Two Year Anniversary!!!

"And wuv...twu wuv, will fowwow you forevaaaa...."

Today, Boyd and I have been married for two years!!!!!!! It is hard to believe how fast the time has flown by and how much we have grown up. I think the major lesson from this year is that you have to really work to make time for each other. Before this year we always went to the same place together, we could see each other often (if not always) through the day and rode home together. Now because he is working at Rice as a manager and I am still going to law school downtown and am active in Law Review time together is at a premium. But we are learning and making it work. We are still very happy to be married. He got me the sweetest card, that was funny, but so perfect! We posted this photo from our wedding as we remember how special that day was and how much we have loved every minute of the last two years! (Also because we still don't have any other pictures from that day because we have been too busy to order them, maybe I should work on that in the next few days!!)

Galveston Pictures

Finally some fun in the sun!

Kisses!!!!!

It was early and bright...

Sunny Morning!

Bananas Foster!!!!!

Boyd on the Cloudy Beach

The Gross Port-a-potty

The Cloudy Day at the Beach.

Galveston Trip

So a while back...a long while back, Boyd and I took our first summer trip to Galveston. It was the weekend of May 19th. The weekend right after finals. It had potential. It was important because I thought "exactly one year from today law school will be DONE and I will be graduating!!!" So we watched the news all week, the weather man promised sun by noon on Saturday so we were going to the BEACH. We woke up about 8AM on Saturday and were greeted with a mist fallling from the sky...A MIST!!!!!!!! I checked the Galveston.com website it said the temperature was 75 and sunny, PERFECT. So we set out. The whole way to Galveston I kept saying to Boyd: "It will clear off any second now...we will see the edge of the clouds." Well, it didn't and we didn't. I was resolute, I wanted to go to the beach. So to the beach we went. (Boyd suggested a movie or maybe some putt-putt, but I wouldn't consider it. Pretty much I thought that by sitting on the beach in my polka-dotted swimsuit that the sun wouldn't be able to resist...I was mostly wrong about that.) So we set up shop on the Pocket Park Beach. Man, it was windy and the water was cold. We decided to walk up and down the beach to keep warm. The shelling was excellent and every now and then there would be a warmer wave. Before long, I had to pee. Well, over the years this Pocket Park Beach has gone down hill in the bathroom department (we all know how I feel about those situations), so there were only porta-potties that worked. Well, I hunted down a fresher looking one out of the bunch and took care of business as quickly as possible without touching anything! It was still gross.

By this time it was noon and no sign of the sun. The Galveston.com website had lied to me...LIED. I was still insisting that the sun would appear. So we had our tuna fish with apples sandwiches and took naps. I was shivering because it was so cold and windy, but then i saw it the sun trying to burn through the clouds. I could slightly feel its warmth on my body, for 20 glorious minutes there was SUN. Then, more clouds and wind! Boyd had enough and so he convinced me to pack up, check into the hotel and then see about some putt putt. Well, by the time we got to the putt-putt place, it was bright and sunny; we're talkin' like not a cloud in the sky!!!! Of course, the Murphy luck strikes again. On the upside, I did beat Boyd pretty badly at putt-putt!!!!! HEH HEH HEH!

When we got back to the hotel I looked in the mirror and I was RED!!!! RED as a lobster. It didn't feel like a sunburn, do you know what it was...WINDBURN!!!! WIND!!! I shivered all day and the WIND had burned me. Well, with my ugly red face, Boyd still took me to dinner at Landrys!

AH, Landrys! It was probably the best meal at a restaurant we had in a long time. Our waiter was attentive but not oppressive. He even got us our Banana's Foster Dessert to go, because we were so full. (And he told Boyd that I was beautiful and to take good care of me! He wanted that tip really bad, but I'll take the compliment anyway!)

We went back to our hotel and ate dessert outside on our balcony overlooking the gulf, then passed out. The next morning it was a beautiful sunny day! OF COURSE!!! So, we went to east beach determined to spend some time in the sun and it was fun!!!!!!!! YAY!!!! I got the beach day that I wanted, albiet covered up so my windburn wouldn't get raw!

I Made some Pasta Salad...a lot of Pasta Salad!

Every Father's Day there is a Winchester Tradition: the Father's Day Picnic. Personally it isn't my favorite thing to do because it is just so hot usually. But for the picnic, the men they make the Bar-B-Q all night long and the women, we make the sides. I, being the good wife that I am and Tutu, being the wonderful grandmother-in-law that she is suggested that I make pasta salad so as not to be empty handed at the picnic. I happily obliged. I made 3lbs give or take of Grandma's pasta salad. It turned out delish, but it was impossible to mix with a spoon. Take a look for yourself.

NOTE: I HAVE SUBSEQUENTLY DELETED THE VIDEO BECAUSE OF THE NERDINESS, IF YOU WANT TO SEE IT THAT BAD, I CAN ARRANGE ALTERNATIVE METHODS.

There was more than this in the bowl, I was still in the process of mixing!

P.S. - I think I look like a dork or like I was having an ugly day, please ignore that as well.