Independence Day

Happy 4th of July!!

Hope everyone has a great day today!!

Settling In

We have now officially been in our house for two weeks. I guess I was really optimistic in my thinking about moving, because I sure thought that we would move everything into our new home and it would be put in the perfect place and everything would look great that night...Boy was I wrong!! Between working full-time and attending a wedding last weekend, yesterday was the first day that both of us had been available to work on the last of the unpacking. I LOVE our house. So far, we have nothing on the walls, but it is already starting to feel more and more like home. We are going to get blinds this week and then slowly start buying furniture and moving things around. We have a lot of empty rooms right now that I cannot wait to fill!! I know that I will be ready to buy things a lot quicker than Daniel will !! :) (Click here for previous post....)

I have been promising pictures for two weeks now so here you go!! I didnot take any of the outside of the house yet. Most of those pictures have been on here before. With all the rain, we haven't been able to mow the grass, so the yard needs a little touch up before I post any pictures. Actually, we have not even bought a lawn mower, yet! :)

Living room (Becky, the armoire looks great!!)
Kitchen

Master Bedroom

Master Bathroom (I love the bathtub and Dan loves the shower!)

Study

Dining Room (with all our picture stuff in the floor)

Empty Bedroom #1

Somewhat Empty Bedroom #2

Hall Bath

Gameroom

Upstairs Bath

Empty Bedroom #3

Hope you enjoyed the quick tour!! One of the things I missed most about being in an apartment was having lots of people over for dinner and such. I am ready to start making up for lost time!!

Surgery Update

Cade's surgery went great!!

He is already home and was wanting something to eat as soon as he was out of surgery. He will not even start therapy for two months, so he will have a long 8 weeks in a brace before he can work on regaining his mobility. The doctor was very pleased with the outcome.

Thanks for all of your prayers!

Cade's Surgery

My brother, Cade, is having surgery on his knee today.

He had surgery twice while in high school after messing up his knee playing football. His knee has continued to bother him off/on ever since. That was right up until he really messed it up while we were in CA. (Cade was the best man; apparently, all the groomsmen decided to have a big wrestling match in the hotel room the night before the wedding and Cade's knee just couldn't tolerate it!! He limped through the whole wedding!!)

After we got back home from California, he has seen the doctor a few times, had an MRI, and they have decided to once again go in and try to correct his knee problems. This doctor (a new one) seems to think there is quite a bit more he can do to completely fix the problem. He is going to use an ankle ligament from a cadaver to hold his kneecap in place....kind of interesting to me!! He will have to do therapy for several months, but should regain all his mobility and be better off than before!! The doctor thinks the problem will have to be fixed on this other knee as well and wanted to do both of them today, but Cade wanted to only do one at a time...he said he needed to recover quickly!! He says he might do the other one next summer...we will see about that!! :)

Please keep him and the doctors in your prayers today!!

Wedding Weekend #3

Wedding Weekend #3 was just as enjoyable as the two that preceded it...I love weddings and Leslye (my cousin) and Joey's was no exception!!

I flew to Lubbock on Friday after work and my dad, brother, and brother-in-law gave me a ride to the rehearsal dinner in Snyder. I was definitely ready to get out of that testosterone filled car!! I actually missed the rehearsal but arrived in time to go to the dinner and see all of our family. We had a blast.

Here is a picture of Leslye (the bride), my sister, and me at the rehearsal dinner.

The next morning we had a bridal brunch and all of the family and attendants were invited. The hostess' house was gorgeous....here is a picture of her backyard. The flower girl really wanted to go swimming. For a second, we thought we were going to have to pull her out of the pool, fully clothed!!

Gran and Ali (Leslye's new sister-in-law) were looking beautiful as always!!

The table decorations at the reception were so pretty...so original!!

Charlie (my brother-in-law) had to have the hem on his tux pants fixed. Gran made quick work with the sewing kit and then pressed the hem with my other cousin's straight iron.

Amy was a bridesmaid and I was an 'honorary attendant' (basically that meant I was in charge of the cutting the cake) The wedding colors were pink and green so the bridesmaids wore green dresses with a pink sash and the honorary attendants (there were 5 of us) wore pink.

Daniel got off work on Sat in time to drive up for the wedding (we rode home together on Sunday) and was looking handsome as always!!

Brooke and I were excellent cake cutters...we definitely had a good system going!!

Me and the beautiful bride, Leslye

After the wedding, everyone was a little tired. We have had a lot of family weddings in the last six weeks!! (They have all been on the same side of the family. The groom from the wedding in CA and the bride from this weekend were brother/sister...I know their family was glad this wedding stuff is over!!)

We had another great weekend and I know that Joey and Leslye are going to be very happy. Somehow I ended up without a picture of them together...not sure how that happened!! I was definitely glad to be home yesterday though. It felt really different to be driving to our house instead of our apartment!!

Off again...

Sorry that I have not been able to post pictures of our new house. I promise I will soon!

We are leaving today to head to wedding member three. Should be fun!!

Paper Blinds

For the first 3 nights we spent in our home, we did not have any window coverings, AT ALL. When Dan was at home, I was not too worried about it. I had a "big strong man" to take care of me if somebody was looking through the windows.

Then I spent the night there by myself....

I felt like I was totally exposed! Of course we are the only house finished on our block, but still...

So last night we went and got paper blinds. I was amazed at what a difference they made!

Now I feel much better about him going to work!