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Hi everyone! I couldn't decide what I wanted to do this morning...  Today is one of those awesome kind of Saturdays where we were able to sleep in and catch up on much needed rest from the work week.  Not quite ready to start our day, I decided to tap out a post to share some pictures from last weekend! Last Friday, was our 5th wedding anniversary and a rather busy weekend since we had some friends getting married in Lubbock , TX.  Though Lubbock is a flat dusty place in the middle of nowhere, it's a special place to Jordan and I.  We both graduated from Texas Tech so it was nice to revisit our Raiderland and see all the changes to the campus.  After a 6 hour drive through some much needed, but scary rain, we arrived in Lubbock!  We decided to drive through campus quickly before checking into our hotel, but I didn't realize that Jordan had a sneaky plan up his sleeve. To fully explain my story, I have to take you back to May 9th, 2009, the day Jordan proposed!  I'

Hi Everyone!  It's rainy in the DFW area today but the last couple of days we've had some beautiful weather!  Everything is budding and the air smells like freshly cut grass and all things green (aka revenge of the allergies). These pictures were taken 2 days ago.   These are flowering Bradford Pear trees which dominate neighborhoods in Texas (landscapers lack imagination). It's difficult to believe that this snowman was built only a week and a half ago by our neighbor's daughter. Olaf didn't survive more than a few days, but he put up a good fight.  And yes, those are cherry tomatoes for eyes, and a foil cone for a nose. Our 5th wedding anniversary is this week and it turns out that it is the "wood" anniversary!  Jordan and I had some grandiose plans to do something fun (dinner in Reunion Tower, weekend get-away somewhere exciting, take a painting class together, etc. etc.) but a few weeks ago we decided we'd better save our mon

The claws have come out!  Tis true, but in a good way, of course.  I'm referring to our annual Valentine's seafood dinner!  If you regularly read this blog, then you'll know that my family has a tradition of eating lobster and crab on Valentine's day.  The traditional dinner has roots going all the way back to when my parents were first married.  They've been married for nearly 35 years now so ya'll can do the math. I've written previous posts about this tradition and past dinners so you can access them HERE if you chose!  I love to look at some of those old pictures and reminisce. Today, I want to share pictures from our 2015 dinner!  This year we actually had a belated celebration due to scheduling conflicts, but it all worked out very well for the six of us (Mom and Dad, Jordan and I, and Scott and Elizabeth). Days before our dinner it snowed/iced in the DFW area so, naturally, Texas closed and completely  shut down .  That didn't stop our travel