Finally Home!

This is an old pic I found of Sach and a couple of his favorite hockey buddies. Stan played with Sach this year at nationals.

Wapo, Sach and Stan

Sach finally returned home on Sunday! He's been gone for 10 days! He traveled to Bremerton, WA for the 2010 Rink Hockey National Tournament. He was really excited to go and see some of the guys he grew up playing with. Just as anticipated, he had a blast! Of course there are no pics to show of his trip because he refuses to take pictures. Bremerton is located across the bay from Seattle. He got to go to Pike's Place one day and watch them throw fish. :) I'm super jealous of all the fresh seafood he got to eat while he was there! Sach's team won second place in their division. Sach was really hoping for 1st place since his originally team was the champs the last 2 years. Due to the long travel, his original team was not able to go so he played with a group of guys from Lubbock and Decatur and one other guy from San Angelo. I always worry about him when he plays because the balls they play with are hard and he always comes home with crazy bruises. Of course, this trip was just like the others and he came home with a HUGE bruise on his arm. I'm super stoked he's home and in one piece! Welcome home Sach!! You were missed terribly!! :)

Visit With Tandi and C-dub :)

This past weekend I made a day trip to visit Tandi in Midland. I needed to get a visit in as "C-dub" (Clayton) is getting bigger by the day! He just rounded 3 months old! He is a super happy baby! I found out he doesn't crazy ladies taking pictures though. :) I've included a couple pics and a video proving he is a happy babe.

So serious

A little happier

While there I got to see one of Tandi's places of work, The Aphagia Center. Tandi is a speech language pathologist. She's such an amazing person and has a HUGE heart! She really has a passion for what she does. She is always thinking of others. Her brother-in-law has his jaw wired shut while recovering from surgery and she is always looking for new things for him to eat. We made a blueberry icee kind of thing for him to drink and man! was it good! So good in fact that I came home and made my own for the house. :) It's super easy to make so I thought I'd include it in my post

2 1/2 cups of blueberries

3/4 cup of sugar (I used 1/2 cup with 4 cups of blueberries)

1/4-1/2 cup of water

1 tbs of fresh squeezed lemon juice

Blend blueberries and sugar in food processor until smooth and the strain out the seeds. Use a spoon to help with the straining process. Then add the water and lemon juice and freeze. It is delicious, if you like blueberries. :)

Thanks for letting me crash your Saturday Tan! Love you girl!! :)

Mema's 90th Birthday

My Mema (dad's mom) turned 90 last week. She's a great lady and hilarious! (Funny story: The day after Sach and I got married, we were telling her about it and she said "What'd you go and do that for?" :) She's hysterical!) The Stinnett clan got together to have a little party. My dad is one of 7 kids and 5 were able to be there. Only 2 cousins were missing so it was a good turn out.

Me and Mema (and my sister being "grown-up" :) )

My Mema (Mems as I call her) has played the piano most her life and still can play. Music is an amazing thing! My Mems suffers from Alzheimer's disease and can't remember any of us but if you mention an old song, she can sit at the piano and play it. Although the songs are getting more limited, it's amazing what she can remeber. My dad sat with her and sang while she played to help her out a bit :) All my dad's siblings are musically talented in some way and I'm sure it's all due to my Mems. Her little fingers still love to "stroke the ivory."

Some of the cousins (some had left)
Dad and his siblings with Mems

The 3 Stooges :)

Jordan, Kyle and Sach

I love my family!!! :) I wish we got together more often!!

After wedding blunders....

#1. I've been worried lately because we still hadn't received our marriage license. A couple of my friends said they got their's in the mail the next week. Well the 2 week marker hit and we still had not gotten it. We were having it sent to my dad's house because our mailman has an issue with delivering our mail sometimes and it sucks! I knew that one of our wedding cards was returned as "not deliverable" (to my dad's house) because the name on the card was "Zipper." Well that got me to thinking, where would they send the license then?? (My dad gets all kinds of mail with other names on it but his mailbox is obviously banned from Zipper!) So, when I got home from work on Wednesday night (2 1/2 weeks after wedding!) Sach gave me the good news: his mom had our marriage license!! You are asking yourself, how did Sach's mom end up with our license? Funny story. The mail sorter dude knew Sach's dad (who has the same legal name as Sach, "Rexy") haha!! So the envelope had his dad's name on it and the mail dude pulled the mail and took it to Sach's dad's shop. (The joys of small town living!) Well, Sach's dad lets his mail pile up at his shop and takes it to Sach's mom to open after it builds up. So, a week after it was post-marked, Sach's mom opened what she thought was mail for his dad and it was our marriage license! We are finally official!!!! Now to change my name to....(cringe)...Zipper. I'm having issues!

#2. We received a card with a $50 check in it at our wedding. The funny thing was, we could not read the names on the card. Even the check had a name on it we didn't recognize. We went through our invite list over and over again with no luck. We even pulled the card out again and really tried to make out the names on the card. The weird thing was what was written on the card. "Hope all your ups and downs are in bed" WHAT? Who writes that on a wedding card that you don't know very well?? It has really been bugging Sach and me! The other night, Baby D (Sach's friend) was over for dinner and we were telling him about it. He says "Wait, I know that from somewhere!" Come to find out, one of Sach's oldest friends gave us the card and had told Baby D what he wrote on it! Thank goodness! Then Sach remembers the wife (whose name was on the check) had requested Sach on facebook. It obviously never clicked! (MEN!)
Just some of our fun stories after the wedding! I'm sure everyone has some! :)

Pics...

Our FANTASTIC! photographer Rachel Russo posted some pics from the wedding on her blog:
http://rachelrussophotography.com/blog/

She is absolutely amazing!! We loved having her as our photographer! She is full of great ideas and is SO easy to work with! Thanks again Rachel! Can't wait to see the rest of the photos!

We are Hitched! :)

So the day finally came and went (WAY too fast). Despite my changing the entire ceremony 2 days before, it couldn't have been more perfect. The week leading up to the wedding was rainy and windy, so the option of having the wedding at the ranch was not looking good. As we were trying to get everything organized for the ranch I became super stressed. Sach was great during it all and helped me realize I didn't need to be as upset as I was and I really needed to make it easier on me. Well, that's just what I did. We ended up getting married at the same spot as the reception and used the chairs from the table for seating (as opposed to having to get hay bales and put together benches for the ranch). We also used some of the plants from my dad's back yard (didn't have to put together some type of decoration for the ranch). And people could park in the parking lot and walk up the sidewalk (unlike having to shuttle them from parking to ceremony site via rented golfcarts). It was WAY simpler and so much fun!
The wind gave us the worst time when trying to put table cloths on the tables. I have the most incredible family! All my cousins (boys included) helped decorate as well as their parents! Even Sach's mom was out in the heat and wind with her pretty hair! I tied some table cloths down until I had to start getting dressed. God answered our prayers and just before the wedding, the wind totally stopped and it cooled down so that it was incredibly beautiful for the outdoor ceremony and reception I wanted! Of course I was a total cry baby for the ceremony, which I knew I would be (hence the small "family" ceremony). Sach did his best to hold it together despite my mother "snorting" because she was crying so hard. :) haha! It was pretty funny! The more my mom cried the more my dad cried, thank goodness I couldn't see them! Sach did his best not to look at my dad or he would have not been able to control his emotions like he "sort of" did. I tried not to look at anybody but Sach. From what I hear it was an all out cry fest for the family! :) Sorry guys! Even one of the groomsmen was crying! GEEZ!!
The reception was so much fun! It went by so fast! Sach and I have been opening presents and I keep coming across people I didn't even know were there! I wish I could go back and slow it down! I would have LOVED to visit with some of the peeps that came from out of town who I don't get to see very often at all! We had lots of fun and the wedding could not have been better! I'm so glad I changed the plans and made it easier on me and everyone else. Sach and I have the greatest family and friends! :) I'll post pics as soon as I get them on the computer!
We went to the Riviera Maya, Mexico for our honeymoon. Talk about beautiful! The wind and rain didn't allow us to do any fun excursions, but we didn't really want to leave the resort anyway. We had lots of sun, beach and pool time and actually got a little tan! Pictures to come from that as well :)
All in all everything was fantastic! If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't change a thing (other than slowing down the time) :)

Clayton Wesley Poitevint

My great friends Tandi and Garret had their first baby, Clayton Wesley, on March 25th. {Garret and I agreed a good nickname for him is "C-dub."} :) I finally got to go to Midland to meet him today, on his 1 week birthday. He is so precious!! and tiny!! I think he likes me. :) I got to snuggle with him all morning! He finally opened his eyes just before I left to get a good peek at the annoying lady who kept trying to wake him up. He is doing so great and Tandi is fantastic! She's the best mom ever!! I believe Sach has some competition for the cutest man in the world! :)

Me and Tandi Lu

Getting to know C-dub

He's the perfect combo of his mom and dad :)

Snoozing on Aunt Chels

I love these peeps!!

Holding babies make me really want one........ one of these days. :)