Corpus Christi Anniversary

In February Steve attended a conference in Corpus Christi Texas and I decided to tag along since it took place over our anniversary weekend. It's about an eight hour drive, so that wasn't too fun, but other than that it turned out to be a great trip! (I only threw up once on the way down and once on the way home!)

The view from our hotel room

The water at our hotel didn't work two of the mornings we stayed there, which was sad, but we ended up getting a discount and paying very little for the hotel so...worth it? We did get to shower eventually!

One afternoon we decided to take a drive and came on a section of road where you had to take some barges across the water to continue driving. I was so excited! It was weird just sitting in our car sitting on a boat. It's part of some peoples' every day commute, but it was the first time (in memory at least) that I remember doing something like that! Steve didn't quite catch my enthusiasm...

Corpus Christi had a lot of boardwalks that we checked out. There was one right by the conference center Steve was at, so I would hang out along that while waiting for him to be finished. Plus we checked out several beaches. The ocean is always so mesmerizing!

We were there Wednesday through Sunday and boy did it pick up on the weekend! They even had a huge bridge (our hotel was on one side and the main city on the other) that they lit up in all different colors on the weekend nights.

The bridge in the day

We went to a steak house for our anniversary dinner (cause what other kind of food would we eat?). It was called Niko's and it was delicious! Steve picked it because they serve quail there and he has been wanting to try it forever since he works with quail. I just got a strawberry milkshake since it was the only thing that sounded remotely good and it was the best milkshake I've had in my entire life! 

Quail and steak and a happy Steve!

Here's to a whole year of marriage and many more to come!

Christmas 2014 - Part 2

I forgot to include this pic in my last post:

Our neighbor, David Lindsey painted this picture for a nativity display they have in Lubbock each year. He asked us to model for him and we thought it would be weird, but it turned out to be a lot of fun! 

Okay, skipping back to Utah. After we stayed with the Detros and Warrens for a few days, we headed down to my parents' house. Jenna and the Swensens were there as well, so we had everyone together! Isaac, Jenna, Kason, Steve and I decided to go to a BYU basketball game one night. Kason was so good at dancing crazy each time they played music!

Not the best pic (sorry Isaac. Haha!), but the only one I have from the game!

We also went to look at the Christmas lights at Temple Square in Salt Lake. They leave the lights up for a while after Christmas. It was so pretty, but so so sooooo cold! Steve told me he was glad we were married now so he didn't have to act manly in the cold. Haha!

In front of the Christus statue

I am so glad that Steve is great with kids and especially glad for how willing he's been to adopt "my" kids. I walked in on some serious cuteness several times!

LOVE this one!

 Emry and Steve have had a bit of a rocky relationship (Emry's stink eye is pretty scary!), but this visit was the best yet for them - Steve even convinced Emry to give him a hug, even though she was a little reluctant! Never thought I'd see the day... ;)

Every time I'd start to play the piano I'd get kicked off by these two. I'm 90% sure Dad still prefers my playing though!

We got to just hang out a lot of the time, which is always the most fun to me!

 

We also had the chance to go to the Museum of Natural Curiosity while in Utah. It was a really neat place!

We loved getting to see so much family over the holidays and were really sad to head back home.

Once we got back to Lubbock though we drove straight to the store from the airport to pick up one of these:

Yaaaaaaayyyyyy!!!! Baby Peper coming in September!!!!!!