End of Summer

As the summer comes to an end I wanted to update everyone on everything that has happened. Erica and I have had a super busy last two months with lots of fun trips and activities.

I took a trip to LA to visit Bush and surprise him for his birthday.


It was definitely fun to hang out on the westcoast for a few days and see Bush. We also got to go see Manny being Manny when he came back from trying to get pregnant at Dodgers Stadium.

Erica took a trip down to Houston for her dad's retirement party.


There have been tons of babies born in Houston in the family so it was good for her to go see all the babies that she hasn't seen in awhile. It was also good to see everyone at the retirement party and spend some time with the fam.

As most of you know, my bro also had his first kid, Mr. Jordan Butler. He's ridiculously cute and hopefully we can see him in person sooner than not.

In the past few months there have also been a lot of chick fil a openings so we have been camping out a lot in different chick fil a parking lots getting tons of chick fil a coupons. It is definitely fun to see the same people every time and it's hilarious that we are like the veterans and regulars after doing them for so long.





One of the biggest things that has happened this summer is that Erica has started up her own business. She is now in the business in making gourmet cupcakes and gifts. She is still at Fluor but this is a side business that we wanted to get started. We had a open house where we had over 300 cupcakes made. Erica's mom even came into town to help bake and decorate. I tried to decorate myself but after they saw that I have no artistic talent, the icing pipe was taken away from me. At the open house we had about 50 people and it was a huge success.


For the past week I have been working exclusively on finishing Erica's website for her business. Be sure to check it out at www.createdby-e.com There you can see all the pictures of all the cupcakes and some of the pictures from the open house.

Hopefully everyone had a great summer and we look forward to talking/seeing everyone soon.

Summer Time

So I realized that it had been about 2 months since I updated the blog so thought it would be a good time to update since much has happened and most people haven't gotten to see any pictures yet.

As many of you know we went on a three day cruise down to the Bahamas for our 2 year anniversary. We had a blast dispite the rain that seemed to follow us everywhere we went on the islands. There were also two couples from our small group that were celebrating their anniversaries as well that went with us. It was definitely a fun time to fellowship with friends and also spend some time with my bride.




















One of the coolest things happened last month. Erica got baptised. It was definitely an awesome experience. The church we have been going to, Newspring, goes all out for the baptisms and they even tailgate for 2 hours before. There were probably about 500 people at the baptism and at our location we had about 180 people get baptised. We have multiple locations and in total we had about 560 people get baptised which is pretty awesome for one day. We have really enjoyed the vision of the church and they actually have a web campus that shows the services live online Sunday mornings. If anyone is interested, you can visit www.newspring.cc to check it out.

















We also have some exciting things coming up this summer. My cousin will be getting married and my brother and his wife will be having their first child. Add to the fact that like everyone else we know is having a baby, so there will be lots of little ones joining us in the near future. I hope everyone has a wonderful summer. We'll try to take tons of pictures over the next few months to share with everyone.

New site up!

So as many of you may know I have recently built a website and launched it. I would definitely like to hear what everyone thinks of it. Check it out at thechesswebsite

New House Updates!

We recently added a few things to our house and thought we'd put some pictures up so you could see what a great eye my wife has for interior design. Hope you like the revamped place.

AFHV

Just want to let everyone know that this Sunday, March 15th, Erica and I will be on America's Funniest Home Video. We submitted a video about a month ago and it will be airing at 7/6 central on ABC. Just look out for Erica playing batting practice in my college apartment. Hope everyone enjoys.

White Christmas in March

Well the day has finally come. It took longer than we thought it would be we had our first snow day in South Carolina. The day started out with just freezing rain but halfway through turned to snow. As you can see from the pictures it only took a few hours for things to go from light snow to about two inches of snow on the ground. After lots of snow fighting and snow angels we made one of the best snowmen I've seen. This is normal to many people but growing up in Texas I don't ever remember having enough snow to make a snowman. Hope everyone enjoys the pictures.