March

We have been busy over the past couple of months.

January- We enjoyed spending time with friends on the weekends, but nothing big really went on during this month.

February- We enjoyed a home-cooked meal together at home for Valentine's Day. I got flowers. :) Then later in the month, my aunt, uncle and their friends came in town and we enjoyed a fun weekend for the Ovarian Cycle Ride. We hung out all weekend, visited restaurants and quality time at the house. We weren't ready for anyone to leave, but all good times have to come to end at some points. The rest of the month the countdown until Spring Break was on.

March-I definitely enjoyed my week off for spring break. Grandparents came in town, so we enjoyed time with them shopping, cooking and just chillin at home. I got a couple of things done off of my to-do list and then it was back to school. I cannot believe that this week is the last week of March already. We are enjoying the beautiful weather on our patio with friends and family.

January 2012

Alright...well the new year has been underway for awhile and January has been treating us good. We celebrated 7 months of marriage on the 18th....crazy to think that it has already been that long. This time last year I was picking songs, tasting cake, trying to fit into my dream dress and planning the dance moves to our first dance.

We decided to start off the new year living a healthy life style, and I am so proud of Bailey for joining Weight Watchers with me. I think we are both going to do great things this year and now we can have the look to go along with it. We enjoyed NYE with Zorn and Tierney and brought the new year in with style playing games and just hanging out.

I can't wait to see what the new year has in store for us, our family and friends.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We hope you are enjoying the time with your family and friends! This will be the last post of 2011...and I know I haven't done a great job since the wedding, but I will be better in 2012! :)

Honeymoon 6/20-6/27

VIVA MEXICO BABY! After a fabulous wedding celebration, Bailey and I enjoyed the day after with family that was still in town. We had a BBQ and gift opening evening and an early night to bed since our flight left at 7:30 Monday, June 20th.

We boarded the plane bright and early, and we both slept the entire way to Mexico so it was a quick flight. We arrived in Cancun, loaded the bus, grabbed a Corona, and couldn't wait to get to Valentin Imperial Maya. When we landed it was raining, so our first afternoon there was spent waiting for our room, enjoying drinks, playing pool and taking a nap. We got upgraded to the highest level of rooms that the resort had and we had our on patio, living room, jacuzzi tub, and private pool/bar. IT WAS AMAZING THAT WE GOT THAT FOR FREE!

Each day we would wake up and spend the day by the pool all afternoon relaxing or reading books. On Wednesday, we went on an excursion for the day to Xplor. We went zip lining, swam through caves, hammock lining, 4-wheel driving and we were exhausted by the time we got back to the resort.

Each night we enjoyed dinner out at one of the restaurants and entertainment put on by the band or crew for dancing/shows. Our favorite restaurant was the Hibachi Grill and we met some really cool people both nights that we ate there.

We had sunny weather the entire stay and enjoyed getting our tan on. Towards the end of our stay we were continually checking to see if Baby Eli had arrived, and luckily we only missed his arrival by one day. Our last morning was rainy, rainy and more rainy. It dried up enough for us to depart and head back to Texas.

We weren't ready to leave our lovely resort and we enjoyed every minute of our honeymoon together!

June 18, 2011

It has taken me awhile to post about our wedding day, but I am finally here to post. June 18, 2011 was the BEST day of my entire life as I walked down the aisle to marry my best friend in the whole world.

The day began with all the bridesmaids and myself going to get our hair at make-up done at Toni's Hairworks. We spent all morning there hanging out, drinking mimosas and of course chick-fila for lunch. After finishing up there, we all headed to The Colleyville Center to get ready for the pre-ceremony pictures. We had the best time getting ready, telling stories and taking pictures. It was of course a sneaky task to make sure that Bailey didn't see me before the ceremony. I had kept my dress a secret for over 500 days, and I wasn't about to let the secret out hours before the big reveal.

As soon as they told me I need to head over to begin the ceremony, I of course began to get really emotional and nervous but my girls held me together. Waiting for my moment to walk down the aisle I took many deep breathes before grabbing my dad's arm and walking down the aisle to "Nothing Fancy" by Dave Barnes, which holds a special place in Bailey and I's college years together. As soon as my eyes met Bailey's, I knew everything was going to be exactly like I imagined it would be.

We spoke our own vows and we were finally announced as husband and wife after 5 and 1/2 years together. As soon as Dave Anderson said, "Let me announce for the first time 'Mr. and Mrs. Chris Bailey,'" the DJ hit it and we danced down the aisle to "Sexy Back" by Justin Timberlake....a song I knew would be our exit song for quite some time. Our wedding party joined us in dancing to exit the ceremony. Our guest enjoyed drinks and dinner while we completed some pictures and got ready for our big reception introduction.

We entered to "I gotta feeling" by Black Eyed Peas and started our first dance off with another one of our favorite Dave Barnes songs "On a Night Like This...." but a 1:30 into it busted out to our choreographed dance that nobody knew about. We had the best time performing and we hope that our guest enjoyed watching our grand performance.

We enjoyed the evening, dancing, drinking, photo boothin it up and spending time with family and friends. Thank you so much to everyone that came out to celebrate our big day, it was more than we could have imagined it would be. We love each and every one of you so much.

We are enjoying married life as Mr. and Mrs. Bailey every single day.

Rehearsal Dinner

Wedding weekend finally arrived on June 17, 2011. Family all came in town on Thursday, June 16th and we all enjoyed some family time at our house all evening. It was so fun to have everyone hanging out at our house enjoying games and catching up on everything in our lives.

We woke up on Friday, June 17th and hung out a little while around town before heading towards Grapevine. We all headed over around noon and stopped by the hotel that the family was staying at to check them in and then it was off to mom and dad's house to enjoy homeade lunch. We arrived to mom and dad's to meet up with Sanny, GP and Sam on who were already on that side of town. We chilled around the house all afternoon until 3:00 when some of us had to head up to the Colleyville Center for Rehearsal.

We checked out everything at the Colleyville Center and then around 4:00 we actually started practicing the for the ceremony and we ended up finishing a little bit early. Rehearsal dinner was at Chill, but it wasn't until 6:30 pm, so all the family went back to chill at the hotel while Bailey and I met some friends up there early.

We enjoyed yummy pasta, pizza, salad and drinks with our amazing friends and family at Chill. Everyone hung out until about 10:00 pm and then they headed out while we stayed with some of our close friends to dance the night away.

Bailey and I stayed at mom and dad's house that night and the next morning the girls had to be up at Toni's to get our hair done at 9:00am. I didn't want Bailey to see me AT ALL the day of our wedding, so I snuck out of the bedroom and got ready and headed up to Toni's. I will continue the wedding day post next....until then enjoy some pictures for rehearsal and rehearsal dinner.

Wedding Week!!!!!

Wedding week is FINALLY here and I can't believe it. We spent Saturday at mom's getting everything organized and ready to go for Saturday. It only took all morning and afternoon to get ourselves under control and feel like we were ready. Today started several to do's for everyone and I am so glad that I am on summer break to have a chance to breathe and get everything done.

Today I am busy packing, cleaning and getting ready for family to arrive on Thursday.

Tomorrow is hair color/cut appointment.

Wednesday is last minute shopping, packing and getting groceries for the family that is staying here.

Thursday is lunch with bridesmaids, mani/pedi, tan, family in town and hanging out for pre-wedding festivities

Friday is rehearsal and Chill to start celebrating

Saturday: THE DAY IS FINALLY HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It will be a busy week, but totally worth it. We have waited over 5 years for this day to finally get here and we can't wait to celebrate with all of our friends and family.