Our First Anniversary

For our one year anniversary Pat and I went on a cruise to the Bahamas. We had soooo much fun! The cruise departed from Charleston, so we went down a couple days early and stayed in Charleston for the weekend. The cruise left on Monday, October 20th (our actual anniversary date) and was a 5 day cruise. We were out to sea for 2 days then docked in Freeport for a day. Freeport was nice, but we weren't too crazy about it. We went shopping then went to one of the hotel's beaches for the rest of our time there. The next day we docked in Nassau for the day. Pat and I went to Atlantis and bought a day pass for the day. We LOVED Atlantis! It was the most beautiful hotel either one of us has ever seen- and massive! We spent the day discovering the hotel and at the hotel's waterpark (which was insane!). Atlantis is definitely a place we want to go back too- maybe for our 5 or 10yr anniversary. If y'all have never been it is definitely a place that we would highly recommend- especially if you have kids, there's sooo much to do for them.

CHARLESTON...
















Our ship- Carnival Victory










Part of The Notebook was filmed here:)

INSIDE OUR SHIP...


The lobby






Dancing room


Casino




Our room


At the pool




Our first night at dinner






My handsome hubby of one year!


Pat thinks I shop too much...




Pat in his Heaven (w/a beer and cigar)


Pat surprised me at dinner one night with a cake- he had all the waiters around us sing to us and they caused a really big scene- it was quite embarrassing, very sweet, but embarrassing










Our last night at dinner all the servers danced for everyone. it was hilarious!




FREEPORT...
























ATLANTIS...
















It's a sting ray!
























The shark tunnel...


This was literally the scariest moment of my life...This was a lazy river type- of ride but you're surrounded by this massive aquarium on all 4 sides filled with over 30 sharks and tons of huge sting rays- and the only thing protecting you from the sharks was glass!








Finally it's over!!!

Ono Island

Last week Pat and I met my family in Ono Island, AL. My parents rented a beach house for the week and my mom’s parents and her brother and all of his family all came down and stayed with us. This was Pat’s first time meeting my grandparents and being around all of my mom’s crazy family; thank gosh he’s already stuck!

We had such a good time. Pat spent most of the week crabbing with my little cousin Charlotte. They did everything together all week- it was so cute! My dad took Pat and my cousins Dresh and Taylor deep sea fishing one morning. They caught so many fish- over 30 red snappers. We were eating fish and Pat’s crabs that Charlotte and him caught all week. My dad almost caught a shark until the 80lb line snapped!
One of our very best friends since I was 5, Morgan, got to come stay with us for a couple nights. It was so good catching up with her. We haven’t gotten to see her since Pat and my wedding and that weekend was so crazy we really didn’t have very much time to catch up. We finally got to meet her boyfriend of 3years, John. He is so nice! John and my uncle both brought down their jet skiies so we rode them from our pier to the beach and had so much fun.
My cousin Kalin, who plays football for Annapolis, was in town our very first night there. He had to leave the very next morning to go back to Annapolis. To everybody’s surprise a couple days after he left he quit the football team and came back and stayed with us for a couple nights. I was really happy he got to come back. Kalin is like the brother we never had.
It was such a good week and so much fun. I really miss my family a lot so it’s always so good to see them again.

Our beach house

The pier
Pat crabbing
Charlotte, Me and Rae

My dad catching his shark

On the way back home:(

In other news: On Monday I got a job with Aveda Animare as their full- time esthetician! I am sooo excited about it. I’ve been trying to get a job there since Christmas time but they haven’t been hiring until now. Their main esthetician’s husband is in the Army and they are being transferred, so I will be taking her place. The place is so beautiful and everybody is so nice! And they’re always busy:) I officially start this Monday. I’m going to be working at least 35hours every week plus going to massage school on top of that so things are about to get pretty hectic, but I can’t wait!

Animare’s website- http://animaresalonspa.com/

Our Trip Back to The Woodlands

Pat and I finally got to go back to The Woodlands the last weekend of June for our sister-in-law, Jenny's, younger sister's wedding. It was our first time back since our wedding- 8 months! We had such a good time. Pat only got to stay for 4 days because he had to go back for a calculus test. I stayed and went to the Hyatt in Austin with the rest of the Dew's for a week. We had a really good time. The hotel was AMAZING; it had its own lazy river and everything. We sure had alot of really good talks. One night all of us drove to the Oasis for dinner which was so much fun. It was really good seeing Austin and Lake Travis again.

While Pat was there him and I got to walk all around Market Street and drive all around the mall area to see how much The Woodlands has grown! And we love it!! We even found the perfect townhouse we want to move in if we move back there- and it's walking distance to the mall and the Goose's Acre, the cutest little Irish Pub that was just built:) The trip went by really fast. We're really hoping to go back again for Christmas- and this time stay for 10 days.

At Laura's wedding

At Bennihana's for Pat's birthday dinner

All the Dew boys

The amazing townhomes we're in love with!

At the Oasis

All the Dew girls!

OUR NEW PUPPY COOPER!!!

I have been trying to talk Pat into getting a “friend for Belle” for quite some time now. Memorial Day weekend we “dog-sat” for a friend of mine who also has a yorkie and, to make a long story short, Pat saw them playing together and finally said yes to another dog! So…the very next day we got a new puppy! We named him Cooper. Pat wants to name of future son Cooper, but “Cooper Dew” is just asking to be made fun of, so this way he still gets a Cooper.

He is the sweetest little puppy! We got him at 10 weeks and he was only 1.4lbs; he’s barely bigger than our hands! And he’s only suppose to get to 3lbs full grown! Belle and him are getting along so great. They’re so much fun to watch. When he gets big enough and Belle gets old enough we are going to breed them. I can’t wait!!!

Cooper's website that we found him on: http://www.nextdaypets.com/directory/dogs/f5989eb0-7131.aspx#

As for Pat and me, Pat is still balancing working shift work and his calculus 2 class. He goes to class every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday night. Luckly, his class is only 8 weeks, it has just been hard planning summer vacations without him missing class. I have been working quite a bit and going to massage school nights. Massage school is a whole lot harder than I thought it was going to be. And every class that I miss I have to make up. Between Pat missing class and me missing class the only trips we're able to go on this summer are to visit Pat's family for a couple days then mine for a couple days in August. But we're really excited- we leave for Texas in about 3 weeks. We haven't been back since the wedding so it'll be really good seeing everybody again!