Marriage Prep

Chris's brother Brian sent us this book in the mail for Chris to read before we got married.

Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Got Married

We decided for both of us to read it since we haven't gotten a chance to go to marriage counseling (which we still want to do). Well I would recommend this book to anyone, even if you have been married for years but for sure for engaged couples.

I feel so blessed for Brian to have sent this book to us because on the road trip to San Antonio we went through the whole book discussing it and possible conflicts that could come up in the future. It really helped a lot. I feel like it just made us look at how our expectations from the way we were raised help shape how we predict our marriage to work. In reality that could be the thing to cause fights, expectations without talking about them...

so yes, I would totally recommend this book, as well as this author!

higgins new obsession!

just saw higgins batting at the sink and decided to turn it on a little for him...

wedding prep

Melissa got into town a few days early for Katie's wedding. One afternoon we decided to go get a pedicure. BIG MISTAKE! She might look happy in this picture... but the truth is...

The water was wayyyy too hot! The water was turning her feet bright red and she kept telling the woman it was too hot but she did listen.

well it turned out taking over 1 1/2 hours for this pedicure that should have last 30 minutes...

My future mother and father in laws were kind enough to watch Georgia for me while we were busy with the wedding. This trip out to Arizona she was introduced to more dogs than she had ever met before. There are NO dog parks out here in west texas. that is not even an exageration... i was even willing to drive to near by towns but no... they don't have any.

which is why i was glad Georgia was able to get along so well with John and Shirley's dog molly. they (hopefully) will be spending more time in the future together so this was important to me.

It looks kind of like Georgia is thinking she is going to be eaten but they were having so much fun!

New sweater

Tucson was a bit colder for Georgia than I expected so i decided to try the whole sweater thing out again. My dad and sister were there to help!

I love her expression in this shot... showing exactly how much she hated this!

finally on! and it lasted all of 5 minutes!

found my camera!!

i found my camera!!!

so i came home one day to find my dad out front working on the 57 t-bird that he's had forever. katie and cupcake were planning on getting some pictures taken with it...

well grandma and i decided to go get some food and when i came back we found georgia out front with her leash tied to a dolly...

my dad figured she would want to be out front with him :) she loved it! unfortunately this next picture makes her look like an alien!

kisses!

LOST: camera

i so desperately want to update my blog with pictures and stories from my trip to arizona for katie and cupcake's wedding but i seem to have misplaces my small digital camera!

soooo sad!

i will be sure to upload my other camera with pictures my dad took from katie's wedding... but missing are the other fun instances which exist only on my canon powershot...

pumpkins!

Pumpkin carving!!!

Chris... of course not wearing a shirt :)

Me and my pumpkin

someone realized she could find a snack under the table... its nice having a dog to clean up after us!

what a cutie! :)

Chris looked up his pattern on his ipod touch

our finished pumpkins. Georgia touching them up

she loved them!

close up view of her cleaning...

had to make all the animals pose by the pumpkins!

two seconds before this photo higgins had both his paws up posing

and the end result... the real reason why i wanted to carve pumpkins... too bad we burned the seeds! i think our oven temp is broken... thats my excuse at least!

and with candles lit outside! (notice my plants are still alive!)