Our First Valentines Day

We splurged on our first married Valentine's Day and had dinner at the amazing Ruth's Chris Steakhouse - our first time there. The steak was fabulous, and the service was superb! Afterward, we decided to do dessert at our favorite cafe, Main Street Coffee House.


We exchanged presents at home.


We both enjoyed the floral and cookie bouquets. I'm still enjoying my purse, and Josh will continue to the enjoy The Office season six for a long time.

What a joy to be married to my best friend! We are so in love!

Family Reunion

Exactly one week after we returned from our honeymoon we left town for Family Reunion (Josh's dad's side). It was my 2nd family reunion, but the first as an actual Hren. This meant I could actually vote during the family meeting (yes, things are very formal at the Hren family reunion). We/I made banana bread to share with the fam. There was SO much food; it was delicious!

Yes, I was very proud to have the title of "Newest Hren"!

Home Sweet Home

Josh & I are really enjoying turning our house into our home!!

I don't think we've even watched any TV yet (totally fine by me!).

Finding a home for all our wedding gifts

LOVE our dishes!! Josh washed while I dried and put them in the cabinet...

...and discovered that the dinner plates were TOO BIG for our cabinets. The cabinets aren't deep enough!

Are we allowed to have favorite wedding gifts? This personalized embroidered pillow is definitely up there (I'm big on anything personalized!)!!

It goes in the living room AND bedroom!

Welcome Home

Josh & I spent 5 nights away on our honeymoon. We purposely planned our trip so we would have downtime at home before going back to work and re-entering normal life.

It was nice to spend some time at home before going out for our first public appearance at farmer's market Saturday morning.

But when we arrived home Friday night, we were delighted to see this:

decor from our wedding to greet us at the front door

my family's "Welcome Home" sign posted at the top of the stairs

our freshly made bed with our new bedding

bathroom with our new towels just waiting to be used

and ... leftover wedding cake!
(I will admit I made arrangements for this as a surprise for Josh.)

Many thanks to my mom and dad who set this all up while we were gone. They did a TON of wedding related things as well that week, not to mention all their work with clean-up the night of the wedding and ALL the prep-work my mom especially did in the months leading up to the wedding! We are soooooo blessed to have two sets of awesome parents!! Thank you, God!