Honeymoon Part II

We paid a little visit to Wildseed Farms in Fredericksburg. My flower-happy heart was certainly pleased.

This the post-sunset view from our porch. I could live quite happily forever with scenery like this.

Sigh.

I don't know if I've let you know just how much I love cows. This is also from  our porch, and totally completed the awesomeness of the scenery.

We went into the main house for breakfast on our last morning. 

I don't remember what town this was, but its water tower was happy to see us.

I was trying to get a picture of the flowers before we drove past them, but somebody had to stick his tongue out...haha

I just want to brag about how organized our pot cabinet is now!

There is no real pot in there, sorry to disappoint.

Happy wedding to myself.  Loving those gifts cards.

Breaded chicken is that much better when you can actually use bread crumbs instead of bread chunks.

I made cookies with my new KitchenAid. Yummmmmmmm!

Honeymoon Part I

When one spots a giant squirrel, one does not drive past like nothing happened.

I don't really approve of it's creepy expression.

The main house of our bed and breakfast! We stayed in one of the cute little houses you can see off to the left (our left) (look closely).  Feel free to research a little about Rose Hill Manor. We stayed in the cottage named Hilltop. It was go'geous.  Mr. Hottie did good!   

We visited the Museum of the Pacific War (pretty sure that isn't the correct name, but I'm too tired to Google it). 

Cool little Pearl Harbor display/demonstration.

I realized I looked like a Navy dweeb since I was wearing that t-shirt (did not want people to think I'd worn it on purpose), so of course the real Navy dweeb had to take a picture.

Giving out his orders.

Somebody watched toddler TV for longer than I thought acceptable.  This particular part was some girls teaching us how to do the mermaid wiggle, or whatever. It had a dumb song and dance, that's all I know.

This pup lives at the Manor. She is old as heck, but so so so so sweet. She just visits the cottages and makes cute faces for tummy rubs.

Wedding pictures!

Brace yourself folks, I am about to bombard the nonsense out of this blog with photos from the wedding, honeymoon, and various aspects of domestic life. 

Let's begin with wedding pictures, courtesy of the oh-so-talented Erin!

Cake toppers were made by my sister-in-law Darilyn...I am in love with them.

My other sister-in-law Sarah is rather close to having her baby girl, so she opted out of the two hour drive to the temple. Therefore, we had to take a picture together at the reception.

I am pretty certain we have a very similar picture to this taken at her wedding, when I caught her bouquet. It only took 10 years to take effect ;-)

All of my sisters and sisters-in-law! The two on the far right are two of my Brown SILs.  I still need to meet the third!

I looove this.

Nicely done, Korrigan! She my cousin's girl.

Melanie is so awesome. She was everywhere all weekend. I love her for it!

My handsome man and I 

This picture makes me giggle.

Quick intro

Real wedding and honeymoon post will happen soon, I just wanted to share the breathtaking view from the front porch of our little honeymoon house.

I could so get used to that.

Oh my gaaash!

I'm getting married THIS SATURDAY!

Commence panic attack................now.

It will all come together, for better or worse, and by now I don't even really care. As long as my I don't get my dress dirty, the groom shows up, we don't break the punch bowl, and the world doesn't end I will be thrilled.

Mr. Hottie and I met with my grandparents this weekend for my grandma's Going To the Temple for the First Time lesson. It was awesome. I'm tempted to say that I feel sorry for everyone who has ever gone through without talking to her first.

I'll let you know how beneficial it really was after I've gone through.

P.S. I have the cutest grandparents EVER.

See?? Who wouldn't want some grandpa huggins from him?!

I am so happy that he will be the one to seal us. Let's hear it for temples and grandpas!

There's still soooo much to do. Yesterday was supposed to be a major get stuff done day, but I woke up at about 4 in the morning suffering from some.....shall we say, major abdominal distress. And by that I mean, lots and lots and lots of pain that had me awake for pretty much the rest of the day. Once I was feeling okay enough to make myself work anyways, I moved all of my stuff to the apartment and put a few things away, tossed chicken in the crockpot and passed out for about two hours. I was pooped.

And nothing else got done for the rest of the day.

So as soon as our new towels are finished drying here at mi madre's, I will be back over at the apartment.

For more napping. Hahahahahaahahahahaaaaaaaa just kidding.

Kind of.

We Are Young

This video is weird as heck, but I can't get enough of the song.

Life just got awesome

Courtesy of my amazing BFF Melanie, I received a CROCK POT in the mail yesterday!

Straight off my registry.

Oh boy, am I p-u-m-p-e-d. 

It is going on its maiden voyage tonight as I prepare my very first corned beef and cabbage stew.

(Darren's numero uno favorito holiday is St. Patrick's Day, and I have a  bizarre love for obscure holidays that people celebrate for the fun of it......and by that I mean I love food.)

It is going to be oh-so delicious.

We are going to have a feast tomorrow afternoon that mostly consists of corned beef and green food coloring (see: green mashed potatoes and green icing with green sugar sprinkles on my super delicious snickerdoodles I mixed up yesterday).

World class fatties, right here.

Oh, our feast will also consist of ginger ale because we are too sober for alcohol. And Chief O'Brien, the Irish man from Deep Space Nine (...the side of Darren I couldn't see upon our first meeting...) always drinks ale, so, obviously, we need a form of ale at our meal.

But it's cool, I'm basically Irish, so I can celebrate however I want.