Wednesday, June 15, 2011
I now pronounce you Mr. and Mrs. Adkins
WOW!!! It has been a very long time since I update our blog, so much has happened since them that I don't even know where to start!! Of course most or all of you know that we are now MARRIED, best day of my life! Its super late now and I have been working on Thank you notes and the house all evening so this won't be a very long blog. I will most likely post sometime this weekend and write about Birthday Parties, bachelor and bachelorette parties, bridal showers, weddings, honeymoons and just overall awesome times we have had the past 6 months. From there on out I will be bloggin on a regular basis so keep checking back!!
Monday, January 3, 2011
Could I be any worse at blogging?
Well, I don't even know where to start this blog at since it has been 2 and a half months since my last update. We have been keeping busy with the holidays and enjoying life to the fullest!! I guess to start our blog I will start off with Halloween.
For Halloween we had our 2Nd annual party in the barn at my cousins house. My cousin Ronda has the most awesome barn and we love to have any get together we can in there. Our party was on Saturday night and Sunday night Steve and I passed out candy to all the 12 trick or treaters we had come by. I was super disappointed in the lack of trick or treater we had considering how beautiful the weather was. Lucky for me I bought plenty of candy, NOT!! I ended up taking it to my moms house and leaving it so I didn't eat it all!
Jason Aldean-
My wonderful sister got tickets to see Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan in concert at JQH Arena. So a few days before Halloween my sister Missie, My cousin Ronda, her daughters Kassie, Audra and Kirklyn and myself headed out to the concert. I had no idea how awesome our seats would be, but words do not really describe them! The opening act was Thompson Square, their first big hit is "are you gonna kiss me or not." They did a great job of getting things started, but then Luke Bryan came out and blew me out of the water! He put on such a phenomenal concert, and boy could he dance! Jason Aldean had big shoes to fill as the main performer, but he did not disappoint either! All the country music had us ready to go to the bar so my sister and I decided to go to Midnight Rodeo. After it was all said and done we had one amazing night and made some great memories!
Thanksgiving-
The week before Thanksgiving my wonderful friend Kelley flew in from Arizona for her first visit since moving in July. She had a lot of catching up to do since we had got engaged and our friend Angie had her daughter since July. We had a get together at my parents house that Saturday night so that everyone could be in the same place and visit.
As usual we had Thanksgiving dinner at my parents house. We did not have as big of a turn out as normal but of course we still had a blast. My mom, Ronda, Kassie, Josh and I made some awesome food if I do say so. After dinner we had to check out black Friday ads so that I could make my plan of attack for the next morning. Much to my surprise and Steve's delight there was not one single thing I could not live with out for Friday's sales. I did find some Tupperware, towels and sheets I wanted from walmart but they opened at midnight. Steve, his mom and I went to walmart at midnight and did some quick shopping before heading home and turning in for the night.
Steve and I had drove to pick his mom up Wednesday night and had to take her home Friday afternoon. After a quick drive 2 hours east we turned around and drove straight home so that I could meet my mom and our friend Bev for dinner. The rest of the weekend we had nothing planned and we were able to rest and relax. I decorated for Christmas on Sunday since we had the most beautiful weather.
December-
Wow, what a fast and furious month December turned out to be! We had UFC fights, Christmas Parties, engagements, holidays and more parties!! Steve's work Christmas party was held at Drurys new family center on December 17th. The party was wonderful and Steve even won a gift card to Outback Steak House. After the party a group of us decided to go play some pool. We had a great time and the guys really enjoyed playing pool and us girls sat around and talked.
The 18th we had a Christmas get together with some of our friends over for dinner and to hang out. I made baked spaghetti, and some appetizers. Angie and Kassie brought salad and meat balls. I believe everyone had a great time visiting, eating and this will forever be remembered as the night that Steve's scrabble addiction started!
The next day my foreign sister Galiya came in to surprise our family for the holidays. No one had any idea she was coming in besides Steve and I. My mom and I make candy for Steve's work every year and it just so happened we had planned to make it the day Galiya came in. We headed to my parents and I told them Steve and I wanted to give them their present a little early and asked both of them to gather in the living room. I went in first and had them cover their eyes while Steve brought their present upstairs. This is a picture of her surprising our parents.
Christmas Eve-
I was lucky this year and had Christmas eve off so I made dinner for our family dinner that evening. We headed out to my parents house for dinner and opening presents about 5 o'clock Christmas eve. Steve surprised me with a new camera for Christmas so I was able to take some awesome pictures of that evening.
We got a wonderful surprise Christmas Eve when my cousin Ronda came down with her three daughters to show us Kassie's very special Christmas present from her boyfriend Nat. Or should I say from her fiancee' Nat!!
After eating Chinese for dinner Kassie decided to grab her fortune cookie to eat. Little did she know that Nat had prepared a fortune cookie just for her with a very special message in it!
Needless to say Steve and I are super happy and very excited for Kassie and Nat. I am glad to have a fellow engaged couple to share this next year and all the new experience's it brings. We happen to be getting a pretty awesome cousin-in-law out of it as well! Congratulations again guys!
After everyone had opened their presents and things had been cleaned up half of us headed to bed and the other half of us headed to midnight mass. My mom, galiya, Josh and I attended midnight mass at Sacred Heart. The mass was beautiful and we even got to sing some Christmas carols!
Christmas Day-
Christmas Day started off fast and crazy as I had to make a few dished to take to my moms for dinner. I made chicken burritos for the first time ever, according to Steve they turned out to be pretty tasty. I also made pin wheels and a new dessert I learned about from Steve's cousin Lance. Thanks for the recipe lance!
Once we got to moms house Steve took the new camera and snapped a few shots of everyone having a good time. We do Mexican for Christmas dinner and as usual it was a huge hit! After dinner we visited for awhile and Awed over Kassie's beautiful ring some more. Once everyone started heading home Steve and I headed that was as well. We went out that evening with Kassie, Nat and some of their friends to fox and the hound. We had a blast and I laughed so hard I was sure my side would hurt the next day. Lucky for me it didn't because the Chiefs played and were on the line for a playoff spot!
Double Birthdays-
My beautiful cousin Audra and I both celebrate our birthdays immediately after Christmas. Audra's is the 27th and my birthday is the 28th of December. For Audra's 17th birthday Ronda invited Steve and I out for some pizza and cake. As usual it was fun and I think Audra had a nice birthday.
The next evening Steve and I went to Carlos O'Kellys for dinner and a drink. Thanks to Steve's cousin Shane and Aunt Audrey for the gift card! After dinner we headed over to Campbell 16 to watch "True Grit" which turned out to be a pretty dang good movie! I would recommend watching it if you have not seen it already.
New Years Eve-
Normally for New Years Eve we host a party at our house or my parents house but this year was a little different. Since my best friend has had a baby, my other best friend moved away on my and my parents have a wild life we decided not to have a party this year. Instead of having a party we wanted to go out on New Years for the first time since Steve and I have been dating. That's right somehow in 7 new years eve Steve and I have never gone out.
Lucky for me Kassie and Nat had the same idea in mind and we planned a night out on the town! Although no one had any idea what to do, at about 7 o'clock on NYE we finally decided we would head to Uncle Bentley's a small bar here in Springfeild. Kassie's friends Kristy and Steve who are also newly engaged, met us up there as did some of their other long time friends. The bar was actually a lot of fun, nothing uppity of fancy and we were easily able to get a table. The guys played shuffle board and darts all evening while the girls danced, drank and visited. I would have to say this NYE got a 10 out of 10 for us!
Steve and I both had the weekend off with nothing planned so we were able to stay home Saturday and watch dumb show after dumb show. I am actually not even sure what we did because we didn't watch a single show or movie that I remember what it was about. Sunday the chiefs played and despite a loss they are in the playoffs for the first time in several years! I am sure I do not have to tell you how excited Steve is about this playoff spot!
WOW!! Now that I have you all caught up on how we spent the holiday season I think I will wrap this blog up! I have learned a valuable lesson and I will never go this long with out blogging again! I think it is going to take my fingers all day to recover from all this typing! Hope you enjoyed this amazing read! I will blog later in the week on wedding planning progress! Hope you all had a fantastic holiday season and started the New year off with a bang!
For Halloween we had our 2Nd annual party in the barn at my cousins house. My cousin Ronda has the most awesome barn and we love to have any get together we can in there. Our party was on Saturday night and Sunday night Steve and I passed out candy to all the 12 trick or treaters we had come by. I was super disappointed in the lack of trick or treater we had considering how beautiful the weather was. Lucky for me I bought plenty of candy, NOT!! I ended up taking it to my moms house and leaving it so I didn't eat it all!
Jason Aldean-
My wonderful sister got tickets to see Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan in concert at JQH Arena. So a few days before Halloween my sister Missie, My cousin Ronda, her daughters Kassie, Audra and Kirklyn and myself headed out to the concert. I had no idea how awesome our seats would be, but words do not really describe them! The opening act was Thompson Square, their first big hit is "are you gonna kiss me or not." They did a great job of getting things started, but then Luke Bryan came out and blew me out of the water! He put on such a phenomenal concert, and boy could he dance! Jason Aldean had big shoes to fill as the main performer, but he did not disappoint either! All the country music had us ready to go to the bar so my sister and I decided to go to Midnight Rodeo. After it was all said and done we had one amazing night and made some great memories!
Thanksgiving-
The week before Thanksgiving my wonderful friend Kelley flew in from Arizona for her first visit since moving in July. She had a lot of catching up to do since we had got engaged and our friend Angie had her daughter since July. We had a get together at my parents house that Saturday night so that everyone could be in the same place and visit.
As usual we had Thanksgiving dinner at my parents house. We did not have as big of a turn out as normal but of course we still had a blast. My mom, Ronda, Kassie, Josh and I made some awesome food if I do say so. After dinner we had to check out black Friday ads so that I could make my plan of attack for the next morning. Much to my surprise and Steve's delight there was not one single thing I could not live with out for Friday's sales. I did find some Tupperware, towels and sheets I wanted from walmart but they opened at midnight. Steve, his mom and I went to walmart at midnight and did some quick shopping before heading home and turning in for the night.
Steve and I had drove to pick his mom up Wednesday night and had to take her home Friday afternoon. After a quick drive 2 hours east we turned around and drove straight home so that I could meet my mom and our friend Bev for dinner. The rest of the weekend we had nothing planned and we were able to rest and relax. I decorated for Christmas on Sunday since we had the most beautiful weather.
December-
Wow, what a fast and furious month December turned out to be! We had UFC fights, Christmas Parties, engagements, holidays and more parties!! Steve's work Christmas party was held at Drurys new family center on December 17th. The party was wonderful and Steve even won a gift card to Outback Steak House. After the party a group of us decided to go play some pool. We had a great time and the guys really enjoyed playing pool and us girls sat around and talked.
The 18th we had a Christmas get together with some of our friends over for dinner and to hang out. I made baked spaghetti, and some appetizers. Angie and Kassie brought salad and meat balls. I believe everyone had a great time visiting, eating and this will forever be remembered as the night that Steve's scrabble addiction started!
The next day my foreign sister Galiya came in to surprise our family for the holidays. No one had any idea she was coming in besides Steve and I. My mom and I make candy for Steve's work every year and it just so happened we had planned to make it the day Galiya came in. We headed to my parents and I told them Steve and I wanted to give them their present a little early and asked both of them to gather in the living room. I went in first and had them cover their eyes while Steve brought their present upstairs. This is a picture of her surprising our parents.
Christmas Eve-
I was lucky this year and had Christmas eve off so I made dinner for our family dinner that evening. We headed out to my parents house for dinner and opening presents about 5 o'clock Christmas eve. Steve surprised me with a new camera for Christmas so I was able to take some awesome pictures of that evening.
We got a wonderful surprise Christmas Eve when my cousin Ronda came down with her three daughters to show us Kassie's very special Christmas present from her boyfriend Nat. Or should I say from her fiancee' Nat!!
After eating Chinese for dinner Kassie decided to grab her fortune cookie to eat. Little did she know that Nat had prepared a fortune cookie just for her with a very special message in it!
Needless to say Steve and I are super happy and very excited for Kassie and Nat. I am glad to have a fellow engaged couple to share this next year and all the new experience's it brings. We happen to be getting a pretty awesome cousin-in-law out of it as well! Congratulations again guys!
After everyone had opened their presents and things had been cleaned up half of us headed to bed and the other half of us headed to midnight mass. My mom, galiya, Josh and I attended midnight mass at Sacred Heart. The mass was beautiful and we even got to sing some Christmas carols!
Christmas Day-
Christmas Day started off fast and crazy as I had to make a few dished to take to my moms for dinner. I made chicken burritos for the first time ever, according to Steve they turned out to be pretty tasty. I also made pin wheels and a new dessert I learned about from Steve's cousin Lance. Thanks for the recipe lance!
Once we got to moms house Steve took the new camera and snapped a few shots of everyone having a good time. We do Mexican for Christmas dinner and as usual it was a huge hit! After dinner we visited for awhile and Awed over Kassie's beautiful ring some more. Once everyone started heading home Steve and I headed that was as well. We went out that evening with Kassie, Nat and some of their friends to fox and the hound. We had a blast and I laughed so hard I was sure my side would hurt the next day. Lucky for me it didn't because the Chiefs played and were on the line for a playoff spot!
Double Birthdays-
My beautiful cousin Audra and I both celebrate our birthdays immediately after Christmas. Audra's is the 27th and my birthday is the 28th of December. For Audra's 17th birthday Ronda invited Steve and I out for some pizza and cake. As usual it was fun and I think Audra had a nice birthday.
The next evening Steve and I went to Carlos O'Kellys for dinner and a drink. Thanks to Steve's cousin Shane and Aunt Audrey for the gift card! After dinner we headed over to Campbell 16 to watch "True Grit" which turned out to be a pretty dang good movie! I would recommend watching it if you have not seen it already.
New Years Eve-
Normally for New Years Eve we host a party at our house or my parents house but this year was a little different. Since my best friend has had a baby, my other best friend moved away on my and my parents have a wild life we decided not to have a party this year. Instead of having a party we wanted to go out on New Years for the first time since Steve and I have been dating. That's right somehow in 7 new years eve Steve and I have never gone out.
Lucky for me Kassie and Nat had the same idea in mind and we planned a night out on the town! Although no one had any idea what to do, at about 7 o'clock on NYE we finally decided we would head to Uncle Bentley's a small bar here in Springfeild. Kassie's friends Kristy and Steve who are also newly engaged, met us up there as did some of their other long time friends. The bar was actually a lot of fun, nothing uppity of fancy and we were easily able to get a table. The guys played shuffle board and darts all evening while the girls danced, drank and visited. I would have to say this NYE got a 10 out of 10 for us!
Steve and I both had the weekend off with nothing planned so we were able to stay home Saturday and watch dumb show after dumb show. I am actually not even sure what we did because we didn't watch a single show or movie that I remember what it was about. Sunday the chiefs played and despite a loss they are in the playoffs for the first time in several years! I am sure I do not have to tell you how excited Steve is about this playoff spot!
WOW!! Now that I have you all caught up on how we spent the holiday season I think I will wrap this blog up! I have learned a valuable lesson and I will never go this long with out blogging again! I think it is going to take my fingers all day to recover from all this typing! Hope you enjoyed this amazing read! I will blog later in the week on wedding planning progress! Hope you all had a fantastic holiday season and started the New year off with a bang!
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