We got there and right away we celebrated my birthday. I am so grateful to my wonderful husband for making it special and seperate from our anniversary and Christmas because they are so close. He spoiled me rotted and so did my parents! We did my favorite thing that day...shopped! Then went to authentic Texas BBQ that was really tasty!
The next day was our 1 year anniversary! We made it! It only felt like forever... No this year has been the best year of my life. I have loved it so much and we have had so much fun. With all the moving we are able to go on several small vacations starting with our honeymoon in Park City, UT. We have also been to Monterey/Carmel twice, San Diego, Ensenada, Mexico, Catalina Island, Oakland, San Francisco, St. George, Houston, and Salt Lake City several times to visit sisters. For our anniversary date we were able to take the date car (corvette) to a nice seafood restaurant called Babins for fresh shrimp! mmmm! After that we walked around the market street outside mall and enjoyed the nice Texas December weather.
After a few days in Houston by ourselves with my parents the madness began when everyone started arriving! There were a total of 22 people in one house for 2 days and it was crazy! Sawyer and I had fun being the puppets and moved around almost every night for the first couple nights trying to get our share of a bed before we ended up in the office on the airmatress for 8 nights. The matress wasn't bad at all though it was brand new. The boys started out the trip by going fishing and duck hunting but no luck with either trip. We saw Avatar in 3D (very good) and went to the Houston Arboretum (a big garden).
We celebrated Christmas by watching the Nativity movie and reading Christmas stories. Christmas morning was pretty crazy with 7 kids tearing open their presents and wrapping paper everywhere but it was fun to see how happy they were. After the kids were busy with their new toys it was the adults turn to tear open their presents. Once again we were very spoiled and are very grateful for all that we were given. Sawyer of course broke our spending limit and gave me many wonderful gifts that I love. The last day we were there before our flight left at 1, Sawyer was able to squeeze in paintballing with his brother-in-laws and got back just in time to jump in the car for the airport. We had a very nice time with family and are lucky that we were able to go. Thank you to everyone for the wonderful gifts!
