One Year Already?!!?!

Sunday (October 16) was our 1st Anniversary... crazy! I can't believe we've been married a whole year! Of course my sentimental self couldn't resist putting up some pictures from this time last year. Here are a few of my favorites...

This is right after we exited the Sanctuary!

One of the sweetest moments of the day: with my Daddy right before I walked down the aisle :)

This may be my favorite!

Yeaaa.... the Dip!

My Pretty Girls :)

Greg... really?

It was a perfect day!

Honeymoon Dinner in Cancun

My birthday dinner at the resort

Have you ever seen a sunset this gorgeous???

Then, fast forward 365 days....

To celebrate our wonderful first year, Greg planned a trip to Greenville. We went to the Biltmore, to the Fall for Greenville music festival and roamed through the mountains.

The enormous, gorgeous Biltmore

The largest private estate in its time

I decided it has a very "Beauty and the Beast" feel...

Just one of the many gorgeous roses in the huge garden!

On our actual anniversary, we drove up to the mountains around the time our wedding was. I gave Greg a whole play-by-play recap of our wedding ceremony at the time it happened. I'm not really sure if my mom walked down the aisle at 2:07, but I tried my best. It kept me entertained, and Greg was busy trying to hide his rolling eyes. He loves me so.

The weather was beautiful and the trees were the perfect color of Fall!

The Overlook we stopped at...the view was incredible!

[Beard update: It's growing on me. I'm still contemplating my true thoughts concerning facial hair in general, but for a beard, it's not too bad.]

At the festival our last night

This was the first trip that G and I have taken alone since we've been married...It was so nice to have time to rest, reminisce and reflect on our last 12 months together. The Lord has blessed us more than I could have ever imagined and has given me the best husband EVER!! I'm so grateful for you, Gregor and can't imagine life without you...thanks for planning a fabulous trip, putting up with my craziness and loving me so well!

Hotty Toddy and Happy 60th!

So... living in Georgia is wonderful, but I will jump at any chance to go home to Mississippi, even for a super short trip. So when I realized that Ole Miss would be playing Georgia this year in Oxford, it wasn't even an option. We drove to Oxford Friday night and stayed with my cousin Sarah and her new husband Paul.

Greg had never been to an Ole Miss game, much less the Grove (WHAT?? I had to fix this situation). So we put on our gear and headed to God's country to experience the best day of Greg's life.

The Grove was packed. The weather was perfect. Our tickets rocked. Ole Miss played very... well, never mind about how the game turned out, we've never lost a party. Beat that, Bulldogs.

The Pride of the South

Happiness.

We found some friends!

Sara Tyson, Samuel and Baby Husband

My brother Arthur (alias: ArtyPop) joined us

If you haven't noticed, Greg perfectly played the part of a life-long Rebel fan by sporting an original Ole Miss golf shirt. His hair even matches the color scheme. How convenient.

Also, he now has a beard. I can't decide what I think about it quite yet.

Aren't they adorable?

After we left the Grove, Greg and I drove to Jackson. My awesome grandparents, Mom and Pop, are having their 60th Wedding Anniversary in a couple of weeks and my family got together to surprise them with a celebration.

60 YEARS! Give these champs a hand!

We all met at my aunt and uncle's boathouse for lunch. My uncle grilled Pop's famous Ribs recipe and we hung out and enjoyed each other. It's been a while since we've all been together!

The guys playing Horseshoes

What a motley crew!

My name's sake: probably the most incredible woman I know :)

Mary Alice! She came all the way from Cali :)

Mom and her 3 oldest Grandchillin's

Pop goofing off with my brother Paul

Sweet Grandaddy... wonderful head to our huge family!

The Family Clan

Although our trip was quick with lots of driving... it was such an encouraging and wonderful weekend! I miss my family so much and LOVED getting to see them!!!

Out With The Old...

So I keep talking about us moving out of our first apartment, but I never put up pictures of what it looked like. Being the hopeless nostalgic one, I made sure to take lots of pictures before we started packing up our beloved first home.

Moving out of our first apartment created a wave of emotion I totally did not expect. I was sad and boo-hooey throughout the whole packing and moving process. This apartment was the only place Greg and I had lived in together...we knew how it all worked. Where things were, how we moved around, etc.

Most of our first year was spent in that apartment. It's where we spent our time, where we got to know each other better. Moving to a new place felt like we were moving away from each other, and that wasn't a good feeling.

BUT now, after beginning our "settling in" process, we are loving the new house and having fun figuring it out together. We are next door and across the street from some of our dear friends - just icing on top of the cake!

But about the house later. Here are some pictures around our apartment, our first home :)

Our Little Kitchen

I like to call these our "Christmas Couches"...We're very festive.

This would be Greg's "man room." It's very important for him to have his own room to put all of his special man stuff in.

I have a lot of trinkets

Our Wedding Window!

My Wolfe Birds love each other :)

Greg couldn't stand not making it into a picture...he's so sneaky.

Our guest bathroom

Guest bathroom...my cousin Sarah did the flower painting...she's so talented!

A wedding gift we got...I love it!

Guest Room

Our bedroom

Our bathroom

These two paintings are by none other than my talented mother, Janie Davis. Isn't she amazing?

This is of Taylor Grocery right outside Oxford, MS...the best catfish!

Bottletree Bakery on the Square in Oxford...my favorite breakfast place!

And here is an example of Gregor's artwork that he leaves on the whiteboard before he goes to work at the crack of dawn:

He's quite the creative one, eh?

There it is, our first place! Pictures of the new house will come as soon as I make it picture-worthy....

Macon our house a home,
Mary Jane

Life's a Beach

The best place in the world may very well be the beach. It doesn't really matter where, just any place with waves, sand, seagulls and fresh shrimp. I could stay there for a long time. In fact, when Greg and I went to Cancun on our honeymoon, I begged him to let us stay and live at our resort. He said no. Boo.

My dad's family used to own a huge beach house in Orange Beach, Alabama, and he spent every summer there until he went to college. We used to go to the beach when I was young with all of my cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents from my mom's side every year until a few years ago. The beach runs in my blood. I love it!

So, the Davis clan packed up it up and met us in Santa Rosa Beach, FL (between Destin and Seaside). The weather was perfect and the time with my family was very refreshing. It was hard to leave!

Life is good today

My Mama

Mama's boy 1 and 2:  Arthur and Paul

Mama and Daddy...Aren't they cute??

T-R-O-U-B-L-E

The Red Bar...Yummy!

Peter Paul and Arty-pop

I love these two!

Fun times with the fam!