Happy Birthday Rusty!

So June 1st was my dog Rusty's 2nd birthday. In honor of the occasion we baked a cake.

And I do believe that this is one of the best cakes I've ever tasted. It's a Kentucky Butter Cake and you can find the recipe at Allrecipes. I really can't wait for an excuse to make this cake again. 

Here are Rusty and Torchy enjoying a slice of birthday cake. Of course we made them wait politely before they were allowed to eat it.

 Rusty took time to savor his piece.

But I think Torchy swallowed his piece whole.

And foster pup Parker got his piece too.

Happy Birthday John!!! (Oh yeah... and Happy Cinco de Mayo)

Today is John's Birthday and in honor of the occasion we made our favorite dinner...

It's a Rachel Ray recipe - Mini Meatloaves and Smashed Potatoes with Cream Cheese. Delicious!! I forgot to take a picture of our plates on the table so you'll have to settle for the ones that were left in the pan.

Next we made chocolate chip cookies. They are cooling right now and I can't wait to eat them. I was all for just eating the dough and saving the cook time, but John likes his cookies cooked so we put them in the oven. I did sample the dough though so I know they're good.

Mmmmm... Cookie Dough :)

Cookies are ready to go in the oven

Here we are waiting to eat some cookies :)

All in all it has been a great birthday dinner. John's been working very hard finishing up his semester and I think he appreciated the break from studying. We of course miss all our family and friends and we wish we could have shared this day with you but we are glad we can share the moments of our lives through this blog. Oh and the cookies turned out amazing. If anyone would like recipes let me know!

YIPPEE!!!

If anyone is wondering what exactly I am so excited about, I got into veterinary school!!!!!!

I will start my first year of school at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine in the fall and I am very excited. It has definitely been a long road getting here but I wouldn't change a thing.

Here is a congratulations gift from my wonderful parents.

So it looks like in a few years John and I will be Dr. and Dr. Beeson :)

We're married!

Ok, so most of you already knew that, but I thought I would recap. John and I got married on New Year's Eve 2010 and got to start off 2011 with our honeymoon at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, TX. The wedding was absolutely beautiful. We had an amazing time and everything went perfectly. We will put up a recap and pictures as soon as we get the photo CD from the photographer. We felt very blessed to see so many of our friends and family there. And the vendors and staff at the wedding did an amazing job.

The past month has been busy but wonderful. John and I are really enjoying married life. John is in the second semester of the second year of his PhD program in statistics and he's really enjoying himself and is starting to get involved in some very interesting research. John had his preliminary PhD exams the week after the wedding and he of course passed them all. I am working as a veterinary technician at a vet clinic in Waco and I've applied to grad school. All the applications are in now, so I'm just waiting to see what happens next.

Friday we got about 3 inches of snow in Waco and we had a great time taking Rusty and Torchy out to play. They always seem to really love the snow. It was really cold outside though so it was a pretty quick play time. We spent the rest of the day curled up on the couch watching movies. We watched Princess Bride and then had a Star Wars Marathon (3, 4, 5, 6). It's been a great relaxing weekend and we're capping it off with the superbowl and some really great food :)