Aggieland Delight

 Jason worked his magic and got us a pretty amazing private tour over at Aggieland last month. 

We even got to ride around in a golf cart, which was the best part since it was so hot!

The tour was great, and I can see why Aggies love being Aggies.

Jason had them take him to specific dorms and entertained our tour guides with his stories, which they politely laughed at. 

And JR decided the "rowdiest" dorm was the one for him.

They gave us a tour of the new engineering school so Jason could see it, but that will probably be the last time JR even steps foot in it.  The business school was more our speed.

Fireworks and Fish

 The boys wanted to go to Maw Maw and Paw Paw's for 4th of July and surprise, surprise they did a whole lot of fishing.

They caught big fish

And little fish

And two fish at a time

All totaled they think they caught around 80 fish!

They also put on an hour long firework extravaganza for us.

Money well spent.

Back to Camp

 JR got himself another job (that makes 3).  

For the next 3 weeks he'll be a junior camp counselor at his old stomping grounds Camp Olympia. 

We got him all packed up, with the most important things being his guitar and his cowboy hat. 

He said, "I never thought I'd be going back to camp".  

And I certainly never thought I'd see him drive himself off to camp. 

Send Me Your Fish Recipes

So while Jason and I were celebrating our anniversary the kids were on a fishing vacation with Grandpa Gary and Granny Buffie.

I kept telling people they were "going to Michigan to go fishing", but I didn't even have them in the right state.  They were in Ohio fishing on Lake Erie for walleye.

Lots of early mornings

and this video Kyle sent saying "I bet mom is glad she's not on this boat"

was definitely enough to know that this would not be the vacation for me! 

Kyle and Reed couldn't have been happier.

Grandpa claims he's not a fisherman, but I saw him with a big fish too.

JR came back and said, "I think I'm just going to vacation with mom at the spa from now on", but wouldn't you know it, he caught the biggest walleye of the whole trip.  

 28 inches and 7 pounds. 

I now have a freezer filled with about 100 pounds of fish that I have no idea how to cook. 

20th Anniversary Trip the Rest of the Days

 So I did a really bad job of documenting the rest of the trip with pictures, but we were having too much fun. 

We spent the rest of our days at the Grand Hotel in Alabama. "The Queen of Southern Resorts" has been a hotel since 1847, except during the civil war when it was a Confederate hospital, and World War II when it was used for soldier training. 

We spent lots of time on our balcony.

Had the best massages either of us have ever had at their gorgeous spa.

Spent a day in our pool cabana.

And ate super yummy dinners! 

Neither of us wanted to come back, but if I'm ever going to fit in my clothes again, I'm going to need to stop vacationing! 

20th Anniversary Trip Day 1

 We headed out Wednesday (on our official anniversary) towards New Orleans.  We stopped for the night to stay at the Hotel Monteleone.  We quickly realized that our theme for the trip was definitely "old southern" as it's been around since 1886.

We stopped in their famous carousel bar (the carousel has been "spinning" for 70 years) but I was fine not to "ride".

We also celebrated with a bottle of champagne we've been saving for over 2 years, of course, it's us, so we drank it out of paper coffee cups. 

We went to dinner at Galatoire's, which is the newest place we visited on this trip as it opened in 1905.

We took off our readers for this picture, which I think was one of the main dead giveaways that we were celebrating 20 years. 

Anniversary Day

 Today's the day.  We've been married 20 years. 

I thought we looked pretty good until I saw these side by sides and now I'm depressed. 

Bless our hearts. 

20 years seems to have flown by. And I might have not loved every single minute, but I've come pretty close!