A Year Already?

"To love is nothing. To be loved is something. To love and to be loved is everything"
~Claire Dempsey

Today is mine and James's one year anniversary of being engaged! Who knew that a year could fly by so quickly. He took me out to dinner last night to celebrate at O'Charley's since neither one of us could go this evening. We got to talking about our favorite memories since we got engaged and I said that one of my favorite was just being able to call everyone that night and share the news and also getting to tell everyone at school the next day was fun as well! James said that his favorite moment would definitely be buying our house which has been a huge part of starting our new life together!

James also surprised me tonight by coming home from our school play and knocking on the door. When I came to answer the door he had a dozen beautiful roses and a new wind chime to put outside our house...what a sweetie pie!

Our First Wedding Shower!

I had always wondered when the day would come that I would get my picture on a cake...lol well last Friday that lucky day came when Melissa and Tara threw James and I a wedding shower for all of our friends and c0-workers at school. We had an absolutely AMAZING time and were so touched to see everyone who came to the shower. It definitely made James and I realized how blessed we are to work with a group of such wonderful people that truly care for us both as a couple and as individuals! We were very thankful for how generous everyone was with their gifts as well and we are happy to report that we were able to go out this weekend and get everything we had wanted to set up our new bathroom and kitchen after we get married so we are excited about that as well! We are also going to paint our bathroom to match the new shower curtain so we got some paint to do that as well!

James and I with the wonderful hostesses of our party...we are SO lucky to have such great friends!

Melissa & Tara came up with a game to "Test your knowledge of James & Anna" and these were the four winners of the game (JoAnna, Molly, Meredith, & Beth), great job ladies!

The kindergarten team...yet another group of people that we are SO blessed to know down here...life wouldn't be the same without them!

James with his future 3rd grade staff...he is looking forward to working with these great ladies as well next year!

James and I with good ole Sally who is actually going to be the lucky one to marry us this summer...maybe she will give us a little saranade after the ceremony as well!

Cinco De Mayo

Ole! Ole! Ole!

It's Cinco De Mayo Day!

Ole! Ole! Ole!

It's Cinco De Mayo Day!

Man who knew such a simple song would be so catchy! Just wanted to post a pic that I stole from Melissa's blog of us out celebrating Cinco de Mayo last night...good times were had with Margarita's and Fajita's at Chili's, who could ask for more...OLE!

The OFFICIAL Taste Testers...

OK so I was telling this story to Melissa and she said it was definitely "blog worthy" so here goes! James and I frequently visit a coffee shop here in good ole Monroe and the other morning when he went in to get us coffee he got us volunteered for a job...go figure! Well this one was actually a pretty cool job. We were asked to come by Thursday afternoon to do some taste testing for them for a new drink that they were creating to taste like a butterfinger candy bar. So to make a long story short, we went in that afternoon and they gave us several rounds of drinks (hooray for caffine) and we got to help them to come up with the recipe for the drink. It was definitely fun and took me back to the good ole days of starbucks! James really had a good time as well and he definitely likes giving his oppinion when it comes to chocolate and coffee drinks, now if we could just get that some job at an ice cream store!

As for the rest of the weekend it has been going pretty well. We spent the day today doing some spring cleaning around the house and I have been trying to get my two final papers done for grad school which ends this week...YAHOO! We are also going over to our friends Matt & Molly's house this evening for a little BBQ and then some night golf so that should be fun! Well I guess that is going to be all for now seems how is it about time to get ready to head out. Sorry no pictures on this post, hopefully we'll have some good ones to add soon!