10.16.12 - Our 2nd Anniversary

Happy 2nd Anniversary to my Boo!! 10.16.10 was the BEST day and I cannot believe it's been 2 years already.

I haven't shared any of our engagement pics on the blog before, so thought I'd post in honor of this fantabulous day.

God-willing, looking forward to so so so many more years of FUN together. I put the below quote on the outside of the card I gave Tripp for our Anniversary. So true!

Fall at 3538 W. Belmont Circle

It's my favorite time of the year!! Here are some pics of the house because I don't want to forget what our first house looked like later on in life :)

  

 

  

 

And because the Hollowells love Fayetteville... I had to share these two AMAZING pics of our town. We're blessed to live here!

Annnddd because he's cute, here's a pic of Reggie snuggled up with my toes as a pillow ;) Cutie.

Woo to the Pig

Well, our Hogs haven't been doing so great this year... but we ARE still tailgating and going to the games just like our fam at the Grove :)

We have a new tailgate spot and we all LOVE it. It's so much closer to the stadium and it's been fun!

Here are some pics of the last couple of tailgates.

Mrs. Nancy Davis was in town this past game and it was so great to see her!!! Miss her lots.

I saw the below online somewhere and thought it was awesome. SEC - Whattttuupppp!!!

Tripp.

This past weekend, one of the TV anchors from NWA died in a car accident. I had been reading his wife's blog for a while and had obviously seen him on TV for so many years. I am just so sad for them. They have a 10 month old little girl and my heart is breaking for his wife.

It has caused me to think so many things over the past couple of days... and bottom line, life is so short. So many of the things we stress about, waste too much time talking and thinking about - just don't matter.

This week - I have definitely hugged Tripp a little tighter every day and night. I have more quickly answered his calls and texts during the day at work. I have been thinking about him even more than usual during the day when we're not together. 

I LOVE Tripp. I simply adore him and I cannot imagine living this life without him. There are so many things I look forward to experiencing with him later in life. Although we completely trust God in our plan and what he has in store for us, I'll be honest and admit that we do have "plans" for our future together. We talk what feels like ideal timing on buying a house, starting our family, etc. We have goals and plans for the next couple of years that we've talked about plenty of times. But in reality, we aren't guaranteed those days and experiences... and I worry that we forget that.

I've been thinking about and praying for Matt's (TV Anchor) wife and daughter so much this week... I cannot imagine how difficult these past couple of days have been for her, and how much harder they will probably get without her best friend by her side over the coming years. I trust that God will carry her through it and know that this is all in His plan. What a hard plan to understand, but it's HIS.

God Bless the Turner family.

Early 2nd Anniversary Trip to MEXICO!

Tripp and I went to Mexico to celebrate our 2nd anniversary and had the BEST time. We stayed at the Excellence Playa Mujeres and would highly recommend to anyone.

We *hope* to take a vacation, just the 2 of us, every year... just to get away and enjoy each other. Our anniversary is October 16th, but going over Labor Day week worked best last year when we went to Antigua... so we decided to do that again this year.

We didn't take many pics of us together, but lots of the resort... which we LOVED!! It was so pretty and we were SO lazy... which made it the best vacation ever.

Spending time with Tripp 24 hours of the day was just plain awesome. We laughed so much and had a great time together.

I read FOUR books during the week and Tripp read his sports magazines. Tripp suddenly felt the need to use Spanish and kept rubbing in that he could remember more words in Spanish than I could. He took like 2 classes of Spanish and I took 8 years. It was so sad... I couldn't remember ANYTHING.

Here are some pics of our fabulous week in Mexico!!

Love of my life. Cannot imagine having a better week with anyone else.

Our pool outside our room.

Our room. It was fabulous!

View from our balcony. The huts on the right is where we laid out every day. There was a bar 5 feet away from our chairs and we swam around in the lazy river over and over.

Another pic of our pool/balcony area. It was seriously large enough to host a big party.

 

 Super cool chairs at dinner one night.

 After dinner, Tripp and I played ping pong nearly every night. It got pretty competitive (and sweaty)!

Where I spent 98% of my day.

 Happy Anniversary to us!

We went to the Michael Jackson performance one night at the resort theatre and it was AMAZING. He seriously looked exactly like MJ. People were walking up like it was a real concert and taking pics. 

Overall, it was a WONDERFUL week. We loved every second of our time together and did not want to go back to the real world. Already looking forward to next year's vaca! :)