Graduation and Anniversary

2 blog posts in 1 day! Definately a record for this girl! A lot has happened though in the past 2 weeks, I feel the need to catch you all up!

We left the beach a day early so that we could make it back to my brother, Austin's graduation from MTSU on Saturday. I was so proud to see him get his diploma, he graduated in 4 years and is now going on to start his Masters in the fall! If you know him, you would know school has not always been his main focus, sports always took center stage at our house (still does). And he doesn't exactly have the Type A personality of his sister, but he did it in less time than most people these days and is now going on for more school! I'm so proud! Anyway all weekend we spent with family and celebrated Austin's accomplishment with a trip to the MTSU farm, he and Jill's house, a local bar, and many other food stops throughout Nashville. Sunday we celebrated at my mom's house with a homemade garden dinner and amazing cocanut cream pies! I am still full from vacation and all the celebrating!

Then on Tuesday 8-16-11, Eric and I celebrated each other! We have been married for 3 years! Sometimes it seems like yesterday that we got married, other days it seems we have been married for as long as I can remember. This year was special because it's our third and we will soon welcome a third Tinch to our family! We celebrated in a low-key kind of way after all the vacationing and celebrating, Eric cooked some delishous NY strip steaks (Baby T and I are loving beef at this moment), we also had baked potatoes, asperagus, and mushrooms. It was delish! We also had blue m&m's for desert (blue are the best, the hubs knows me well!) Every year we try to stick to the traditional anniversary gift guidelines, this year was leather for traditional and crystal/glass for the modern couple. Eric got me this beautiful leather-bound scrapbook complete with all this scrapbook stuff for me to start one for Baby T! It was a perfect gift and gives me a brand new project! I tried to stick to the guidelines but failed this year because Eric needed (wanted) a watch, I was going to get him one with a leather strap so that I would follow the rules...but decided he would like the traditional band much better so maybe next year I will stick to the guidelines a bit better... Happy Anniversary Eric!