Our First Married Valentine's Day

Our first married Valentine's day was a wonderful one! My amazing husband woke me up with a very sweet card, a new picture frame and two incredibly smelling candles. It was a nice surprise! I gave Kyle a card, the movie Jerry McGuire and Peanut Butter Twix. We thought it was great to finally be able to buy husband and wife cards! What a great way to start our day!

Our Valentine's picture that I put in my new frame! Oh how I love him!

My mom gave us a gift card for Olive Garden so we had a wonderful dinner in Fort Wayne! It was nice to be out of the house together! We talked about our relationship and how wonderful the past 7 months have been being married! Life is wonderful with my best friend!

This decadent Black Tie Mousse Cake was a great way to end our day of love! I look forward to many more holidays with my husband!

The Lights Before Christmas at the Toledo Zoo

I have always wanted to go to the zoo at Christmas time! My amazing husband took me to the Toledo Zoo for our date night this past weekend!

It was a cold night but lots of fun! We enjoyed experiencing it all together!

There were not a lot of animals out but the ones that were out were the most active I have ever seen them. There were four wolves and they walked all around their habitat.All of the trees were decorated and I thought this purple tree was really pretty!

We loved seeing the bald eagles! They were all fluffy and ready for winter!The lights were incredible! There were millions of lights lit up all over the place. Some of them were even set to music!

The tiger was definitely a highlight of our night! When you go to the zoo during the summer he is normally just laying around because it is so hot but not this night. He came right up to the front and just watched the people! It was incredible to see him up close!

More of the pretty lights!

This ice sculpture was pretty cool! A little elf stacking presents!

This tree was decorated with 27,000 lights! (More than the tree in Rockefeller Center) And I thought my tree had a lots of lights on it!!! It was beautiful!

We are so excited to celebrate our first Christmas together as Mr. & Mrs. Mock!

We wish all of you a very Merry Christmas!

A Mock November!!!!

Kyle and I have really enjoyed the month of November! Married life is treating us well and sometimes it's hard to believe we have been married for 5 months but we know that really isn't that long at all. God has truly blessed us!

One of our date nights this month was to the Candy Cane Christmas Shop to find an angel for our tree. This store was incredible, it had everything you could want for Christmas and more!
Here is our angel! She looks incredible on top of our tree. If this is what the angels looked like that came to the shepherds I would have been stunned too!

We ate dinner at this cute little diner called "Mom's Diner". Our food was good even though we had a weird pizza with pickles on it.

Enjoying our dinner and talking together! It's still so much fun to date even after you are married!

Grandpa Holder turned 70 on November 14! He is an amazing man and we are so thankful for him! We met my family in Fort Wayne and had a birthday dinner at Red Lobster. It was great to see my family again since we live 2 hours away and don't see them as often.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GPA!!!

Our youngest sister Jessie also had a birthday this month. She turned Sweet 16 on November 18! I was able to be there for her surprise party! Oh what a fun night with teenagers, lol!!!

The weekend before Thanksgiving I was able to go see the Lion King with my mom, sisters, Amanda and Janell! It was incredible and would definitely see it again! Thanks Mom! And Janell for an amazing dinner!

Being goofy while waiting to get into the theatre!

Beautiful Girls

We are so blessed that our families live close to each other. We were able to spend Thanksgiving with both sides of the family this year! God has been so gracious to us and we are so thankful for all that we have. The holiday season is upon us and I couldn't be more excited!

Date Day in Toledo

On Saturday Kyle took me to the Toledo Art Museum. We had a lot of fun admiring the paintings and sculptures. Here are a few pictures of our favorites.A beautiful chandelier! I want it in my home one day.

Rainy Day in Boston.....our favorite city!

One of Kyle's favorites from the day.

The Garden of Eden. It was beautiful painting.... definitely one of my favorites!

The coffin of Ta-Mit. It was really cool!

We ate lunch at the Museum Cafe. All of the sandwhiches were named after artists. I ordered the Da Vinci.

Kyle had the Warhol. They were very yummy.On our way home we stopped to get me a Sweet Tea. So good!

We also stopped at Rouche du Boute, a small park. It had a cool old broken down bridge that provided a good photo op.

I love taking pictures! Making memories!!!

The scenery was absolutely beautiful! God sure created an incredible earth!

We had a great day together! Date days/nights are so much fun and they give us another way to learn more about each other. Marriage sure is a wonderful thing!