1 year anniversary

can you believe its been an entire year? no, me either!
i feel like this year has skipped a few months and i'd like to find out where they went... its been a good year, incredibly busy, a bit chaotic, full of changes, and even a little bit fun. heres a quick recap of the year

-april 3 2009: finish moving into our super adorable rent house (move # 1) friends and family in town for wedding, amazing bridesmaids luncheon and rehearsal dinner
-april 4 2009: wedding day!!!!!!!!!!
-april 5-10 : honeymoon (oh how wonderful mexico was)
-midmay: drew gets job offer for dallas
-two days later: drew moves to dallas, coach and jacq stay to pack up life
-next weekend: fly to dallas to find apt, buy gps for survival, papa swoff gets cancer
-may29: mama and i go to santa fe for weekend, so fun.
did hair for a wedding :)
-june 2: house packed, movers come, jacq and coach move to dallas (move # 2)
car breaks down
-july: adjust to life in dallas, gregory boy goes numb (no diagnosis)
buy new car, welcome buzz lightyear
-sept: jacq turns 21 again (the fourth time)
-oct: drew turns 26
-sept~dec: texas tech football and house hunting, buy house
-oct: speak at phi lamb fall reatreat, such a blessed weekend. miss college.
-oct31: moving day (move # 3) happy halloween
-nov: girls cruise with mama, deeann, and abbye "its not normally like this"
-nov: thanksgiving in ft.worth, Ford joins the family, begin blogging
-dec: christmas in lubbock, new years in dallas with matt/gretch,
peter and olivia
-jan: ford goes to a new mommy and daddy, bye bye ford.
-feb: valentine's day in dallas, start visiting fbc frisco
-mar: join fbc frisco, drew insane busy at work, coach acl injury, papaswoff begins radiation to treat his cancer, gregory boy has spine surgery for spinal stenosis
-mar 18: addison and audrey (our goddaughters) turn 1 year old.
-april 1 2010: jacq gets a super fabulous job! here's the big news people, i'm going back to work, and i'm so excited! i'll be back to doing hair!
-april 3: spend whole entire day together celebrating anniversary,
happy birthday mason!
-april 4: 1 year anniversary & happy easter

phew! thats exhausting! we sat down to dinner tonight and talked about the past year, and then talked about next year. our goal for year 2: to NOT move. :) haha! anyway, i'll be posting again later about our anniversary date and our easter plans, but for now i'll leave you with pics of our wedding rings (all wedding pics are taken by the super fabulous and incredibly talented Brittany Strebeck)

after the wedding, we had my bands all sodered together, i love my ring!

drew's ring is tungsten. (he gets asked a lot)

the menfolk of the wedding

alrightie, i promised you wedding pics this month... i shall deliver. here you have the boys getting ready for the ceremony. i have to admit, they have it was easier as far as getting ready goes, they just rent the suit and throw in some black shoes (we bought them their shirts/ties-pink ties, of course!) and then they show up, dressed and ready to go.... and ...hang out. ??? as you'll see in the next post or so, it was a bit more labor intensive for the girls.

so, here they are, what a charming group of men! andrew has great friends/family! cheers to: james evans, peter loudis, beaux brownlow, gabe hall, bill cohen, tommy tritz, matt holmes, alexander camp, jason swofford, randy swofford, mason swofford, landon swofford, jackson brownlow, and adam probst, who was unable to make it, due to the birth of his gorgeous twin daughters---but we definitely consider still a groomsman!

and the news: i'm thinking i'll keep you dangling a bit longer...... is the suspense killing you yet?

april fools day

last year i was way more in to april fools than this year, probably because we were getting married in a couple days and my mom was stressed to the max with all the set up & final meetings. drew and i originally had planned to get a cheap wedding dress and lay it out in the living room and let coach sleep on it, so when mama got home from school ... she would see Coach totally destroying my dress, and freak out! we picked the better and more mature path and decided not to pull that one on my mother who worked so incredibly hard to throw a gorgeous wedding for us!

speaking of weddings, april is our anniversary month, so i'll be posting wedding pics and telling about fun memories from our wedding day, stay tuned!
to start out the picture fiasco, here is a pic of me and daddy the day i took my bridals (jan before our april wedding) it was freeeeezzzzing cold that day, so daddy tried to keep me warm between shots, isnt he a sweetie! i love this pic, mostly because daddy wears his sunglasses ALL THE TIME, even in dark restaurants and at night. he did that before the song came out, he's so cool. more wedding pictures coming, enjoy!

ps. update on gregory boy (yes, that is his real-legal middle name) he's home and doing well, doing lots of sleeping and resting, his blood sugar is a bit high, but he's going to work really hard to get his diabetes under control. happy thoughts and love to daddy!

andrew and i actually got married a year ago today, well courthouse married. you have to apply for your marriage license 72 hours before your ceremony, so we went on april 1st-- i got a huge kick out of our sorta anniversary being on april fools day. am i weird?

no pranks today, thankfully. i do have big news: but i'll wait and share it tomorrow instead that way you all know its for real and not a joke!

got this in the mail today, what a wonderful world. our sweetie pie nephew "little dude" colored this picture of andrew (red) me (blue) my fabulous sis-in-law lisa (peach) and himself (grey) for us, how cool is it having nephews/nieces??? love it! it says "i love you uncle andrew" --warms my heart! thank you!

Caribbean Escape

no, we're not going on a super awesome vacation to the caribbean. (i wish) but i did buy a new scent of wallflower (plug in air freshner from bath & body works) called "caribbean escape" so now our home smells like : a sweet, tropical blend of melon, raspberry nectar, and italian lemon tempered with creamy coconut milk and raw sugarcane-- yes, i read that on the box.

i'm normally a pretty tried and true "japanese cherry blossom" or "fresh linen" kind of girl, but in honor of some much needed spring i went with a new fruity scent. its pretty overwhelming today, but usually after about a week the smell settles in and is more subtle.

an on another happy note, daddy is home from the hospital. his surgeon seems confident that the surgery will be successful, he saw pulsations when he moved a vertebrae (which means bloodflow, thats good!) so, right now he's pretty exhausted and nauseaus, but hopefully he will get to feeling better in the next couple days. its too soon to tell if he has any feeling in his legs/feet back yet, but we're keeping our fingers crossed. thanks to you all for your kind thoughts and prayers!  

Gregory Boy

wednesday morning very bright and early my dad is having spine surgery. the dr's are operating on the 5-7th vertebrae, which should hopefully give him feeling back in his legs and feet. we are all so hopefull :) they're doing the surgery from his right collar bone area, pushing his esophagus aside to get to his spine, which should help with the recovery time, but will cause some soreness. he should be home by the afternoon! please keep him in your prayers today, for safe dr's and a successful surgery (and of course, a quick recovery) -- i'll keep you all updated when i know something.

movie night

so, for our friday night "something to do" we decided to stay in and watch movies! so, after some bland overpriced mexican food from a little place on 380, we hit up good old blockbuster. we're thinking about breaking up with blockbuster and going out with netflix, any feedback???

anyway,

we rented 'up in the air' -- and it was not too shabby, witty with a few predictable twists. but the ending... no closure? i wanted more, i didnt feel like it was done. oh well, maybe its just me...

and then, 'the hurt locker' -- wow. i was in shock, i cant even imagine what our brave soldiers over in the middle east are going through. i kept thinking, "is this movie going to be just them going out to diffuse one bomb after another, because thats a lot of adrenaline for every 19 minutes" but i wonder if thats how they feel? it was a little bit crude, but probably realistic. i dont understand why guys feel the need to beat each other up for no reason, but then again... i have no idea what is going on in the minds of those who see things i've been fortunate enough to never see. i'm so in awe (and grateful) of those who serve. -- although, i have to admit, i kept waiting for a locker to show up. dont laugh.

perhaps someday

we had our yard done for the first time since we moved to savannah (dont think it was all overgrown and yuck, just time for the first mow) -- drew found this darling little italian high school boy (Philip) to mow and edge for us, such a good kid!

i unlocked the back gate for him to mow, and then... kinda felt immediately stupid, we have no grass. between the rain, snow, and coach... we have a big sloppy pile of mud, which occasionally dries to just dirt (weather permitting) its a pretty sad sight... and our spring project to re-seed.

so, humor me and bear with my imagination, maybe someday when i unlock the back gate for Philip to mow, he'll be seeing this:

and drew and i would both love one of these:

to make some of this:

of course, right now is not the time for all that, so we're happy in our little first (kinda first) house. coach has enough of a backyard to keep him busy and get himself in trouble, and drew and i are doing just fine cooking inside, but hey... a girl can dream right?!?