So apparently I'm a bad blogger and have posted nothing since the wedding. I'm sorry about that because I really would like to keep this site up-to-date on all that "Team Groves" has going on. So to get us caught up I thought I'd do a quick run through on what we've been up to since September 4th, 2010.
When we last left you we had just become "Husband and Wife". Feel free to take a brouse back through our wedding pictures. Clearly I'm biased but I think they are ahhmazing! :) The morning after the wedding we rushed off to enjoy a week in the sun in Puerto Vallara, Mexico. Thank you to my brother Bryan and his wife Leslye for recommending the resort. It was everything we hoped a honeymoon would be. After an amazing week relaxing in the sun we came back to T-Town ready to settle into married life. Since then we've had the awesome pleasure of doing quite a bit of traveling.
Let's see... First there was a Black Friday shopping trip to Kansas City.
Then a trip to the "Mother Land" aka Texas to visit the Morse family for Christmas. You have to watch this hillarious video. To give you a little background info... the Morse family does a strange twist on the "telephone game" where basically we sit in a circle and each person has to tell a part of the Christmas Story. Thanks to Grandma Peggy, I think this retelling is both funny and sacreligious. But hey that's how we roll in our family.
Then in January we had the pleasure of going on Retrospec Films' annual ski trip. (Thank you Nathan for working for such a cool company). An added bonus to this ski trip is that we were able to stop off in Aspen, CO to enjoy an evening at the Winter X Games.
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| Winter X Games 2011 |
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| Copper Mountain, CO |
In May we traveled to North Carolina to watch my baby sister get hitched. We enjoyed family and beaches while there.
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| Mrs. Overcash |
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| Carolina Beach, NC |
Then we took what we dubbed an Anniversary Moon to Eureka Springs, AR. We stayed in the Treehouse Cottages. I highly recommend this place for anyone looking for a weekend get-a-way. It was a great way to spend our first anniversary.
Then there was another Black Friday shopping trip only this time to Dallas. Then we swung down to Waco, TX to celebrate my Grandma's 80th Birthday.
We were back in Texas in January for Carysa's baby shower (yeah, baby sister don't play around... "first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage").
We spent Valentines in georgeous Breckenridge, CO with the Retrospec Films crew. Yay for this annual ski trip.
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| Breckenridge, CO |
And most recently we took a road trip to Louisville, KY for my best friend and me to run the Kentucky Derby Marathon. But it wasn't all just running we got to do a little sight seeing too.
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| Louisville, KY |
Whew... that should catch us up on all of our world travels. Stay tuned for future trips that may be coming up.
But we've done more than just travel in the last 21 months. As
mentioned I recently finished my 3rd full marathon. It took me about 9 months to decide to stop being a lazy married woman and get back to running. So I did the Tulsa Run last October...
the Route 66 1/2 Marathon in November...
and the Kentucky Derby Marathon in April. No I don't like running but I love getting a medal and staying skinny. :)
Some of our favorite moments over the last year + was hanging out with our favorite underage people.
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| Chloe |
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| Caleb |
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| Chase |
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| Audrey |
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| Wyatt |
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| Bethany |
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| Eli (& Uncle Nathan) |
Seriously, who could resist these faces (or backside in Chase's case - he's too cool to pose for the camera). And while I haven't gotten to hang out with the newest member of our family, I already think he's pretty spectacular. :)
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| Ryder |
But if you know me, you know that it hasn't all been fun and family. There has been plenty of work going on around La Casa Groves. As I said at the first of this post - I'm a bad blogger. You will find this to be true with my lack of "before" pictures on all of our house projects. I always seem to remember to take pictures after we've started to make progress on a project. So I'll just be showing you the "towards the beginning" picture and the "after picture".
First there was the little rock area in the front of the house that was over grown with weeds and in desperate need of some attention. So we got our "HGTV" on and dug it out and laid new rock. And voila, now it's no longer an eye sore.
Next was the deck... See we had this concrete area off the back of our house that was always a hot mess. Literally. Dirt and debrit would accumulate. It basically made the backyard an unappealling place to be. So we had a deck built. And. It. Is. Amazing. We heart it. And now spend lots of time in the backyard.
Then there was the bathroom. We have one bathroom in our house. It is super tiny. And it was straight from 1960. It was in despearate need of a face lift. So with a little whinning (okay alot of whinning) to Nathan, he and his Dad made my remodeling dreams come true. They ripped the whole thing out (minus the tub) and rebuilt it. Of course with any remodel we ran into a few snafus such as the sub-floor under the toilet had completely rotted out. Um yeah, that would have been a bad day had the toilet suddenly decided to fall through. (See the picture of my Father-in-law standing in a hole - not good). And of course only having one bathroom meant we had to be strategic about what we did and when we did it because we still had to shower and "toilet" during the remodel. But it all worked out and oh how I love you now little bathroom!
Most recently we've purchased a grill and now that grill needs a home. You are probably wondering why the deck isn't the perfect home. But see we want to maximize the deck space for ourselves and guests and the grill gets in the way of that happening. So we've started a little project to create a mini-outdoor kitchen. We're not finished yet but you can see what we've done so far.
So while this is by no means an all inclusive list of everything that's happened in the Groves home since Wedding Day, it is at least a highlight of the big stuff. My goal is to transform my bad blogger ways and do a better job of keeping you up to date on all of our travels and projects.
Happy Summer!
