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}

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?"

hot weather, happiness and house hunting

Addison and I spent the weekend {yes together, finally} in Abilene. This makes the third weekend in a row that I went home, but there's no complaining coming from me! Ofcourse, we had to stop at Green's Sausage House and get my favorite homemade bread and sausage to eat on the way home. 

We got home Friday evening and unloaded our Uhaul that we brought home, in Addison's parents barn, aka our home for when we move back in 2 weeks! After, we ate dinner and then headed to my parents house. We found them sitting on the back porch so we joined them and talked with the peaceful waterfall from the lake trickling in the background. On Saturday, Add and my dad went and played golf while my mom and I had our time to relax and drink coffee. A little while later we went to Carter's {J and Keri's son/my cousin} baseball game at the Wylie Fields. 

the one and only Chandler

Kinley got hot...what this baby girl wants, she gets. Yes Keri did put her dress back on her. 

Carter again, was the cutest one out there and that's all that matters right?

On Saturday night, the Pointer's got to come over for dinner. It's not often that I get to see Cali (until a few weeks) so I was so happy that they all got to come over for a few hours. We had margaritas, chicken, twice baked potatoes, strawberry salad and beans. I didn't eat the beans. Makin' your mouth water? Oh, and for dessert, good ol' banana pudding.

On Sunday, Add got a little surprise from the....Easter bunny! Crazy how it just knows when you'll be in town and when to drop the basket by the front door. We then got in the truck and drove all around Wylie to get some ideas for a house that we thought we wanted to build and to spend some time together, which doesn't come very often. We then went over to the "Abilene" side of town, and actually found some houses that were a good price and in a good location so we'll see where the Lord takes us. 

Sunday morning

Gaygay peaking through the kitchen window of on the houses we looked at.

We left this morning to come back to College Station. I went to my last class this afternoon for the semester and now it's just getting down to studying for my 3 finals. Addison will be working a lot this week and only has one final and then were home free! {until I start my may minimester next Thusrday; atleast it's online}

Update on mom: she is feeling a little bit better since her stay in the hospital for testing. We still don't know what's going on. She is looking into finding a new cardiologist and neurologist. They had to stop all testing last Thursday while she was there due to some idiot doctor's/nurses following protocol instead of listening to my mom. Long story short, they changed up some of her seizure meds so she is trying to get use to the different side effects. She also still cannot drive for a while.  Please keep her in your prayers as this is a very frustrating time for her. We hope we can figure some things out and that she continues to get her energy back. 

We hope you have a blessed week!

WILW

This week on...

Remember this post two Wednesday's ago? Well I didn't get to it last week so I thought I would just continue it on to this Wednesday. For the last two weeks (and all of my life) I have been praying for my sweet momma. 

My mom is my best friend, I can talk to her about really anything, she's my shopping buddy, my advice giver, we share the same love of reality TV and movies on Sunday afternoon. We have always been close, we had a few years where I was being an immature teenager and thought I ruled the world and didn't need as much guidance but she still stuck by me (like all moms would do hopefully). When I went off to college I was pretty ready to be "on my own." hah! What little I knew then. Our relationship has grown since then and keeps growing all the time. We have always had a special bond with me being her only daughter, which kind of makes me want to have sons and then one daughter, only the Lord knows though.  As most of you know she had open-heart surgery when I was in high school and a stroke a week later. I have always tried to be as sensitive as possible to this because people just don't understand what's it's like to go through life living off of medicine and if you miss one accidentally it makes you feel horrible. People just think you're automatically going to be all better after you have surgery and that's not how it is. She is in a constant struggle to prevent seizures, strokes, blood clots and many other things. I look up to her so much because she is such a fighter and a leader. She still takes care of all her kids even though she feels like crap a lot of the time, goes and sees us wherever she lives and not to mention spends a lot of her time on the phone everyday with her mother (Mawmaw) who has Alzheimer's and Dementia or at her house or taking her to doctor appointments trying so hard to take care of her since my Granddaddy is no longer with us. Meanwhile, running and maintaining her own household and keeping up her relationship with my Dad and us kids. She does a pretty dang good job too. 

So anyways, that is a little background into our relationship and the amazing woman my mom is. So why she was up on my heart to write about this week? Well, for one she is always on my heart, and two she hasn't been feeling very well at all lately and it makes me pray even harder for her. She currently, as of Monday morning has been in a hospital in Dallas getting some testing done to see why she hasn't been feeling well. She and the doctor's don't know if it is mini seizures, TIA'S (mini strokes) or what, but they are working hard right now putting her through different tests to determine what might be the problem. It might be as little as adjusting some of the medication she's on or something bigger, we don't know yet. She has been having extreme migraines and not feeling well the past few days while she has been in this testing hospital due to them already changing up her medication and what not. So all you prayer warriors out there get on your knees, we need some coming our way! I know God is in control I just pray that He would give the doctor's the wisdom to know what is going on with my precious momma. Thanks for prayers. I hope you have a blessed week!