Shamu Club

For Memorial Day Scott woke me up with season passes to Sea World here in San Antonio. Little did we know how quickly we were going to fall in love with this place. It's absolutely perfect. Our passes give us free parking and 20% off of everything. They just opened the Pacific Point Preserve with a new sea lion show and it's hilarious! I love Sea World. It's so relaxed and I love the animals. There's a couple big roller coasters and lots of wonderful shows. With the Pacific Point Preserve the opened Harbor Market as well. For being a theme park the food is reasonably priced and its really good. I would much rather have an Italian Panini than corn dogs and hamburgers. We have probably gone every week this summer. We also bought the pass that gives us access to Aquatica, Sea World's waterpark. They have this really cool waterslide that takes you under the stingray tank so you can see the stingrays above you. It's also really clean, major bonus! Sea World came out with an app for it's 50th anniversary and you can collect badges for answering questions and learning about marine life. Once we collected all the badges we got free ice cream. I definitely think this will become a yearly thing that we do.

The Steel Eel is a roller coaster of nothing but Camelbacks, my favorite! Scott's, not so much. It was hilarious! 

There's an aviary in the lazy river, this bird if from the part of Africa where Scott served his mission. 

 Free Shamu Ice Cream

We were hanging out in the conservation center and a Zoologist invited us and some other people on a behind the scenes tour of some more animal exhibits they're building. The lemurs were really cool. 

We've been going so much we decided to invest in Sea World/Waterpark wear. We like to travel light.  Coordinating was unintentional, but I feel really good about it. 

Settling in.

With both stores up and running, it was time to make this place home. A few Craigslist scores, and a husband who knew how to hang things we were living in a fairy tale. 

First real dinner in our new place. It took me 15minutes to get to the grocery store and I called my sister Lindsay freaking out that I didn't know how to make dinner. A girl with a degree in food doesn't know how to make dinner. Thanks to her we had Chicken Tacos and Scott thought I was amazing. So much to learn haha. 

We ate our way through nearly 25+ flavors I'm sure those first few months in Texas. It became our nightly ritual. A bowl of ice cream and we would talk about our days. 

Homemade pizza and football quickly became another one of our favorite traditions. 

Married//Cross Country Move//Open a Store

Sure.

Why not?

It was a complete whirlwind getting married and honeymooning. While the honeymoon still isn't over (a year later) there definitely was a lot of reality pulling out of my parents driveway after the Flagstaff reception. It's been my joke this year that if my husband wasn't so cute I wouldn't have moved to Texas. Which is true. I'm loving it now, but it was really really hard to drive away from the west and everything I knew. I can only imagine what Scott was thinking leaving Arizona with his new bride, headed to the place he picked, to the dream job he wanted. Except his new bride cried all the way to New Mexico. (We have learned a lot this year. )

I think I was grateful when I got the call from my Boss asking me to come back to work early. Kneaders was something I knew very well, and being needed in San Antonio for work made it feel like we were just going there for work. Not because we were moving there forever. Originally I was going to take a week once we got to San Antonio to get settled, but the permits for the store had come in late and it was Wednesday afternoon and they had just barely been allowed into the store. Meaning they had lost three days of prep work and needed to open in 48hours. As much as my boss apologized  for asking me back early I ran whole-heartedly back into my kitchen. I needed something high-stress and chaotic to feel grounded. Crazy how that works right? Well it was the hardest, most chaotic, stressful opening I've ever done. I walked in the kitchen Thursday morning  and less than 48hrs later we were open.

Those two weeks of getting that store off the ground were insane. As soon as they seemed relatively stable I flew to Denver to open another store there.

San Antonio Kneaders was up and running, out to dinner to celebrate! (Married two weeks)

I was running Valentine's Day when we went on our first date and was under a lot of stress at work, but I fell in love with Scott on that first date because in those three hours he made all the stress disappear and the chaos stopped. Things were comfortable and I knew I wanted that forever.  In between working at the store I unpacked the house and tried to learn how to make dinner for Scott. We started to get settled and even with everything around us being non-stop we were (are) blissfully happy. New job for Scott, new house, new marriage, work moving at warp speed for me, but we got to have family prayer together each night and lay our heads next to each other. Which was more than we could have ever asked for.

Pizza on the floor our first night in our new apartment. 

Couldn't be happier. August 18th, 2014

Unloaded in San Antonio! 

Flagstaff Reception

After our awesome honeymoon we went to Flagstaff to celebrate with all our friends and family in Arizona. My Aunt Cathie drove up from Prescott and took all these amazing pictures. I told her I really wanted pictures of all the people there. My parents grew up there, I grew up there. One of the perks of growing up in a small town is such a tight knit community. It was fun to introduce Scott to m nursery leader, and my fourth grade teacher, and allll of our amazing family.  While we were on our honeymoon Kristin, Mom, and Grammy Frost made the mini bundt cakes and the food for the reception.

I think we're going to make the boys wear these outfits for the next 50years. They're so adorable! 

 This is my Jana Fox, as soon as I saw her I took off running out of the line. She is one of my very best friends and favorite reasons to come back to Flagstaff.

 Webbs & Wallaces

 Foxes, Freers, and Jenkins 

This is my ballet teacher and her family. I was four years old when I took her class. I love my small town. 

Favorite Librarian at the Public Library

If you did a trick for Mary or sang for her on Halloween she would give you a king size candy bar. 

Caleb & Emily - Cousins

Caleb, Emily, and Jenny

Sweet T

Framing this one for my kitchen. 

I love that Mom is bouncing a baby in this one. Flagstaff is so relaxed. 

Aunt Kelly and The Freers

Bethi 

My mom has the best friends, they frosted the bundts and served food all night. 

Gillilands

Grammy and Baby T

 Gillilands

Jessica Garner - one of my best friends from high school. Her and Jade and I made up the Jamigos. We were really cool. 

Angie and Zadok

 Becca and Grammy 

Uncle Rick and Grammy 

Kenneth

Everyone :) 

Aunt Susie 

It was everything I wanted. It was so fun to catch up with everyone before we left the west for Texas! It was so comforting to me to have such a good reminder of where I came from before leaping into this scary cross-country move. There will always be a big piece of my heart in Flagstaff.