I'm Liking It

It's just cute.
The Way I Am by Ingrid Michaelson

Here is the Music Video just so you can listen to the song. Ignore the video... i'm not sure i love it.



Thank You Margot

Russell's time off

Every couple of weeks there comes a day that I absolutely love!! This day is the Saturday after Russell's tests. This day is amazing because Russell has no excuse not to hang out with me. This day is free of time limits. This day is a day when Russell does not have the excuse of "I have to study". This day is one in which normal goings on are not acceptable. And that is why this day, post test Saturday, is my favorite day.

Our post test Saturday activity this time around was a nice pleasant bike ride. We headed down to the missions trail. Besides the Alamo, there are actually 4 other cool missions in San Antonio: Mission Concepcion, Mission San Jose, Mission San Jaun, and Mission Espada. These missions are spaced out a few miles apart near the San Antonio River. The missions trail is paved path which follows along this river. It's not really "beautiful" too look at. Some might argue that it's quite ugly. But the trail does have a few pleasing sections. Plus, it's away from the road. Overall its a nice ride.
The trail starts at Mission Concepcion and ends in 8.3 miles down at Mission Espada. Russell and I were feeling pretty good when we took off on our ride. When we got to Mission Espada, neither one of us was ready to turn around and head back home. So we kept going another 4 miles. We ended up on this nice "country" road. Country in that it was long, straight, surrounded by big fields, horses, kids riding four-wheelers, and very few passing cars. It was nice to feel away from the city.... even if we really weren't.

Once we turned around, we realized why the ride out had been so pleasant and easy. It was actually a very windy day. We eventually made it back after fighting the wind the whole 12 miles, but we were dead. Our legs were fatigued and our patooties a little saddle sore. Luckily, neither one of us experienced sore muscles the next day. Unfortunately, the seats at church were a little harder the usual.

We both slept very well that night.


posing in front of Mission Concepcion after the ride

Weekend in Utah

I'm not the best at making sure I take pictures of things. I missed a lot over the weekend while we were in Utah. But here are some of what I did get!
Tom and Mary's reception was fun. They didn't have a line, which was nice. But it meant I had to be quite the social butterfly to talk to everyone I knew. It's not particularly something I'm good at. But I did it, and I'm glad I did. I have so many cousins and relatives in Utah, one weekend and one evening really isn't enough. But I am grateful I was able to see everyone. The evening started out very formal. Mary's family are not members of our church, so they were not able to attend the temple ceremony. So we Tom and Mary had a big formal ring ceremony with bridal procession and everything!! Sorry, there are no good pictures of my dress below.
























This picture is kinda funny since Tom has an extra head coming out of his chest.


















Russ preparing the car with plastic wrap.









My windshield art work :). Wait a second. How did those get in there!!!


























After the luncheon in the afternoon, Russ and I were waiting around for my parents so we could leave. We found a bench at the Law Building to wait on, but the beautiful leaves all around were much more appealing. So we played in them instead of sitting and waiting. We entertained ourselves for a half hour with the camera and the leaves.

We had a couple pictures like this. With a quick toss on ten and then a quick lean in for the flash. Yes I know, very posed.














This one is cool cuz it looks like we're in the middle of a fireball!





























I often get a little dramatic.







































I went to a Halloween bridal shower Friday night. So I went to DI and got this grrreat! costume. Mostly just the hat was great, but i liked it. Rachel thinks she is still a child and went trick or treating with her friends. These pictures were taken at about 11, I think, after we were both back from our festivities.

Rach looks AWESOME!






































The vampire has bitten the fair cowbride and smiles with delight as the sweet blood trails down her pale face. All because two people fell in love......



















Rach loves everything pumpkin, so I brought here my family's pumpkin cake recipe. We made it for breakfast Saturday morning. It was very satisfying with a glob of freshly whipped whip cream. mmmmm the joys of fall.