We Made It To ONE Year!!!

 So, we survived our 1st year of marriage!  It is so crazy to think that a whole year has passed!  A part of me feels like if Rob and I made it through the past year we can make it through anything!  Our marriage has been great but other factors have been very stressful for us!  Both of our families have faced some stressful times in the past year (mostly my family though)....and inevitably it does take a toll on me and Rob in some way.  But we have stayed strong to what we feel is right and Rob has stayed by my side and has supported me in all of my decisions in how to deal with and handle my family's issues!  Aside from the drama though, there have been some really GREAT things that have happened!  Our BEAUTIFUL and PERFECT niece Holly Elise Ordway was born on September 14th, 2010!  She is so great and is growing soooooo fast!   It seems like just yesterday that she was just a little infant that didn't do anything...and now she smiles, giggles, grabs things, rolls over, sits up...it's truly amazing!  Here is a pic of her from her First Easter...just last Sunday!

 

 

 

 

7 months old!  Easter Sunday 4/24/2011

We feel so lucky to have been able to spend Holly's 1st Easter with her and my brother and sister in-law!  It was a very special day for her!  Rob and I brought hard boiled eggs up to color with her and also brought her a special Easter basket with lots of fun surprises!  Here are a few pics!

Her 1st Easter Basket from Auntie Lacy and Uncle Rob!

Having fun coloring Easter eggs!

Here are few more pics from visiting Nick, Melissa, and Holly at the Desert for Easter weekend!

One of my favorite pics of us at the desert!

Auntie Lacy and Uncle Rob and little Holly!  Happy 1st Easter for us and her!

Rob went on his 1st Dune Buggy ride!  And LOVED it!  :o)

Holly and I on Easter morning!  She is wearing the Easter bow that I made for her!

The Friday before Easter Rob and I headed to Julian, CA for our Anniversary celebration!  We drove up the back way through Santa Ysabel and went to Dudley's Bakery for lunch and to buy some yummy bread to bring back home!  Neither of us had been there since they expanded it to a deli and bakery!  It was a GREAT lunch and the weather was perfect!

The Bakery!

My Super Yummy Turkey Breast Sandwich!

The view was amazing and the weather was perfect!

This was the view from the bakery parking lot!!  Amazing!

Rob looking cute with his soda!

 After Dudley's we headed up to Julian!  It was only about 10 minutes further up the road from Dudley's!  When we arrived we checked into our Bed and Breakfast, The Julian Hotel!  It's the oldest hotel in Julian!  It was so cute and warm and quaint! 

This is the Parlour where they served tea time, breakfast, and you could play games!

Another angle of the parlour!

They brought me Hot Cocoa even though they don't normally offer it at that time of the day!

Breakfast!  French Toast with Julian Apples on top!

Being silly with his little coffee glass!

After we got checked into the hotel we walked around town and looked in a lot of shops!  Right about 4:30pm we stopped into a business that takes old western photos of people.  So that it looks like you are in an old western movie in a saloon!  They closed at 5pm so we ran to the hotel real fast so I could re-apply some make-up and fix my hair and then went back for a photo!  It was a lot of fun and I think it was my favorite part of the Julian visit!  Here is the photo we picked!

Cute Huh???  Anyways!  That first night our plan was to grab dinner at a local restaurant and then head to the Observers Inn for a tour and to look through big telescopes to see the stars and planets and stuff...but we got fogged in and the skies weren't clear so it got canceled!  :o(  We got a rain check though and we're planning a day trip in the summer to go back and do the tour!   Can't wait!

 Since all of the businesses mostly close after 5pm we decided to just take our cameras out in the night and goof around with night photography!  It was really fun because the whole town of Julian was pretty much silent (except the distant sounds of the local bar hosting a live band).  It was like a ghost town especially with the fog coming in!  Here are some of the pics from that!

The next morning we checked out and headed home!  It was a short but AMAZINGLY sweet trip!  We had such a great weekend!  It was a perfect way to celebrate our 1st year of marriage!  It will be a trip that we will both remember forever! 

So, I guess it's fair to say that after the 1st year we are still deeply in love and are truly looking forward to the years to come and all the adventures that are still out there for us!  Hopefully next year we will be talking about the beginnings of our own little family!  Here are a few more photos from the trip that I liked!  We took so many and more can be found on Facebook!

Love, Lacy and Rob Hester!