june: my favorite month of the year

June is the best: it's officially summer, it's my birthday, we got married in June... need I say more? Here is a recap of our 2013 June:

Cheers to Ryan and Greg who were both promoted to Project Manager!

Bachelorette and puppy snuggles with the Gerbs

bad day instagram... (broke my watch and Kali head butted me 

out of excitement and broke the skin at the top of my nose)

Ryan moved into his new OFFICE (fancy right) and we decorated a bit. More on it in a full post later, but here are the beginnings.

Deep Ellum Brewery with the Saunders

Three Year Anniversary!!!

Joint birthday celebration for Meredith and I with the Markussens

Sake bombs and Hibachi with Cayce, Aimee, Kristen and Georgeanne (no sake for George).

Elvis stayed with us for a whole week while the Gerbs were in Hawaii. The pups were in heaven.

Hard to tell but this is Ryan and Kali spooning, Kali was passed out on her back all snuggled up against him. It was pretty darn precious! (Ryan is under the grey sheets at the bottom of the pic.)

Mommy and Daddy came in town for Father's Day!

Father's Day brunch with $1 mimosas led to backyard games and more mimosas at our house, which led to pizza and shuffleboard, which led to beer and the Ranger's game at the Saunder's, which led to Mommy and Daddy staying until Monday!!

After a bad day, coming home to these faces made everything better.

More of Elvis's time at our casa...

This one is hard to see and the lighting is terrible, but he fell asleep with his head on Ryan's tennis shoes and I thought it was too sweet not to capture. (see in the mirror)

Weekend trip to Houston to see Alyssa, Andres and Grandpa Morrow. We stayed with Mila and Alyssa on Friday night and went out in Alyssa's area. 

The drink below is a glass of club soda she smuggled out of the bar for me so that we wouldn't have to buy mixers on the way home. Such a great friend!

Saturday morning we picked up Andres for brunch. Andres was Ryan's freshman year roommate from the EG who was in America for a month for some training stuff for his work.

Then we went swimming and got to catch up with some old friends from CS.

After swimming we went to Ryan's grandpa's house and had the below greeting waiting for us. (It's so good to feel welcomed.)

We rounded out June with some summer league softball (sweet guys, friends since birth)

and a Lindi Ortega concert! It was another great June for the books.

three years

Three years later and still having a blast...

Here's to many more years of love and laughter, tears of joy and sadness, ups and downs, surprises and all the wonderful lessons this marriage has blessed us with! I love you Ryan James!

quarter of a century: birthday shenanigans

25 was a delightful birthday for me! I was surrounded by friends and family and lots of love! Alicia and Brittany came in to celebrate for the weekend, so we did lots of Dallas-y things.

The pups and I picked up Licia from the airport on Thursday and we headed to the Gerb's pool for some sun! After that we went down to the Quarter bar to meet up with some friends for dinner and drinks.

Brittany got in on Friday and we took she and Alicia to their first Ranger's game. After the game there were fireworks, which we enjoyed, laying down, on a median in the parking lot. (There may have been a few drinks consumed during the game.) After the fireworks show, we did some post-game tailgating. We ended up staying and chatting in the parking lot for an hour or so and realized we should probably head out when it was just us and one other group left there.

On Saturday, we headed out with the Saunders to the part of the Brazos river that runs South West of Dallas to go tubing. It was no Comal, but it really was a nice little float, much less crowded and MUCH closer for us in Dallas!

After all that fun, we headed home to get cleaned up for dinner. Lots of friends met us out at Boca Chica for some Mexican food and the Fish Bowl Marg. (I had been looking forward to getting one for a long time. It was disappointing, as was the food. Not so surprisingly, they are no longer in business. Regardless, it was a wonderful birthday dinner!)

Sunday was lazy, we got Brittany on the road safely and spent most of the day in bed with mimosas watching Friends, chatting and dozing in and out. After taking Alicia to the airport, my sweet husband took me to Wang's chinese food (one of my favorites) and out for fro yo after. As I said before, it was a wonderful birthday weekend. Thank you to everyone who made it so special and especially to Alicia and Brittany for traveling to see me.