Monday, May 7, 2012

our busy week!

The past week has been nothing short of crazy! Since the buying of our house it is really hard for me and Addison to concentrate on anything else. The only bad thing about that is this is the busiest time for both of us before we move back. However, before it got too incredibly crazy we took some time and went to celebrate at Cheddar's with a good meal and some yummy drinks.

I finished my class of the semester last Monday, Addison finished Tuesday, and what a great feeling that was! Tuesday I had nothing to do but get ready for finals and do a little more packing. Addison had to work, of course. This is a really busy time at the bookstore for him. Wednesday, I babysat these two sweeties for the last time until I come back here in July.
Julia and Emma--2 years old.
Friday, I babysat Jake, Levi and Jency from morning until my final at 3:00--don't worry I got some studying in on Thursday. I also wasn't too worried about the final in the first place, it is a pretty easy communications class. Addison and I went and saw "The Five Year Engagement" friday night. All in all it was a pretty good light-hearted movie. We just wanted to get our minds off of the daily grind and spend a little time together. Our Saturday consisted of more studying, work for Addison, and a little TV watching when we needed a break.
Jency girl--on Friday
having to use a box as a pillow--all the pillows are packed up
study, study, study
Saturday night we headed over to Misty and Frank's for some yummy steak shish-kabobs and to play with the kids. We sure are going to miss Misty's good cooking when we move to Abilene.

Sunday we headed to church for quite possibly the last time here in College Station. {until I move back in July for a month} So....I feel like I have talked about our Young Married class fairly often, how much we love it, the teaching is awesome, the people are all so great, fellowship outside of church is always fun...well seems as if we weren't too social according to a couple that asked if it was our first time in the class. "umm no, we've only been coming to class since December and have talked to you multiple times and have even sat by you in class before and were here when you announced you were pregnant and so on and so on." Ok so I didn't say that but I wanted to. Crazy huh? Still can't figure it out. Anyways...after church we always go to Ozona's, like I've said before, except this time it was much sweeter. I asked the waitress to take our picture, when she looked at me a little weird I told her that it has been our weekly Sunday tradition to eat there for the past 3 years. She then smiled and gladly took our picture. You would think we would get tired of eating at the same place week after week but we literally crave it while were in church. Addison always gets the breakfast tacos and I get the strawberry pancakes.

Crazy how times flies.

Today was my second to last final and Addison's last. He is officially done with school forever! I am so jealous. I still have one more final tomorrow morning at 8:00 and then it's may mini-mester time on Thursday online for 2 weeks. It seems like school never ends for me. Lord, give me strength to keep going!
Addison setting up his last "buyback location" today
The rest of today and tonight will be spent studying. Tomorrow I will be cleaning and working on Mother's Day gifts. Parent's come Wednesday, parents in law come Thursday, Addison graduates Friday, leaving after graduation to move Abe into him and Court's Corpus Christi home, coming back to College Station, flying home...well you get the picture, it is a busy time for us.

We cannot wait to close on our house and move in and start renovating. It seems like the light at the end of the tunnel right now. Pray that we get through this next week without hyperventilating.
Our not-so-perfect, perfect little house. Thanks sweet sister-in-law for taking this for us!
We hope you have a blessed week! {take a nap and watch a movie in bed for us}

Friday, May 4, 2012

just stopping by...

...to give you the biggest news of mine and Addison's marriage so far!

WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!

Last weekend while we were in Abilene house hunting we found the house of our young-married dreams. Addison and I wanted to spend a little time together on Sunday so we went all around Abilene just looking at houses, getting ideas for what we might want to build. However, we never know what the Lord has planned for us. We were driving in Old Elmwood and thought we would stop by my bff Cali's new house that her and her fiance will move into after they get married. They were there cleaning and fixing it up to move in since their wedding is in just a few short weeks. I thought "how cool would it be if we found a house nearby here." We drove a few streets down to Hollis, and there it was, full of dead grass, weeds, ugly mesquite tree, chip painting all around the house but there was something different about it, for me it was just the one, for Addison, well he liked the price. Addison's parents were with us at this point and they happened to know the realtor. They gave him a call and he just gave us the code right then and there to get in the house. Addison immediately fell in love when we walked in. It had everything that we wanted in a starter house....red door, wood paneling on the outside, lots of landscaping {that needs a lot of work}, not one but two fireplaces, big closet, big living room, kitchen with character, I could go on and on, in short it is perfect for us. We went back 3 more times that day and couldn't shake our love for this sweet little house. We made an offer that day and after two of going back and forth they finally accepted an unbelievable price. 
peaking through the window to see if we wanted to see the inside
We went form being in absolutely no rush to find a house since we already had a perfectly good place to live. We just felt like the Lord was telling us to go for it. We will close in about 2 weeks. We feel so grateful and are so excited to start the renovations. So, for the next however many months you'll see some b&a's {before and after's} and our lives as we go from apartment renters to home owner's! 
"what am i doing?"