11 months!!!

I love going to weddings now that I am married! We have been to two weddings since Jonathan and I got married 11 MONTHS AGO!!!! :) This last wedding we went to was this past weekend! It was for one of my very dear friends, Candace! I was actually the matron of honor (that sounds so old lady-ish!) and Jonathan was the videographer for the wedding! It was such an honor to stand next to Candace and watch her marry Mark! Candace was one of my bridesmaids as well last year! Her wedding was held at Lantana Resort and Marina up in Pilot Point, TX. Its a really pretty place off the lake out in the middle of no where! The only hiccup of the wedding was the weather! It started to sprinkle while the ceremony was going on then thankfully once everyone got inside it started to pour down rain. The reception was to be held outside as well but that was moved inside before the wedding started. It still looked beautiful though! The staff at Lantana did a great job making sure Candace's reception looked great! Here are a few pics from the wedding weekend!

Mr. and Mrs. Mark and Candace Melton (I call her Candy Melt now! ha!)

This is one of my favorite pictures from her wedding!!! 

Her sparklers were ten times better than mine!!! 

 Nicole (another bridesmaid) and I! All of us went to college together and were in the same sorority.

And of course me and the videographer...aka my very tired husband!

1 month left till our first anniversary!!! Where does the time go!?!

Almost "Wordless Wednesday"

Meet our petite goldendoodle, Bailey! We will get to take her home on May 28! We are so excited!

10 Months!!!

I say this every month but I honestly can't believe it's been 10 months! I remember this time last year and all I kept thinking was just two more months till we get married! Before we know it we will be old and gray celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary! ha! But I try to be careful and not wish the time away...Jonathan always tells me to not worry about that and just worry about what is happening right now! So here is what is happening at the Phelps house right now.....

We will be getting a puppy at the end of May!!!!!! 


We are very excited about this! We have talked about what type of dog we wanted and after much talk and looking around (and compromising) we will be getting a petite goldendoodle! As my parents say...a fancy mutt! Oh well! It will be about 25 pounds when full grown. The mom dog is half golden retriever and cavalier spaniel and the dad is a poodle. Here are the parents:

 

I think both parents are cute dogs! So I am hoping that will give us a cute little puppy! lol We will be getting a female and we will have second pick of the 3 females that are in this litter. Here is a picture of the 3 females. I kinda like the one on the far right just because it's a darker color but I know that doesn't always mean it will have that same color when its full grown! Aren't they so sweet!!!

Jonathan and I went to Pet Smart the other day to look at things we will be getting soon for the puppy! I sure wish they did a registry! haha! This dog will definitely be sporting a pink color and chewing on pink toys! ;) Yeah, probably not really but I can have a few pink puppy items! We are also going to be calling her Bailey! We will get to go see her on May 14 (we will pick her out on that date!) and then take her home on May 28! It will be perfect because school will almost be over then I will have the summer training Bailey and not having to worry about going to work!

Other than the puppy that is pretty much all that is going on at the Phelps House! I will definitely post more pictures of Bailey and her sisters as we get new pictures of the dogs every week!

And because this is my "monthly anniversary post"....this is the first pic I ever saw of Jonathan...his profile pic on match.com! :-) (I might have posted this before! lol) Little did I know that he had redish hair! haha! Gotta love the black and white pictures! It's alright though...he always wanted a blonde wife and I always wanted a brunette husband. Obviously neither of us got what we wanted! lol But I think we got something even better than what we could have asked for! 

My Sweet Grandma

My grandma will be celebrating Easter with Jesus this year! She definitely had a full and wonderful  88 years of life! I like to say I was her favorite grandchild but she would always say back to me that I was her only granddaughter! So I guess I can for sure say I was her favorite granddaughter! :) She will definitley be missed!

My sweet grandma, Emma Elizabeth!

My grandma holding my baby brother and me holding my baby doll! 

Easter with both of my grandparents!

 My grandma, mom, and I a few years ago.

 I always thought this picture was funny of my grandparents!



9 months on March 26!

And once again I am late posting on our "monthly anniversaries"! "9 months and no honeymoon baby" is what I told Jonathan! I think we are doing pretty good if I do say so myself! hehe!

Well I can without a doubt say that every month that has gone by since we got married has become better than I could have imagined being married to my best friend. I always hear people say the first year of marriage is the hardest. I wouldn't say it's been hard at all but it's definitely an adjustment for both of us living with someone else. I think it's really neat seeing how we have grown and changed for the better since we got married last summer. As corny as it may sound I love him more now than I did the day we got married. ;) lol

Who would ever have thought that these two little kids would be a perfect match together in about 20 years or so! haha!

         

These two certainly knew! ;)

London Trip

Jonathan and I decided a while back that we wanted to take as many trips as we could before we had kids. So with that in mind we have come up with numerous trips we want to take such as Nantucket, MA, sailing in the British Virgin Islands, go on a cruise, London/Paris (and the rest of Europe) and the list can definitely keep going. Those are some of our top places to go! Well for our "Valentine's Day trip/gift" we decided at the LAST MINUTE (oh about a week and half before we actually left) to take a trip to London for the weekend! Back in the fall we originally were thinking about doing it the weekend of Valentine's but decided against it for numerous reasons. But once February came around Jonathan found a really good deal on hotel/flights so we decided to go ahead and book it! We ended up going the weekend after Valentine's. We left on Thursday, Feb. 17 and came back on Monday, Feb. 21. It was definitely a short trip but worth every minute of it. 

We stayed at the Crowne Plaza St. James. It was literally less than 3 minutes walking distance to Buckingham Palace. It was a nice, older hotel but it wasn't near anything really besides the palace. 

Since we only had 3 full days there we were in a hurry to see as much as we could. And I must say we saw and did a lot in the cold, dreary weather! 

In front of Buckingham Palace...this was the very first stop we made after getting to our hotel.

And you can't come to London without eating some fish and chips! 

We also saw Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament (not pictured).

Westminster Abbey...where Prince William and Kate will soon be married! We saw a little bit inside because the door was opened but we couldn't go in and just from what we could see it was amazing inside!

And of course we had to go inside Harrod's department store. It was HUGE and had everything from the  jewelry to groceries to pizza inside there! 

While visiting Harrod's I was told by a friend we should try Morelli's Gelato. So of course we did and it was delicious but this thing cost about $20 USD! Craziness if you ask me!

We also ate at the very first Hard Rock Cafe ever opened! Nothing fancy but at least we can say we ate there I guess! ;) 

One of the stores I found there was this one... I LOVED it! It had the cutest purses and jewelry!

My favorite place we visited was Notting Hill and the Portobello Road Market that is there. This is area where the movie Notting Hill was filmed! They had the most neatest little shops and vendors!

We also visited the Tower of London...

and the most famous bride there....the Tower Bridge.

And of course I had to take my picture in front of the red telephone booth! ;) 

The only other thing I would have liked to do was tour Westminster Abbey and go out of the city to tour some castles. I guess we will just have to go back sometime! ;) 

8 months...give or take a few days!

I didn't post one bit during February!!! You would think with all 5 snow days in February I would have found the time but besides those days off we were actually pretty busy! Well I guess this means this post might be a little long!

Well, to start off...Jonathan and I had a great Valentine's Day! I probably had more fun though. I had planned on doing a "14 days of Valentine's" for him. I started on February 1st and gave him a little something each day till Valentine's. I wish I would have taken pictures of the things I gave him. For each day I gave him that number of things...so like on February 5 I gave him 5 hugs and kisses (the chocolate ones!). They were all very little things but it was fun making them all cute and I think he enjoyed getting them! He also brought me pink roses to school on Valentine's Day (when seeing the flowers on my desk one student said "that's magical" haha) and cooked a nice dinner that night!

One of our major happenings in February was our last minute trip to London England! That will have to be a post all it's own! I will say it was so much fun!!

Jonathan and I also made a huge purchase....we bought brand new living room furniture! I was (and still am!) way more excited about this than Jonathan...of course guys don't care too much about that kinda stuff! We got a new oversized brown leather chair, couch, ottoman, end table, and sofa table. Our living room looks so much more "adult" now! Our furniture before was nice but I just LOVE what we have now! I still have a few more decorating ideas I want to do to our living room but those will have to come in time! These pictures are not the best pictures...they were taken with my iphone. But you get the idea!

I am also trying to be a little bit more domesticated and with that comes a new sewing machine, a Bernina 330! With the help of Jonathan and his mom I finally decided to get one. I would have bet you a million dollars when I was younger that I would never own a sewing machine...hahaha....boy was I wrong! I am hoping to do a few sewing projects for the house and maybe another quilt. I guess we shall see what other little sewing projects I can think of now! This is what it looks like...

We definitely have been very blessed this past month and I can't thank God enough for his blessings and of course Jonathan! I think this post might be long enough now!! Hopefully I will post more than once every other month! ;)