, syrup and coupe glass needed for the entire process. Through his experimentation, I'm now obsessed with cocktails. A lot of our trips this year centered around some great bars that made original recipe cocktails from the 1920's. My next post will be about our experience at a new restaurant in town called Cask & Larder that includes some great cocktails at their bar.

So now you can somewhat understand where I'm coming from when I mention Phil. Love him forever:)