ANNIVERSARY!!!

Today is the day! Our 5 year anniversary! I cannot believe it's been 5 years!

I know people always say this, but it's really true...I love Ethan now more than I did 5 years ago and more than I thought possible. I cannot imagine what it's going to be like when we hit our 50th and even further!

As promised, this is my favorite picture from our wedding:

I love it for so many reasons. We both look so happy to be with each other. You can see my dress and you can see my flowers (which I LOVED, by the way!). This is us walking out of the reception to begin our life together. So sweet. It still hangs in our apartment today!

Sweet side note about our photographer, once again...when we came back from our honeymoon, this was waiting for us...blown up....and framed. How sweet is that?!

So thankful I married my best friend 5 years ago today. Looking forward to what God has for us this year!

Anniversary Week part 4

This is one of my favorite pictures from the wedding:

Why? Because my grandmother passed away less than a year after my wedding. It was really the last time the family got to be around her in her truest sense of herself, if that makes sense. She was just tickled the whole day that her great-granddaughter was getting married! And she loved Ethan to death so it was a really special day. I told her that I liked her dress that she bought for the wedding...her response: Well, when you get back, you can borrow it! It would look good on ya! She's hilarious!

I wasn't really keen on having pictures of just me taken on the day of the wedding. I preferred the ones with Ethan in them too, but for some reason, I really like this one:

I was about to enter the chapel where I was going to get married. I was going to take a few pictures and then see Ethan. I was nervous and super excited all at the same time. I think Matt captured that on my face here.

Have I mentioned that we just love our photographer? Let me tell you...it was one of the best things to have a great friend taking your photos. Matt caught some of the sweetest moments during the day. Besides the fact that he is a talented photographer, he is our friend and he knew the kinds of pictures we'd like and he knew what our emotions would be. He did a fantastic job! Matt's wife, Elissa, is one of my oldest and dearest friends and she has a really fun blog! You should read it! I swear she's going to write a book one day! (Right, Liss? Will you thank me in the acknowledgement section?!? Pretty please?!)

Anyway, I'm saving my most favorite picture for Friday...

Anniversary Week part 3

We were finishing up taking all our pictures and I was tired. However, in a wedding dress you can't just plop down in a chair, so I decided to go ahead and just rest where I was. I love that you can see how attentive Ethan is! He is seriously the best.

Again, another sweet moment captured by our great photographer, Matt. So glad you were there to catch all these!

Anniversary Week Part 2

I never get tired of talking Ethan. Hope you don't mind!

This is one of my favorite pictures from our wedding day. We saw each other before the wedding and I was already in the chapel so Ethan just came in to see me! I was one big ball of tears! I love that our sweet photographer captured the actual first moment we saw each other. I think that's why I love it so much...I can still remember everything about that moment:

Love that guy.

Anniversary Week

This week, Ethan and I will celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary! I cannot believe it!

Our pastor in Mississippi and his wife take a picture every year on their anniversary holding up the number of fingers for the number of years they have been married. We always thought this was adorable, so we decided to follow suit.

Since we are coming up on our 5th one, I thought a look back at the previous 4 would be fun...

They have been the best 5 years of my life! Ethan is everything I ever prayed for in a husband and more than I could have ever known I wanted. I am truly blessed to be his wife!

Hiatus

I took an unintentional hiatus from the blog. I just didn't have anything to say once I quit doing 30 for 30. My life is really not all that interesting, although I greatly enjoy it, so I figure nobody really wants to know what all is going on. But then I read other people's blogs about random stuff and I enjoy that, so I'm back!

Spring break was last week. I didn't go anywhere fun, but I had a good time anyway. Ethan went skiing in Colorado so I had people over every night and it was awesome! Look at Ethan, a natural at all things athletic:

He's cute!

Anyway, I thought I would share with you some pictures that are kind of old, some from early on in our marriage and some from early in our move to Texas. I think they are fun.

This is at our rehearsal dinner at Fat Tuesdays in Jackson, MS. Great food, great people. We look like babies:


This is my great grandma. She passed away a few years ago and I am so thankful she was able to be at my wedding in good health. She was hilarious. This will always be one of my favorite pictures:

When Ethan and I were first married, we helped run a tutoring center in a lower income apartment complex. We LOVED the kids there so much. We had a group come and play soccer with our kids one summer and this little guy didn't want to run around much, thus he became my attachment for the day. I'm glad they snapped this picture:

Ethan and I got to go to LA for a conference. This is us at Dodger stadium looking out over the city. I love it:

My sister...even though I have the scary eyes in this pic, I really like this one. I can SORT OF see how people think we look alike here:

I love Puerto Rico. So much. The country. The people. The food. The frappes. This is us on a mission trip there a few years ago in front of the best frappe stand:

We are SO good at Rock Band:

That is all for today. Thanks for looking/reading!

V-Day

For the record, I do not hate Valentine's day.

I used to. But that all changed when a really good friend of mine gave me a vase full of hot pink Gerber daisies to let me know he thought I was special no matter what the day was. Three days later, that friend became my boyfriend, then my fiance, then my husband. All the while, he's been my best friend (still is!).

Now I think Valentine's day is kind of cute and sweet. I like that everyone gets excited about it and wears pink and red. I like that people are so full of love on this day! We don't really celebrate it, because we celebrate our dating anniversary on the 17th. Apparently, Ethan has something up his sleeve. I'm sure I'll love it. Tonight, though, we are having dinner tonight with a friend and then probably studying for class. But I will be with my favorite person the whole time and I love to do that any day!

I hope you are all enjoying your Valentine's day!

This is what I wore today, day 14:

(cardigan: gap - dress: target - leggings: target - boots: target - sweet red necklace: my Mimi)

I like this outfit for many reasons:
1. This is my go-to dress. I like that I can wear it with many things and the look changes and I like that it has pockets.
2. I really like my boots with black tights/leggings. I learned from Kendi that it's cool to wear brown with black.
3. I am liking the length of my hair so I feel like it looks cuter more often. Not really about my outfit, but you understand.

4. I love wearing old jewelry from my grandmothers. Both of them were pretty fabulous and their jewelry is a way for me to channel that!

I am really tired today (as is quite obvious from the picture). Should have gone to bed earlier last night, but I watched the Grammys. 3 words: Bieber was robbed.

Update: I don't know how well I did today praising God in all things, but I definitely was more aware of it. I'm sure this is one of those things that will get easier with time.

This post ended up being longer than I wanted, but I just had a lot to say today for some reason.

Happy V Day!

Belated Birthday

I had a birthday last week and I enjoyed it immensely. I really like it when my birthday falls actually on Martin Luther King Jr Day because I get the day off!

The birthday fun began the Friday before when I showed up to work. I got called into the next office over for a really random reason and when I returned to my desk there was a huge vase of flowers sitting there from Ethan. I should have taken a picture of them, but let me try to describe them. They were orange tiger lilies, yellow daisies, white lilies and bells of Ireland. They were (and still are) gorgeous! We spent the weekend at DNow at church which was really, really fun.

Then on Monday, we slept in. I stayed in my pajamas almost all day, answering the phone and checking my facebook, which makes you feel VERY special on your birthday. I love that people who would never take the time to call you write on your wall to tell you happy birthday. I mean that in a good way, not negative like it kind of sounds. Then Ethan took me to get sushi at my favorite place, Wasabi. I could eat a "hot and sexy" roll every day of the week and never get tired of it. Then we went to Starbucks and got my free drink. We came home and watched "The Other Guys" and went to bed early because we had to work the next morning, where they had brownies and funfetti cake.

I know it may not sound like much to you, but it was seriously fun!

Just a quick picture of my and Ethan, since he made the day so wonderful! I'm glad I married him. Good decision.