I love FALL!!!

On Sunday we were able to go to the local pumpkin patch. We went with 2 other couples; Matt and Emily and Matt and Rachel. Matt and Rachel's little guy came along as well. It was a ton of fun. We walked around, got snacks, watch the pumpkin cannon and went on a hay ride where we got to pick pumpkins. Afterwards we went to Matt and Rachel's house and carved our pumpkins! They are all set up on the porch now :) Enjoy the pictures....

 Pumpkin trail

 Us in front of the pumpkin mountain

 Emily and I...Alex was being a goober and right here I think I'm telling him to stop being a dork before he drops my camera.

 Matt and Mr. L

 Matt and Emily

Alex getting ready to pick our pumpkins

We are very excited for Halloween this weekend. Some people from Alex's work are having a party so we are dressing up and getting ready to have a great time!

Playing Catch Up

Even though I don't have very many pictures to show for it, we've both been extremely busy. Mostly with work and not much play :( Fall sports are winding down for me finally and we'll be starting into basketball soon. Alex has been working on a BIG project at work as well as starting his masters back up after taking the summer off for the wedding and a little brain break. We did manage to make it to the Coug game in Oklahoma, which was a serious blast! We also spent a day in Oklahoma City (pictures of both below). We also did a weekend in Lubbock. I went early with a few friends to run the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure and then our guys showed up and we had a great time letting loose a little (pics below as well). Miss Gabby is a year old and she's such a sweet puppy. She loves to cuddle, knows how to give hugs (sweetest thing ever!) and is so playful and little bit of a jokester. Hope you enjoy this little update of our lives...next stop - the beginning of basketball, Thanksgiving, Sara's graduate school graduation, and much more :) Love ya'll!

 Us with Butch

 Starship Concert with Emily :)

 Spirit Squad on Homecoming

 Alex trying not to kill himself on Craig's mini bike

Oklahoma City - baseball game

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Alex playing with our neighbor, Miss A

Happy Miss A

Gabby looking out the window

blinked!

Tina and I at the piano bar

Craig and Tina

Again...

they were pretty talented

hahahaha

the group...what a fun night!

Alex and Craig...right before i broke the crap out of Alex's camera (epic fail)

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and I'm not really sure why I can't make this go away....

My friend Samantha...I took some pictures of her for her graduation announcements



Married Life: The adventures begin

We've been married for a little over 2 months now and let's just say that neither of us notice much of a difference between being married and not. Haha, we're stilling waiting for "it" to happen. For now, we're just enjoying the titles of husband and wife and each other's company (as always).

We spent about 1/2 of the 2 months apart because of my trip back home and then him being TDY (aka gone for work, silly Air Force and their technical terms) for 3 weeks. Now that my work is getting hectic once again, I feel like we only see each other for a little bit in the evening and passing in the bathroom in the morning. Such is life though...We ARE however very excited for this upcoming Labor Day weekend. We're heading off to Stillwater, OK on Friday for the WSU vs. OK State football game. We've both been to away games but never together so we're excited to do that together as well as get to see the Cougs play, which is always a treat since we're not at home.Our good friends here in NM Matt and Emily Crowe and Craig and Tina Blessing just got married as well as the 6 of us spend a lot of time together :)

Below are a very pictures of the adventures of us newlyweds:

Adventures at the fair bring some delisious treats! Texas Taters w/ cheese mmmmm

Above is a trip to the Josh Abbott concert and then fun with our neighbors, Ed, Leslie and baby Ana. This is baby Ana in my sweatshirt, ready to make smores :)
 

Our friend Meg takes amazing pictures and asked us to do some modeling for her portfolio...this is just one shot but they all turned out amazing! Thanks Meg ;)

Football season is upon us!!! We dominated in the first game and hope to continue that trend...this is a picture of my cheerleaders

We got to do a spouses day at Alex's sqrn and learned some things about their jobs as well as getting to go on a few flights on their planes. it was a blast! above I'm in the cockpit and below is Tina (mentioned above) and I at the end of the day.

Can't wait to put up pictures from our Coug weekend :) See ya'll later

Everything wedding and more

The month of June was, to put it lightly, CRAZY! Crazy, fun, amazing and just a super great time in my life. I went home for my sister's HS graduation, shower, bachelorette, wedding, etc. Alex came for his bachelor party and the wedding preparations. It was so much fun. Here are some pictures from our amazing month...

my shower was put on by my aunts and cousins on the Shuler side. It was a really great time to visit and spend time with lots of people I love.

My bachelorette party was fun as well. We had dinner at Michael's on the Lake and then went to the Saucy Hog to dance the night away. Alex's bachelor party was a weekend long event at Cresent Bar and although there aren't any pictures that I've seen (thank goodness) I know they had a great time.

It was really fun to get to do lots of the last minute stuff with my mom, sister and maid of honor. These are some of the favors we spent hours putting together :)

Our rehearsal dinner was at the Jamison House in Moses Lake and was catered by Famous Dave's BBQ...yummmmy!

Wedding day was so much fun! Getting my hair and makeup done...

more hair

mom putting my dress on me

lots of hurry up and wait but the wait was worth it :)

Jeremy Vasquez and his wife Sarah did our pictures and they are AMAZING! exactly what i wanted :)

MARRIED!

Our reception was the Moses Lake Event Center, catered by Michael's on the Lake and DJ'd by Bill Ecret. The food was great, dancing was fun and I wished the night would never end. It was so beautiful to be able to celebrate with our friends and families.

a BUNCH of my sorority sisters came and i can honestly say that I was soooo happy to see them and felt so loved because they all made it..IIKE babes

Alex's fraternity brothers were there in full force of course...ha

the day of the wedding Alex and I had breakfast with his family then headed to my parent's house to open presents and hang out. We also had Jeremy and Sarah come out and take some neat "trash the dress"/day after pictures. They turned out awesome and the rain stopped for an hour just for us ;)

so handsome

Alex drove to WA so that we could pull a uhaul with all our loot back to NM. let's just say it was fun but i never want to do that again!

we took the Pacific Coast Highway down Cali and got to see the ocean...

The Redwoods...Night #1 we stayed on an Air Force base near San Francisco. Day #2 we made it to...

VEGAS!!! Our friends Derrick and Erin live there so it was nice to visit more with them and see Vegas. It was both Alex and my first time being there. We walked and walked until we could walk no more. Can't wait to go back and do all the fun stuff we saw!

We did play a few slots...just for papa <3

The night before we left we took the Erickson's out to dinner at TAO...oh my gosh, it was the most amazing food I've even eaten and the drinks were delish. Our waiter suggested lemongrass coolers and I thought they were amazing, even after my Raspberrytini :)

All in all, the pre-wedding activities, wedding and the journey home were all things I'm going to remember for a lifetime! Married life is treating us well, still trying to put away all our presents and stuff haha. But more or less life is back to normal. Check in with ya later!

-Sara and Alex