It's Starting To Look Like Home

It's starting to look more like home around here. I haven't taken pictures yet because I want to get everything in place before I take pictures, but I will get them taken eventually. We were extremely blessed to have a HUGE amount of help from my family last weekend when we moved in. Brian and my grandpa have been working hard on our backyard and Brian finished one of their backyard projects last night. Our backyard doesn't have grass in it right now, but Brian hopes to get the guy out to put grass back there this week or next. All in all everything is getting there. I just got done waiting on Rooms To Go to deliver our entertainment center (they delivered the original one last week but dropped it off the truck!) so I have few boxes to unpack in our living room and then my other project for today is to work on upacking the room that will be our office. We still need to get pictures on the walls and decorations up but that will come in time.

In other news I have officially survived methods!! I have about a three week break until summer school starts in June. I am taking my LAST MATH CLASS EVER in June and then will have a break until student teaching starts in August. I am still waiting on my exact school assignment, but do know that it will be in Conroe ISD.

Take A Tour

Ok so we're still alive just busy as can be because we're moving this weekend!! Brian and I are very excited to move into our first home and have been busy packing up our apartment. It will be a little sad to leave this apartment as we have some great memories here, but we've definitely outgrown this place and it will be nice to have more room. My Granny told us that right now it will seem like our house is huge (it's a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath 2 story) right now but before we know it that house will be filled up too!

Here's some pictures of our new house and our current apartment all packed up! This is what it looked like before we started packing up! Thank you to my mother in law for all of the boxes!

This is what it looks like every evening...this is our pile to take the the house tonight!

Front View

Living Room

Looking Into Kitchen

Garage (finally I get to park my car in a garage!)

Garden Tub in Master Bath

More Master Bath

Kitchen View

One of the extra bedrooms

Our HUGE backyard...I couldn't even get the whole backyard in one picture! My little dog might get lost back there!

View from front of the house

Say a prayer that the weather will cooperate with us for a great weekend to move!

It's Official...

I'm proud to announce that we are officially homeowners!! We signed all of our paperwork tonight and went by and got our keys...we even stopped by AT&T on the way home and got uverse!!

Here is a picture from the builder's website of our house...I promise to get more pictures up this weekend.

We will officially move in next weekend but until then we'll keep packing up our apartment and move boxes over there this next week and then move all the big stuff next weekend. I charged the battery to my camera because I wanted to take a picture at closing but I forgot it at home.

Easter 2009

We had a great but busy Easter! Brian started off the Easter weekend by going with my family to the egg hunt at church (I had to work of course!) and he said that Aaron loved it and new exactly what to do! We went to church on Easter with my dad & Melinda (like we always do) and were glad that my mom was able to come with us also! We did have a pretty special moment in church on Sunday when I saw a young guy (about Matt's age) walk into church in his Marine dress blues! As soon as I told Kim and she saw who I was talking about we both started crying..it was truly touching! It definitely made us with that Matt could have been there, but we are proud of what he is doing! After church we all went back to dad & Melinda's and had lunch and an Easter egg hunt. We were glad that Nan, Jason, Sonya Marie, and Sophie were able to join us. Here are some pictures of our sweet little nephew....it's hard to believe that last year he barely understood the concept of Easter and this year he was completely into it! He also very much loved the Cars themed Easter basket that Aunt Kelly & Uncle Brian got him!

Aaron sharing his Easter goodies with Pops! I think he had enough Easter egg hunting for one Easter! He carefully went through his Easter goodies!
This is just because this pictures makes me laugh! Now we know what Guy does to Aaron when Kim's not home!

This past week I also had the priviledge of meeting my best friend's BEAUTIFUL baby girl Olivia! Julie you have an absolutely adorable baby girl and I can't wait to see both of you again! I love you both!

In other news we are just busy working away and waiting on a CLOSING DATE FOR OUR HOUSE!! I haven't wanted to ginx it so I haven't said much about it and I do have pictures but I'll wait until we close to post them!

A Month Already?!

It's hard to believe that Brian and I walked down the aisle over a month ago!! This last month has been great and whirlwind all at the same time! We got back to reality after our honeymoon and hit the ground running with work and school. I think that Brian was glad to be able to just focus on work for awhile and it was good to get back into a routine with school and work for me. We also have started looking for a house during the last month and hopefully have found one. Everytime I see a commercial for Disney World I constantly tell Brian that I want to go back!! We had the time of our lives and can't wait to go back one day hopefully sooner than later! We were also glad to have my brother here for the last few days. He flew in Friday and left on Wednesday afternoon. No matter how he gets here it is always good to see him! Please keep him in your prayers! I am getting ready to go meet my best friend Julie's sweet baby girl today! I am so excited and can't wait to meet Olivia! I will post more this weekend.

All Things Wedding

Brian and I are definitely blessed with a great family and great friends! We had the wedding of our dreams on March 7th and couldn't be happier! I had my bachelorette party on Thursday the 5th and had a great night with the girls.

Friday we woke up and were getting ready for our bridal luncheon that my grandparent's were hosting at their house. I woke up crying because I was afraid that my brother wasn't going to make it home (we still hadn't heard anything for sure from him at this point) and Brian kept assuring me that he would make it here if he could. I called my dad while Brian got ready to see if he'd heard from him and he said that he couldn't keep it a secret anymore but that he'd bought my brother a ticket a week earlier and he would have to fly all night but he'd land in Houston at 6am on my wedding day! We had a wonderful bridal luncheon and then it was time for a rehearsal...well after finding Brian's parent's a hotel room because apparently the hotel near my parent's house was booked for another wedding! We had a great rehearsal and ate some yummy BBQ at McKenzie's.

We went our separate ways after the rehearsal (Brian with Guy and some of my family to the Cactus Lounge) and Kim, Mom, & I to her house to watch a movie and make cookies....well my brother had other plans for us!! My dad calls us around 9:00 and tells us that my brother has gone UA (unapproved absence) and the Marines are looking for him!! I was balling my eyes out all the while begging my dad to turn him into the Marines after my wedding, but my dad said that he had to do the right thing and turn him in right away. We spent the next several hours crying and begging my brother to turn around and go back to San Diego (all the while he was at the airport and all ready to get on a plane to Houston while the Marines are scaring us by telling us what could happen to Matt if he didn't come back right then) Chelsea and I frantically ran to Wal-Mart at 11:30pm to get phone chargers for our phones so that when Matt did call (he was calling periodically during all of this) we would be able to talk to him. We knew that if he could make it to Las Vegas (one of his layover sites) he could probably make it to Houston. Long story short he made it to Houston at 6am and was there when I walked down the aisle! He also received favor (much prayed for favor) with the Marines when he got back. We had a beautiful day of fun, family, and friends! Brian and I are truly blessed and I am blessed to have married the man of my dreams! I will leave you with pictures of the big day. For more pictures check out my myspace or facebook.

Stay tuned for pictures from our AMAZING honeymoon to Disney World! It will take me awhile to get those pictures up but I will get them up soon! I love you Brian and I'm so blessed to have such an amazing husband!

The Newlywed Life

We are back from our AWESOME honeymoon and unfortunately are back to work tomorrow ;) I will post more details & of course pictures later, but I just wanted to let everyone know that we had an AMAZING wedding and honeymoon.