We did it!

We got married! I am now Mrs. Ben Williams and Ben is...well, he's still Mr. Ben Williams, but with a new sidekick. We've got some pics that friends and family have taken and you are welcome to view them here. (I'll let everyone know when our professional pics are available for viewing.)

We had the best time that day and were so lucky to have so many family members and close friends in attendance. And even though my 100+ candles didn't stay lit, everything was perfect. I feel like people were able to see our personalities shine through in the details of our wedding and that's what we wanted most.

So thank you to everyone who was able to join us on that day. We know it was hot and sticky, but at least there were sno cones!

We have a house?!

Sorry for the lack of posts, but it may be because Ben and I are proud homeowners. Yay-uh!

Holy cow, actually.

We have a house. With a yard. That has to be mowed. By someone other than the apartment lawn crew.

We'll update more as soon as we can. We're down to 60 days until the wedding so we are a bit preoccupied at the moment. Not to mention, we now have a kitchen worthy of serving McDonald's Happy Meals from our roll-out window. Yep, our walls are that shade of yellow.

Pictures to come!

Whirlwind of craziness!

Well, March is flying by like crazy! We've got some pics to put up later, but we had a great St. Patty's Day party last week at the Barks and then a great Easter weekend with my family in TX. And there's much more to come! Hope everyone is having a great month and a wonderful start to Spring.

Be blessed!

The Holiday Break

Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know we had a great holiday break. We each spent Christmas with our families and Ben joined me in Texas on the 26th. My mom and Holly hosted an engagement party for us and Ben's mom and step-dad were able to come down and meet most of the family. It was so much fun and we're so thankful to be blessed with such great families.

Side note: only six more months until we're married! Yay!

Boston in the Fall

Ben and I have a list of things we want to do - you know, like backpack through Europe, visit the Redwoods in CA, run a 5k (done!), go canyoning in the Swiss Alps, etc. One of our items was to visit Boston in the Fall, and while we weren't exactly in Boston for the most part of our trip, we took joy in marking that off our list. This post is extremely overdue, but it was such a great trip that I had to put it on here.

Thanks to Ben's family, we had the opportunity to visit Jeffrey and Heather and the kids up north this past October. We all surprised Jeffrey for his 30th birthday and just the best time. The weather was amazing, the scenery simply incredible and the food, oh so good. Jeffrey and Heather have a beautiful place there with an awesome yard and even better trails behind their house. The kids never tired of taking us back through there, probably because we hoisted them on our shoulders and trekked them around all over.

As for the food that weekend, Heather outdid herself. We spent most of Saturday at Heather and Jeffrey's house and at one point during the day a suspicious cardboard box arrived and was placed outside in the backyard. I noticed people looking inside with excitement and I got curious and took a peek myself. Live lobsters! Now I'm from Texas and the only time we see live lobster is in the little tanks and Red Lobster and occasionally at Sam's and Wal-Mart. Somehow I don't think it's quite the same as fresh lobster on the east coast. Well since this was my first up close experience with real, moving lobsters they said I could hold one. Big mistake. Those boogers are slick and right when I got little Larry the Lobster situated in my hands - BAM! He slipped right out and crashed in the grass. Not only did I drop my soon-to-be dinner, one of its claws popped off! Gosh, I felt like a punk, but he was gonna get boiled up anyways. Back to the dinner....they set up a great spread outside with baked potatoes, salad, steak and of course, beautiful, bright red lobsters. So we dug in and devoured the little creatures and while I was up refreshing my drink I came back to my seat and what do you think was on my plate??? The lone claw. :) Someone had placed it there while I was up and Ben just so happened to end up with the other half of that same lobster. Claw or no claw - it all tasted just as delicious.

Thanks Jeffrey and Heather once again! And Buddy and Mary! We had such a great time and hope to be back up there again.