Finally!

After much trying of my patience, we have finally made it to move-in day! Today, I recieved the call from the builder that our loan had recorded and that I could come pick up the keys to our new home! Let me just tell you how exciting this is! We have gone through a few frustrations and hiccups along the way, so to get to this day, is a fabulous feeling!

After Josh gets home from practice tonight, we will pack up some of our things and head over to the house and unload the boxes that we can recycle them and use them again for the rest of our stuff that isn't in boxes yet. It's going to be a long day and a half, but so worth it!

Tomorrow, I have to be at the house by 9:00, at the latest, and be waiting for the blinds company to install all of our blinds. Then, our refridgerator, washer and dryer will be coming tomorrow as well. This is all very exciting! Now, only if we could find a good deal on some furniture. I've checked http://www.craigslist.com/ and have found a few good leads, so we'll see what happens with that.

Not only did we get the good news about the house today, it's also Josh's 28th birthday! What a great way to remember his birthday, right? It's his first birthday as a married man; I wonder how he feels about how his life has changed in the last year? Good topic of conversation for tonight, I guess :)

Frustrations and Excitement

I am trying not to be frustrated with this house situation. We still have yet to sign our documents and we are quickly running out of time because our lease is up on April 30! WE need to sign these doucments by tomorrow in order to get in by the weekend and in order to avoid moving during the week....that's the last thing we want. I have been praying for patience and I know there are others praying for me, too, so that is uplifting. It's just hard to know we're so close, but that there is still stuff that needs to get done.

On a more exciting note, my friend Lindsey will be here THursday night. I am so excited to see her again and be able to hang out together! We were inseprable before I moved out here, so it's been hard being apart. I've already made an appointment for pedicures on Friday morning, so that is something we're both looking forward too! If we don't move this weekend, it will be a blessing of sorts because then we'll be able to spend more time together having fun rather than time moving our stuff.

I know things will work out how God wants them to. I just have to trust him in it. That's a lot easier said than done, though :)

Easter Weekend

This year has been a year of firsts for me and being away from the family over a holiday has been one of the more difficult things for me to handle.

This weekend started off great! Josh and I were both off on Friday and we were able to spend a lot of quality time together without being interrupted by the baseball season :). We spent the weekend (or most of it) searching for the right appliances for us and making the move to purchase our fridge, washer and dryer. The other parts of the weekend were spent relaxing and looking for furniture.

Easter Sunday then came around and without even realizing it, I got really down because it was yet another "first" holiday without my family around me. No, Easter isn't one of the BIG holidays like Christmas or Thanksgiving, but it is a day that would typically be spent with my dad's side of the family at my grandparents' house where my wonderful grandma would make a delicious meal and a wonderful Sunday afternoon nap would follow. I miss the family times like that and I regret, in a way, that I did not savor the times with my family more before we moved out here. I just took those times for grantid and because of that, I wish I could be at home for the holidays that come along.

Even though we Josh and I spent Easter as a couple, we were able to enjoy the day. We went to church in the morning and heard a great sermon on the grace we have been given because Christ died and rose again. We went home and I made a large meal (to fill the void of missing Grandma's meal) and it turned out well and Josh liked it! After that, I headed out to sit by the pool and get some sun while I worked on my Bible lesson for my weekly study. The later part of the afternoon was spent watching the Cub's get another win and relaxing some more.

All in all it was a good weekend and while we spent Easter differently than I am used to, we made it ours and that it what it's all about. Starting our own traditions. Keeping the same values in tact, but making the holidays what we want our future family to experience and focus on the reasons why we celebrate.

Wisdom

I am in need of wisdom in a desperate way. The same situation seems to be coming my way and I am not sure how to handle it. I haven't handled it well yet and I am sure that God is testing me in something, but I keep failing the test...miserably. I need God to give me wisdom on how to handle this hurdle that keeps showing up. I just want it to go away, but I don't think it's going to be that easy.

Other than that, not a whole lot going on with us. We ordered blinds for the new house on Saturday and are on the look out for appliance deals since we have to buy 3 of them! Josh is on Spring Break and has to coach quite a few games. We are still set to close on April 17, which is coming up very quickly! We really need to get packing!

'Til next time!

Excited!

I could not be more excited! I talked with my best friend last and we planned a weekend where she can come visit me! She will be out here from April 23 - 26 and I was so excited that I teared up a bit! I have not seen her or my other friends and my family since December! It has been far too long since I've seen any of them! The best part is that she only had to pay $10 for her flights because a co-worker of her said she could have a trip voucher of his! How awesome is that!

It worked out so well, too, because we should be moving that weekend/week before she gets in, so even though the house won't be what I want just yet and we won't be totally settled in, she's still coming and she can see where we live and what we've got going on out here!

Ahh....so excited! This weekend is off to a great start! Now, it's time to get packing up the winter clothes and get things ready for the big move! HAPPY TIMES!!!

patience (or lack there of)

This morning my patience were tried and I failed...miserably. I don't know how I'm going to handle motherhood when I can't even keep a clam, level head with two dogs. Our older dog just wants to play with the newere one, but the newer one wants to sleep a lot because he's a puppy and that's what puppies do. It is hard to keep them apart sometimes, but that becomes a necessity because I don't want either one of them to get hurt. It gets frustrating and sometimes we have to discipline one or both of them (like kids, I guess), but I always feel bad because I don't want to hurt them....ugh. This is so stupid and I can't believe I'm even writing a post about all this crap but I have to do something with it....it's been a rough morning. Then, I took both dogs outside one last time before I left for work and in order to make sure I get the door shut well, I say to Daisy (our older dog), "Daisy, wait" and she usually just sits at my feet, on her leash, until we're ready to go. Well, ever since we got Otis (our little one) she hasnt' been listening as well. This morning there was someone outside with two larger dogs and of course Daisy wanted to go after them. Well, she didn't listen to the normal command so I had to press the button on her leash that stopped the leash from going out further and because she was running she stopped abruptly. Then, when she headed to the grass she was limping a bit....I felt bad, but I am not sure how what I did would have caused that? Maybe she just stepped on something? I'll have to keep an eye on it...poor puppy had a rough morning.

Last night we get this stupid notice from our apartment complext that we owe them $600 for having a pet! Now, mind you, we have had Daisy since last August and staff at the complex have seen her since then, pet her and the whole bit! They also gave us a notice one time for not picking up her poop outside and that was a few months ago. So, now, becuase we gave them our 30-day notice, they give us this stupid notice so that we will give them additional money....dumb! Why not have given it to us when you first noticed we had a puppy that we didn't mention to you when we moved in? ! We got her after we moved in, but it's still just frustrating because they waited all this time to bring it up. Josh is going to handle this one and tell them to keep the $400 deposit we gave them and the $1000 we paid them to break the lease....they don't need an additional $600 from us....outregeous!