Our 1st Getaway!

We love Spring Break!!!!! :) :)

As part of our pre-marital counseling with Brother Chris we were given a homework assignment for our first year...get away 3 times for a weekend alone. Easy enough!! Since we had Thursday & Friday off this week for Spring Break we decided to make it a long weekend and went to San Antonio for our first "getaway". We had such a great time!!! We stayed at the Marriott Plaza San Antonio, a really nice hotel a block from the Riverwalk which we just loved! Our Friday activities included a trip to the San Antonio Zoo. Apparently that was also on the agenda for about 95% of San Antonio residents. It was PACKED, but we still had a great time. There was a neat Lory exhibit where they sold these little cups of sweet liquid that you could hold and make the birds land on you! Darrin & I had so much fun playing with those Lories and letting them fly and peck all over us, although he was much braver (more brave?) than I was! After the zoo we came back to the hotel to watch the Aggies first game of the NCAA tournament and then went to dinner at CHEESECAKE FACTORY!!! It was amazing and we both thought we were going to die afterwards! The weekend was absolutely perfect...a little shopping, some March Madness watching (especially the Aggies), the Riverwalk, the Zoo, and lots of yummy food! On our way home, we stopped by for a delicious lunch with Gram & Champa at IHOP. Saturday night after we got back, we went over to Mema's with Martha, Perch, and Aunt Susie for some coffee cake. We topped off the weekend by watching Darrin's little cousin, Cade, get baptized this morning! What a wonderful way to end our fabulous Spring Break!!

On the beautiful Riverwalk!

This little dude was loving the neck massage he could get by rubbing his head on Darrin's finger, it was SO cute!! 

Our families were awfully busy too this Spring Break:
Chrissy & Justin went to Las Vegas, Kaity & Layne went to Mexico on a mission trip, Mom went to El Campo, and Dad held down the fort in Bryan while enjoying some estrogen-free time! haha
Martha spent a week and a half in Houston at her Pump show, Perch went up to Dallas for classes (ugh!), and Brandon & Allison celebrated little Avaree Grace's 1/2 birthday today!!! Happy 1/2 Birthday little Princess!!! :)

Darrin's job hunt updates:
He still hasn't heard anything about the potential job that was being reevaluated last week. New development, he has been talking to a good friend of ours this week about another potential job here in town that is looking promising. Please keep both of these in your prayers. Hopefully there will be more detailed, positive updates next week!! :)

Love,
Darrin & Jamie

Wedding Photo Highlights!

This was not easy, but I narrowed it down to less than 25 pictures from our wedding so I could post some highlights on here for everyone to see. There's also a link to the left that you can click on and view all the photos from our wedding photographer, Sarah Stone, and our dear friend Maleigh Canon. Please enjoy!! :)

100 Amazing Days Later!

Welcome family & friends to our new blog! 100 days after our perfect wedding we've decided to start a blog so everyone can keep up with our crazy life. Our first 3 1/2 months have been filled with tons of laughter, a few tears, lots of visits with friends and family, life lessons, and a most of all, loads of fun! The whirlwind and busy-ness (not sure if that's a word) of the first 3 months is very apparent in the fact that I haven't even shared our WEDDING PICTURES with our wonderful families yet, yikes! But I'll put a link to them on here, if I can figure out how! :) Hope you enjoy reading about our many adventures, please shoot us a message sometime to say hello!! thebartons09@yahoo.com

I'll try to catch you up in as few words as possible. (ha!):

December: We started December off in Cancun on our fabulous honeymoon. The hotel was gorgeous, the water beautiful clear blue, and we just had an absolute blast!! We (or maybe just Darrin) played golf at the resort, went to Xplor - an adventure park that had swimming & rafting, ATVs. and ZIPLINING!-, took a catamaran cruise out to Isla Mujeres, rode jet skis out to snorkel, and did a Mexican form of parasailing. It was absolutely AMAZING!!

We then spent a WONDERFUL 1st Christmas together visiting lots of family and just enjoying our time off together.

January: Nothing much aside from learning how to live together. (Which is an adventure in itself.) I did have a birthday though, and Darrin was so sweet taking me to lunch and making me dinner while I was at work. He also gave me a gift certificate for an hour massage and manicure!! :)

February: It SNOWED...TWICE!!!! It never snows in Bryan and certainly not enough to stick and give us time off from work!!! It was beautiful!!!! We also joined the Young Married Sunday School class at our church. Right now we're in a breakout of that class called the Newlywed class. We LOVE it! It's a group of about 10 couples and the teachers and other couples are all so much fun! We joked that we should get married again next semester so we can do their "newlywed" class again. :)

Other than that not much has changed. Darrin's been steadily searching for a job since we started back after Christmas and has a potential job that's being reevaluated this week. Please say a prayer for this as we're obviously very ready for his job hunt to be over!! I've babbled on long enough, but I feel like there so much excitement to share. We love everyone and hope you enjoy reading about our many adventures as we continue this wonderful journey together!