3 Year Anniversary Photoshoot

A few months ago, I realized Stephen and I hadn't had any professional pictures done since our wedding 3 years ago. We still won't be trying for kids for another year or so, so I really wanted to capture this sweet time in our lives. Being married for 3 years is so much sweeter, yet different than any previous times (and I'm sure it keeps getting better as the years go on :)) so I wanted to try to get some pictures done before maternity ones head our way. I checked a few photographers out but it was hard to spend the money - we decided to have my dad take them of us while we were there for Thanksgiving (note, he's not a photographer - he has a good camera lol).

While at dinner with our friends who live in GA a month ago, Logan told us that she's working on starting her own photography business and would take some pictures of us for her portfolio. We were so excited and couldn't wait to get them done! They've been asking us to come up and visit for some time and when we had a few weekends without plans in September, we knew that was the perfect time to visit.

Unfortunately, the cotton fields weren't brown to take pictures there but Logan scouted out the perfect locations! We had so much fun and Logan was such a great help with telling us how to pose and making sure she got the best shot. I'm obsessed with how the pictures turned out and I can't wait until they finally arrive in the mail! I desperately need to fill the empty frames in our living room and the pictures were so good, we ended up ordering some for all 6 frames. It's also going to be really hard picking out a picture for our Christmas card ;)

She was so sweet and even suggested some pictures of my for my blog and business

If y'all are in the Central FL or Southern GA area, look Logan up!! She's amazing and I can't wait to have her capture our growing family in the future!

Linking up with Jessi

July 4th & Our 3rd Anniversary

After all the fun of Stephen's birthday, we slept in on July 4th and then I got to work on ironing. It literally look me all day to iron and finish up a few chores - so that was fun. That evening we had plans to meet our friends at the local minor league baseball game. We were able to get tickets that included dinner and free hats! It was soo hot the first half of the game but the 2nd half was so enjoyable! Our Manatee's took home a win and we watched the fireworks before heading home.

We were total cheeseballs by not only matching but wearing matching Old Navy flag shirts!! lol I wanted something red to wear and when I heard they were $2.50, I couldn't resist

There was a big traffic jam trying to leave the stadium but it was cool seeing a ton of fireworks going off around us! When we got home, a lot of our neighbors were gathered at the end of the street lighting off fireworks. We Stopped by to see the last ones get fired off then we headed home and watched the NYC fireworks show on TV.

The next day was our 3rd Anniversary (and our first Anniversary we had to work :( ). After work, we did presents and ate leftovers (how romantic) before heading out for our big surprise date! I've had this surprise activity planned for 2 weeks and I can't believe I was able to keep it a secret! On our way, I let Stephen guess and he figured out that we were doing an Escape Room!! He was so excited! I have to admit, I got a little nervous because we couldn't reserve a whole room to ourselves so I had no clue who we'd be playing with. Thankfully, we were paired with a sweet family and we all had so much fun together!!

Came home to this! I used up all the bows, so Stephen made his own :)

Stephen's been wanting jack stands (and everything else) to rotate his tires so I finally caved lol

He got me a new monogram for my new car that I'll (hopefully) be getting later this year! So thoughtful :)

We did a Shipwrecked room and they had us working with the lights off!! It was so cool!! We started off with 3 flashlights and then you found clues that provided light throughout the game. We finished it with 5 minutes to spare!!

We had soo much fun and can't wait to do another one!!

Five on Friday!

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Yesterday was my 24th birthday, and I had a great day! Thank you for all your sweet comments and birthday wishes and thanks to everyone who made it a special day!

Before work, Stephen surprised me with flowers and some banana bread with a candle and then at work, I was surprised with a decorated desk, munchkins and a someone brought me an adorable gift! For lunch, we went to a Japanese steakhouse and celebrated with fried ice cream, fried cheesecake and a fried banana. Stephen and I were planning on going out to dinner last night but I was so tired I didn't feel like dressing up and going out (and the restaurant I wanted to try isn't open yet) so we ran to Homegoods to buy a tv stand that I saw 2 days before (but it had already sold :( ), got some Greek food, picked up an ice cream cake from Publix then headed home for presents and cake. It was a great birthday and I couldn't be more blessed with another year filled with Jesus along with amazing family and friends!

How cool are these balloons? 

Finally got my Kate Spade purse!

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Speaking of tv stands, I saw this amazing one at Homegoods in Hilton Head but didn't have a way to get it home (Homegoods needs to get in the shipping business) so I didn't buy it. Now, I'm trying to find it online so let me know if you see anything like this!!

Three

Sunday was Stephen and I's second Anniversary and since we were driving home from vacation, we couldn't go out to eat. I wanted to make something a little different so we opted for steaks, balsamic roasted brussels sprouts and Greek cucumber pasta. Everything was delicious, especially for the Greek pasta (yay for mom getting me a spiralizer!)

We didn't want to get a cake since Stephen just had one for his birthday and I was getting one for mine so we split a yo-yo cookie from Publix and that was the best decision!! It was SOO good!

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I'm so excited that I can finally start writing about the house, give a tour and post updates! I know everyone's been wanting to see a house tour so I've kept everyone hanging long enough - I'll start my posts next week! In the meantime, we finally got the rest of our master furniture delivered this week so here's a small sample.

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Happy Shark week!! I've never gotten into shark week but I do have to be a total cheese and tell y'all about my Shark steam mop that I'm loving! We have all tile so the floors are hard to clean but Stephen got us a Shark steam mop and it's life changing, seriously it's so good.

Hope everyone has a great weekend! My boss is throwing a cookout at his house tonight for my birthday then tomorrow Stephen and I will be shopping for the house and cooking out ourselves! I'm looking so forward to having a weekend at home.