Water Dogs

Well last Saturday night Andrew and I met one of my besties, Michelle, over at her in-laws for some swimming, pizza and wine. We decided to bring our pups along with us this time. Andrew has dreamed for a while that our dogs are in-fact water dogs, and we just haven't given them the opportunity to showcase their skills. I have never believed they are water dogs, as they fight everytime they are near water. Andrew remembers when Huck was a baby puppy and we were at the lake, according to Andrew the story of Huck's time there was he was so thrilled about the water he just up and jumped into the lake. My story is quite different, and the actual account of what happened. Poor Huck thought he could walk on the water as Andrew was floating on some floating, he stepped off the boat, panicked, swam as fast as he could back to the boat and sat moping (at least in my mind) the rest of the trip. Anyway, we tried to ease them back into water life last Saturday, and they were not having it.

Michelle and I with babies keeping them from panic

Howdy Yall!

Cowboy Stadium and Stockyards

Hurrah for those Cowboys! Hurrah for our friend Dick! Andrew's and my great friend Dick Steed called with an offer we couldn't refuse last weekend. Dick is a season ticket holder to the Cowboys, and he had some tickets for the open house for season ticket holders to preview the stadium and the food. The food was half off, still shock-inducing pricey, and we could roam freely around the stadium. The huge jumbotron was incredible, and I am afraid that when Andrew and I go with my parents to the Tech/Baylor game there, we might not be able to pay attention to the actual people on the field, as we will be watching them on the jumbotron. We also walked all the way to the top, and I was overcome with a slight bought of fear of heights. My goodness that is one steep section...and I'm just hoping if we're near there for the game, that no one around me jumps or drinks...is that asking too much? Probably, but if we all cross our fingers, I think our powers will produce a VERY calm crowd...as though they're at the opera. That's what I'm hoping for!

Cowboy stadium from Dick's parking spot

Dick and Andrew in the "Party Pass" Section

Me terrified of the top while Dick insists on taking a picture

After the tour we had the brilliant idea to go grab a burger from the Love Shack in the Stockyards. Um, well brilliant until we found out that they had the not-so-brilliant idea to make an entirely open air restaurant in Texas. Seriously. I mean, I can't eat a burger in 100 plus heat, and those misters aren't going to do much to cool me, but will make those fries super soggy. So we scratched Love Shack, but we had already paid for Stockyard parking, and Andrew had never been down there, so we grabbed some food at H3 and then toured the place. Lots of screaming kids, and some people all dressed up in old time cowboy gear. MMMMM, breathe in that good ole' step back in time! Wait, that's horse poo. Oh well, we got a picture there, and hung out at a neat Fort Worth tourism highlight.

Andrew and Dick in the stockyards, while trying to take a picture of the folks behind em.

Happy Anniversary

We've Made it a Year!

Well, Andrew and I made it to the elusive paper anniversary!! We made an entire weekend out of the celebration. Friday night we went to Mi Cocina for some fantastic margaritas and fajitas, then on to the movie Funny People. The movie was pretty good - but soooooooo long. I embarrassed Andrew and made our waiter take a picture of us at the restaurant...he loves me.

Embarrassing Picture

Saturday night some of our dearest friends, Terri and Alan Werner, invited us to their home for a 5 course dinner! As Andrew says - "you turn down anything to eat at the Werners" - they are PHENOMENAL cooks! We had chilled cantaloupe and white grape soup, scallops with homemade vinaigrette, melt in your mouth sea bass, and some fantastic creme brulee. The Werner's invited Scott (their son) and Michelle (his wife and one of my besties) as well as their daughter Christa! It was a fantastic time!! We ended the evening with Andrew's favorite activity, wine in the hot tub!

The Crew Minus Scott

The Happy Couple

Andrew and Terri in the Hot Tub

Sunday we went to brunch at Taverna. It was so delicious - and nice to celebrate on our actual anniversary! Andrew had to do training Sunday evening, so squeezed as much out of the morning that we could. We also took Huck and Gus to the dog park - Fort Woof - which was fun and they didn't try to hump anyone! Small victories.

Gus Making Friends

Huck Tuckered Out

Marnie's Bachelorette Bash

We had Marnie's Last Big Fling before the Bling Bachelorette party on July 11-12th at my aunt and uncle's place near Brownwood. It was such a fun time, I love being girly and getting hang out with girls for an extended period of time. The party planner in me usually gets the best of me during events like this - so of course I went overboard making an entire booklet with games and outlining what all would happen. At least Marnie liked it!

We played some classic relay races, that included sticking a broom in toilet paper - while blindfolded! Marnie went first, and maybe it was because she hadn't seen anyone else do it, but she seemed to need a little help and we let her go "un" blindfolded for a while. Still proved slightly difficult. ;) Love you Marn! The next game I thought would be extremely difficult and I was beyond wrong! We tied pantyhose around the players waste, and in the leg hanging down there was a lemon. They had to use hip thrusting prowess to knock over water bottles. Apparently all of the ladies are skilled in the hip thrusting area.
All in all it was a great weekend and we had tons of laughs and hopefully made a great memory for the soon-to-be Mrs. Rist!! Love you Marnie!

Ms. Marnie with her Hottie Soon-to-Be

Marnie doing fantastically with the broomstick game

Marcie working her skills in the lemon game

All the Ladies

Another fun thing for me this weekend: a friend from work loaned me his uber awesome camera as I am considering purchasing one. I was able to play around and take some neat pictures of the scenery out at my aunt and uncle's place!!

And We're Off...

So, against Andrew's better judgment, I am starting a blog. This is more of an excuse to catalog and digitally scrapbook information about our lives than anything else. Really I need something to motivate me to take pictures of our outings, as I no longer have my 11th grade Social Studies teacher making me turn in my "life history" scrapbook on a regular basis. I am quite sure most of our friends won't read this, so I'm going to say Hi Mom to one person who probably will! So here it goes...we'll see how we do.