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Almost 1 year!!!!

This Saturday will be Bryan and my first year anniversary...wohoo!!! It has been such a wonderful first year. Here are a few things that I have learned from our marriage so far:

-There's a lot of compromising

-We are both sinners (see also the book we are reading for our community group)

-I never knew I could love someone this much!!

-Time flies (I can't believe it's already been a year)

-It's wonderful having someone back you 100%

-Men think way different than women (I think I already knew that, but it's just so funny to see day in and day out)

-I loose my husband every Sunday in the fall (similar to fever pitch)

-The Lord is faithful and it's amazing to see our relationship grow when we pursue him!

Bryan is so thoughtful and caring! He does the sweetest things and I'm thankful for him every day.

Girls Weekend

Two weekends ago Lori, Dawn, Jamie and me went to Ft. Worth for one night away. It was very exciting because 2 out of the 4 had never spent time in Ft. Worth. We stayed at the Omni downtown, which was super nice!!



We started out our Saturday with a little pool time:





There was a pool bar too so that was nice:)After laying around the pool we went up to the room to get ready for dinner. Then someone knocked at the door. The boys (who were at the lake, except for Jeremy) had ordered chocolate covered strawberries for us, so sweet!!



The we walked to Reatta for dinner:



The food was amazing!! I had buffalo rib eye and it was so delicious. The view from there is so pretty too! We sat in the dome because the roof top patio was booked for an event:(





After dinner we walked to Flying Saucer for a drink, stopped in and Irish pub and then played pool at the Library.







We were pretty wiped out after that. We can't really stay up very long these days. Oh and we have to show off all of Dawn's luggage too....



...ok so it's not all hers but she did have a very large bag. It was a great night away!!

Lemonade stand

The other day Kourtney (my bosses youngest daughter) and her friend Meredith wanted to have a lemonade stand. So I helped them make the lemonade and get everything together. It was pretty sweet because we took the golf cart out as our mobile stand.

We drove around the neighborhood and sold to all the workers.
They ended up making $25 in an hour and a half. Here is a cute picture of them jamming out.....


Jumping ahead a few days (today) on the way to work I was listening to the Ticket. They were talking about lemonade stands and all their memories of them. Then they had people call in with stories. This one guy called in to say that he had let his kids set up a lemonade stand on their own in front of the house, no biggie. Well, when his wife got home she was like "what are the kids doing out there"? He says "Having a lemonade stand" She says "we don't have any lemonade".......

Come to find out the kids had taken wine coolers out there and were selling those!!! Hilarious!!!

Wisconsin!!

Bryan and I are heading out for Wisconsin tonight. I am so excited to see all of our family!! Everyone is going except Steph & Sean and the kiddos. They are working on selling their home so they can't make it.

The fourth in Wisconsin is amazing! The lakes, the parades and beautiful weather! The highs will be around 85 and the lows around 60, nothing like Texas! Here is the rundown for our trip:

1. Graduation party for my cousin Madelynn in Brookfield
2. Head to Madison to see Nana and Bapa.
3. Maybe a little sailing
4. Help Nana & Bapa do some stuff at the house/garage sale
5. Back to Milwaukee Saturday night to go to Grandma's
6. Lake on the 4th, fireworks, boats, great food, and lots of family!! (This will be the first time Bryan meets a lot of my Dad's side of the family, so I'm looking forward to it!)
7. Parade on the 5th- one of the best parades
8. Brewer game after that (tailgate included)
9. Head back to the sauna of Texas.

Everyone have a great 4th!!! Enjoy this beautiful country that we are all blessed to live in!

Life

I feel like our lives are so busy right now, but I have no clue what to blog about. Strange how that works.

Things have been great at the Baker household. Last week we had our first community group meeting. I'm so excited to be a part of a group and I think we have a great crew! Bryan played basketball in Garland in Junior High with one of the guys in our group, craziness! I feel like everywhere we go he knows someone.

Weekends have been pretty busy with birthdays, families, and friends. Last weekend we had Jackson's 1st birthday party! It was so much having all the kiddos together. Then we saw Gant compete in the Scottish Highland games in Arlington. He got 1st place in several areas and moved up from the C group to the B group. It was great spending time with him and Courtney.

This coming weekend we are running the Susan G. Komen 5K with Bryan's work. I'm really excited about that! The Kerns' are joining too so that makes it even more fun. Other than that life is great!

Siesta Key

We had a great time in Siesta Key with The Hausler's. Thursday night we arrived and went to the Daiquiri Deck.

Steph's cards were on sale in the gift shop and that was so neat to see:



Friday we laid out and got a little too burnt. We also went on a walk and saw these guys kite surfing, it looked like so much fun!






That night we grilled out on the beach. It was perfect. We danced to Van Morrison and had a wonderful time! It was the perfect evening.











Afterwards Bryan and I went up to a hole in the wall bar called Captain Kurt's and they had karaoke going on. There were some great singers there, even a girl who used to be on American Idol.

The next day was a little rough because Bryan got the flu. So while he rested Lori and I walked to see the sand castle competition. There were about 20 different creations. It was neat to see how creative they get!




Fish in a Barrel:



Shark eating a gator with a guy in the middle (this won 1st place):


That night Bryan was feeling better so we went to Phillipi Creek, one of our families favorite places!






Unfortunately Bryan was not all better and it carried over for a couple more days.
We still had a great time and I'm so thankful we were able to go!