It's been busy, but I figured I'd go ahead and post again instead of waiting for Spencer any longer.
We've enjoyed our vacation, but we are back in the swing of things. Wedding planning is back on the table. We have already seen the family get back into it as well, which is a little frightening. We absolutely appreciate their help, but we want their help, not have them plan the wedding for us. If you want to give me any ideas, family, either email the whole list to me at once, or tell me one at a time. When you list out every idea you have ever had in a row (exaggeration), I get frustrated and shut down. As any normal human being would.
Moving on, we have our outfits and date set for taking engagement pictures. I'm a little nervous because everything is yellow and brown here in Lubbock, but what can you expect? It's winter! And we can't wait any longer to get the announcements out. Anyone have any pretty places that don't need green grass and flowers to look pretty?
If worse comes to worst, we can always send out some of the pictures we took with our family. We have a few but they aren't the best. (Our family was not impressed with that photographer at all.) The only good pictures were Spencer's and mine because we set them up (location and poses, etc.) But that's a different story altogether.
We were thinking about Mackenzie Park (the pretty side) but it's dead! Which I guess isn't a bad thing if the grass isn't green, it'll make our outfits stand out that much more, but our second outfit include a lot of yellow... oh well, this will work. My sister also suggested Ransom Canyon. But if you have any other suggestions, please let us know!
The Three Bears
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Christmas this year looked to be a disaster. After a big family feud, we all decided that we were just going to do all of our family festivities on Christmas Eve. This left Christmas morning to each individual family to celebrate privately. This also left Spencer and I an opportunity to share our first Christmas together.
This Christmas made my top #1. (Necessary redundancy because it was that amazing!)
Christmas Eve was more fun than we thought it would be after the feud. Then Christmas morning, I grabbed Tori (who was just as excited as I was to spend Christmas at Spencer's), grabbed stockings and a few last minute things, and went to Spencer's apartment.
Everything was perfect. We turned on Christmas music while we ate breakfast, complete with Reese's Puff cereal, and enjoyed each other's company and the few Christmas decorations that went unused at my parent's house. It may not seem like much, with just a tiny Christmas tree with a bunch of plastic ornaments and our one personal ornament I got from Shayla, a couple of Santa hats (that, when not on our heads, we decorated the TV with), a few red bows, some LED icicle lights that we strung around the kitchen bar, and a porcelain-like Christmas tree that lit up that Preston broke.
It couldn't have been better. Tori opened her stocking, consisting of a soft pig that squeaks, and a rawhide which she devoured in less than an hour. Then Spencer and I started opening gifts. I won't boast and brag about what I got, nor what I gave, but just getting spend such a wonderful holiday with my favorite person was enough happiness for me to share. Add my favorite bearkins, and I felt so spoiled! We may not be married yet, and Tori may just be our adopted fur-child, but we felt like the happiest little family there ever was.
I love you bear!
This Christmas made my top #1. (Necessary redundancy because it was that amazing!)
Christmas Eve was more fun than we thought it would be after the feud. Then Christmas morning, I grabbed Tori (who was just as excited as I was to spend Christmas at Spencer's), grabbed stockings and a few last minute things, and went to Spencer's apartment.
Everything was perfect. We turned on Christmas music while we ate breakfast, complete with Reese's Puff cereal, and enjoyed each other's company and the few Christmas decorations that went unused at my parent's house. It may not seem like much, with just a tiny Christmas tree with a bunch of plastic ornaments and our one personal ornament I got from Shayla, a couple of Santa hats (that, when not on our heads, we decorated the TV with), a few red bows, some LED icicle lights that we strung around the kitchen bar, and a porcelain-like Christmas tree that lit up that Preston broke.
It couldn't have been better. Tori opened her stocking, consisting of a soft pig that squeaks, and a rawhide which she devoured in less than an hour. Then Spencer and I started opening gifts. I won't boast and brag about what I got, nor what I gave, but just getting spend such a wonderful holiday with my favorite person was enough happiness for me to share. Add my favorite bearkins, and I felt so spoiled! We may not be married yet, and Tori may just be our adopted fur-child, but we felt like the happiest little family there ever was.
I love you bear!
What's For Dinner?
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Tag I'm it? Thanks for posting, Spencer :). The lasagna was good, but both Spencer and his mother helped me so I can't take all the credit.
Also, the tender baked chicken and french onion soup... they were okay too. Spencer would beg to differ and say they were amazing, but I think he's biased ;). It was pretty good, but how does someone like me take credit for a good meal? It's just following the recipe... right? I suppose I've even messed that up a time or two. lol
After that, we tried some baked chili-garlic chicken. That was pretty good. Critic Spencer deemed it "A repeat!" kind of meal. lol Only one more chicken recipe left. Broiled garlic lemon chicken. After that, broiled salmon! Yes, Spencer. Fish. It's good for ya ;). Think of it as Sammon. Maybe you'll love it more haha!... bad joke.
I feel a bit like Julie and Julia, which is in no way a bad thing since I adore both Amy Adams and Meryl Streepe, (I'm not sure I know how to spell her name...). I also adore that movie so win-win.
I've noticed much pudge in my midsection, and bursting seams on my pants, etc. I figured it was time to take my diet in control. So, we've stopped eating out as much. This leaves us to fend for ourselves, so I figured I would make my own recipe index cards. They've been great! So if you have any good recipes, please share them! And maybe them make it to Samm's Index Recipes. SIRs for short, but I'm pretty confident that I will never use that term again. But, I've been wrong before. That one time. (just kidding!)
Spencer, you're my favorite! Thank you for being amazing! I'm so thankful that I can follow a recipe and bring some yumminess to our dinner table in the future!
Also, the tender baked chicken and french onion soup... they were okay too. Spencer would beg to differ and say they were amazing, but I think he's biased ;). It was pretty good, but how does someone like me take credit for a good meal? It's just following the recipe... right? I suppose I've even messed that up a time or two. lol
After that, we tried some baked chili-garlic chicken. That was pretty good. Critic Spencer deemed it "A repeat!" kind of meal. lol Only one more chicken recipe left. Broiled garlic lemon chicken. After that, broiled salmon! Yes, Spencer. Fish. It's good for ya ;). Think of it as Sammon. Maybe you'll love it more haha!... bad joke.
I feel a bit like Julie and Julia, which is in no way a bad thing since I adore both Amy Adams and Meryl Streepe, (I'm not sure I know how to spell her name...). I also adore that movie so win-win.
I've noticed much pudge in my midsection, and bursting seams on my pants, etc. I figured it was time to take my diet in control. So, we've stopped eating out as much. This leaves us to fend for ourselves, so I figured I would make my own recipe index cards. They've been great! So if you have any good recipes, please share them! And maybe them make it to Samm's Index Recipes. SIRs for short, but I'm pretty confident that I will never use that term again. But, I've been wrong before. That one time. (just kidding!)
Spencer, you're my favorite! Thank you for being amazing! I'm so thankful that I can follow a recipe and bring some yumminess to our dinner table in the future!
Thanksgiving 2010
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Samantha and I spent Thanksgiving with my family back in Mesquite and it was really great. My mom went all out on the food and had enough food for 4 or 5 meals for 20 people. It was ridiculous. There were all of the usual suspects of Thanksgiving dinner, turkey, ham, dressing, green bean casserole, pea casserole (or something), mac and cheese, rolls, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, and probably a whole other table of food that I can't remember. Or maybe I don't want to remember it. I am so full (and tired) of Thanksgiving, I don't want to look back. I don't want leftovers from Thursday.
Samantha made lasagna for my family on Wednesday night and it was a hit. My family loved it! Of course I knew they would, but she was a little worried. My mom tried helping out, but it was making Samantha even more self conscious about her cooking so we tried to occupy her with something else. Anyways, this lasagna was even better than the last pan (which was amazing in and of itself - it made it on facebook).
Tonight she is making another one of her recipes, Tender baked chicken and french onion soup. It is still in the preparation stage, so I haven't had it yet, but I am looking forward to it immensely!
Another side note, it is snowing a few miles north of Lubbock and we might see some if the temperature drops enough.
I love Samantha sooo much! I know that I tell her everyday but it never seems like it's enough. She is my favorite!
Samantha made lasagna for my family on Wednesday night and it was a hit. My family loved it! Of course I knew they would, but she was a little worried. My mom tried helping out, but it was making Samantha even more self conscious about her cooking so we tried to occupy her with something else. Anyways, this lasagna was even better than the last pan (which was amazing in and of itself - it made it on facebook).
Tonight she is making another one of her recipes, Tender baked chicken and french onion soup. It is still in the preparation stage, so I haven't had it yet, but I am looking forward to it immensely!
Another side note, it is snowing a few miles north of Lubbock and we might see some if the temperature drops enough.
I love Samantha sooo much! I know that I tell her everyday but it never seems like it's enough. She is my favorite!
Check him out
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Just wanted to put up a quick link to a video of one of the Texas Tech football players that is simply an inspiration! Plus, Batch is beast!
Back when the Earth was flat...
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You could say that I fell off the map! Well, the Earth isn't flat and I am still here.
Samm has already mentioned that we are pushing back the wedding until May, but let me reiterate that this would have been such a hectic and stressful few months if we had tried to trudge through this and get married. I looked at the calendar the other day and realized that it was November 18th, one month exactly before we were originally going to get married. I laughed and scoffed at the fact that we were brave enough to think we could plan all this in that amount of time.
Anyways, since then Samm and I have been taking it easy with the wedding planning and all that. We still have our flowers and everything (luckily we were going with silk) but our colors are still up in the air as of now. Samantha thinks navy blue might be a little dark for summer, I think it would be fine. What say you, reader?
With the date change, we might even be changing venue too. A major reason why we were planning on having the ceremony and reception at the church was money and secondary to that was weather! Well, weather now is a little less of an issue being that it won't be freezing outside; money will still be a deciding factor on whether or not we even look to do it outside. I say we look for a way to do it outside and just party to out hearts' content, but I do not think either of us have deep enough pockets to throw that kind of reception.
On a side note, Thanksgiving is this week! I am the biggest fan of true fall and winter! I know those two are usually an after thought here in the great state of Texas, but this is by far my all-time favorite time of year! I love the color changes. I love the brisk air and the fog your hot breath makes when it hits the coldness known as winter. On top of all that, though, is the AMAZING food served at Thanksgiving! My family does it big and I am more than ready to plop down after our Thanksgiving lunch/dinner (linner??) and be totally unable to move, but be loving every second of that full stomach of amazing, family-comfort food. Samantha and I are spending this Thanksgiving with my family in Mesquite (as we agreed to split the holidays with the families; we will be spending Christmas with her family here in Lubbock) and we are set to drive to Dallas tomorrow night!
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am grateful for my family and all the love and support they have shown me over the years and through my many undertakings. I am extremely grateful for Samantha and that Heavenly Father has seemed me fit to have such a blessing as her in my life! I love her more and more everyday and am looking forward to spending the rest of eternity with her. I am grateful for electricity, and it's return to my apartment complex after being temporarily suspended whilst I was in the middle of writing my MCOM Law paper that's due in the morning. I now have very little motivation to finish it, and I was reminded to update our blog, so I took this opportunity.
We need to add a music player on the sidebar, right? The Fray is favorite and should be making their debut on our blog in the coming future!
Winter Turns to Spring
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Well, after much deliberation, much hacking and coughing, much stress, and then sighs of relief, we have decided to postpone out wedding.
We started thinking about it the first time I got sick, not from infection but from stress. This sickness is on a vicious cycle now and I suspect mono again, which makes sense why this is the third cycle of this same illness in two or three months. Anyway, the more we talked about it, the more reasons came up that maybe December wasn't such a great plan. Yes, we really wanted a Winter Wedding, and no, we didn't see any reasons to wait, and we probably could have made it work, but in this case, we weren't willing to make the sacrifices to make it work.
For starters, stress. Stress, stress, stress. I am taking six classes and Spencer is taking five. We each have a very time demanding job, me working 30 hours and Spencer sometimes spending four or more hours for just one day on one single assignment for the rivals website. On top of which, Spencer looking for a second, more steady and stable job, which seemed really crazy trying to do that before December. Also, it's only two months away. Not only was I dealing with my stress with time, but my family's as well. They are wanting to help but always constantly bombarding me with suggestions and questions, it became so overwhelming! We just want to be able to enjoy our wedding, not stress stress stress unil it's "finally over".
Also, he has a member of his family who is also having a wedding on December 18th. Neither of us knew about the other one's wedding, so no one is to blame, it's just a horrible coincidence. We didn't want to make his family decide between the weddings, so another reason to postpone.
As aforementioned, Spencer has a job writing for the rivals website. This is a good job for him, good experience, but I personally see it more as an internship-type job, and we are lucky they are paying him at all. However, it's not enough to support himself much less the both of us. My income might but we don't like to live in the world of Maybe. What if I lost my job? Where would we be? Anyway, it was going to be an amazing feat for him to find another more stable job by December, so another sigh of relief knowing that we have until May.
Oh by the way, we have decided to postpone until May. Well, late May, possibly early June. No offense to all out there, but I want to avoid a June wedding as much as I possibly can. However... this might not be possible. Stay tuned for a more permanent date. But... don't hold your breath, we probably won't decide until it's absolutely necessary ;)
There are a lot of other reasons why we postponed, but those are the major ones that I can think of right now and I'm about to get off work in less than 5 minutes. We were going to have a Winter Wedding, and now we are going to have a Late Summer Night wedding (so we don't have to change the colors ;) and yes, I do realize it'll still be spring..)
Have a great weekend!
We started thinking about it the first time I got sick, not from infection but from stress. This sickness is on a vicious cycle now and I suspect mono again, which makes sense why this is the third cycle of this same illness in two or three months. Anyway, the more we talked about it, the more reasons came up that maybe December wasn't such a great plan. Yes, we really wanted a Winter Wedding, and no, we didn't see any reasons to wait, and we probably could have made it work, but in this case, we weren't willing to make the sacrifices to make it work.
For starters, stress. Stress, stress, stress. I am taking six classes and Spencer is taking five. We each have a very time demanding job, me working 30 hours and Spencer sometimes spending four or more hours for just one day on one single assignment for the rivals website. On top of which, Spencer looking for a second, more steady and stable job, which seemed really crazy trying to do that before December. Also, it's only two months away. Not only was I dealing with my stress with time, but my family's as well. They are wanting to help but always constantly bombarding me with suggestions and questions, it became so overwhelming! We just want to be able to enjoy our wedding, not stress stress stress unil it's "finally over".
Also, he has a member of his family who is also having a wedding on December 18th. Neither of us knew about the other one's wedding, so no one is to blame, it's just a horrible coincidence. We didn't want to make his family decide between the weddings, so another reason to postpone.
As aforementioned, Spencer has a job writing for the rivals website. This is a good job for him, good experience, but I personally see it more as an internship-type job, and we are lucky they are paying him at all. However, it's not enough to support himself much less the both of us. My income might but we don't like to live in the world of Maybe. What if I lost my job? Where would we be? Anyway, it was going to be an amazing feat for him to find another more stable job by December, so another sigh of relief knowing that we have until May.
Oh by the way, we have decided to postpone until May. Well, late May, possibly early June. No offense to all out there, but I want to avoid a June wedding as much as I possibly can. However... this might not be possible. Stay tuned for a more permanent date. But... don't hold your breath, we probably won't decide until it's absolutely necessary ;)
There are a lot of other reasons why we postponed, but those are the major ones that I can think of right now and I'm about to get off work in less than 5 minutes. We were going to have a Winter Wedding, and now we are going to have a Late Summer Night wedding (so we don't have to change the colors ;) and yes, I do realize it'll still be spring..)
Have a great weekend!
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