March & April

       

        Not a whole lot of out of the ordinary things happened during March and April...of course I am 5 months late in writing this, so who knows I could totally be forgetting something! ;)

        I did finally use the sewing machine I got for Christmas to make my first project: a game day dress! My crafty college roommate Sara came over one evening and taught me how to use it and pretty much walked me through step by step on making this dress. So although my hands did the work....I would have been no where without her help! So without further ado...

        I was pretty pleased with it :) I also got daring the next day and fancified some dishtowels....ignore the dirty oven please!

        Easter was the only major event of April. Last year we went to church here at home so Ryan could play the drums, and then after the 3rd service we jetted down to Port Orange to spend the rest of the day with my family. (Splitting holidays between families really is hard!) This year though my family came up here so that both our families could do Easter together! Woo hoo! My family met us at church and then we went to the in-laws for Easter lunch/dinner. Our church does free family photos for everyone on Easter and they can pick up their free 8X10 when the come back to church the following Sunday! Everyone wants a pic when the whole family is dressed up, and its a great way to get people to come back! Here are our family pics:

(Of course, these are pictures of the actual pictures....)

We took some actual pics once we got to the house :)

Yay for family! and Yay for Jesus raising from the grave!!!

Our first Anniversary!

        I am unbelievably behind on this blog...I am almost too ashamed to even post again! Yikes! But I am going to attempt to cover the last 7 months in the next few posts...even if no one reads them it will be for our own keepsake! :)
        February 12th 2012 marked our first wedding anniversary! And 2 years since our first date! :)
Ryan planned a surprise 4 day weekend away, but of course gave in and told me the week before where we were going! He gets too excited to keep secrets from me, and I kind of like it that way! haha ;)
        He booked us a suite for 4 days in Orlando and splurged on SEASON passes to both Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure! Wasssuupp!? (excuse my 2004 reference). We headed out after work on Thursday and skipped out of work on Friday to start the weekend off early, and stayed until Monday afternoon! Our actual anniversary was on Sunday. Due to my uber late posting I can't quite remember when we did what, but I DO know that we hit up the parks like no ones business, partied in Harry Potter world, and Ryan surprised me yet again with a sky-diving experience at the simulator...flippin' sweet! :)

Yummy Butter Beer in "Hogsmede"!

The next day was a little bit cooler so we had to don the sweaters. 

Met up with Scooby and Shaggy in Universal before we hit some rides!

The obligatory Universal Globe shot! 

Back in Harry Potter world!

Legit Hogwarts!

After riding The Mummy...3 times!

We love no lines in February!!

We went to a movie at the theater in City walk that night and

look who we found! Lets just say Ryan was NOT the only guy 

having their wife/girlfriend take a pic of them with the

Star Wars characters!

        Another cool thing we did was have our characterture drawn at Universal. Obviously I don't have a picture of it to put on here but it looks somewhat like us. Haha! We decided that we are going to have a characterture done every year on our Anniversary. We'll see... :)