An Anniversary Well Spent!

My parents, who have been married for 31 years, gave wise advice when they said to always make your anniversary special. Do what you can to show the one you love how much you love them.

I think I began thinking about what we'd do for our 1 year anniversary since BEFORE we were married! If you know anything about me, you know that I'm a planner! I suggested to Ryan that we spend our anniversary similar to our wedding!

He booked us room 410 (same as our wedding night) at the Hilton Bella Harbor! We had dinner, and finally opened the bottle of rum that we bought in St. Lucia! My gift was too big to bring to the hotel, but Ryan went ahead & gave me the card with the Seawolf information.

Our plan was to go to the Hilton pool, have dinner at home (one similar to our wedding), and then go to the Seawolf. We packed up the top tier of our wedding cake & pink champagne! Once we got to the Seawolf we were told there weren't enough people to cruise on the sailboat, but the captains were so kind to get lots of pictures of us: eating our cake, toasting, our champagne, and took our picture with us holding a picture from the year before (I plan to do this every year). :)

We got to actually cruise on the Seawolf a couple days later & it was perfect! Cruising the lake at sunset is the way to do it!

Here's to planning next year's anniversary!

CHEERS!

1 Year of Paper

I cannot believe we have already been married for a year! My how time flies!! I'm all about traditions so we of course followed the tradition of giving paper as a gift...

I originally thought of making a shadow box or something that I could put old movie stubs, concert tickets, etc. in for Ryan...then my mom told me I should make him something of paper that he could hang in the garage (his favorite place!) Anyway...I ended up making a collage of the sayings, quotes, scriptures, and well wishes from our wedding cards. TOOK ME F-O-R-E-V-E-R to cut up all the cards then arrange them & Mod Podge them on the canvas. **No, I did not get this idea off Pinterest...some of us still have some creativity within. :) ** Here's the finished product displayed in our bathroom rather than the garage...

Ryan quite impressed me with his paper gift...in the sweet card he gave me was a print out of the confirmation to go sail on the Seawolf on Lake Ray Hubbard. We have been wanting to do this so I was quite excited!! He did let me know that the boat needed 6 people before we could cruise so we may not get to go on our actually anniversary which was Monday. Stay tuned to find out what happened... :)

XOXO

Happy Birthday, Mrs. Thomas!!

I have the sweetest class. My birthday was on Monday. A little disappointing when we have a Leap Year and I have to work on my birthday.

But super sweet of my kiddos to remember and be super good for me!

Mom took me to dinner at my favorite restaurant, Mi Cocina, for my birthday. It was good one on one time for us. :)

Ryder Pup and I are now the same age. Husband isn't far behind us. He'll also be 28 in 12 days!!

Mother's Day

Morning of Ryan and I went to serve in the 3 year old class at church. It was fun. And interesting to hear Ryan talk with the 3 year olds, "what's your giraffe's name?" "no. We don't put marshmallows in our nose." lol!

We were excited to spend Mothers Day with Mom T and Nanny! We had a nice time visiting with our Arlington family. Puppy had fun playing with his Aunt Mia and Cousin Romeo!

Mom T surprised me and had ache and presents for my birthday after we did presents for Mother's Day! It was a great day!!

Fun Filled Weekend

Last weekend and this past week were so full and so full of fun so I'm just now getting around to blogging about it!

Friday night Ryan was working so Puppy and I spent the evening at Mom and Dad's with Anthony too! It was a fun night. Dad wanted to spend time with us before his move to Atlanta. If you're not in the loop about that I'll blog about it later. :)

While Ryan did yard work on Saturday I had fun shopping for Mother's Day gifts! I quickly got ready to attend a baby shower for our friend Nadalee. It was super cute! Clark and Nadalee are going to have one cute & spoiled little girl! :)

I had been wanting to go out to the Allen Outlet Mall so we went later that afternoon. Kinda a bummer. Not quite what I expected. :/

But since we were closer to Pooh's area we met up with her for dinner at Urban Crust. A nice pizza place in Downtown Plano. Since my birthday was Monday we considered this my celebration. :)

Just Another Manic Monday...and Tuesday

...and Wednesday-Sunday!

Ryan's schedule this week is much busier than mine, but they're both (thankfully) full. I say thankfully because most of it is things to do with our jobs, and rather than looking at it as a stressful thing...it's a positive thing!

Ryan played in a golf tournament yesterday with a team from his part time job at RUC. They got 6th place. I asked, out of how many teams? 6? Haha! No...like 50! So way to go team RUC!

Spring time means baby time! No...not for us! But for chickens in the 1st grade hall at school. It's a fun way To teach life cycles. It's also exciting for the kids. Excited 7 year olds=crazy days.

I was recognized tonight at the RISD awards receiving my 5 year pin. Mom and Dad were there as my support! Dad's hootin' an' hollerin' and Mom's clappin' an' smilin' show me how proud they are of me. :) Thanks for being there!

Seeking Approval

This post isn't as profound as it may sound to be. It's actually quite silly. For now, I write about..cooking dinner!

I was never much interested in being in the kitchen. My mom can testify to that. But now that I have a loving husband to cook for--I love it!

I love planning meals, going to the grocery store, and cooking! But I'm always seeking approval if it's ok or not!

If Ryan has been honest with me there hasn't been 1 thing he didn't like. I anxiously stare at him before he takes the first bite to see his reaction.

As soon as dinner is over...I call my mom! To tell her about the delicious meal I just served and how much Ryan liked it! Then I try to convince her to make it!

We chuckle over people taking pictures of their food, but I do it too! Haha! So here's last night dinner that I slaved all day over! ;)