Thank you Neal

Neal was a CHAMP, getting up at 5:50am on Saturday to volunteer for Color Up 5K.  I think he got over getting up that early pretty well.

 More fun than expected was had spraying runners mostly walkers with blue paint from pack backs used for spraying weeds. Thank you, Neal, for waking up earlier than you do for work and driving 50 minutes to encouraging runners and walkers with your humor as they pounded out the 5k all because your wife didn't want to volunteer by herself.  You're adorable.

Beauties

i am obsessed with this bouquet of peonies.  i wish they were in bloom all year. 

thank you to mr. carlton for giving me these for my birthday.

lovies to you.

5.19.13

We celebrated one year! Did I even post about our wedding?  

NEWS FLASH: we got married a year ago.

Neal got me a five day trip and I got him a piece of paper...He is a lucky guy! I was just sticking to the traditional gift.

This post is basically for me to remember what we did on our anniversary so we can do them again every year for the next 60 plus!

1. We had pistachio cake at our wedding so I made one.  (The top of our cake is still in my parents freezer in Kentucky)    Recipe I sort of followed.

2. Champagne toast.

3. Dance to our "First Dance" song.

4. Family photo.

5. Play our engagement pictures slideshow and look through our wedding picture book.  

 Happy Anniversary to my husband who showers me each day with humor, knowledge, love and compassion.

 Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate

 and humble.  Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.  For,

“Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from

deceitful speech.  They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who are evil.

1 Peter 3:8-12

Anniversary Adventure-Far West Texas

Wind Turbines. I was fascinated.

Marathon, Texas

Big Bend National Park

 

Lajitas, TX

 

The Field Lab (Click here for more info.) Ask Neal for an explanation.

 Marfa,TX

Far West Texas. We had the most random and entertaining days traveling these quirky towns.  Marathon, Big Bend National Park, Lajitas, Marfa, and Fort Davis. Five Days, Four Nights.  Two night camping, two nights in hotels, 1700 miles driven.  We had an abundance of quality time, enjoying each other and reminiscing on our first year of marriage. Thank you, Neal, for all you do for our little family.  

Can we do it again?

Things Neal and I want to remember (this will not make sense to you):

The Liles, Cook and Kathy

"Hey Carlton's are you seeing this." "I see it with my naked eye."

"I don't know what I saw, but I am glad I was here to see it."

"We have a problem, I don't know where my purse is."

"500 square feet"......come on drunk face.

Clay Henry

Clark and Dr. Casey

John's Birthday Party and Planet Marfa

Casey: "We did you get your (American Flag) bandana?"

Neal: "I had it in the car."

Casey: "Of course you did."

Interior: .........Exterior......

Blast from the Past: Oh Christmas Tree

December 2, 2012

this is when i discovered half of lights didn't work.  big holes spotted.

2012 was our first Christmas tree adventure and my first REAL Christmas tree ever.  We always had a fake tree growing up and I totally okay with that.  It is always what we had so I didn't know any different.  This year I had in my mind that we were going to cut down our own tree.  Amazing right!?!  New Carlton tradition started, right. Well my plan went a little haywire, when the "trees" still in ground looked like twigs (thank you Texas drought) and it was 90 degrees.  In my mind short sleeves and shorts do not fit in this activity.  As a result some of these picture are staged.  

So we cut it down picked it of a line up, dragged it back  had the high schooler working the lot load it on a trailer to take to our truck, strapped it down to the roof of the car threw it in the bed of the truck and headed home.

Dear Mr. Carlton, Thank you for humoring me on this little adventure.  You were such a good sport and even helped decorate!    This may or may not be the start of a tradition but it makes a wonderful memory for our first Christmas.  Lovies, Mrs.

Blast from the Past: Boston, MA

Hello, do you remember me?  I took a break and long break so now I am back, hopefully with a more regular appearance.  I am not going to be doing a lot of writing, my communication will be in pictures!  There are some things in 2012 that I want to remember so a series of Blast from the Past posts begin now.

June 17-22, 2012

My work requires some travel and we were lucky enough to have a tradeshow in Boston, so Neal decided to join me.  We had a great time exploring The City on the Hill.   We walked Freedom Trail,  hung out in Boston Common, ate cupcakes on Boylston Street and went out on the Charles River Basin. For our one month anniversary we went to Fenway Park for a Red Sox game.  Such an amazing historical place.  The last picture is to actually prove that work was done!