Friday, January 1, 2010

Our year in pictures

What an amazing year we have had. We are so blessed - God has truly watched over us this year and given us so many blessings! We are so greatful! He is a picture summary of our year - hope you enjoy!

Jeff & Michelle Ellis - Est. April 25, 2009

Our dearest friends, our wedding party.
Dancing with my Daddy
Our honeymoon. We spent a week at the Sandals Royal Bahamian. It was the most wonderful week of our lives!
Our dear friends, Kristi and Talton welcomed their first child, Connor. We are so hapy for them!

We celebrated Lindsey and Greg's upcoming wedding at their couple's shower. Their wedding is in one week!
My Birthday brunch with my favorite girls!
My parents had my wedding florist design these flowers for my birthday.
We had a great time at Zieg Fest!
Go Texans! This was Jeff's first Texans Game!
We put these pumpkins up for Halloween!
Lindsey's Bridal Shower. She will be Mrs. Smith this time next week!

Our dear friends Kenny and Heidi are going to welcome Kenneth into their family any day now! We are so very excited for them and we can't wait to meet him!
Our first marriage prayer.
We went the Third Eye Blind at the Verizon Wireless theater. That was our first time at that venue, and we loved it!
I got Jeff Monday Night Football tickets for his birthday - SO FUN!
Our first married Christmas picture
My parents :)

The girls took me to Vegas for a long weekend for my Bachelorette party. Best.Weekend.Ever.

I met Whitney from the hills....haha!

Bridals
Britney celebrated her bachelorette party at the river. What a fun weekend that was! The boys went to Shereveport...Jeff didn't come home with any pictures of that...haha!
My sister, Valerie, graduated from UNT and got a job teaching at a community college! I am SO PROUD of her!!
I loved our tree this year!
Jeff and Bandit celebrating an early Christmas at my parent's house in Dallas.
We got to have Christmas with Emommy and Edaddy! What a treat!
We spent Thanksgiving at the Cowboys game, compliments of my wonderful Daddy! What a great experience! The stadium is amazing!
We had great seats!
Our wedding ceremony
These wonderful ladies threw me a lovely shower! Thank you Pam and Gale!
My Mom, Me, MIL, SIL
I carved a Texans pumpkin this year!
We spent Halloween with my friends at the best house party - Rickey is an amazing host! He proposed to Erin this year, we are so happy they are getting married!!! Lenti and Brandy came in town and stayed with us, or, little red riding hood and the vampire stayed with the sexy housewife...ha!
Daddy walking me down the aisle
Mr. & Mrs. Cleaver - Halloween
Jeff took me to Vegas for my birthday this year! I adore Vegas, and this was his first trip. He loved it! This pic is of us at Rain in The Palms.
Memorial Day. We spent the weekend at Jeff's parent's lakehouse in Crockett, TX.
Mother's Day with Jeff's family.
The girls in the limo after our wedding
Britney and Brandon's wedding. They are expecting their first baby in May!
Valentine's Day
Thanks for taking the time to take a look at our year! Wishing you a wonderful 2010!

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Two years ago on this day...

My amazing husband asked me to marry him!

As you can tell by the pictures below, I was beyond happy and incredibly surprised. New Year's Eve will always be a very special memory for us.

Happy New Year's to you and yours!!


















Sunday, December 27, 2009

Christmas 2009

Wow...we are so lucky. I can say, with full confidence, that this was the best Christmas I have ever, ever had. I got to see each and every one of the family members that I love, I celebrated my first Christmas with my husband, and we were surrounded with love and happiness all weekend! My parents came and stayed with us, and there are no words to describe how special it was to have my family here, at our home, for Christmas.

I love our tree so much!

Bandit checking out the presents
Our outside trees
Jeff and my Sister, Val
Saturday night, we got both of our families together for dinner at Shogun, our favorite place. Afterwards, everyone came to our house for some Wii competition and a little power hour.

Daddy & Val
I'm not sure what they are doing....
Me, Mom & Val. I have had a horrible cold all weekend, and Saturday was my worst feeling day. This picture shows you just how awful I felt. Yuck.
Mom, Val & Jeff
We had a wonderful Christmas at Jeff's parents' home. We had a great dinner, fun present time, and went through lots of old pictures of Jeff and his sister, Jenny. It was so fun!
My pinwheels!
My sausage balls were a bit hit!
Val gave Daddy a picture of the three of us from the Cowboys game on Thanksgiving. What a special gift! You can tell by this picture how much it meant to him.
Present Time!
Bandit helping Jeff with his gifts...
Bandit loved what Santa brought him!
We gave Mom and Daddy a wedding album. They love it!
Mom's face when she realized she was getting the wedding album...
Bandit's Stocking
Breakfast...yum!!
Santa a.k.a my Mom, brought our stockings all the way from Dallas!