The unknown gift

Right now we are trying to write all of our thank you cards from the wedding :) Whew! It is alot of work! We have one unknown gift. It had no name written on the box, no card, no means of identification. It is plaid multicolor wrapping paper. If you gave us this gift we would personally like to thank you so please get in contact with either me or Seth please!

The unknown gift. Let us know if you gave us this. Please!!

ALSO!!! Our photographer loved our wedding so much he has decided to post a few of our wedding pictures on his website! When I found out I was so excited! So honored! This man has TONS of experience in photography. He has shot for National Geographic, Fergie's wedding, worked with Faith Hill, and of these other celebrities! How awesome is that! And he has decided to put OUR wedding on his website!!!!! His website is http://www.harttphoto.com/. Click on portfolios and scroll down to Jolie & Seth. That'd be us! VERY COOL! Go check it out! We don't actually have the pictures with us yet but when we get them I will definately post some!!!

1 month!

We have been married almost one month!! EKS! haha. I would give married life an A+ during our first month. I know that's probably normal but I think it's because I didn't expect it to be this good. Everyone is like...welcome to misery blah blah blah. But it's what you make it. And so far it has been great! Working together and communication is the key. Seth has been helping me alot around the house and yes we are still setting everything up! Taking forever right. haha. I think everyone that knows me would be very impressed to know that I have been cooking! :D woohoo! Yes I have! I'm not so creative yet. I am still going through my cookbooks. Man! They have some good looking stuff in there! And the best part is Seth is loving it! lol. I honestly thought he would hate my food. Spit it out on the floor. But he has been enjoying it and eating my portions too! yeah for me! Today my dad came over for a little bit to hang out. I made him lunch! Can you believe it. AND...drum roll.... I officially baked! haha. My dad loved it! He said it was very good! We set up our computer desk in our spare room. Looks great! Can't wait to get everything set up! haha. All we have are boxes and boxes. We cleaned out a little so atleast you can walk in the room but it's a mess! The last room to set up. I'm excited! Our little 'home' is starting to look nice. :)

If you don't know me and Seth got married!! July 18, 2009 I married my best friend and my lover! The wedding was absolutely fabulous! It was so pretty. Everything was perfect! O yes...hehe...except the cake fell. But it was no biggie. It just scared me but I was able to move out of the way quick enough that not one drop got on me or the dress. We were testing out gravity...and it works! hehe. Everyone had a blast! And it was so beautiful. It was perfect. More than what I ever imagined my wedding to be. And all thanks to my wedding planner...my momma! :D When we get pics I will post them up.


Today is our 2 week anniversary! I would say that married life has been GREAT! I mean der...Seth is the best man ever! I could not ask for more and I know that I am very lucky to have in my life and now as my husband. OOO Weird! I'm not use to that! We left to go on our honeymoon on Monday (July 20) to St. Lucia. One problemo...we got stuck in Puerto Rico for 2 days! We absolutely hated it and will probably never go back! I will not go into details on why we didn't like it. Good news is that we did finally make it to St. Lucia! And we got our stay extended a couple more days so the time that we expected to stay we did get to fulfill all that. We stayed for 6 nights :D And had an absolute blast! It is so beautiful! Geezzzzz!! I loved it! I would totally recommend everyone to go there! It's so pretty! We went to The Pitons, botanical gardens (although all of St. Lucia looked like the botanical gardens to me) and waterfall, the walk-in volcano, went snorkeling, kayaking, and our favorite the zipline! Seth reserved us our very own special candlelight dinner but first suprised me with flowers and chocolates on the bed with some champagne. (See best hub-hub ever!) We had an amazing time! It was very relaxing and very much needed. I absolutely loved it! But now it's back to reality. As soon as we got back we started moving into our apartment! It's such a mess but we are slowly putting things together. I can see that it will take awhile. haha. I think that this has been the hardest part for me...moving out. I'm not like most kids who can't wait to go off to college or get married so they can get away from their parents. That has never been a perogative of mine. As you can tell I've always lived with my dad and that has been by choice. I never left home to go to school and I was very blessed and graduated from a great university! I have a great relationship with my parents...both my mom and dad. I have a very very close bond with my dad. It's nothing that I am ashamed of. It's something I am very proud of because most kids will never be able to experience that kind of love. So leaving home has been a bit rough on me. That's the home that I have lived in since I was 6 years old. Alot of memories there. But the best part is that Seth has been very understanding. He left home a week after he graduated high school for bootcamp. hehe. When he talks about his story it makes me feel a little bit better :) Atleast he understands. It's just hard leaving home. All the changes you have to go through. But I am very excited about the new chapter in my life and I will definately keep you guys updated. Here are a few pics from our honeymoon...


The Pitons

The stinky walk-in volcano

At the waterfall

Where they shot a part in Pirates of the Caribbean

Ready for the zipline

4 more days!!

4 more days till the big day!! YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!! I'm so excited. People are starting to come into town today. I am so excited! So far I'm not nervous yet but I'm sure I will get to that place soon enough. I went to breakfast with an old friend of mine today. I had so much fun! haha. I know we are young but its been a VERY long time since I have seen her. It has been atleast over 10 years. We went to middle school together and then she went to a private school for her high school years. So it has been over 10 years! Oh my goodness I feel sssooo old! :( haha. But we had a blast! She just recently got married so as you can imagine our conversation was filled with our men and wedding planning! I really have enjoyed the wedding planning process. It has been so much fun. You get to put your own personality into it. And we weren't rushed. We have been planning this for over a year. It was a very fun and relaxing time :) I can't wait till the big day to see it all come together! Only 4 more days!

One last night of freedom!

As they always say...it's your one last night of freedom! I celebrated my bachelorette party on Saturday!! I had a blast! It was so much fun. It was very small but we had alot of fun and had some good laughs. LeighAnn made me a veil to wear! :D I loved it! We went to Dave & Busters...one of my favorite places! Ate some dinner and played alot of games. I had bought some candy for us to munch on. One was pop rocks thinking they would be good. EW! They were so gross! And SO sour! I was not expecting that at all! I love playing the games! I am such a little kid in there! We played this jump roping game that I had never played before. It was so fun! Except that I kept jumping off the platform. :( So I lost. But over all I did good. hehe. Of course I had to go and play basketball. Not the little ones but they have 2 larger ones. Normal size goals I guess I should say. I always have to play! And I won! (sorry LeighAnn) And NO I didn't cheat! hehe. I'm pretty good at it. Ok I guess. Seth figured that out when we played for the first time together. He thought he would just woop on me...hehe...it was the other way around. I think he was pretty shocked. lol. At the end of the night we picked out our prizes. I donated a stuffed animal (Elmo) to Children's Hospital and me and Leighann got these hot tiger striped ties! woohoo! I got Shirley a Texas Longhorn stuffed animal. She's a big fan of UT. And that was the end of our night!

Happy Birthday!!

We celebrated Seth's birthday!! June 23rd. Ohs nos!! He's so old now!! hehe. A whole 23!! hehe. That old fart! :D This was the first time me and Seth actually got to celebrate HIS birthday together. The first year he was on his way to come see me...or California...I don't remember how it worked out. Last year he was in Gitmo in the hospital. :( I know..what a way to spend your birthday. The worst part was that I wasn't able to be with him and I had no clue he had gone. He just called me in the morning when he got home. He got super sick! I don't remember exactly what it was. Maybe food poisoning? That is a good question! I will have to ask him! hhhmmm... SO this year we were FINALLY TOGETHER!! We (as in...Me, Seth, and my family) went and ate at Roadhouse for dinner. So delicious! YUM YUM!! Someone told the waitress it was his birthday! hehe. It wasn't me!!! But I did ask my mom to somehow tell her. HAHAHAHA! When they came out clapping Seth was said "WHAT IS THAT!?" (I secretly wanted to say "It sounds like people clapping" :p) But I didn't. I just giggled. He goes...THAT BETTER NOT BE FOR ME!! IS THAT FOR ME? THEY BETTER NOT COME OVER HERE AND SING!!" lol. Well sweet stuff they did come and sing to YOU! You turned beat red! It was the funniest thing ever. Atleast all they did was sing. You were so lucky! They could of made you do much much worse! lol. Maybe next year!???!!! But we had a great time and Seth had a blast finally getting to celebrate his birthday.






We also finally...hopefully resolved Seth's car accident. We did learn one BIG thing about this whole situation. If you are ever in a car accident (hopefully not) and the accident is definately NOT your fault you should make a claim to the OTHER person's insurance. Yes we are young and naive. We are learning and still have ALOT to learn. This was one thing. We called our company and told them he was in an accident. They called us back with a quote they wanted to give us and then subtracted our deductable from it. NO WAY! If it ever happens call the other insurance company. No deductable...no minus this or that. They give you a flat fee. We gained a good amount of money by taking that route. That just my advice to you if you've never been in an accident and don't know (cause we never have...and we didn't know) Thanks to our pastor for helping us out! We told him right before our premarital counseling had begun for the day and he advised us on what to do. Thank you!!

Girl's only!!

Saturday I had bridal shower #2. woohoo!! Girl power! This time it was only girls. NO BOYS ALLOWED!! >:l hehe. Two of the ladies from my mom's work threw me the shower. I was so excited because I did not expect another shower at all! They are so sweet! :) We had a brunch type of shower. It was very laid back and relaxing. Except for they made me sit in this HUGE chair and everyone was staring at me. That can be a little awkward especially for me. But that chair was HUGE!! haha. We ate lunch/brunch, opened up presents, and sat around and talked. It was perfect! Nice...relaxing...just what I needed at this point! whew! We talked about all that good girl stuff. Another...well I'M not one just yet...but another newlywed was there. :) I really enjoyed that. They got married in April. (We have a couple pics from their wedding in an older post) She was telling us alot of the funny stories that had happened with her and Bryan. LOL! They were so funny!! I just kept thinking that if Seth did even half that stuff to me that the wooden spoons that I had just gotten would be put to good use! ;p lol. jk!! hehehe. But we had a good time.


Happy Father's Day!! Sunday was Father's Day! Of course I am a huge Daddy's girl! I admit it :) can't help it! I took him out to dinner late Saturday night to a local mexican restaurant that he likes. And then on Sunday he was craving Sweet Tomatoes. yum yum! That place is so good! They have such fresh ingredients! I don't know what it is but it just tastes so fresh to me! They have a HUGE salad bar, lots of different soups, baked potatoes, muffins, a little pasta, and then dessert! Yum! It is more of a healthy restaurant. A buffet type of thing. Me and my dad enjoy eating there :) I got my dad an 8 foot ladder that he has been wanting to get forever! And my fan went kapooie so he had to put up a new one. So no better excuse to get him one of those! haha. And then I got him some dishes that he has been looking at alot recently. hehe. The story behind my dad is that with EVERY single new big thing that we get...like a sofa, carpet, wood flooring, tile...all that good stuff. Things to remodel a home. I mean obviously we don't buy this stuff everyday/ every week. But we have been trying to do more things to remodel and help make our house look nice (which it does very much so...I love my house!) But my dad likes to go and look at these things with a span over one year. And let me tell you we don't go and look at it once. I mean we go ALL the time. Everytime we are near that store we drop by to look at it over and over and over. hehe. I tease him all the time about it! lol. So I thought that I really enjoyed the plates. And instead of going to go and look at it for a year everytime we were at that store. I just bought them! Plus it was about time we got some new dishes. I think we have had the same dishes for like over 20 years. Yep they lasted that long! ...and they are still going. It's amazing how all the things that are really old are built so much better then the things that are new. It's weird how it works. But it just seems to me that all the old stuff last so much longer (unlike my fan for example that gave out after 2 years!) As most older people would say...and my dad says all the time...its... An oldie but goodie

Sorry so blurry. It's hard when you are getting attacked by 3 dogs!