Beer Cocktails

Are you following the Backyard Bartender?  You should be.  I'm going to make this delicious cocktail very soon.  Note to self: must buy fancy striped straws. 

Redneck Mother
1 oz Rio Star ruby red grapefruit juice (fresh-squeezed!)
.75 oz sloe gin (Get the Plymoth, if you can. It's a bit hard to find, but completely worth it. If you can't hunt down the Plymoth, use a bit less, as other brands tend to be sweeter.)
Lone Star beer
Ginger beer

Add the sloe gin and grapefruit juice to the bottom of a pint glass (or mason jar). Fill the remaining portion of the jar halfway with Lone Star and top with ginger beer. Cheers. 

 

One Year!

My hubby and I just passed our one year anniversary.  We celebrated by heading back to the magical Devil's Thumb Ranch.  

 

As I enjoyed our superb weekend full of delicious food, relaxing massages, a brisk hike, and a much needed nap, I began to think about how glorious a day it was and how blessed we were to have so many friends and family members with us.  And then I reminded myself that all of that is secondary to these words.  These words made the day. 

I Geoff, take you Jen to be my wife.

my partner in life and my one true love.

I will cherish our union and love you more each day than I did the day before.

I will trust you and respect you,

laugh with you and cry with you,

loving you faithfully through good times and bad.

I give you my hand, my heart, and my love,

from this day forward for as long as we both shall live.

Geoff today I become your wife and you become my husband.

I will strive to give you the best of myself, and accept you the way you are.

I promise to respect you as a whole person

with your own interests, desires, and needs,

and to realize that those are sometimes different, but no less important than my own.

I promise to keep myself open to you,

to let you in to my innermost fears, feelings and dreams,

I promise to grow along with you,

to be willing to face change as we both change.

I promise to love you in good times and in bad,

with all that I am and all that I have to give.