It's a Cabin Love

Another celebration worth mentioning - our One-Year Anniversary! :) We decided to spend the weekend in a cabin up in northern Arkansas (by Bull Shoals Lake/Mountain Home).

The beautiful flowers Matt made me :D

So handsome! Oh, and a turtle-friend too!

Matt loves skipping rocks!

We ended up finding out later (once we got there) that the area is not a tourist attraction by any means, but is instead almost entirely a quiet retirement area (haha - oops). We did have a quiet weekend together though :)

Outside the cabin

Matt's favorite = skipping large rocks that you can see sail under the water - pretty cool to watch actually.

Oh, and when we went into town, the humane society had an open house where they were showing a bunch of their dogs who needed homes. We totally fell in love with one named Monica - an 8-year-old mutt of sorts - who was quite well trained :) Too bad we couldn't take her :(

A Birthday Party Worth Aging For

. . . If I do say so myself :)

The handsome man of the house had a birthday (shout "hooray!"). Since he's into game nights and such, my gift to him was a birthday party! I invited some friends from the ward over and we played a bunch of fun games - picture scavenger hunt, sucking skittles, double-sided coloring, and don't-say-it.

The sucking skittles game was the cutest with one couple's two daughters :)

Personally, I LOVED watching the double-sided coloring game :) Each partnership had two pictures to color and only one double-sided marker. Haha - so entertaining!

Graduation Party

Best. Graduation Party. Ever!

Forget sitting in an auditorium and listening to people speak (even though I did miss Elder Oaks at commencement - sad day); I had the best college graduation ever! Instead of heading to commencement and convocations and such on Thursday/Friday, I headed down for a semi-family reunion and honed my handgun skills.

Matt and I definitely feel much more proficient at using a handgun for defense now! Although, we did determine that if we are ever held hostage, we'll fend for ourselves (unless Danielle is going to be the one shooting the bad guy) :) It was super fun though!

3 Months

Best three months of our lives! We've been on some fantastic dates - yes, dating CAN get even better after you get married; especially with a wonderful husband like Matt who plans fantastic dates - learned a ton, started a new semester together, and have a wonderful time with the children in nursery. Matt was so sweet and brought home these in celebration:

So, naturally, I found the camera and had some fun (although not as cool as the picture I have on Cosette's phone that Matt took, which inspired this photography).

Love this picture :)