You know you've lived in the south too long when...

We are prepping for tubing on Lake Amistad and I think, let's wait a couple more hours, it's only 78 right now. That's kind of chilly.

Can you believe it?

We've been married for FIVE years! These have been the quickest, easiest, most enjoyable five years of my life. We had a conversation with a couple awhile ago about rough marriages and I felt so blessed when Josh said, well, it's been a pretty easy five years for us, we made it through pilot training, deployment, and school. Not to mention 5 moves in 6 years! I could not have picked a better person to grow old with, guess that's what happens when you leave that work to God! Also hard to believe, we are quickly approaching the "we've known each other half our lives" stage. We are getting old!!

We had an absolute blast in Austin this past weekend. Crazy thing, five years ago we couldn't find a hotel to spend our wedding night in because it was Notre Dame's graduation. We tried months in advance and had to go a couple cities over to find one. Well, this weekend was University of Texas's graduation and the place was packed! It reminded me of the crowds of New Orleans during the 4th of July a few years ago, minus the overwhelming smell of booze, immense humidity, and voo doo dolls. Anyways, somehow, we were able to find a reasonably priced hotel right on Sixth street. We were asked multiple times, are you guys excited for graduation!? We also got a few "is this I.D. fake" looks because of our out of state licenses (mine is still Michigan, Josh's is Kansas).

Anyways, we took our time getting to Austin to pick up some belated birthday and anniversary presents for Josh. He wanted a new bike jacket and a bike cover for his Harley. Check. We also got him a new reel for his fishing pole. Then we went on down to the outlet malls and shopped around. We checked out the bats but they had stage fright. We spent Saturday at Barton Springs and that place was great! The water was 68 degrees, incredibly frigid, but still warmer than Lake Michigan! And, our lips didn't turn blue! We didn't know what we wanted to do for our anniversary and not much was going on around the bigger cities. Then, we were watching the Soup and Joel McHale said, come see me in Austin on May 19th, and bam, we made plans! He was hilarious. Here are some pics.

Barton Springs

 Pre-gaming at the bar before Joel McHale

View of the city from the Long Center

My "surprise" anniversary gift, an anniversary band.
Yes, I am immensely spoiled.

 Night view

Our treasures from the drive!  Austin - Steak N Shake Chili, New Braunfels - Logan's Rolls, San Antonio - Olive Garden dressing from Sam's club, and Uvalde - Taco Bell Chili Cheese burritos!!

And we did a little outlet mall shopping with some other stops
at Cabela's, Harley, Academy, and Bed Bath and Beyond.
Oh, the big city life.... 

All in all, a wonderful, relaxing anniversary!
Hard to believe we have another long weekend coming up this week, hooray!

Down to the last loan!

We got our rather massive TDY paycheck today for our time in San Antonio. After that check, I'm wishing we could have stayed there longer! We used some of it used it to pay off one of Josh's loans. Now, we are down to ONE last loan with Sallie Mae! We now have $16,250 left til we are debt free!! We are expecting more money from the move soon, and with that help, we hope to be debt free before the end of the year!! Praise the Lord, can't wait to rejoice in this accomplishment!! And to celebrate we will probably end up buying a new car, hah! 

But hey, that's a different kind of debt, right? :)