andrew + jacquelyn -- favorite books

hello friends!
andrew and i both really love to read, andrew moreso than me... but i'm coming around! his favorites are mostly in the historical-fiction genre, he loves Vince Flynn, John Grisham, Michael Shaara, and Jeff Shaara. some of his favs are: the steel wave & killer angels. he has read every single john grisham book that has been released. he's full of information. everyone in his family reads, and then they all trade books. he knows all kinds of random war/battle facts.... he was a history major, english minor!!! there is your random andrew fact for the day!

i like a really random assortment of books, i generally pick cute ones, which doesnt always end up so well for me. once at barnes and noble, i bought 4 books because they were so pretty with pink covers, and they were all about princesses, i thought they'd be good for a laugh but as it turns out they are just continuing versions of "the princess diaries" like... the anne hathaway movies. i was not so much into them, even though they're pretty! i like twilight, the books were a good read, movies a bit disappointing. i've read another series of "vampire books" that are just the same, nothing more than a good read! i also just recently read "beyond the blonde" which is a semi-fictional or rather embellished auto-biography about a (hair)colorist in nyc. and i like "bless your heart tramp" -- its completely pointless, but witty humor. i like all kinds of books, they're like shoes, the more variety, the better!

Team Stewart- Books and Movies

Rustin and I both love love love movies! We are big time fans of anything Disney especially! Yes I know we are adults and that sounds lame but we love Disney! Up is our favorite movie together. I cry every time we watch it and it is such a great movie. Rustin likes anything action, comedy, or even a good drama and I like all of those with the fun romantic comedies too! We both try to see movies the other might enjoy and have turned out liking some we really thought would be boring/stupid.

Rustin love to read also... me not so much and yes I know as a teacher I should read, but hey gossip magazines count don't they? Rustin likes to read books about sports his favorite subject and my dad is trying to get him to read some John Gresham stuff this summer. I will read any People, Us, OK, or anything with a reality scandal on the cover! :)

Books and Movies - Jonathan + Jennifer

If any of you had been in our house, you would have noticed that we love books, as this is the wall right by our front door:

It looks a little different now as we've added even more books since this picture was taken a few months ago, and I reorganized the books in alphabetical order instead of by color. But, back to the point, I love books! My family is full of big readers and I always assumed it was normal to have bookshelves like this in every room of the house until I started really paying attention to other people's houses in high school.

I really could never pick one favorite book, but I really love the Anne of Green Gables series, and a not as well know series of books about called the Betsy-Tacy books about two best friends growing up in the early 1900s. I read these for the first time when I was in grade school and have read them many times since, and I still love them.

I also love biographies, classic literature, and books about history especially women's history. Not included in the big bookcases in the living room is my collection of about 25 cookbooks which I tend to read like they're novels-cover to cover.

As for movies, I'm pretty much strictly a chick-flick/rom-com girl. I really can't stand movies that have a lot of bad language or violence, and I tend to fall asleep in "scary" movies. I love old movies like An Affair to Remember, Sabrina, and Roman Holiday and some of my all-time favorites are You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, Father of the Bride, and The Holiday. We also have a good-size collection of Disney movies and Christmas movies.


Jonathan reads a lot of historical fiction books, mainly military fiction, and medical thriller books about diseases. Some of his favorite books are All Quiet on the Western Front, The Hot Zone, Demon in the Freezer and a couple of biographies about former soldiers. Pretty gory stuff, I don't usually read his books. ;)

His tastes in movies are about the same, we have a lot of the big blockbuster war movies, The Patriot, Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, Gladiator etc. He also really likes The Italian Job, Cinderella Man, and Oceans 11, 12 & 13.

That's about it for us. I'm looking forward to reading about everyone else's favorites and getting some good recommendations! I hate that I've been MIA from all the fun lately, I hate being sick, it's just torture for a control freak like me!

Jennifer & Jonathan

Topic #5 -- BOOKS & MOVIES

HAPPY MONDAY TO ALL. HOPE YOU ARE ALL ENJOYING GETTING BACK IN THE SWING OF THE WORK WEEK, OR NOT. HERE WE ARE ALREADY AT EASTER, HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? TIME SURE DOES FLY WHEN YOU'RE HAVING FUN! ANYWAY, OUR TOPIC THIS WEEK IS : HIS/HERS FAVORITE BOOK & MOVIE! we are taking a little break from wedding stuff, this is more get to know each other stuff--and include the guys a little bit, you can tell a lot about a person by what kinds of books/movies they like :)  SO, SHARE YOUR FAVS AND HIS, FIND PICTURES IF YOU CAN... I ALWAYS LOVE A GOOD BOOK SUGGESTION! LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR POSTS THIS WEEK!

Bandit!!!! The best dog ever!! (sorry guys!)

Here is our precious baby...Bandit!!

Bandit is one year and 3 months old.  His birthday is the day before Jim's birthday.

He's a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.  Isn't he pretty!!

He is cuddling with me in bed.  I did not want him to ever sleep in the bed with us, but Jim wanted to let him do it once....he hasn't left since!

Most of the pictures we have are when he was a puppy, because we're bad parents who don't take as many pictures as we should.  So here are some adorable puppy pictures of him.

 

His favorite toy is his stuffed duck, Humperdink. 

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Our only family picture so far...

 

Wedding Details...Jim and Jordan!!!

Sorry I am behind on the posts.  I decided I might to catch up.  I believe I shall start with my wedding dress.  It was perfect, and I absolutely love it! 

My mom and Jim's mom both carried flowers and our baby Bibles down the aisle.  My mom carried

sweet pea flowers cause she has always called me "Sweet Pea." Here are our rings on the Bibles with the flowers behind.

I loved my bridesmaids and most of the groomsmen (lol).  My girls are crazy and made the day wonderful with a bridesmaid luncheon, getting hair done, and being entertaining while getting ready.  Here are some fun pics.  I thought our serious pose is funny.  The high-fiving picture is because I made them practice fixing my train like 10 times.  They were excited, because they got it right (I'm really picky, lol).

Here is our ceremony picture.

We are entering our reception, dancing, eating, then dancing some more.

Goodbye!!  We had sparklers and left in Jim's lovely decorated truck.

I know that was a lot of pictures.  But I love pictures!!!!

Gucci Pucci Heisig Stewart

Where's Gucci?



I like Jacquelyn have a love for all things fashion so Gucci received his first name from the designer. They I needed a name to match Gucci so along came Pucci and my mother kept telling me I was spelling it wrong only to discover while in Vegas that there is a designer store named Pucci as well so I was right! :)



I have had Gucci for almost 5 years now and his birthday is September 9th which is also Jo's birthday! No wonder they get along so well with me. Since Gucci was born to a single mom he kept my last name and added Stewart to the end. This is a picture of the Stewart's last week in Galveston.



He is the best dog and has such an awesome character. He loves the laundry when it comes out of the dryer and in the morning after I get up he digs his way back under the covers to sleep some more. Even when Rustin gets out of bed Gucci stays under the blanket until we force him to come to his room so we can go to work.












Before Rustin and I got engaged I had to make sure he would love Gucci too so here is a copy of the adoption paper I made him sign. His friends gave him a hard time about this, but I think it is so sweet!







These are all of Gucci's clothes and yes I know this is a bit extreme. He has 2 Halloween costumes, 2 Christmas outfits, and outfit for almost every holiday, and even a few sport outfits. GO COWBOYS!



I made Gucci do a fashion show of some outfits tonight and this is his Easter "Chick Magnet" shirt. Also his pumpkin Halloween costume and then the last is my favorite his Polo outfit!






He is my baby and I love him probably too much. My friend Cara wrote on our wedding card that I have to put Rustin first now over Gucci! Rustin reminds me of this very often! :)