Well Hi There!

Y'all.  I'm no good at this bloggin' stuff! It's been a month since I've updated and I feel like SO much has gone on.  I think my stressometer if just way past the max and the last thing I want to do in my free time is sit down and write about all the craziness.  But there are times when I think that it'll be nice to go back and read what's gone on in our lives, and what we've learned and such.  So I write...

Baron and I celebrated our first anniversary on the weekend right before the real day.  We dropped the dogs off at doggy camp and headed to Nashville for the weekend.  It was such a fun time!  We stayed at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel which was so much fun!  There's so much to see and do in the hotel that we barely left to venture out and see the rest of Nashville.



From our balcony



I had Publix make a replica of our top tier, which I'm sure tasted
a lot better than a version frozen would have!



Baron made a version of my favorite flower to stick with
the traditional first year=paper anniversary gift!



Baron loved his Pinterest inspired framed maps



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We really did have a wonderful (although far too short) weekend! We've decided we need to go back and explore the rest of Nashville on another trip! I just love Music City!

A few days after we got back from Nashville I was doing some homework for my new job and Max came walking towards me and I gasped! His mouth was so swollen! A quick trip to the vet's office, some steroids, and benadryl and he was all better!

Poor guy :(

I guess I need to post some pictures of our house.  It seems like it's moving very sllllooooooowwwly now but I've heard that's normal.  Supposedly the house will be done by the end of this week and then we'll start all the walk throughs and inspections and such.  I am SO ready to be done. This has been such a bigger headache than I've ever imagined.  I just don't understand how so many things can be messed up...granted, most of the things are being fixed after a some discussion, but there are some things that won't be totally perfect because they've had to be redone the correct way.

Yesterday when we drove by the house we were excited to see that our mailbox had been installed!  I got out to snap a picture when Baron dropped the bomb on me, "Um, that's totally NOT our address!"  Haha!  Par for the course, I suppose.  Adding it to the list of things that'll need to be resolved before we close.

Talk about a photo dump!! I'm off to study for some classes that I'm taking for work.  Let me tell ya, it's hard to get back into the swing of studying when you haven't done it in years! Hope you all have a wonderful week!

House Update

Greetings y'all! Hope this week finds you well, we're almost done! Hooray for Friday!

I haven't posted much about the house lately.  Everyone told me that once the drywall went up it would seem like they were moving at a snails pace.  I found that to be so true!  Sometimes we're going out to visit only once or twice a week.  Doesn't help that we've been really busy with work too. 

I went out to visit today and had to break in through a window! Apparently we've been locked out of our own house...bummer!  I was thrilled to see that we had cabinets installed!  The kitchen is what really sold me on the house and I love watching it take shape!

They've also started painting and have put up all the trim work.  I'm so excited to see the colors in real life!


The Office



Dining Room



Master


Day by day we're getting closer and closer.  I still haven't really thought much about packing and moving because it still doesn't feel real.  I suppose I should get myself in gear!! 

Hope you all have a great week!

Good in Goodbye

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She's done it again!! Carrie Underwood's fourth album has hit the shelves and y'all, I've been waiting for a looooong time for today to come around, like since her last album was released back in 2009!  I just love Carrie!  She's beautiful with an even more beautiful voice and just seems like we could be friends!

 My favorite song so far is "Good in Goodbye".  It's a song about someone running into their ex and realizing now that even though it hurt at the time, that it was for a good reason that they went their separate ways.  I guess I'm having an I really miss home day, because when I heard the song it really spoke to me as a sign that even though it was painful to leave home that it was for a good reason and will be worth it in the end.  And like the lyrics say, I thought I deserved to not have to go anywhere to have everything I ever wanted.  I thought I deserved to have my husband and my family and my job and my home all in the same place.

As bad as it was,

as bad as it hurt,

I thank God I didn't get

what I thought that I deserved.

Sometimes life

leads you down a different road,

when you're holdin' on to something

 that you gotta let go.

Someday you'll see the reason why.

Sometimes,

yeah sometimes,

There's good in goodbye.

The difference for me was that I didn't have to wait until someday to see the reason why.  I got the clarity and happy ending that I needed the minute I had to say goodbye to my friends, family, job, and home.  He was standing at the end of the altar waiting for me almost a year ago.  And I know that this move will be good for us.  I know it will make us stronger and more united in our marriage.  I just have to wait and see about the details.

Finding Furniture

Baron and I spent a lot of time looking at furniture this weekend.  I'm so overwhelmed at the thought of furnishing a whole house that sometimes I want to give up and live with the same furniture for the rest of my life! But persevere I will!

We found a few pieces for the living room that we really like and thanks to my smartypants husband we were able to draw it up as it would fit in our new house.  I think we're making progress in the living room.  I look at Pinterest all the time and am constantly seeing things that I love....just not so sure how to piece them together in my own place.

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I know it will all come together in time, I just feel like I have no clue where to start the search.  Do I find a rug that I love?  Or base all my decisions off of a TV console that we fell in love with this weekend?  Hmmm, what to do, what to do??

Hammary Furniture

Do any of y'all know of any websites or sources of great decorating ideas?  I'd love to have some more inspiration to pull from!

Other than the furniture shopping, we had a pretty low key weekend.  Baron had to work a little on both days but we did manage to go to PF Changs on Saturday to celebrate Baron's birthday!  Halfway through the meal we both decided we'd rather go to Panda Express.  Haha!  I guess Chinese food is Chinese food, period!  We never claimed to be high class folks!

Later y'all!                          

A Quick Florida Vacay...

...and by "vacay" I mean run-around-like-chickens-with-our-heads-cut-off for 36 hours before getting in a car and driving for 12 hours to get back home.  But I wouldn't have missed it!

One of Baron's good friends from high school (who actually lives in the same city we do now!) got married on Saturday in Melbourne Beach, Florida.  Baron drove down to Florida on Thursday for some of the earlier wedding festivities.  I had to work on Friday but caught an early flight to Melbourne on Saturday.  Baron picked me up at the airport and we changed clothes, then headed straight to the wedding. Perfect timing!

The wedding was so fun!  We stayed at a hotel right on the beach and slept with the windows open, listening to the waves. It was wonderful!  I guess growing up ten minutes from the beach, I kind of took it for granted.   It felt so good to be driving up A1A, seeing all the touristy beach shops, and looking at the ocean!

On Sunday, we woke up early and grabbed breakfast with some of Baron's friend's from school that now live in Melbourne. After breakfast, we headed straight to New Smyrna (about an hour and half drive) and had lunch with my Dad. My Mom was in New York so I didn't get to see her :(

After a quick lunch, we made the two hour drive to Baron's parents'  house where we had dinner and spent the night before making the 10 hour drive back to Alabama the next morning.  We finally got home at about 7:30 on Monday night and I had to be up for work at 4:30 the next morning. Ugh.  Needless to say, the last two days of working in the operating room drug on forever it seemed!  I feel so much better after sleeping in a little this morning and finally getting some groceries in our house!

Our house is coming along nicely. While we were gone they put up sheet rock in the whole house, and finished all the brick work.  Here's a photo of our bedroom:

Today we have an appointment to pick out all of our shelving, mirrors, and towel racks.  Oh my!

Now I need a favor from all of you who read this.  Would you please take a moment to pray for this little boy?  This is Joshua, he's the son of one of my friends and was in a very serious 4-wheeler accident on Sunday morning.  He's in the Pediatric ICU and in very serious condition.  He has a very long road to recovery and right now is still sedated and on a ventilator to let his brain heal.  After his brain shows some improvement their plan is to slowly wake up and get him breathing on his own, before starting to work on all of his broken bones and other injuries.

Josh and his Mom

Please pray specifically for progress in the healing of his brain, for comfort and rest for his parents, older brother, and family.  Also for wisdom and strength for the doctors and nurses who are caring for him.  I know his family appreciates the prayers!

I hope you all have a blessed week! Hope to check in sooner rather than later, but y'all know, I don't make any promises ;)

Checking In

Good Thursday morning to ya!  I hope this finds you well, I've been busy, busy with work and just trying to get into the swing of things with L&D again.  Our house keeps us busy as well. Everything has been fixed and the new (black) roof is in place. I really love it! 

They started putting the bricks on a few days ago and it's really starting to look like a house.  I know I keep saying that, but every little step gets us closer and closer and I'm so excited.

Love our new shingles!

Baron and I are going to a wedding this weekend and I found the perfect dress for a beach wedding!

I'm a little excited because we haven't had to get all dressed up in a while and I can't wait to see my hubs in a tux again...will bring me right back to that wonderful day almost a year ago!

I can't believe that just next month we'll be celebrating our first anniversary! Time flies!  I am happier than I've ever been and so glad to be married to my best friend, but I won't lie and say that this year has been perfect.  We've been through a whole crazy lot this past year.  We both left jobs that we loved, Baron finished his PhD and graduated, we got married, moved two states away from "home", Baron started a new job, I job searched for what felt like forever, and just recently I've started a new job.  Oh yeah, and we started building a house in the middle of all of that!

I never ever saw myself marrying a rocket scientist and moving to the middle of Alabama...but I never thought I'd get to marry someone so perfect for me either!  I'm so thankful that in the midst of all the craziness of the last year I always know that when I come home that I'm loved, I'm safe, and I'm cared for. That's more than enough to make my heart so very happy.

Happy almost a year, babe! I love you!