First Year of Bliss

On Sunday, Chris and I celebrated our 1 Year Anniversary! We can't believe a year has already flown by. It seems like yesterday I was walking down the aisle to marry my best friend. I have cherished each moment we spent together, from laying on the couch watching epidodes of How I Met Your Mother to traveling to Paris to buying our first house!!! It has been an amazing year! We have experienced, seen, done, and grown a lot as individuals and a couple in the past year! We are so blessed to have amazing family and friends that have helped us grown into the couple we are. We love you all! But most importantly we are blessed to have found each other!

Ok...enough of the mushy stuff, huh? We had a great day! We had a priceless day spent with each other. We went to church then headed to Kemah for the afternoon. We ate at the Aquarium Resturant. I had never been there and wanted to experience it. It was yummy and neat too! We walked around the boardwalk for awhile. It was SOOOO..hot and humid. Mom and Lesley would be proud of me...I decorated the table with one of our wedding pictures, our album, unity candle, toasting glasses and other special items from our wedding day. We reminisced over our wedding videos (I cried of course) and enjoyed our year old top layer of wedding cake! It was still delicious! We were happily surprised. My mom had made our wedding cakes so it was really special to get to eat the top layer. At one point I had the cake out on the table thawing and some of the icing fell off the side! AAAA!!!! So it finished the thawing process in the frig! haha! Here are a few pics from our great day!

Chris...I love you more than you will ever know! Thanks for a fantastic year and many more to come! I love you Babe! XOXOXO!

PEOJECT WORK Weekend!

This past weekend Chris and I were in PROJECT MODE! It was fun doing these things together. Well I helped Chris...but I am too much of a perfectionist to ask for his assistance. He knows that about me! ;)

Chris constructed a work bench/shelving unit for our garage. I can say I did help a little bit with holding things, but mainly tracked his progress on camera! :) A co-worker told him about this set up and it worked out great for our garage. He ordered the black parts and bought the wood. He then cut it to fit the way he wanted. It is neat because you customize it to what you want. He put alot of hard work and sweat (literally) into it. It looks great! He is still working on organizing it and putting things in their place.

When I wasn't helping him or taking pics, I was inside making clipboards for my team members. I am going to be a team leader for my Kindergarten team this year. It is my first year, but I am really excited about this year and what is to come for our kinder team! I saw this idea when shopping in Canton, and thought I could make it myself...so I did. Mod podge is my new best friend! I just cut the scrapbook paper and ribbon to fit the clipboard and pasted it on. I covered the whole board with a diluted mod podge/water mixture at the end after drying. They turned out great! I can't wait to give them to the girls! :)

Enjoy some pics from our PROJECT WORK Weekend!!!!

The Adorable....Jett Bradley Vaculin

On Sunday we spent the day in Cameron visiting with family. It was nice. But most importantly, we finally got to meet Jett. YEA! He is soooo.... cute! When we got there he had just got up from his nap, so I got to feed him! :) He was so tiny in my arms. I love it! We all cuddled and held him (well...except Chris...I think he is scared of babies..hehe). We loved getting to play with Tessa too! She is such a doll with a spunky little personality. I know she definitely keeps Brad and Teri on their toes. She is such a sweet big sister too! We are glad we finally got to meet Jett!!!!
Lacey and Jett

Mom and Lindsey with Jett


Tessa decided she wanted a picture of herself too...

Me with Jett and his proud Momma :)

Good times with good friends

Jared has been home for a visit from working in Lagos, Nigeria for a few weeks. We were excited to get to spend some time with Sarah and Jared on Saturday night. They grilled some delicious chicken burgers with rosemary mayo! We ate, drank, and visited. We are glad we got to see him while he was home (and of course hang out with Sarah too)!!!! We love you guys! Thanks for having us over!

Welcome Molly Lynn Miser

Our neighboorhood friends Mark and Judi welcomed their beautiful baby girl Molly to the world! Miranda, Cathy, Tracy and I went to the hospital to visit and meet Molly! She is so precious and adorable! Congrats to Mark, Judi, and big brother Henry! :)

Paris and London...Here We Come!!!!!

Chris and I are THRILLED for our trip to Paris and London!


We leave on Saturday and are traveling for a week! :) I just finished a 4 day KISD math training today, so now my brain is really in vacation mode! We are flying into London and taking the Eurostar train to Paris immediately. It is a dream come true of mine to visit the Eiffel Tower. We will be sightseeing and touring in Paris till Wednesday, which is when we will head back to London. We will finish off the week in London! This is going to be the trip of a lifetime for us! We can't wait to share pictures when we get back! Bon Voyage!!!!

4th of July Weekend in Canton

Happy Birthday America and Mom!!!! I celebrated this past 4th of July weekend and my Mom's birthday with her in Canton. Me, my mom, my Nana, Aunt Debbie, Aunt Cathie, Aunt Theresa and my cousin Megan all went. We missed all of our other girls in the family that couldn't make it. :( Canton is a town in east Texas that holds the tradition of first monday trade days. During the first weekend of each month vendors set up shop at the HUGE (and I mean HUGE) outdoor market. I am actually proud of myself for making it through the weekend. We left bright and early on Saturday morning and tried to stop at Collin's Street Bakery in Corsicana, but they were closed due to the holiday. This was my first time to Camton, but I hanged in with all of the other Canton veterans. We shopped till we dropped on Saturday in the 112 degree heat (a vendor had a thermometer and that is what is read...can you believe)? We stayed at the Bunny Hollow B&B so we went back and relaxed with a few cold ones, then celebrated Mom's birthday at a mexican resturant. We headed to "The Mountain" to watch the fireworks, but then left to go finish watching them at Bunny Hollow because it had a better view! They were really great! :) We were all ready for cool showers and to hit the hay once we got home! On Sunday, we had a delicious breakfast of french toast with baked apples and sausage. We then headed out, in much cooler weather this time, shop again. We finally headed home in the afternoon and actually drove through rain, which we haven't seen at home in a long time. It was a fun weekend and I THINK I might be ready to go in a year. :)

Amanda on a hunt...for a wedding dress

This past weekend my sister-in-law Amanda set out to find her dream wedding dress! And she found it! Amanda, Mom, her maid of honor Kim, and I enjoyed the day trying on dresses for their big day on March 20th! Her dress is beautiful but that is all I can say in case Ronnie reads my blog! ;) It is perfect for her! We tried on some cute bridesmaid dresses too! Here are some pics of her search and then leaving with her dress (no peaking!!!).

Welcome Baby Vaculin!!!

Some of the Vaculin family gals got together to celebrate the upcoming arrival of Brad and Teri's son and Tessa's little brother! :) Her due date is July 5th. We enjoyed an Italitan lunch at Dibz's in Temple! It was yummy! Then we headed over to Shelley's house to open gifts, enjoy cake, and vist! Baby boy items are so ADORABLE!!! It was fun! I can't wait to celebrate Shelley and Brian's baby next!!!

Here are few pics of Teri opening gifts...




The yummy cake my mom made for the shower!


Sweet Tessa enjoying her cake!

Summertime and OSU

School's Out for Summer!!! Woo-hoo! I finished up my 3rd year of teaching on June 5th and now summer has arrived! I was blessed with a sweet class of kiddos this year and truly will miss them. I pray that next year will be just as amazing! We are losing 2 Kinder teachers on our team to different schools, so we will be a smaller team of 6 people. I will also be a team leader! I am excited for next year and to see what comes!

The day after I finished school I headed to Cameron to help move my little sis to Oklahoma the following day! I am so glad I was there to see Lesley make her move to OSU to start her master's program! The OSU campus is so beautiful! I can see why Les fell in love with it. It was a LONG trip in the car, but worth it! We were reminded of our old family trips that we took, all smelly and tired from the unpacking, as we ate dinner one night! We cleaned (BIG TIME), unpacked Les, made several trips to Wal-Mart, and laughed alot too! There will be several memories I will remember from that trip: walking in and seeing Lesley's stylish kitchen wall paper, Mom's love for Braum's, how dirty the floorboards were as I vacummed, the way Dad hummed and tapped his hand everytime his new favorite song by Kenny Chesney came on, me thinking that Wal-mart already has halloween stuff out...but nope...it was only the OSU Spirit section. WOW! Let me tell you that was alot of orange. Also asking "What is that sound" in the car and coming to find out it was Dad singing...haha! But most importantly how confident Lesley is about this chapter in her life and how, even though we boo-hooed when we left...she continued to look secure! I love that about her! She will do amazing things! GO LESLEY!!!!

28238 Crossprairie...that's where to find us!

Here are some pictures of the new house before we moved in. I will post the moved in pictures later...

I am still alive...

WOW! I kind of forgot about my blog since November! I truly can't believe 4 months has flown by as fast as it has. Since these four months have passed we have done alot. The BIG moment being buying our first house!!! It in in Katy (I am so glad my prayers were answered and I don't have to leave Katy ISD!). We are moving into the Firethorne subdivision. We are so excited! Amanda (Chris's sister) and Ronnie are also engaged. They will become man and wife on March 20, 2010! We can't wait for their big day. And another excited chapter in my little sister's life is coming up. Lesley has decided to go to grad school at Oklahoma State University! It will be strange seeing her dressed no longer in maroon, but in ORANGE! But not burnt orange (ssssss...). I am glad she followed her heart and it lead her there. We are very excited for her too! We have never been to Oklahoma...