Life has been busy. No, life has been insanely busy! I am pretty positive this has been the busiest summer of my life.
With moving, buying a house, going back and forth to DFW, Ryan's camps, vacations and my work travel this Summer has been everything but a break! I will say it has been a blast but I am just to the point of complete exhaustion. I actually just flew back home today after being in the DFW area all this week. This week was my team meeting for work and it is something I look forward to all year long! With the nature of our jobs we do not go to our offices on a regular basis and everyone is spread apart but there are 2 blessed times during the year that we all come together, collaborate, laugh and catch-up. Can I just say that I LOVE my job and the people I work with? It is so crazy to think I am entering my 3rd school year at the AHA! It has been a whirlwind and so much fun.
Anyway, back to this week... Well, I decided that since I had to be there for the meeting Monday and Tuesday that it would be fun to go for a few extra days so that I could see my girls! I flew in on Sunday afternoon and was greeted by Raven and Katie at the airport- we headed to dinner at the Italian Market which was so fantastic! Then we headed back to the house that they are sitting at this week- it has a pool, which brought pure happiness to my life! We immediately went for a swim and just had some good girl time! I miss these two girls SO much and love every second I get with them! Well, Monday morning I headed to Katie's work with her and checked-out her office which was super cute and my friend Christina from work came to pick me up! We headed to Dallas for one of the longest but great days ever! We had our 1st day of the team meeting and it was so much fun seeing everyone! After the meeting we headed to a place called 300 Dallas which was a really cool bowling alley- it is not your average bowling alley... we had our awards ceremony and dinner in our party room and I was so surprised to learn that I won two awards! Then we headed out to the lanes and had a serious bowling competition. Christina and I then headed back to her house and I stayed in her daughter's room. Let me just tell you a little about this room. First of all Mayson is one of the cutest little girls on the planet. She helped design her room. She turns 3 this weekend. She loves frogs. She loves butterflys. The room is a sky blue color and Christina had this amazing painter come in and put frogs, kangaroos, kites and butterflys all over the room. This might sound like a random mix but it is PRECIOUS! Mayson's bed is black and all of her furniture is black so it is totally whimsical meets chic. LOVE IT! I felt like a princess staying in her room. In fact I told Christina this when we woke up and she preceded to call me princess all day haha. We then headed out to Chic-Fil-A for a chicken biscuit which was wonderful and headed to day 2 of our meeting. After everything finished up my friends Amanda and Ashleigh gave me a ride back to Katie's office and we headed to the house to grab Raven! We then went to my favorite favorite place in Fort Worth for dinner- Posados!! It's the best mexican ever!!!! After dinner we headed to Denton because mine and Ryan's church were at Student Life Camp at UNT and since I didn't get to go we visited for the night! HUGE shoutout to Ben Stuart. I have always been a major fan of his and his sweet wife so when I learned he was the speaker I knew I had to get there somehow! We had fun remembering just how it was being 16 and seeing the kids and Ryan was great!
After camp we headed back to the house for some much needed sleep! I worked on Wednesday and then Katie and I spent the afternoon relaxing in the pool and then went and ate with Raven. I headed out Thursday morning which was so bitter-sweet because although I was ready to sleep in my own bed again I knew I wouldnt be seeing my DFW people for a long time!
Ryan came home from camp on Friday and I could not be happier he is back- I missed him so much! We have been so busy that we have not had a whole lot of time to spend on our own so we are headed to the beach this week for some much needed relaxation! We were planning to take a trip somewhere far away but the thought of more travel honestly made us both want to just stay home so we got a room at a fancy hotel for the next week in Galveston and we are just going to lay-out, eat seafood and spend time together. I am so excited :)
This summer has been such an amazing crazy time- it has been such a blessing to see where God has taken us thus far and I can not wait to see what is to come!
I promise to post some house pictures soon, I actually really need a new camera because I lost my battery charger and who knows if I will ever see that thing again! We are having a blast though and I am actually putting my office together today- once it is completed the house will be done! We are going to hold off a few months on painting, we aren't really sure on the colors we want and feel like if we live here for a little while it will be easier to make these choices. Come by and visit us soon!! Galveston, here we come!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Finally..!
Well, we are finally in our house!! After 1 sweet month of waiting we finally closed on June 30th, the last day of our home loan interest rate, the last day we qualified for the homeowners tax credit and the last day of our sanity. Wednesday afternoon at 4:30pm, also the last closing of the day my husband and I entered a room that was full of papers for my sweet signature. I have to say it was such a rush signing all those papers and then the closing agent handing me an envelope with keys inside. Seriously? this house is ours????? I jumped up and down and screamed.
Although the waiting was hard I must say that we are so blessed. Some people are paying for hotel rooms while we stayed for free at my parents house. Some people crowded their kids in with family and had a miserable waiting period. We had a blast hanging with my parents, going on double dates, swimming in their pool and feeling like we were at a bed and breakfast because of my fabulous mom. Some people after waiting for days, weeks and months didn't close in time or were denied their loan or never found the right house. We finished just in time and couldn't be happier. PTL that everything worked out for the best!!
I am sitting in my new living room and honestly still don't feel like this is our house- I feel so grown-up! I mean this is my house- I live here and I own it!! Obviously I have been married for a year and a half but I must say that buying our first home made me feel very married. I realize this doesn't make sense but I just can't explain it.
I also need you to know that I barely had to move a thing because of my tall, dark, handsome STRONG husband. We hired movers up in FW but since everything was delayed we had to put everything in storage for a month and then on our move-in day some awesome youth guys and the youth director's wife who I absolutely adore came to help and we got it done so quickly- less than 3 hours!! The girls only had to carry the light things because our youth guys were so great!! Thank you moving help, yall were fantastic!!
Since that blessed Thursday afternoon of moving I have been an unpacking machine. I have not started decorating yet because we want to paint and so I don't really want to put holes in the wall for no reason but pretty much everything is in it's place! My family was a huge help and we got it done! Whoo Hoo!!
Ryan left Sunday morning for Student Life Staffers Camp where he is a Rec Leader- Ryan has never been to SLC and he had no idea what was in store but I took him down memory lane to fully prepare him and he is having a blast! One funny story for you about camp... he is in charge of water tug-of-war and for fun decided to help out one of groups- while pulling as hard as he could on the rope he ripped his swim trunks. in half. down the front. in front of elementary students. Luckily no one saw and he was able to hobble back to his dorm room to change but the youth group knows and are totally teasing him. It's hilarious!
Anyway, while he has been gone I have been spending tons of time with my girls!! 4th of July was funny this year, my sister and I decided to be total bums since it there was a monsoon and we watched movies all afternoon and then took a night swim at our parents house. We have always loved sparklers so we watched the fireworks at the waterway here in the woodlands and had a blast with our sparklers. We had a blast and it was so relaxing. Monday my family and I swam all day and grilled out and then that night my friend Laura came to visit! She was my first sleepover in the new house and we had so much fun! We went to eat at Lupe's just to be disappointed by it closing early and so we headed next store to Red Robin... Yum! Then we came back to the house and stayed up way to late laughing and it was totally worth it! Then Tuesday we woke up and I worked and then we did lunch and she headed out! Tuesday afternoon my sis and I hung out for a while and then my friend Dana that I used to work with came over and we ordered a pizza, watched movies and stayed up way to late as well- we had such a blast!
This afternoon I enjoyed a much needed massage! Ryan demanded that I get one while he was gone because when I went tubing a few weeks ago I got a tad banged up and for some reason my back has not been the same... moving didnt really help and all the unpacking has taken a toll so I took Ryan's advice because come on, what girl wouldnt go get a massage?? I am now exhausted and just got back from dinner with my sister and Charish and think I am going to go to bed before 11 because the last 2 nights have worn me out!! I am so excited for Ryan to come home tomorrow! I have missed him so much and can't wait to hear more funny camp stories!! This weekend is going to be fabulous because my FW besties are coming to visit!! Can't wait to see them!! Yall have a great week and thanks for reading my random thoughts!! :-)
Although the waiting was hard I must say that we are so blessed. Some people are paying for hotel rooms while we stayed for free at my parents house. Some people crowded their kids in with family and had a miserable waiting period. We had a blast hanging with my parents, going on double dates, swimming in their pool and feeling like we were at a bed and breakfast because of my fabulous mom. Some people after waiting for days, weeks and months didn't close in time or were denied their loan or never found the right house. We finished just in time and couldn't be happier. PTL that everything worked out for the best!!
I am sitting in my new living room and honestly still don't feel like this is our house- I feel so grown-up! I mean this is my house- I live here and I own it!! Obviously I have been married for a year and a half but I must say that buying our first home made me feel very married. I realize this doesn't make sense but I just can't explain it.
I also need you to know that I barely had to move a thing because of my tall, dark, handsome STRONG husband. We hired movers up in FW but since everything was delayed we had to put everything in storage for a month and then on our move-in day some awesome youth guys and the youth director's wife who I absolutely adore came to help and we got it done so quickly- less than 3 hours!! The girls only had to carry the light things because our youth guys were so great!! Thank you moving help, yall were fantastic!!
Since that blessed Thursday afternoon of moving I have been an unpacking machine. I have not started decorating yet because we want to paint and so I don't really want to put holes in the wall for no reason but pretty much everything is in it's place! My family was a huge help and we got it done! Whoo Hoo!!
Ryan left Sunday morning for Student Life Staffers Camp where he is a Rec Leader- Ryan has never been to SLC and he had no idea what was in store but I took him down memory lane to fully prepare him and he is having a blast! One funny story for you about camp... he is in charge of water tug-of-war and for fun decided to help out one of groups- while pulling as hard as he could on the rope he ripped his swim trunks. in half. down the front. in front of elementary students. Luckily no one saw and he was able to hobble back to his dorm room to change but the youth group knows and are totally teasing him. It's hilarious!
Anyway, while he has been gone I have been spending tons of time with my girls!! 4th of July was funny this year, my sister and I decided to be total bums since it there was a monsoon and we watched movies all afternoon and then took a night swim at our parents house. We have always loved sparklers so we watched the fireworks at the waterway here in the woodlands and had a blast with our sparklers. We had a blast and it was so relaxing. Monday my family and I swam all day and grilled out and then that night my friend Laura came to visit! She was my first sleepover in the new house and we had so much fun! We went to eat at Lupe's just to be disappointed by it closing early and so we headed next store to Red Robin... Yum! Then we came back to the house and stayed up way to late laughing and it was totally worth it! Then Tuesday we woke up and I worked and then we did lunch and she headed out! Tuesday afternoon my sis and I hung out for a while and then my friend Dana that I used to work with came over and we ordered a pizza, watched movies and stayed up way to late as well- we had such a blast!
This afternoon I enjoyed a much needed massage! Ryan demanded that I get one while he was gone because when I went tubing a few weeks ago I got a tad banged up and for some reason my back has not been the same... moving didnt really help and all the unpacking has taken a toll so I took Ryan's advice because come on, what girl wouldnt go get a massage?? I am now exhausted and just got back from dinner with my sister and Charish and think I am going to go to bed before 11 because the last 2 nights have worn me out!! I am so excited for Ryan to come home tomorrow! I have missed him so much and can't wait to hear more funny camp stories!! This weekend is going to be fabulous because my FW besties are coming to visit!! Can't wait to see them!! Yall have a great week and thanks for reading my random thoughts!! :-)
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