First Grill...and Memorial Day weekend

We had our first grilled dinner tonight on our new grill. Yesterday my family in Tyler held a shower for us. They were overly generous! Our BIG present was a extremely nice grill...much bigger and with many more features than we would have ever purchased for ourselves. It has four burners inside and a side burner for a pot of corn or whatever we want to cook. It occurs to me as I write this that I should have taken a picture of Nathan grilling tonight...but I didn't think about it. So I will just have to do it tomorrow. We are going to grill out tomorrow night too for the Memorial Day holiday. We have invited mom and pop to join us tomorrow.

We also received many accesories with our new grill...lots of tools and a great basket that we used for shrimp tonight. We also received porch decorations we had registered for and many other nice gifts. My Tyler family was so generous.

I think the best gift though was a special cookbook that one of my aunt's made for me. It is scrap book style and super cute. But the best part is what is in it...it is filled with receips from all my family members. Mom, Aunts, Grandparents, extended family...tons of special receips that they passed on to me. And there is plenty of room to expand! It was a very special gift...one that I will treasure forever.

We also bought a flag today. It took us awhile to get the bracket installed in the brink...but we finally made it and hung the flag. It is down now and waiting for tomorrow...Memorial Day.

I feel like a true home owner now. We have a flag and a grill...two things that really make our house feel like a home. Nathan had just put the stakes on when I commented that now all of our neighbors could be jealous of our "cooking-out-smell".

School is officially out now. We celebrated Friday night with fajita chicken salads that we made at home and a 6-pack of Smirnoff Ice. We don't drink much..but it was fun and refreshing!

Okay...that is all for now!

20 days until we are married!