It's almost July! Really?!?!

So once again life has gone crazy! Literally this is the first weekend since April that we're doing absolutely nothing! Well I say absolutely nothing but that's not quite right we are celebrating our anniversary! This past weekend June 20th was the official date, but we decided with all the craziness it was best to celebrate it this weekend. So on Saturday we're going to see Toy Story 3 and eat at St. Clair Winery and Bistro. Pictures to come! :-)

So here's a few of the happenings for this past month:

June 3-6: Mom/Grandmother visit

- My Mom and Grandmother decided to come in town to visit for a few days and they just so happened to pick one of the hottest weekends of the month! We hit 100 degrees plus every day so it was difficult to do anything outside but we still had a blast though. We went up to the Sandia Mountain twice once at sunset which was really pretty. The second time we took the tram because my Grandmother wanted to eat at a restaurant at the top called High Finance. Wonderful food all around and a great view. And of course we couldn't pass up going shopping! ;-)

June 11-13: Young adult retreat

- Our young adult group through St. Thomas Aquinas Parish had a retreat up at the Glorieta Conference Center in Glorieta, NM. It was great to get away from life for a few days and just focus on becoming better followers of Christ. The weekend was about rejuvenation, forgiving others, forgiving ourselves, and making a better examination of conscious. The conference area was lovely. They have houses that people live in year around and I kept telling Paul it would be wonderful to live there. Then I remembered they're in the mountains that means they'd have really cold winters (with lots of snow!) and you have to drive one hour to get to Santa Fe, which is smaller than Abilene! So no we will not be moving to Glorietta it is off our list of places to live! lol

June 17-20: July's wedding shower/Mary's visit

- Mary, Paul's mother, came into town for July's wedding shower on June 19th and we had a lot of fun. We spent several evenings just sitting out in the backyard talking. I do enjoy having a backyard to enjoy summer nights in. That Saturday was July's shower and as usual her family knows how to throw a nice party. Plenty of fun meeting new people. Sunday was our anniversary so we decided to dig into our one year old wedding cake. Whoever packaged it at the reception must have thought the flowers were fake because they didn't remove them from the cake. So we opened up the box to discover a half frozen molded flower topper. Needless to say we only took two small bites each before determining it was more fun to slam cake into each other's faces. The cake tasted like frosting, amaretto, and dead flowers. Not a good combination so we went out afterwards for ice cream at McDonald's with Jeff and Skye. We were going to drink some champange we received a year ago but it was chilled in the freezer a little too long and became a popsicle!

Other events of significances:

- We bought a new car! Zoom Zoom 1.0 (my 2000 Ford Contour which had its transmission replaced 2 years ago) needed its transmission replaced AGAIN so we decided it wasn't worth fixing. For Zoom Zoom 2.0 we decided upon a 2010 Honda Fit 1) Because of the gas milage rocked, 2) Because of the cargo room and easy, one-handed fold down seats, 3) Because of the consumer report ratings, and 4) Because the sales associate didn't try to hassle us like all the others (a sales tactic I know). Paul says I could be their spokesperson but it's true we love our new car! Just this weekend I was able to fit all of July's wedding gifts into the car with no problems!

Note: Hair will not be this long after Saturday because I finally decided to get a hair cut!

- We went to a Isotopes Baseball game with Jeff, July, and her family. I got a mega big margarita after being Paul's foot model for a good portion of the game. It was yummy!!!

So that was June in a very big nutshell! Hopefully July will calm down a bit...but I'm doubting it!