May your weekends be happy & relaxing!






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On Saturday morning, I woke up pretty early (9:15ish because I can't sleep in now that I'm an adult), and I was just watching tv with Scout in my pajamas... then all of a sudden I heard a knock on my door, which was weird because nobody comes over that early. Well I opened the door, and there Ryan was in his pajamas and glasses, holding a box of Krispe Kreme donuts and a Starbucks coffee for me. It was the greatest surprise!!! We spent all day together... we walked about 7 or 8 miles with Scout along the canals near my apartment, then grabbed lunch. Then Ryan put together the last two dining room table chairs, and we went patio furniture shopping. The weather was gorgeous and we had a great time driving with the windows down, and looking at fun furniture and playing with pumpkins.In October, we went back to Waco for Baylor's Homecoming!! Again, such a great time catching up with friends and hanging out with our fellow Bears.












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So, I've had the best day... And the date night was amazing, too (more on that later). Just now, as I was reading with the dog on my lap, I decided to look at old pictures on my laptop... This isn't something new. Anyone who knows me knows that I am obsessed with pictures, and I could spend an entire day looking through old pictures and reminiscing. Anyway-- as I was looking at old pictures of Ryan and me in the early days of our relationship, I realized that I never really blogged about those times. I had a blog back then (starting in 2004) but for whatever reason, I didn't post every day, nor did I post a lot of pictures.
So... since this is nablopomo month, I thought it would be cool to catch everyone up on the early days of US, before we were The McCradys. So if you're interested in learning how we came to be, look out for my nostalgia posts this month :)
To start, these are some pictures from literally the first WEEK we started casually dating. Although, I think we were kidding ourselves by calling it "casual". If you've read the "Our Story" on the left, then you know we'd been friends for a long time before actually dating. But somehow, some way, the day of Baylor graduation was a turning point for us. While we weren't "officially boyfriend/girlfriend" (hehe) until July 4th, we were definitely exclusively dating staring on graduation day.
Here are pictures from the evening of Graduation day. We went to our friends' graduation party and then went to the Lake Waco dam. This dam would eventually be known as "our place" that we'd revisit on our trips back to Waco.
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Ryan gets to leave work at 6pm tonight!! Which means we can act like a normal couple and go on a Friday night date! I can't wait!Posted by jen + ryan at 3:34 PM 6 comments
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November is NaBloPoMo month! (National Blog Posting Month) for those of you who are unfamiliar. Sooooo the goal is to try and post once a day, or 30 times this month! I did it last year, and it was super fun! I hope I can catch up this year because I am insanely busy at work. We'll just have to see! :) Happy blogging! 
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Well, I didn't give in to the muffin, but I stopped tracking what I ate, and in turn I gained .4 pounds last week. Not a huge deal but my whole GOAL here is to LOSE weight. I've lost about 5 pounds total. So this week I'm back on track... I'm going to write everything down, I'm not going to use my flex points unless I absolutely HAVE to, and I'm going to start working out again.
But to spice things up, I'm throwing these 2 workout DVDs into the mix.
Do y'all have any other DVDs that you'd recommend for someone like me!? :)Posted by jen + ryan at 3:11 PM 15 comments
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I've been perusing some posts from my old (pre-marriage) blog...I've had that blog since 2004, and It's super fun to look back and reminisce on my college days. Anyway, I found this post about a great day exactly 3 years ago. Enjoy! (P.S. Check out Ryan's sideburns!)
Today's been one of the best days ever. Early early this morning, Ryan and I went to the Plano balloon festival, and we had a great time. Ryan had never been to one before, so he had fun. So did Scout... he found a lot of fun dogs (and ferrets) to bark at. After that, we got lunch at Jason's Deli, and then went on a long walk with Scout. The weather was about 75 degrees, and so we decided to walk along the canals near my apartment. Las Colinas has all these gorgeous canals with bridges and walking trails. There's trees everywhere, ducks, turtles, and little tunnels to walk through. We even relaxed and layed down on one of the bridges, which was really relaxing until Scout found a dalmation to bark at... All in all, I think we probably walked about 5 miles, and it was BEAUTIFUL outside. Then we ended up getting Sonic drinks and watching movies. It's day's like these that I'm so happy to be alive, and I'm so thankful for all of the amazing things God has given me.
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Anyway..... This weekend was fun and full!




That night I met up with Courtney at Saturday night church and then we went to the Shane & Shane concert!!! These guys were amaaaaaaazing. 

That afternoon Ryan and I got the house ready for Mom's birthday party. Ryan did all the yardwork while I went to the grocery store and cleaned, cleaned, cleaned! We're a great team :) Everyone came over at 7, and we ended up having about 20 people there to celebrate! The men all gathered around the new TV and watched the Cowboys game while the women chatted of course. It was such a great night, and I think Mom felt really loved.














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Labels: family time, fun friends, holidays, scoutie, weekend wrap-up
1. I hate it when I open a can of yogurt and it splatters all over me.
2. I hate it when I run smack into Ryan's dresser at 6:30 in the morning, in the dark, thus stubbing my toe, screaming and waking my husband up.
These things may or may not have happened this morning.
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It all started on Valentines Day of 2003 during my freshman year at Baylor. Ryan & I were set up on a blind date to go to my first sorority function called Bar-B-Cupid (a country-western-themed dance). We saw each other for the first time when our group got together for pictures before the dance. I was talking to a friend, turned around, and there he was standing behind me. Tall, dark and handsome. We both said "Hey" and spent the night dancing, laughing, and acting like we'd known each other for a long time. We ended up holding hands at the end of the night, and we knew we'd found something special. In the months that followed, Ryan went with me to one other dance, and we just knew that the timing wasn't right for us. We remained good friends throughout our college experience, having the same major and minor, studying together, and dating other people along the way until we finally found the right time for us--Baylor Graduation Day. We started dating immediately, and after a couple months we knew we loved each other. We'd been friends for so long, and it just felt natural and right. After only 6 months of dating, we got engaged at Christmas-time, and the rest is history. We were engaged for 15 months and got married on March 15, 2008. We've had a beautiful life together already, and I know it will only get sweeter.
