Wedding Fun

Beautiful outside set up

Earlier this month we enjoyed a beautiful wedding for a couple in our small group from church.  Their wedding and reception was at a small place in the middle of nowhere in Dripping Springs.  It was absolutely gorgeous and we had a blast at their wedding!  It was really neat to be able to have almost all of our small group be there together.  We enjoyed quality time with friends, lots of picture taking, great food, and dancing. Congrats to Angelica and Keith!!!  Thank you for letting us all get to celebrate with you on such a special day.

Very unique and artsy site

The weekend started off with some of us carpooling to Dripping Springs.  Four of the couples in our small group ended up renting two cabins at this little place close to the wedding site to stay Friday night after the wedding.  We arrived, got ready for the wedding, and pushed around some twin beds to make king sized beds (-king sized beds with gaping holes in the middle and apparently ants in the cabin Cody and I weren't in!) for each couple.

We arrived at the wedding just in time and met up with the rest of our group.  It was outside and the set up was seriously amazing and gorgeous.  Simple enough yet beautiful.

After the ceremony we walked to a different outside area for drinks and appetizers while the bride and groom did pictures and all that jazz.  We enjoyed hanging out and took the time to take some pictures ourselves

Hanging out during the in-between time.

 

 

Most of our small group from church.  One other couple was gone on vacation and therefore wasn't at the wedding, and of course the bride and groom were a little busy with their own pictures.

After a bit we were able to go inside for the reception.  The dinner they served was really awesome and the whole reception was wonderful.  The inside was decorated beautifully and all the toasts/speeches were sweet and funny, dancing was fun, and food was delicious.  We really enjoyed ourselves and had a lot of fun.

  

 

While waiting for the dinner line to die down, we wandered outside 
and took some pictures by this really neat old rustic car.

The boys removing a spider.  I was not going near the car otherwise.

Boys group pic

I really like this one that's more natural with them all just laughing.

Boys pic again

Girls turn to take a group car picture.

Walking back inside to the reception.

There was lots of fun dancing!

We had some fun girls dance time.

Getting ready for the send-off.

And they're off!

After the wedding was over some of our group left to head back home and those of us staying in the cabins carpooled back.  We changed and then hung out for a bit to end the night.  At one point Cody and I went out for a walk while I think the others played a card game.  I wouldn't have expected to enjoy a walk in an unfamiliar dark place, but it was actually quite fun.

On Saturday two of the couples had to leave for other things going on that day, but one other couple had plans with us to go up to Lake Travis and enjoy the afternoon.  Our plans ended up changing and while the afternoon didn't turn out as expected, we still had fun and enjoyed the time with friends.

 

The boys going out to toss a football.

Not quite Lake Travis, but we did enjoy the time with friends!

Overall we had a fantastic weekend and loved every minute of it!  

Congrats again to the sweet bride and groom!

 

 

Our Anniversary

Last month on May 17th we celebrated our 5 year anniversary!  I'm super slow to post about it, I know.  We both took that Friday off to celebrate with a three day weekend together.  We stayed two nights at a hotel on the Riverwalk downtown.  It was a really nice and relaxing weekend of quality time together.  We didn't have much planned for the weekend, so we were able to just hang out together with no schedule to follow.  We enjoyed two nice dinners on Friday and Saturday and on one night we went out to a piano bar for a while.  Other than that we lounged at the hotel pool, caught up on some shows we enjoy together on Netflix, and just enjoyed the weekend.  We did think it was amusing that on our wedding night after dinner (yes, we were starving after our wedding and the first thing we did was go out to eat at Olive Garden right by our hotel) we watched a season finale of The Office that we had missed due to wedding activities earlier in the week.  This year on our 5 year anniversary we watched not just a regular season finale, but the series finale, of The Office.  

We actually didn't take as many pictures as I normally like to throughout the weekend, but here are some of the ones we did take.  

The beautiful surprise flowers Cody had waiting in our hotel room!
  

Lounging around.

Ready to go walk around for a bit.
  

Reading Cody's card to me.
  

Cody reading my card for him.

 

Our cards : )   He's gotten good at picking ones I like.

 

After dinner on Friday. 

 

Ready for dinner on Saturday.

 

Super stuffed after dinner.

  

Phone pic while out at the piano bar.

We had a wonderful anniversary!! Overall our first five years have been pretty amazing; it's exciting to think about what all might come in the next five!  

Quote Much?

Throughout our relationship, Cody and I have enjoyed using quotes from TV shows and movies in our daily conversations whenever possible.  We just happen to find it amusing.  Quotes don't happen all the time, but often enough, they fit pretty perfectly in natural conversation.  Over time the shows/movies we quote change.  We typically have about a handful of quotes at any time that we tend to use more frequently, and they eventually swap in and out with whatever shows/movies we have been enjoying more recently.

At the moment, these are the quotes we most often use: (I apologize if some are slightly off...)

Arrested Development:  (-Perfect source for hilarious one liners!  We use these pretty exactly.)

"I've made a huge mistake."

"Light drizzle will just annoy you, but thunder will f you up."

"He deserves a big hand."  (Or we enjoy any modification about a big hand.)

"Who? Her?"

"Same!"  (Definitely awesome if we can both say it at the same, or almost, same time.-SAME!)

"I would but, I just drank a lot of water." (Perfect excuse for anything lol!)

"That was a freebie."

"That's why you always leave a note."


Parks and Rec:  (We don't use these as exact quotes, but rather use them in our own way whenever we can.)

You may have thought you heard me say I wanted a lot of bacon and eggs, but what I said was: Give me ALL the bacon and eggs you have.

Calzones.  (Just generally any time we can mention calzones we try to.)


The Office:  (We still use this quote as often as possible -as everyone should.  It's obviously a classic and is amazingly appropriate in almost daily conversations.  -Appropriate as in, can be used to easily fit in natural dialogue, not "appropriate" as in actually appropriate to use loudly in public.)

"That's what she said."


Anyone else find the use of quotes as entertaining as we do?!  

Things that have and have not changed...

May 17th was our 5 year anniversary!  : )  Cody and I took off that Friday to enjoy a 3 day weekend together.  But I'm going to save my rambling about our wonderful weekend together for my next post.  First I wanted to share a random list of things that have either changed, or not changed, throughout our marriage so far, comparing Year 1 to Year 5.

Things that have NOT changed from Year 1 to Year 5:

• We both still HATE cleaning and therefore typically don't.
• We both still have an unusually high tolerance for a dirty home. (See above)
• We both still love to be silly and goofy together. 
• We both still enjoy playing games together and cuddling to watch TV or movies.
• We both still find it entertaining to use TV and movie quotes as often as possible.
• We both still call each other the same nickname that started right around our wedding - "Loves".

Things that HAVE changed from Year 1 to Year 5:

• We used to sleep with a nightlight (yes, I was 'scared' of the dark at 21) but now I also prefer it to be pitch black.
• We used to Febreeze our clothes in order to rewear them, but now we do laundry more regularly. 
• We used to (at the beginning) argue over food/dinner/groceries due to a lot of differences between us, but now we have grown accustom to the food specifics of each other and it rarely bothers us.
• "We" used to be just us, but now "we" is us plus Callie.
• We were both still in school finishing up at A&M throughout Year 1, but now we are both working full-time (and are SO grateful to finally have started a real dual income!).
• We used to not have any sport activities in common, but now we both love the Spurs and wear matching jerseys to games. 

Obviously there are numerous other things that could be on either of these lists.  These are just some worth sharing.