Birthday Celebrations...

I've got a few posts coming of the events that took place in August... so be watching for them.

This one is from the week of my birthday. Mom had a conference in SA that week, so she stayed the entire week with us. Dad had to work down in the valley, so he came through and stayed Thur and Fri with us and he and mom headed home that Saturday.

It was GREAT having them in town! On my birthday (which this was the first time since I've been married that I've been with my side of the family ON my actual birthday)- Steve had to work until late that evening... so my mom and I had some "girl time". We went to a spa and got some pedicures together. Afterwards we went to my favorite Mexican food place... Alamo Cafe!!! Mmmmmm!!!!

sorry it's so blurry... my camera is moody!
doesn't mom look AMAZING!

Steve knows that I'm not a huge cake fan... but he also knows that my new found favorite cake is Strawberry! He bought this little cake for me and lit the only candles that we have in the house (27)~ oh how I would love to be that age again! (sigh)




Then, Steve and I went out on my birthday date the Friday after my b-day. We went to Red Lobster (I love their chicken strips!). After dinner we went down to the river walk and took a ride on the river boats! I've never done that! If you live here, you don't do the "tourist" thing very much. So, enjoy the pics from our birthday date...

Wedding Reception....

Welp, this is the last of the "showing of the wedding" blogs. This is the reception/honeymoon. However, I don't have any of my pics from my honeymoon scanned in, so this will strictly be of the wedding reception.

I won't do too much "talking". This will be in pics for the most part.

We had a BLAST at the reception. Our DJ was brand new, but he was cheap! He did pretty good for it being one of his first gigs! There were a few mess ups, and some boring song choices, but not too many! I still had a blast!!!

"Now introducing for the first time Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Morse!"


getting dinner (we had a fajita bar w/ all the sides, chips, etc... I got a plate, but didn't eat any of it! I was too busy saying hello to everyone there!)






Our first dance to "From This Moment" by Shania Twain and Brian White

The wedding party and their "dates" doing the Electric Slide!






This is the knife my mom and dad used when they got married



The cake... Steve had a volleyball cake (the top peice was shaped/decorated as a volleyball! It was awesome! Mine was beautiful with different designs on the sides of each tier. We almost knocked it over trying to cut it though! I got a little nervous. Then, once we got it cut... it got messy...

(yes, I'm trying to lick the cake off of my chin!)

We smeared cake and had a blast doing it!!! I had it down my dress, up my nose, all over my hands, face, etc! SO MUCH FUN!

I wanted to put this in since Steve's grandad is now in heaven. This is "Buck"! A wonderful man!!!






We left the next day to go on our cruise! And we've lived happily ever after!