Celebrating the first year

That's right! We celebrated our first year of marraige yesterday!

Even though I started out with grand plans of a weekend in the Hill Country wine-ing it up, we decided instead to do a quiet weekend in Houston and bought Coldplay tickets for next week's show in the Woodlands. After sleeping late and being lazy for most the morning, we finally decided on going to Old Town Spring to look around & do some early Christmas shopping. (In reality I was having a craving for a delicious chicken salad sandwhich at the Bluebonnet Cafe where we celebrated Summers first baby shower - yes, it's been almost 2 years since I had one, but I wanted one just the same!)

Unfortunately, the Cafe was closed so I didn't fulfill that craving. But we did get a few fun Christmas gifts for family & enjoyed a nice lunch together. Then, after a nice little nap on the couch (which Sam was quite envious of) he woke me up (a little abruptly if you ask me!) to help with the Jeep. It was POURING outside and we had no idea until it was too late. We lifted the top, but the seats were soaked. Oh well! Guess we'll just have to sun it today & hope it dries out before tomorrow morning.

Being July in Houston and all, we figured that was the end of the rain ... not so lucky! After enjoying a nice relaxing bath and getting ready for a nice dinner at Cava Bistro, the restraunt we celebrated our wedding at, we ended up having to kill some time waiting for the rain to pass once again. LOL! My plan to open gifts over dessert was foiled! Sam had been dying to give me my gift since midnight on Friday but I love the element of surprise and wanted to savor the feeling of knowing he'd just love his gift. We were heading back from the drive in movies though, and I was exhausted, so he decided to wait. But with the rain delay, he talked me into doing presents before we left which ended up being really great because we got to truly enjoy the moment.

Sam is so sweet! He and I have been looking for a wedding band for me since, well, 6 months before the wedding. He decided it was finally time for his wife to have a band. He bought two rings and somehow swiped my ring to decide which looked better (apparently finding me without my ring was the hardest part of his surprise).

I now have an absolutely beautiful wedding band and I just love it! It's my litte bit of bling and it looks so great with my engagement ring ... a feat we hadn't been able to master until now.

In comparison, I think my present takes the cake compared to Sam's gift. But I do think I did well. Though he planned to eventually buy it, I knew he really wanted the new I-Phone. Thankfully it didn't take nearly as long as the AT&T e-mail let on, but lesson learned! No more procrastinating on gifts for me! I was biting my nails all week waiting on that phone to come in even though the salesman had promised it would be here in time.

So, now we're both all blinged out and are excited to kick off the second year of married life.

Thank you to everyone for all your support not only this past year, but all the prior years too. It's been quite a ride and we're so happy to have such wonderful friends and family! Y'all are the best!

So ... here's to the next year! May it be as fun and fulfilling as the first. I'm sure there are many big things to come ;-)

2009 July 4th

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Fourth of July on the Frio

So last week we took off from work early, dropped the dogs at the vet and headed out to the river to see Sam's family and get out of the city for a much needed break.

Although the trip was quite long, we made quite a few stops (which Sam was, of course, a HUGE fan of) which made the trip much easier for me to handle. You can ask my 'rents ... I'm not a big fan of road trips, but I do have a lot of good memories from those traditional road trips. It's fun to make those memories with Sam now though. We know that a good music selection is needed, DVD's (preferable comedies) are nice to have and the Audi has no chance of being a family roadster! We fit a cooler and pillows as well as one suitcase in that baby! Watch out folks! The Webb's have crazy packing skills ;-)

It was so great to be out at the river though! Totally worth any drive and we hope to get our friends out there with us sometime soon to enjoy the views, the amazingly quiet evenings around the fire pit and chilly (hence the name Frio apparently) water.

Highlights of the weekend ...

Seeing the nephews and getting to see what life with a (almost) 3 year old and a teething 6 month old is like (Nat & Josh - you're my new hero's after seeing y'all keep up so well with them and seeing the love you have for the boys amazes me each time I see you with them!)

Smores! Do I need to say more? Ok, I will just b/c it was oh so good! Though I expected to be entertained watching the guys get the fire started I was please to see that they are quite the boyscouts and our family will never be in need of firestarters! I don't know about y'all, but I'm the burned on the outside and runny on the inside marshmallows kind of girl and oh boy did I enjoy cooking up a few of those babies! Trying to help Jaden with his was good times too! He likes fire and I'm sure he will be Sam's best pyro friend in a few years.

Floating in the water and enjoying a few cold beers. Not only do I love being in the water & getting the time to cut up with the family, Sam and I have decided to try to be healthier and will be giving up beer for the rest of the summer & hopefully lose some of the post wedding weight we've managed to put on.

Small town 4th of July parade. The homemade floats were so cute! My favorite was an antique red tractor towing three painted oil barrels behind, complete with cute little kids in red, white and blue (and a great dane to accompany them!). Papa Webb was in the parade too! He drove one of his old cars with Josh and Jaden at his side to wave at everyone along the road. Truly the funniest part of the parade for me was hearing the police officers at the end of it all telling everyone to "step back. live traffic behind me." Quintessential small town!! Everyone was SO friendly and we had a great time! We look forward to doing it again next year.

I've added a few pics (thanks Nat!). I can't seem to brag on our nephews enough =)