It has been awhile...

So Chase and I are working on 5 months of marriage and we constantly get the question, "How's married life?". We both answer that things are not very different. We both are very busy, work two jobs, and we try to have as much fun as possible. I would post some pictures of what has been going on lately but it would be students doing math problems or people buying some type of boring industrial supplies.
In a couple of weeks we are going to a wedding shower of a couple friend of ours and it is an "advice" shower. We are supposed to bring a piece of advice that we have from experience to help the new couple start their journey together. This has gotten Chase and I to talking about that lately because it is kind of a hard task. However the more we talked about it we decided on two great pieces of advice... If you love the person you are with and you truly can't imagine life without them like we feel then getting married is exciting and the married life is great. Of course everyday isn't roses but when it's right it's right and that makes compromise a lot easier. The second piece of advice is to make time for each other. Chase is big on this one... Remember what it was like when you first started dating and keep it fresh and fun. We talk about having kids (and maybe a new puppy) and how we really want to strive to take time for just us to keep our relationship healthy. Anyway just a small update on our newlywed married life. We have some very exciting events coming up including weddings, friends having babies, and vacations. Pictures and stories coming soon!

My Favs..

I thought I would blog about a few of my favorite parts of our wedding.  While everything was pretty much perfect, which sounds a little cliche, but it's true.  Chase and I have tried to come up with something that could have been better or we wish would have gone differently and we can't come up with anything....well not that we would have it any other way BUT our bar tab for the wedding was the biggest bar tab Silver Lakes has had at a wedding in SIX years!!  What can I say....our group has a good time.  

There were a few particular parts of the wedding that I just loved.  One was our wishing tree that Amber came up with.  Instead of doing a sign in book or something like that she created an actual tree (Hobby Lobby style) and cut out these cute cards and everyone at the wedding left us a sweet note, words of wisdom, or something funny and hung it on the tree.  It was so much fun to look at these after the wedding and we are actually going to carry on the tradition.  We plan to fill out a card every anniversary and special occasions.  I also think it would be cute to have the wishing tree at a future baby shower (one day maybe).

My other favorite part of our wedding was our special  little project.  If you didn't already know, I am pretty much obsessed with looking at blogs and diy crafts and things of that nature.  I found this sweet little idea of HE and SHE posters that the bride and groom write about one another.  We added a little twist and we did them secretly and a teacher friend of mine made them and I took them to Hobby Lobby and got them matted and framed and we revealed them at the wedding reception.  I carried those things in the back of car for weeks and never looked at it because I love surprises and I was so excited to have that to look forward to during the reception.  Chase told me over and over that his was better than mine because I made mine a little more funny and his was ALOT more deep. He was right...his was definitely better...I cried and so did everybody else.  I shouldn't be surprised because he is the deeper one of the two.  Regardless, we now have them hanging in our house and will forever have them to remind ourselves of how we feel about each other and have a little piece of our perfect day every day.  Here is a picture the wishing tree and our HE/SHE project.  Hope you enjoy!  

Finally I'm giving a honeymoon recap.  We had six days full of travel and site-seeing.  After missing our flight Sunday morning at 7:15am, (too much fun at the wedding reception) we flew out of Atlanta and headed out west.  We started in Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California.  We stayed three days and fell in love with the small town feel of this gorgeous place.  Next, we traveled to San Francisco, California for one day which was too short but we did as much as possible.  We visited Fisherman's Wharf, enjoyed a Bay Tour, ate some great food, and walked for MILES.  Our last day we stayed in Reno, Nevada and then sadly headed home.  It was a wonderful trip that we will remember forever.  It was a perfect ending to our wedding experience.  Here is a link to some pictures from the trip. 
HONEYMOON

Officially Married...

Well the wedding and honeymoon are officially over and Chase and I are officially married.  Our wedding day was perfect...for us.  We loved every aspect and trust me we have dissected it alllll the way to Lake Tahoe and back and we could not find a part we weren't happy with.  There were so many people that helped make that happen from the rehearsal dinner to the wedding and we are so thankful for all of you!  There are definitely too many to name but a special thanks to my Mama, Daddy, and Scotty along with everyone else that did SO much.  We loved it and we will be talking about this forever!  Our honeymoon was just as great.  We spent the week in Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California and San Francisco.  It was amazing and we enjoyed every minute.  From the amazing food, to Alcatraz, to beautiful Lake Tahoe....it was a trip that we will never forget.  And instead of adding a link to 500+ pictures from the wedding, here is a video of the wedding and reception.  I'll add pictures from the honeymoon later.  Hope you enjoy because we sure did. 

http://youtu.be/iX0EVB4Y5_s