2010...A Year to Celebrate!

It has been way too long! I had originally written this post at the beginning of the year and had trouble uploading pictures. Then our computer quit working and I got crazy busy with 4 competitions and here we are in Spring Break! So without further ado, we started off this year with many celebrations...

A small New Year's Eve get together with family in our home.

On my 25th birthday I was at a Dance Educator's Conference in Houston. It is always fun to get away and attend it, but I am always sad to be away from my hubby, family, and friends on my birthday...This year Jason made me feel so special on my birthday. He sent me flowers and had them waiting for me when I checked into the hotel the day before my birthday.

The night of my birthday he had chocolate covered strawberries delivered to my room!

Wow I am so blessed to have such a thoughtful amazing husband who pursues me each day!

The weekend after New Years I traveled to Austin with my parents to celebrate my cousin's son Cade's 1st birthday! This was very special to us since they adopted him a year ago! Jill planned the cutest party...the CCR Birthday Bowl!

When I got back we celebrated Jason's grandmother Baba's 90th birthday. Jason made a beautiful cake for her that was so special to her!

And then we celebrated our sweet little cousin Kaitlynn's 3rd birthday! Can't believe she is three already! We partied Minnie Mouse style!

Mandy made the cutest cupcakes!

We also have had lots more snow...12 inches at once to be exact! Paisley really liked it!

Since then I've been busy with four dance competitions...Thankfully competition season is over and I have a break for a week! We traveled to Kilgore to compete and the girls got to see the Kilgore Rangerettes and then to Houston where we went to NASA and the aquarium. I'll try and post some pictures of that soon!

We have booked our trip this summer to MAUI! We are so excited we will be celebrating our 3rd anniversary there!

Well I think that is it...I'm spending spring break catching up on my sleeping, cleaning, shopping, and friends and wrapping it up with my husband on a special date on Friday to the Dallas Arboretum! Can't wait!

New Addition to Our Family!

No not that kind! :-) The cute, furry kind!

We have been waiting to get a puppy until we got more settled in our new home! We have been looking over the last few weeks and today we found her! She has stolen our hearts!

Meet Paisley!

Paisley is a Cavapoo...A cross between a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and a Miniature Poodle. She is 5 weeks old, so sadly we won't be able to bring her home for a few more weeks, but we can't wait!

Here's a few more pictures of our little darling!

These are pictures from the breeder soon after she was born.

Show Us Your Life ~ Fav Vaca Spot!

So I am really excited about this week! We didn't really take a vacation this summer, because all our time and money went into our house! It is so nice to have it done and be able to relax in it though! However, we are hoping to plan a big trip this next summer and are looking for ideas...We want to go somewhere where we probably wouldn't take kids and somewhere that would not be a quick couple getaway later either. Our dream ideas are Hawaii and Europe. I've also seen some pictures of St. Lucia that look very appealing as well! What are your suggestions?

I kinda gave away my favorite vacation spot in the last Show Us Your Life Post but I'll put a little more detail in this one.

My favorite spot we went was Roatan Island in Honduras. The beach there was the most beautiful beach we went to! The sand was white and so soft under your feet! The water was turquoise and crystal clear when looking down. It was so beautiful to be surrounded by giant rocks on one side and the beach on the other. The ocean was so calm there, and it was so peaceful and relaxing to just hang out in the water and on the beach!

Show Us Your Life ~ Wedding Receptions and Honeymoons

This week on Show Us Your Life at Kelly's Korner is Wedding Receptions and Honeymoons! To participate or check out the rest go to http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/2009/08/show-us-your-life-wedding-receptions.html

We had so much fun at our wedding reception and were so glad to hear later that our friends and family did to celebrating with us! Our reception was at Diamond Oaks Country Club. They have a beautiful reception hall that looks out over the golf course and has an amazing chandelier!





We continued our color scheme of black, ivory/white, and various shades of pinks and deep reds. The table linens were black with white napkins and chair covers. One of my favorite things to find/plan were the table centerpieces. We had four different ones featuring different flower and candle arrangements, many with beautiful red glass.



1st Dance to "Time After Time" by Frank Sinatra

Centerpieces

The Cake Guys of Cedar Hill did our cakes and they were as beautiful as they were tasty! Jason's groom cake featured a Double T! We continued our monogram motif on the bride's cake as well as cookie favors which my cousins made for me through their former business, Love Bucket Cookies.

Our DJ was awesome. We played a lot of classics and romantic songs during dinner and then a lot of great dance music and oldies and a little country. We had so much fun dancing the night away. Before we left all of our families and friends made a circle around us and we did the chicken dance and hokey pokey...That was one of the funniest memories we have!At the end of the night I was so sad to leave...It was so perfect I didn't want the moment to end. It was such a blessing to to have all of our family and friends there to celebrate our new life together! But...we were off to our honeymoon.

Jason planned our honeymoon. I knew we were going on a cruise through the Caribbean, but I didn't know what we were doing the 2nd week. When we got in the limo he told me that we were going to New York City and he had gotten tickets to Chorus Line and Cinderella American Ballet Theatre...I screamed and started crying...He knows me so well!

The first week was awesome...We went to Grand Cayman and snorkeled there and enjoyed cheese burgers in Margaritaville! We also went horseback riding in Honduras...It was supposed to be super romantic, but my horse hated Jason's and constantly tried to bite everyone...It was pretty traumatic, but the beach there was the most beautiful! We went cave tubing in Belize, again somewhat traumatic (we saw a giant spider right when we went into the dark of the cave) but floating the river afterwards was great! We spent our last day relaxing on the beach in Costa Maya Mexico. The food on the boat was amazing and we had an amazing couples massage as well!

Roatan Island, Honduras...Amazing Beach!

Cave Tubing in Belize!

We enjoyed so many amazing sunsets on our cruise from our balcony room and on deck!

In New York we toured all the sights and ate at some amazing places including Tavern on the Green and Serendipity! The last night we were there was July 4th so we got to watch the fireworks on the river...It was the perfect ending to the most amazing start to our new life together!

Carriage ride through Central Park!

Dinner at Tavern On the Green in the Crystal Room

Fireworks on the River in NYC!

Here's a schedule of Kelly's Korner future Show Us Your Life if you want to participate...

SCHEDULE
Friday, August 14 - Show us your favorite vacation spot

Friday, August 21- Show us baby shower ideas (ones you have had, hosted or been to)

Friday, August 28- Show us wedding shower ideas (ones you have had, hosted or been to)Friday, Sept 4 - Show us your favorite school pictures from when you were growing up

Friday, Sept 11 - Show us your favorite Go To dinner recipe (we can all get new ideas!)

Friday, Sept 18 - Show us your favorite Dessert recipe

Friday, Sept 25 - Show us your baby gear - what you recommend and what you wouldn't buy if you had to do it all over again

Friday, Oct 1 - Show us some of your favorite places/sights in your town (great way to see the world from your own home)

Friday, Oct 9 - Show us your PETS

Friday, Oct 16 - Show us your Halloween Costumes (past or present)

We're In!

It's been awhile, but we have been very busy moving, unpacking, painting, and spending some wonderful time with family!

On June 23rd we spent our 2nd Anniversary in our 4th night in our new home! It was so special! We decided to take the day off and slept in and then went to dinner that night at Morton's Steakhouse in Dallas. It's in the basement of an office building right across from Dealy Plaza. This is the same wonderful restaurant we went to in San Antonio last year. The service is amazing and the food melts in your mouth! Everyone who came to our table wished us a happy anniversary, and when they brought out desert they brought out a lit sparkler!

We spent the fourth of July with family. Friday night we went to Addison Kaboom town and sat right under some awesome fireworks. Saturday we had dinner and went swimming with my family and then went with our niece and nephews to watch the fireworks...They were so excited to see all the different colors!

We are almost done unpacking...The only room that's completely done is the kitchen, so I decided to post pictures of it...More to come soon, we're getting close in many ofther rooms.

Looking in from the entryway

TX Tech Plates!

Jason's grandparents gave us this for a wedding present...