Married with Schoolwork...

I am sorry to my readers that I have not been doing a very good job of keeping this freakin' thing up-to-date, but alas, school has started, and most of my time is now spent reading books and doing labwork. David and I have been married for almost three weeks now, and so far everything has been pretty much the same. We had no honeymoon period because we both had to be back at work and school almost immediately, but we had an AMAZING wedding, so what more can you ask for! After the reception we rode away in the horse-drawn carriage while everyone left, and it was supposed to really be the first time we got to be alone as a married couple. But of course that didn't happen, and while we were riding along two stray dogs started to chase the carriage and tried to bite the horse! The driver had the beat them off with the horse whip, literally! It was our first married adventure. Our seconf was trying to track down Monica after the recpetion since she left her wallet in the recpetion hall, and she was almost to Temple when she had to turn around to come get it. She felt so bad because Dave and I were already in our room, but we were STARVING so we were just eating the food the staff had set out for us! They also left us a huge pitcher of margaritas, which were delicious! She got her wallet successfully, and we had a nice relaxing night in the Baylor Suit. However, I am afraid it was not the extremely romantic night it was supposed to be because I was EXHAUSTED! I don't think I have been that tired in a very long time. Adding to my tiredness was the fact that we got up and left the next morning at about 7:45 so we could get home before Christine, Kelsey, and Courtney left to go back to Gemany. That day we did get to open gifts, which was really fun! It was like Christmas!!

In general, the wedding was a huge success; there are not a lot of things that I can criticize. It was exactly what I have always wanted, and it took a lot of hard work to get it together. It paid off, and I have gotten nothing but compliments about the ceremony, location, etc. David and I loved having all of you there to celebrate our relationship with us!!

Since the wedding, things have returned to normal, just with much better kitchen appliances! My favorite thing I got was the George Foreman G5 Next Grilleration Grill!! It is the one thing I REALLY wanted. We have started the process of combining our assets, with health insurance first and foremost on our list. I have not changed my name yet officially, but on some things, like our insurance, I am now Mary Elizabeth Webster! It is very strange, but not at the same time. By December I will officially be Mary Beth Webster, so look for the changes to occur!!

At work things have been hectic leading up to the Dr Pepper Bottlers Convention in Las Vegas that Jennie, Jack, his wife Linda, and myself will be attending next week. I am so excited, if I start thinking about it too much I can't focus on my normal stuff I have to do!! I have never been to Las Vegas, so this trip is going to be an amazing new experience for me, as well as a great job opportunity for me. I am going to try and update my blog everyday while I am there since everyday is going to be packed with stuff that warrants pictures and comments. However, I am going to be dependent on the Starbucks across the street from the hotel for my internet since the hotel thinks it is appropriate to charge $11.00 per night in addition to the $300+ per night rooms we are staying in. I will be updating the Museum's blog as well, so make sure you check out both! My blog will have more stuff about the after-hours stuff we do, and the Museum blog will be more about the convention events. Both are sure to excite!!

Check out the pics below to see a peek at the wedding:

One Week and Counting...

Well, it is Sunday the 27th, and I will officially be married in one week and about 6 hours!! Yesterday was my Bridal Tea hosted by friends of my mother, and it was so fun! Mainly because there was a lot of amazing food and I got to open presents the whole time. Only after I got everything back to the house did I realize that I had to write thank you notes for all of them, but I went ahead and did that last night. Go me!! The next week will be crazy! I come back home on Wednesday night, which is also when my grandparents on my mom's side get into town. Thursday is when my dad's parents get here, and also when Christine, Kelsey, and Courtney (our friends from Germany) arrive. Christine and the girls have never seen the new house or DJ or the two youngest kittens, so that should be fun! David's entire extended family will get here sometime next week too, but thankfully many of them won't come until the day of the wedding. There are just so many of them!!

In other news, everyone needs to check out the DPM's Blog and website!! I have done a lot of work on them, and they are totally the place to be on the internet now!! I am in the process of adding an e-card service, a FAQs service, and the guestbook service is already in place on the blog only. In completely unrelated news, check out the Wide World of Waco Eats under my links!!

And this is DJ as of about an hour ago. SO CUTE!!

 

A sampling of the beautiful decorations around the house.

 

All of the stuff I got! Everything was beautiful, especially the quilt my grandmother made us, which is on the left in the pic. It is called a double wedding ring.

 

All of the bath stuff that the Schnapp's got us. That is Lil' Carl, my sis, next to me.

 

This was one of my presents from Steph Loden. That is Donnie, one of the hostesses, behind me.

 

All of the yummies!

 

Kind of fuzzy, but this is mom and me before the tea started.

 

Canyon Lake 06!!

David and I just returned from the lake after one last big weekend before starting school tomorrow. Saturday was Ryan's 21st Birthday, and he LOVES pirates (or the idea that he was one in a past life), so David and I spent all night Thursday night buying him his pirate presents. We got him a light-up sword and shoulder thing to put it in, an eye patch, a gold earring, a bandana, and a LOT of rum!! Dave and I got him Captain Morgan's Parrot Bay Coconut Rum and my parents got him Pyrat brand rum! He enjoyed a large amount of it this weekend:) We bought all the pirate stuff for him so he could be captain of the ship this weekend, which he did for a while. On Saturday we met Kathy Elder, her son Trey, and his girlfriend Stephanie - who I like to call our traveling buddies - for a day of boating on the lake. We went out on our boat almost all day, whereas the adults stayed on shore in the shade drinking and chatting. I don't think they went our for more than a few hours. The lake was so pretty! I was way down, but it was clear and turquoise blue, and the perfect temperature for swimming. We swam a lot, so at the end of the day we just went back to the condo and ate leftovers. Since I have been on a diet for a while, I decided to indulge a little yesterday at the lake, which was a HUGE mistake. I got REALLY sick that night from all the horrible (by this I mean horrible for me, not horrible tasting) food I had eaten, so Dave and I ended up going to sleep around 11:00. Today I felt much better, and we went swimming this morning at the pool, then we went to the Gristmill in Gruene for lunch with Kathy and Trey and Stephanie. Gruene is such a cute town, and the food was yummy, but alas, Dave and I had to leave to get ready for school tomorrow. I really don't want to go back, but at least I don't have Latin this year, which is what I try to keep telling myself. Anyway, I have all three of my classes tomorrow, so wish me luck!! And check out the pics!!

This is right before we left, and even though I look happy, not so much....

 

The Guadalupe! From our balcony at the Gristmill

 

Mary and Davy at the Gristmill...

 

YARR!!

 

Trey watching as Steph drives the boat...

 

Mary and Davy at the Lake!!! We are so windswept!

 

Davy!!

Aww! Sweet Moment!!

Princess DJ!!

 

And the rest of the summer...

So, since my last post a lot has happened. First, we went to Alabama to visit my family and David got to go with us for the first time. I think he had a good time, except for the fact that my sister's friend Jessica also went with us and they acted like they were freakin Paris Hilton the entire time. "That's Hot" and "Loves It" (both said in a botox-induced drawl) the entire freakin time. I thought he was going to kill her before we could get home! Besides the blonde moronic fun, David had the unique priviledge of getting to meet almost everyone in my entire family over the course of two family reunions. He got to meet people I have never met before! It was embarrassing in many ways, but good too because he is still agreeing to marry me! All jokes aside, I think Dave opened up to my family and it was a great chance for them to all get to know each other before we get married.

Speaking of getting married... I will be married in 17 days!! OMG! Over the last couple of weeks I have had both my Bridal Shower and my Bachelorette Party! They were so much fun, and I owe it all to Stephanie and Tami, who made everything happen. They are so freakin creative! At my Bridal Shower we played fun games like "What Would David Say" and "How Well Do You Know the Bride?" We had it at the Ambrosia Tea Room, which is already cute, but then they put up pictures of David and me with candles and flowers everywhere. It was just so special. The whole day was really fun since that morning I had my bridal portrait sitting, and they ended up turning out really good. This Saturday night was my bachelorette party at Las Casas, and once again it was perfect down to the wedding ring placecards and the lingerie clothesline display. Probably the two funniest things about the shower were the fact that Stephanie and Tami made this huge penis cake by hand and the "member" was vanilla and the balls were chocolate! The second thing was that Jennie bought a Playgirl (which I think is funny in and of itself) and replaced all the faces with cut-outs of our favorite actors! The main one was Colin Firth, since he is who I always cite as my favorite actor. She also put in Hugh Jackman, Owen Wilson, Russell Crow, Nicholas Cage, Johnny Depp, and a couple more. ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS! It was definitely the hit of the party.

Afterwards we all came back to Waco to go out to Cricket's which ended up being really fun since everyone was in town for graduation (Go Liz!!). Tami had arranged for the bartender to make us a special drink called Between the Sheets which was delicious! I was so happy Jessica and Jennie decided to stay, and we all played a scavenger hunt which was so much fun!! My team, which was me, Liz, and Carol, totally won. It was also fun because as soon as we walked in we met a friend Stephanie, Tami and I went to high school with who was also there for a bachelor party, so he stayed with us for a while. I also ran into Lance and Adam since Lance had graduated on Saturday. Just to sum it up, I got REALLY drunk. I had about 8 shots and 4 drinks, and the last one was a Four Horsemen, which for those of you who know what that is, will understand when I say I had to leave immediately after I downed that one. I got home, upstairs, in my pj's with help from Steph and Liz, and got into bed, THEN had to throw up. Not fun, and not I won't be able to have a shot in a very long time. I don't regret it though, and I had an absolute blast!!

In future news, if you don't already know, I am getting married in about 2 weeks! I pretty much have all of the planning done, I just am waiting for it all to start happening. This weekend David and I are going to Canyon Lake to celebrate his brother Ryan turning 21, so it will be nice to take a break before school starts. At the end of September I get to go to Las Vegas for the Dr Pepper Bottler's Convention for work, and we are staying three extra days just to see the city and everything. While we are there Jennie and I are going to Thunder From Down Under to celebrate my birthday! I am so excited because we are totally getting VIP passes! Check it out at www.thunderfromdownunder.com!

For work I also got to go to Crawford to serve Dr Pepper floats to the White House Press corps, so to check out the pics and the story on that, go to the museum's blog under my links.

Love you all!

Outside the Unclaimed Baggage Center in AL

Me and Carol eating worms before going fishing! J/K!!

Jessica and DJ in the car on the way home.

Me and the "Tree of Knowledge" from the bridal shower where everyone had to include a piece of marriage advice!

Steph, me, and Tami at the Ambrosia Tea Room

Me on the way to Las Casas in my bride hat that I got from Crawford!

PomPom fantasies!!

Jennie's Playgirl funniness

Me with all the beautiful lingerie I got!

Jessica trying to get this guy to do Buck-A-Suck with her! He tried to not give us our dollar....

Me laughing at my penis necklace when I was extremely drunk..