Happy 1st Anniversary!

Today marks the anniversary when we became husband and wife! One year ago today Jeff and I were married in Fort Worth, Texas. We decided to celebrate by going to Mineral Wells State Park and doing some camping and fishing! We had a BLAST!

We rented a covered shelter with water and electric hookup. I know that is not technically camping, but we needed the electricity to charge the boat. We saw raccoons, an armadillo, and a lot of storks! We cooked out and ate yummy smore's too!

We went bass fishing and crappie fishing as well. We had a mini tournament while we were there and ended up tying 3-3 on bass. We stopped counting all the crappie we caught! It was super exciting!

We have really had a fun first year of marriage. We have learned a lot and have done a lot of fun things! We look forward to many more...

Oh! Look what Jeff got me!

(he got it at Jared's) :-)

Happy 1st Birthday!

We celebrated Chloe's first birthday on Memorial Day! She is getting SOOO big! I made a hat for her and a sign to hang on the wall. She had a 'birthday cake' made out of bananas - one of her favorites!

Here she is about to blow out her candle!

Here are some of her new toys!

Our big girl can sit, shake, and lay down too!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHLOE!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!

Update!

So, it's been a while... I have lots to catch up on!!

First of all, Jeff and I went and saw the King Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art on May 9th. We went to the 5:30pm exhibit and LOVED it! I am a HUGE fan of King Tut so I have been planning on going ever since I heard it was in the United States. Now I just have to go to Cairo to see the sarcophagus~

We went to the Museum with some friends of ours and ate afterwards at IHOP. I love breakfast for dinner! Here are some pics we snapped outside the exhibit:

The following weekend Jeff and I drove to Toledo Bend and participated in a big fishing tournament. There were 830 people there! It was great and we had a wonderful time!

We pre-fished on Friday, caught a couple of fish, got a couple sunburns, and then Jeff cooked an AWESOME dinner. We were so worn out from leaving at 3:30am that we hit the sack early to get up in time for the 6:00am start on Saturday. We weighed in fish on Saturday (2.83 for Jeff and 1.48 for Steph), but just couldn't get in the groove Sunday to find a big fish. We had a rapid change of weather between Saturday and Sunday. From sunburns to pouring down rain. The cool weather was nice, but the big fish just weren't biting!

We caught fish on frogs, lizards, shaky heads, rattle traps, and crank baits...for all those fishing extrodinaires out there wondering! Jeff also caught an alligator gar on a crank bait - weird!

Our room was interesting, to say the least, and so was the bathroom. They were community bathrooms, but there were only four rooms in our 'motel.' It was weird... Our TV was ancient, our light switch was taped in the 'up' position, and the man running it was shady. Enjoy these fun pics from our motel...

The day after we got back from Toledo Bend I went to Six Flags with Katy's school as a chaperone (no laughing)! Here is a picture of her and I below:

Good for a chuckle!

Jeff sent the following to me this morning via e-mail:

My response: "That guy in the picture is REALLY cute! Is he available?"

Jeff: "Looks like he is taken already by the ring in the picture. I do like the hair do."

My response: I meant the fish... :-)

Garden update

Here are a few pictures from our garden...it's coming along quite nicely!

Here are the cantalope and watermelons

Here are the tomatoes and jalapeno peppers

Here are the white onions

The entire garden - it's so fun to see all the green!

Relay for Life 2009

I was the City of Benbrook team captain this year for Benbrook's Relay for Life. We had a BLAST and raised $1372 for cancer research! Cancer has probably touched each and every one of our lives. I know it has mine... my friends, my family, co-workers, etc...

At Relay for Life you have a fundraiser on sight, and have a member of your team walking the track. We walk to cure cancer. We have a special presentation for those who have passed and for those who have won their battle. It is amazing to see the response from the community as we relay from 6pm - 6am. It is a wonderful night as we exercise hope, remember, and fight back!

Our fundraiser was a 2-liter bottle toss. We also grilled hot dogs and sold iced tea and lemonade. Here are some pictures from the event...

I am forever grateful for the experiences that cancer awareness events (Komen Race for the Cure, Relay for Life, etc...) have brought into my life. I am truly humbled by the hardships I have seen my friends and family go through as they fought for their life. For those who have passed on...I can't wait to be reunited again some day...

Mary Mary quite contrary how does your garden grow?

Well, I am finally ready to post some pictures of our garden, yard, and beautiful plants in bloom! The garden was a lot of work with all those HUGE rocks in the yard, but I think it looks FABULOUS (I'm biased though!) and I love it! :-)

Without further adieu...!!!

Our grass is also doing wonderfully, I am happy to report! Our tree is coming along quite nicely as well. If only we can get the ones in the front yard to bloom... The flower garden, on the other hand, is growing and blooming - we are so excited!

The pink rose bush plant just lights up my day. The roses are absolutely beautiful! I planted a white rose bush with HIGH hopes of the same process occurring...we shall see! Spring is SO much fun! Enjoy~

Well, that's all I have for now...time to take more pictures! Happy Spring!