So I have made a food blog that I should I would share on here! you should become a follower! :D
http://loveatfirstbitefood.blogspot.com/
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
So I'm pretty sure I was a house wife in another life..
This is what I've decided after 3 months of being married. I loved cooking before, but now that I actually have someone to cook for, and friends that we have dinners/get togethers with that actually gives me an excuse to cook and make things..I love it! Here are some of my newest recipes that I have added to my recipe book-which I am rapidly running out of room in!
* Cheesy Veggie Lasagna
* Cinnamon Rolls (FROM SCRATCH!)
* Pumpkin Bread (from scratch, using all the parts of the pumpkin. Woo!!)
* Marbled Raspberry Cheesecake Squares
* Breadsticks from scratch..or pretzels depending on seasoning I suppose
* And Danny's favorite, cheese biscuits! Not as good as Red Lobster, but they are pretty darn good if I say so myself!
I am tempted to start a cooking blog just to keep track of the recipes until I can get another book haha.
So I can't believe its November already!! Time is going by too fast!! I guess thats a good thing though because we only have about 6 or 7 weeks until we will be headed back to good 'ole Iowa for the Christmas/New Years holidays :) I am so excited to see our families again! Its going to be so hard splitting our time there between my parents and Danny's parents because I'm going to want to spend a lot of time with both! Hopefully we will get it figured out before we head down there...if not, we'll have 18 hours of driving time to figure it out haha.
Work is still going well, I've been getting more hours lately since one of the other girls has been sick lately. Yay for more money! :) There seems to be a ton more surgeries lately too which has been awesome for me because I get to stand in all of them. I've moved up to monitoring the anesthesia and vitals during the surgery which is really neat for me to actually be involved doing something instead of just standing there. I'm really crossing my fingers for more hours when I come back from the Christmas holidays (Dear Santa...please bring me more work hours..) and am working my butt off to get to the veterinary assistant position there instead of the position I have now.
Danny is doing well with grad school. I think hes gone out mussling for the last time this season, and will start going out again this spring once the weather warms up again. Its been in the lower 70's here lately, which may not feel cold to us, but apparently it is to the mussles haha. Its so weird getting used to the fact that its November and its still warm enough to be wearing shorts and not need a coat outside lol. I can't say that I miss the freezing cold too much though. All of the grad students that he works with are really nice. They always have a "Bro's night" and a "Girl's night" every other weekend, so its nice to get out of the house and spend time with other people that are just Danny and our animals. (Not that I don't love them both very much! )
Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!! :)
~Laura
* Cheesy Veggie Lasagna
* Cinnamon Rolls (FROM SCRATCH!)
* Pumpkin Bread (from scratch, using all the parts of the pumpkin. Woo!!)
* Marbled Raspberry Cheesecake Squares
* Breadsticks from scratch..or pretzels depending on seasoning I suppose
* And Danny's favorite, cheese biscuits! Not as good as Red Lobster, but they are pretty darn good if I say so myself!
I am tempted to start a cooking blog just to keep track of the recipes until I can get another book haha.
So I can't believe its November already!! Time is going by too fast!! I guess thats a good thing though because we only have about 6 or 7 weeks until we will be headed back to good 'ole Iowa for the Christmas/New Years holidays :) I am so excited to see our families again! Its going to be so hard splitting our time there between my parents and Danny's parents because I'm going to want to spend a lot of time with both! Hopefully we will get it figured out before we head down there...if not, we'll have 18 hours of driving time to figure it out haha.
Work is still going well, I've been getting more hours lately since one of the other girls has been sick lately. Yay for more money! :) There seems to be a ton more surgeries lately too which has been awesome for me because I get to stand in all of them. I've moved up to monitoring the anesthesia and vitals during the surgery which is really neat for me to actually be involved doing something instead of just standing there. I'm really crossing my fingers for more hours when I come back from the Christmas holidays (Dear Santa...please bring me more work hours..) and am working my butt off to get to the veterinary assistant position there instead of the position I have now.
Danny is doing well with grad school. I think hes gone out mussling for the last time this season, and will start going out again this spring once the weather warms up again. Its been in the lower 70's here lately, which may not feel cold to us, but apparently it is to the mussles haha. Its so weird getting used to the fact that its November and its still warm enough to be wearing shorts and not need a coat outside lol. I can't say that I miss the freezing cold too much though. All of the grad students that he works with are really nice. They always have a "Bro's night" and a "Girl's night" every other weekend, so its nice to get out of the house and spend time with other people that are just Danny and our animals. (Not that I don't love them both very much! )
Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!! :)
~Laura
Thursday, October 14, 2010
happy days
Hello world!
Three blogs this month so far, amazing I know! ;) Few things have gone on since I last blogged. We are still adjusting to losing Leo :( I keep feeling like we've lost a child, I guess in a way we sort of have since we love all our animals like they were our kids. I finally made myself clean out Leo's cage this week, Kiah just sat on her pot and watched the whole time :( Poor little girl, she knows something is wrong and that he isn't there, but we've been trying to cuddle her and give her lots of love so she doesn't get too lonely. She kind of clammed up for a little bit and quit coming out and night and quit making noises at night, shes starting to come out of that a little more lately though which makes me feel a little bit better. Danny's been holding her a lot more lately and seems to be warming up to her, I think it makes him feel a little bit better that she cuddles up to him. Its cute watching them bond :)
On a happier note, work has been going amazingly lately. The only thing that could make it better would be getting more hours and being full time haha. I've started training to become a veterinary assistant and I'm almost finished learning everything on that list, I just have to be more comfortable with everything on it, and be able to answer the phones regularly and check in the patients. Both things I've seen done plenty of times, I just need to work on it on my own so that I can do it myself! Hopefully if I work really hard I can get to the point of a vet assistant before we leave for christmas break and come back in January as a vet assistant :) I really love getting to learn all this new stuff though, it makes me enjoy work so much more than I did just cleaning everyday. I love getting to actually work with the animals and do more technically things like drawing up vaccinations and doing the blood work. Makes me feel much more official :)
I'm also excited because I finally get to take Danny on our surprise date this weekend :) I've been waiting since like last month! We are going to a little pumpkin patch here in town to get our first pumpkins together :) and I'm going to pack a picnic for us to have there after we get our pumpkins hehe complete with home made caramel apples :) assuming they turn out anyway! lol I'm going to make sure to bring our camera too so we can take lots of pictures :) Hopefully it doesn't rain on our parade!! :D
<3
Mrs. Goodding
Three blogs this month so far, amazing I know! ;) Few things have gone on since I last blogged. We are still adjusting to losing Leo :( I keep feeling like we've lost a child, I guess in a way we sort of have since we love all our animals like they were our kids. I finally made myself clean out Leo's cage this week, Kiah just sat on her pot and watched the whole time :( Poor little girl, she knows something is wrong and that he isn't there, but we've been trying to cuddle her and give her lots of love so she doesn't get too lonely. She kind of clammed up for a little bit and quit coming out and night and quit making noises at night, shes starting to come out of that a little more lately though which makes me feel a little bit better. Danny's been holding her a lot more lately and seems to be warming up to her, I think it makes him feel a little bit better that she cuddles up to him. Its cute watching them bond :)
On a happier note, work has been going amazingly lately. The only thing that could make it better would be getting more hours and being full time haha. I've started training to become a veterinary assistant and I'm almost finished learning everything on that list, I just have to be more comfortable with everything on it, and be able to answer the phones regularly and check in the patients. Both things I've seen done plenty of times, I just need to work on it on my own so that I can do it myself! Hopefully if I work really hard I can get to the point of a vet assistant before we leave for christmas break and come back in January as a vet assistant :) I really love getting to learn all this new stuff though, it makes me enjoy work so much more than I did just cleaning everyday. I love getting to actually work with the animals and do more technically things like drawing up vaccinations and doing the blood work. Makes me feel much more official :)
I'm also excited because I finally get to take Danny on our surprise date this weekend :) I've been waiting since like last month! We are going to a little pumpkin patch here in town to get our first pumpkins together :) and I'm going to pack a picnic for us to have there after we get our pumpkins hehe complete with home made caramel apples :) assuming they turn out anyway! lol I'm going to make sure to bring our camera too so we can take lots of pictures :) Hopefully it doesn't rain on our parade!! :D
<3
Mrs. Goodding
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Good things for October
Hola Everyone!
I'm procrastinating going on my run today, and what better way to procrastinate than updating my blog!!! Woo!! I've got some exciting things to talk about!! Hooray!!! First of all, no news yet on Kiah having babies. Supposedly sugar gliders will act differently towards people when they are pregnant, act more crabby and not want to be held as much, and stay curled up in their nest more. I haven't noticed any changes at all in Kiah's behavior...Danny says he has and that she has been more temperamental towards him, (between you and me I think its just that shes tired of him instigating her and trying to irritate her), but we will sees out of l. Sugar gliders have an internal gestation of 16 days and then after that the baby is born and crawls into the mom's pouch and develops there for 3-4 months. 16 days would put the baby being born October 4th which means we probably wouldn't even notice the baby in the pouch until the end of October or November since they will be about a few centimeters long when they are born. They are super tiny!!! You rarely ever see the baby being born, the only way we'll know if shes pregnant is if we see a little jellybean lump thing in her pouch as the baby grows. We'll see though!!
Danny and I have both been doing really well, still adjusting to life here in Texas and definitely still getting used to managing funds together. Its difficult when you've never had to share a bank account before, but we are getting used to it, especially because our budget right now doesn't let us do a whole lot extra we are really getting used to watching what we spend together and keeping each other informed of what is spent. Although we both got paid today, so we decided we both need a haircut badly haha. I haven't had mine cut since before the wedding!! I'm so excited!!! Oh the little things in life haha.
We both have had some really good news come our way lately too!! Danny has been offered a research assistantship for the following spring semester and fall semester of next year working through a local company here in town that wants research done on a riverway near by their facility. Research on how their facility is effecting the enviornment= good PR for them = money and a summer job for my husband = win win for everyone!! :) Luckily the research the company proposed to have done is pretty similar to the research topic Danny had chosen to do his thesis on so he will be able to kill two birds with one stone. The really great thing about all of this is that 1. this company will be paying for Danny's school tuition 2. They will be paying him a few hundred dollars more a month than what the school was paying him to be a teaching assistant and 3. He can publish the research he does for this company in a scientific magazine which will be a really great thing for him to have going into his doctorate program. He is also pretty much guaranteed a job with this company in the summer that pays pretty well too which is good because his stipend from the school wouldn't have covered the 3 months he was off of school in the summer. He is really happy about it and I am so proud of him that he was able to do this! :)
My bit of good news is that I found out yesterday that I will get to start training to be a veterinary techinician at my work!! I have been wanting to go to vet tech school soo badly ever since I started working there so that I would be able to do the things that the techs are doing there and be more involved in working with the animals. Don't get me wrong, I am so thankful for the position I have there and I have gotten to observe and help with so many things and I have learned so much being there in one month than I ever did at any of my other jobs, but I have a really hard time staying high spirited about it when my main duty is to help keep the clinic clean, mop and sweep the floors and clean the windows. I went to college and got a degree so I wouldn't have to mop and sweep floors all day. Regardless I just told myself to work hard at making a good impression and it looks like I did! I am so excited that I finally get to do this without having to go to school for it!! :D I can't wait!!
Things are finally starting to cool down here in Texas..and by cool down I mean lower 80's upper 70's still haha. Although it does get pretty chilly (50's and 60's) at night and in the early morning. Its funny because I feel like 60's should feel good to us and not chilly but we have gotten so used to it being 90 and above that it does feel cooler than 60 haha. Oh no we have completely acclimated to Texas weather!!!! ;) I'm so excited its October though because that means I get to take Danny on a surprise date that I have been planning since last month :) Theres this little pumpkin patch near by that I thought I'd take him to where you take a hay ride out the the field and pick your own pumpkin and all that fun stuff. I'm going to attempt to make caramel apples for our picnic there too haha. We'll see how they turn out!! I've been so excited about it and wanting to do it for so long I"m having a hard time being patient haha. I want to go like this weekend and get the pumpkins but theres no way they would last until the end of October haha so hopefully I can hold out a few more weeks!!
I can't believe that its already October, it feels like time is going by so fast! Even still, I can't wait for it to be December so we can go home and see our family. It will be about 5 months that we've been gone and have seen our family by the time we get back so it will be really nice to see everyone and spend time with everyone again! :D Hopefully we don't freeze to death from not being used to the winter tundra that is Iowa from Dec to March haha.
Ok...I think I've put off running long enough!! Time to get my lazy butt out of the house!!! Bye!!
Mrs. Goodding <3
(hopeful grandmother of sugie babies!)
I'm procrastinating going on my run today, and what better way to procrastinate than updating my blog!!! Woo!! I've got some exciting things to talk about!! Hooray!!! First of all, no news yet on Kiah having babies. Supposedly sugar gliders will act differently towards people when they are pregnant, act more crabby and not want to be held as much, and stay curled up in their nest more. I haven't noticed any changes at all in Kiah's behavior...Danny says he has and that she has been more temperamental towards him, (between you and me I think its just that shes tired of him instigating her and trying to irritate her), but we will sees out of l. Sugar gliders have an internal gestation of 16 days and then after that the baby is born and crawls into the mom's pouch and develops there for 3-4 months. 16 days would put the baby being born October 4th which means we probably wouldn't even notice the baby in the pouch until the end of October or November since they will be about a few centimeters long when they are born. They are super tiny!!! You rarely ever see the baby being born, the only way we'll know if shes pregnant is if we see a little jellybean lump thing in her pouch as the baby grows. We'll see though!!
Danny and I have both been doing really well, still adjusting to life here in Texas and definitely still getting used to managing funds together. Its difficult when you've never had to share a bank account before, but we are getting used to it, especially because our budget right now doesn't let us do a whole lot extra we are really getting used to watching what we spend together and keeping each other informed of what is spent. Although we both got paid today, so we decided we both need a haircut badly haha. I haven't had mine cut since before the wedding!! I'm so excited!!! Oh the little things in life haha.
We both have had some really good news come our way lately too!! Danny has been offered a research assistantship for the following spring semester and fall semester of next year working through a local company here in town that wants research done on a riverway near by their facility. Research on how their facility is effecting the enviornment= good PR for them = money and a summer job for my husband = win win for everyone!! :) Luckily the research the company proposed to have done is pretty similar to the research topic Danny had chosen to do his thesis on so he will be able to kill two birds with one stone. The really great thing about all of this is that 1. this company will be paying for Danny's school tuition 2. They will be paying him a few hundred dollars more a month than what the school was paying him to be a teaching assistant and 3. He can publish the research he does for this company in a scientific magazine which will be a really great thing for him to have going into his doctorate program. He is also pretty much guaranteed a job with this company in the summer that pays pretty well too which is good because his stipend from the school wouldn't have covered the 3 months he was off of school in the summer. He is really happy about it and I am so proud of him that he was able to do this! :)
My bit of good news is that I found out yesterday that I will get to start training to be a veterinary techinician at my work!! I have been wanting to go to vet tech school soo badly ever since I started working there so that I would be able to do the things that the techs are doing there and be more involved in working with the animals. Don't get me wrong, I am so thankful for the position I have there and I have gotten to observe and help with so many things and I have learned so much being there in one month than I ever did at any of my other jobs, but I have a really hard time staying high spirited about it when my main duty is to help keep the clinic clean, mop and sweep the floors and clean the windows. I went to college and got a degree so I wouldn't have to mop and sweep floors all day. Regardless I just told myself to work hard at making a good impression and it looks like I did! I am so excited that I finally get to do this without having to go to school for it!! :D I can't wait!!
Things are finally starting to cool down here in Texas..and by cool down I mean lower 80's upper 70's still haha. Although it does get pretty chilly (50's and 60's) at night and in the early morning. Its funny because I feel like 60's should feel good to us and not chilly but we have gotten so used to it being 90 and above that it does feel cooler than 60 haha. Oh no we have completely acclimated to Texas weather!!!! ;) I'm so excited its October though because that means I get to take Danny on a surprise date that I have been planning since last month :) Theres this little pumpkin patch near by that I thought I'd take him to where you take a hay ride out the the field and pick your own pumpkin and all that fun stuff. I'm going to attempt to make caramel apples for our picnic there too haha. We'll see how they turn out!! I've been so excited about it and wanting to do it for so long I"m having a hard time being patient haha. I want to go like this weekend and get the pumpkins but theres no way they would last until the end of October haha so hopefully I can hold out a few more weeks!!
I can't believe that its already October, it feels like time is going by so fast! Even still, I can't wait for it to be December so we can go home and see our family. It will be about 5 months that we've been gone and have seen our family by the time we get back so it will be really nice to see everyone and spend time with everyone again! :D Hopefully we don't freeze to death from not being used to the winter tundra that is Iowa from Dec to March haha.
Ok...I think I've put off running long enough!! Time to get my lazy butt out of the house!!! Bye!!
Mrs. Goodding <3
(hopeful grandmother of sugie babies!)
Sunday, September 12, 2010
September
We had our first guest come to visit a few weeks ago!! Katie Gorden came all the way from Iowa to visit us for a week over Labor Day weekend!! It was so much fun having her come
visit :) One of her last days here we took a trip to Caddo Lake Park that was about an hour's drive from our
cozy townhome in Tyler. Definitely worth the drive, the scenery was BEAUTIFUL there!! There was spanish moss hanging from all of the trees growing in the water with floating lily pads for miles. It was beautiful! We will definitely be returning there soon!We also had our first dinner party last night which was really fun. I made dinner and our guests brought a side dish and a dessert. I've decided I quite like entertaining for gu
ests very much, just maybe not the cleaning up afterwards haha.
We also had all of the grad students over just to hang out and watch movies the night before as well. We are slowly starting to become closer with the other grad students here, which is nice to be getting to that point. :) Yay for new friends!!
So I have a riddle for all of my lovely readers...what is small, grey, black,
and furry all over??
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any guesses??
.....I'll give you a clue..they are super adorable...
....they make cute noises
Sugar glider babies!!!!!
Don't get too excited yet...we aren't 100% sure Kiah and Leo will be the proud parents of such cuties just yet, but we have been seriously considering it. :) I think they are SO adorable, and it would be sooo cute if they had babies!! Like I said, we aren't 100% sure yet, there is a lot of work involved in caring for joeys, especially when the mother rejects them and we would have to raise them by hand. I would definitely be up to the challenge though :) I promise to keep everyone posted as to what we decide. FIY Danny scooched their cages closer together tonight...don't know if they can conceive through the cage, and Danny says he isn't sure if he wants them to have babies yet..but I think he does. DUH!! why would he have moved the cages closer together ;)
<3
Mrs Goodding (future grandmother of sugie babies!!)
<3
Mrs Goodding (future grandmother of sugie babies!!)
Monday, August 23, 2010
new friends
Danny had his grad student orientation today. I decided to go with him since he thought it'd be for an hour and then afterwards I could meet his graduate professor. His graduate professor Neil is super nice! Not at all what I expected, but hes really nice and invited us over to his house for dinner sometime in the next few weeks :) His wife is even going to give us cichlids for our new fish tank that we just set up in our dining room :) I can't wait to actually put fish in there! :)
After his last orientation all of the grad students went out to a local pub and invited us to come along. I'm really glad that we went with them :) It gave us a chance to get to know all of the other grad students, and gave me a chance to get to know them since I had never met any of them before. They all seem really nice, and the girls even invited me over for a girls night since the boys were having a 'bro night' this weekend. Silly, but I'm really happy that they decided to include me, I was worried that it would be hard for me to make friends here since I wouldn't be at the school with Danny and would only be interacting with the girls at work and not really anything else outside of work. So I'm really glad that I got along well with the girls here :)
Also I must say, I. Love. Webcams!! Tonight we webcamed with all of our friends back at Morningside plus had some other friends that weren't at morningside webcaming with them at the same time and had the laptops pointed at each other. Twas fantastic :) I miss our friends and family back home so much!!! I can't wait to be back for break so we can be back with everyone again! Despite how fun its been being here in Texas just Danny and I, I really get homesick every now and then for my family. Its going to take some getting used to, but having webcams to see everyone helps :)
skyping with friends = love :)
Anyway, I must get to bed so I'm not too tired for work tomorrow :) Hopefully I'll have more exciting stories from the veterinary hospital!!
<3
Mrs. Goodding
After his last orientation all of the grad students went out to a local pub and invited us to come along. I'm really glad that we went with them :) It gave us a chance to get to know all of the other grad students, and gave me a chance to get to know them since I had never met any of them before. They all seem really nice, and the girls even invited me over for a girls night since the boys were having a 'bro night' this weekend. Silly, but I'm really happy that they decided to include me, I was worried that it would be hard for me to make friends here since I wouldn't be at the school with Danny and would only be interacting with the girls at work and not really anything else outside of work. So I'm really glad that I got along well with the girls here :)
Also I must say, I. Love. Webcams!! Tonight we webcamed with all of our friends back at Morningside plus had some other friends that weren't at morningside webcaming with them at the same time and had the laptops pointed at each other. Twas fantastic :) I miss our friends and family back home so much!!! I can't wait to be back for break so we can be back with everyone again! Despite how fun its been being here in Texas just Danny and I, I really get homesick every now and then for my family. Its going to take some getting used to, but having webcams to see everyone helps :)
skyping with friends = love :)Anyway, I must get to bed so I'm not too tired for work tomorrow :) Hopefully I'll have more exciting stories from the veterinary hospital!!
<3
Mrs. Goodding
Saturday, August 21, 2010
into the routine
I've been so bad at updating this. I fail! Aside from the A/C breaking down there hasn't been anything much exciting than that going on here to update about. Unfortunately Danny and I still haven't been able to explore town very much aside from driving past businesses on our runs to wal-mart. There's a park a few blocks away...but who wants to go on a bike ride when its 115 degrees outside?! Not us!! So for now our bikes and fishing poles will continue to gather dust..we've been told that this 110 degree weather will finally break in November..god I hope not! Maybe if I just keep telling myself that it will be nice and warm here when its -20 back in Iowa this winter it won't seem as bad?
I was offered the job at the veterinary clinic! Although its only part time right now which is kinda sucky, I LOVE it!! It's a lot of bitch work, cleaning cages, restocking supplies, ect, but I do also get to play with the cute puppies when I take them outside during the day. I also got to stand in on a surgery last week too! Probably one of the coolest but more gross surgeries I've seen (I don't really like doing stuff with eyes..) but it was so cool to be in there and observe. I've just got to work my butt off and try to absorb all I can from what the doctors are willing to teach. The vet techs say that they worked for about a year in my position before the vet moved them up to tech, so I'm hoping that by working super hard that I'll get there in under a year. I do have a degree after all...either way its great experience for my resume!
Danny had his first grad school orientation today. He's pretty nervous about it all, but excited too. He's going to be such a great teaching assistant :) He starts classes on the 26th so he'll find out today what his schedule will look like and what days he'll be at the university. I'm hoping maybe our schedules will line up so he has days off when I have days off too. It's kinda lonely being here by myself instead of having breakfast together and watching tv or playing video games together. Married life has been simply wonderful <3 I love waking up next to him, going to sleep next to him, making dinner together (and he even does the dishes! what more could you want?! hehe) it's been better than I ever would have thought :) The only down side...I'm still sick :( Been sick for over 2 weeks now...its getting old...and frustrating. *sigh* and we still have no health insurance. Not until September anyway. I sound like I'm coughing up everything inside of me..ugh! 2 weeks is long enough! I want to be better now darn it!!!
I suppose I better go and be productive..there's one last box of picture frames that I have left to unpack. Maybe I should do that today :) We are still waiting to order prints from the wedding to put in the picture frames we got from the wedding..so we just have a bunch of empty picture frames sitting around. LAME! I'll just have to use some of the ones packed away that have old pictures in them already until then :)
Love,
Mrs. Goodding <3
I was offered the job at the veterinary clinic! Although its only part time right now which is kinda sucky, I LOVE it!! It's a lot of bitch work, cleaning cages, restocking supplies, ect, but I do also get to play with the cute puppies when I take them outside during the day. I also got to stand in on a surgery last week too! Probably one of the coolest but more gross surgeries I've seen (I don't really like doing stuff with eyes..) but it was so cool to be in there and observe. I've just got to work my butt off and try to absorb all I can from what the doctors are willing to teach. The vet techs say that they worked for about a year in my position before the vet moved them up to tech, so I'm hoping that by working super hard that I'll get there in under a year. I do have a degree after all...either way its great experience for my resume!
Danny had his first grad school orientation today. He's pretty nervous about it all, but excited too. He's going to be such a great teaching assistant :) He starts classes on the 26th so he'll find out today what his schedule will look like and what days he'll be at the university. I'm hoping maybe our schedules will line up so he has days off when I have days off too. It's kinda lonely being here by myself instead of having breakfast together and watching tv or playing video games together. Married life has been simply wonderful <3 I love waking up next to him, going to sleep next to him, making dinner together (and he even does the dishes! what more could you want?! hehe) it's been better than I ever would have thought :) The only down side...I'm still sick :( Been sick for over 2 weeks now...its getting old...and frustrating. *sigh* and we still have no health insurance. Not until September anyway. I sound like I'm coughing up everything inside of me..ugh! 2 weeks is long enough! I want to be better now darn it!!!
I suppose I better go and be productive..there's one last box of picture frames that I have left to unpack. Maybe I should do that today :) We are still waiting to order prints from the wedding to put in the picture frames we got from the wedding..so we just have a bunch of empty picture frames sitting around. LAME! I'll just have to use some of the ones packed away that have old pictures in them already until then :)
Love,
Mrs. Goodding <3
Sunday, August 8, 2010
yet another adventure as a married couple
Well our A/C decided to turn off yesterday..actually we think it was sometime in the middle of the night, but we didn't notice it until the middle of the day yesterday! As the temperature in our townhouse got higher and higher Danny finally called the 24 hour maintenance number to have them come and look at it..apparently our blower motor is broken, and they won't be out to fix it until Monday or Tuesday.
As the temperature got up to 85 degrees, Danny decided that he was going to look at it himself and tinker around with it figuring he couldn't do anything worse to it if it was already broken. He got it to work..periodically. It runs now but will cut out on its own after a few minutes, sometimes its 20 minutes. At least its semi working for now..I don't know how they would have expected us to wait until Monday or Tuesday when the temperatures here get well above 110 every day. Doesn't really seem fair to me.
On a different note, I had a job interview Tuesday that I felt went really well, minus the head vet leaving out early without saying a word to me about anything. I haven't heard anything yet, I keep telling myself it hasn't even been a week yet but I'm still disappointed. I felt that it went really really well and I made sure I was involved in everything I could be doing and I learned SO much in that one day! I want that job sooooo badly!! Cross your fingers that I hear from him soon!
For the mean time nothing else new to report :) I've been sick for the past few days..and our health insurance doesn't start until Danny starts school in September, so hopefully it goes away on its own :( I hate being sick!! My body just couldn't wait one more month haha.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Life is a series of experiences..
SO much to update this blog with!! It's going to be a long one, so please bear with me as I ramble through the past 3 weeks of my life :)
Moving to Texas:
After Danny's transmission being replaced Tuesday morning thanks to his dad, and my AC fan motor in my car replaced (an added bonus of staying in DSM one more night, Danny's dad was able to fix that for me too!) we were on our way (once again) to Texas. The drive was nothing short of long and incredibly boring to say the least! I have never driven more than 3 1/2 hours in one drive, and anything longer than that I have been a passenger for, and have also been asleep for most all the drive. We stopped ever couple ours to fill the cars up with gas, stretch our legs, and take a break from driving; but it was still a long trip. The first night we drove about 30 minutes past Oklahoma City, OK and stopped in a little town over night after driving a total of 9.5 hours. In addition to being totally exhausted from driving, dinner decided to not sit well with me so I spent most of the night sleeping in the bathroom since I couldn't stop getting sick. Danny came and put me in bed around 2 or 3 am when I finally was able to sleep without waking up to get sick again.
The next morning we had about a 5 hour drive left ahead of us. We ate breakfast and continued our trek to Texas. We thought we were hot at our wedding, this was nothing compared to how hot it was that day in Tyler! 101 with a real feel of 108..what an awesome day to move in... Luckily I had made it through the drive without getting sick, but I seemed to lose my lucky streak as soon we got there because as soon as I started trying to carry things in I started getting sick again. Unfortunately it was only Danny and I moving in so my move in consisted of carrying objects from the truck to the townhouse, then going to the bathroom to get sick and then go to carry more things back in. It sucked to say the least, but I couldn't let Danny carry in everything alone, and some things required two people to lift and carry them in. Eventually we got all moved in, I stopped feeling sick and we had to pitch camp for the night with Danny on the couch and me on the love seat. We had the box spring for a bed, but no mattress yet :/ regardless, we made it in one piece, and successfully filled our new townhouse with what felt like millions and millions of boxes.
A week in Tyler, Tx...
Tyler is much different from what I had pictured. It is very pretty here, tons of roses everywhere. I guess Tyler has a rose festival every year, and is well known for their roses :) 5 minutes from our townhouse is the main strip where all the businesses are. Tyler may be smaller than Des Moines is, but I think what makes it seem about the same size or bigger than Des Moines is that all the big businesses in Tyler are scrunched onto one really long road. I'm not complaining though, it makes it super convienent that there are so many stores near by, and I can't wait to check out the mall! :) I had two job interviews the first week that we moved in, one at PetSmart for the same job I had at Petco as a groomer, and the other was at a vet clinic. I have a job shadow tomorrow at the vet clinic to see how I like the job, how well I work with everyone, ect. Just to give it sort of a trial run, I'm hoping it goes really well because I feel like I could learn a lot from working at a vet clinic. I guess we will find out soon! :)
We're leaving on a jet plane!
Three days after getting to Tyler, Danny and I left for our week long honeymoon in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. We have about a million and one pictures to go through and edit before we put them up on a photobucket type website. As soon as we have them up I'll put that link on here as well :) I'll do a quick recap of our trip though :)
Welcome Home!
We came back from Costa Rica to a house full of boxes..not my favorite thing to come home to, but we were both soo tired from the 2.5 hour drive back from Dallas after flying home that we just left it until the next day. The next day when we finally woke up we both buckled down to finish unpacking everything else. We still aren't finished, but we did get a lot done yesterday. You can actually see the floor in our living room, and you can actually sit down and eat at our dining room table :) Pictures will be posted once everything is unpacked and looks like a home! :) For now that is all until our next blog!!!
<3 Mrs. Goodding
Moving to Texas:
After Danny's transmission being replaced Tuesday morning thanks to his dad, and my AC fan motor in my car replaced (an added bonus of staying in DSM one more night, Danny's dad was able to fix that for me too!) we were on our way (once again) to Texas. The drive was nothing short of long and incredibly boring to say the least! I have never driven more than 3 1/2 hours in one drive, and anything longer than that I have been a passenger for, and have also been asleep for most all the drive. We stopped ever couple ours to fill the cars up with gas, stretch our legs, and take a break from driving; but it was still a long trip. The first night we drove about 30 minutes past Oklahoma City, OK and stopped in a little town over night after driving a total of 9.5 hours. In addition to being totally exhausted from driving, dinner decided to not sit well with me so I spent most of the night sleeping in the bathroom since I couldn't stop getting sick. Danny came and put me in bed around 2 or 3 am when I finally was able to sleep without waking up to get sick again.
The next morning we had about a 5 hour drive left ahead of us. We ate breakfast and continued our trek to Texas. We thought we were hot at our wedding, this was nothing compared to how hot it was that day in Tyler! 101 with a real feel of 108..what an awesome day to move in... Luckily I had made it through the drive without getting sick, but I seemed to lose my lucky streak as soon we got there because as soon as I started trying to carry things in I started getting sick again. Unfortunately it was only Danny and I moving in so my move in consisted of carrying objects from the truck to the townhouse, then going to the bathroom to get sick and then go to carry more things back in. It sucked to say the least, but I couldn't let Danny carry in everything alone, and some things required two people to lift and carry them in. Eventually we got all moved in, I stopped feeling sick and we had to pitch camp for the night with Danny on the couch and me on the love seat. We had the box spring for a bed, but no mattress yet :/ regardless, we made it in one piece, and successfully filled our new townhouse with what felt like millions and millions of boxes.
A week in Tyler, Tx...
Tyler is much different from what I had pictured. It is very pretty here, tons of roses everywhere. I guess Tyler has a rose festival every year, and is well known for their roses :) 5 minutes from our townhouse is the main strip where all the businesses are. Tyler may be smaller than Des Moines is, but I think what makes it seem about the same size or bigger than Des Moines is that all the big businesses in Tyler are scrunched onto one really long road. I'm not complaining though, it makes it super convienent that there are so many stores near by, and I can't wait to check out the mall! :) I had two job interviews the first week that we moved in, one at PetSmart for the same job I had at Petco as a groomer, and the other was at a vet clinic. I have a job shadow tomorrow at the vet clinic to see how I like the job, how well I work with everyone, ect. Just to give it sort of a trial run, I'm hoping it goes really well because I feel like I could learn a lot from working at a vet clinic. I guess we will find out soon! :)
We're leaving on a jet plane!
Three days after getting to Tyler, Danny and I left for our week long honeymoon in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. We have about a million and one pictures to go through and edit before we put them up on a photobucket type website. As soon as we have them up I'll put that link on here as well :) I'll do a quick recap of our trip though :)
- Visited Arenal Volcano, and did a guided hike through a rainforest near the area. We saw a few sloths, some poison dart frogs, iguanas, green basilisks, crocodiles, and an agouti (large rodent about the size of a chihuahua) We also ate dinner at a restraunt near the base of the volcano, but unfortunately it had clouded up that evening so we couldn't see any of the lava rocks that can be seen shooting up at night
- Went Scuba Diving on two different dives. This was the first time we had dove in 5 years, so we were both extremely excited about diving again! We saw so many pufferfish, some boxfish, tangs, starfish, sea urchins, a sea turtle, several moray eels, and two white tipped reef sharks. (coolest thing ever!! Can't wait to get those pictures back!)
- Went to Guachipalin and did an all day adventure package, which was one of my favorite days of the trip. This day we got to the location and went zip lining through the canopy, and rappelled down the cliff face of some waterfalls throughout the zip lining tour. After that we went on a white water inter-tube ride down Rio Negro. It was pretty much like white water rafting, but you were in a tube by yourself! It was really really fun, some of the drop offs we went on were about 4 ft down!! Then after that we came back and had lunch, followed by a horseback ride to Symbiosis Spa that was located near the place we were at. At the spa there are several mud pools that are geothermally heated by the volcano nearby, so they would bring the mud up into these basins with paintbrushes for you to paint on each other, then you would rinse off and go sit in the hot springs at the spa. It was nice to have a relaxing afternoon after all of the go go go from earlier in the day!
- Our last big thing we did was go to the cloud forest in Mountverde. This is what comes to mind when you picture rainforest. It was sooo beautiful there, the pictures we took don't even do it justice! While we were there we also did another zip lining tour over the canopy. I wish I could have had a video camera attached to my helmet the whole time to catch everything!! After the zip lining and lunch we went on a hike through the forest over the hanging bridges of Selvatura. It started pouring during our hike (rain in the rainforest..what?!) but it was still neat to hike through it in the rain and hear all the sounds, and afterwards you could hear the animals so much better!
- I can't forget about our epic adventure the last night of our trip. On our down afternoons and days Danny and I would go to the beach that was 15 minutes from our condo we were staying at. If you walked around the cove about a mile or so down and over some sedimentary rocks and through a couple trenches the ocean came up into you would get to a white sand beach. We spent the whole day at the beach, and since we left in the morning the tide was down low enough that Danny could cross the trench without his backpack with our cameras and passports getting wet so we decided to go over to the white sand beach for the day. Now the previous days we had been at the beach the tide had gone up and then come back down as the sun set each day. We figured this would be the same this day as well, so as the sun started setting we started making our way back over to the trench we crossed to get to the white sand beach but found that the water was too high. The sun hadn't set yet so we weren't too worried and just sat near by to wait. The sun got lower and lower, and the tide only seemed to get higher and higher. By the time the sun had gone completely down the tide was the highest we had ever seen it, meaning that there was no way Danny could cross without getting his backpack wet...we were stuck on the other side until the tide went down. This is their winter time in Costa Rica so the sun sets about 6 pm so we weren't too worried about waiting a little longer for the tide to go down..if only we had known haha. Danny and I weren't able to cross back over the trench until 9:30. We ended up waiting something like 4-5 hours for the stupid tide to go down. Not quite how we thought our last day would end, but it sure was exciting none the less!! And we did make it back to our condo eventually that night :)
Welcome Home!
We came back from Costa Rica to a house full of boxes..not my favorite thing to come home to, but we were both soo tired from the 2.5 hour drive back from Dallas after flying home that we just left it until the next day. The next day when we finally woke up we both buckled down to finish unpacking everything else. We still aren't finished, but we did get a lot done yesterday. You can actually see the floor in our living room, and you can actually sit down and eat at our dining room table :) Pictures will be posted once everything is unpacked and looks like a home! :) For now that is all until our next blog!!!
<3 Mrs. Goodding
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Is this Texas..no..its just Winterset, Iowa
Well, 72 hours of being Mrs. Goodding, and married life has been anything but dull, especially within the past 24 hours. Perhaps I should start from the very beginning though so I don't leave anything out!
Saturday, July 17th I officially became Mrs. Goodding! That has been the best feeling in the entire world being married to your best friend. That day went by faster than I was ready for, and I feel like I wasn't even myself that day. It just felt like such a surreal experience, but despite it being the hottest day ever, I wouldn't have changed it for anything! It was the perfect day, and I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful ceremony and reception, as well as how great it felt to have so many family and friends there to share the excitement with us! Our videographer did a fantastic job as well of putting together a ceremony hi-light video (which I will probably watch everyday, its so good!)
That next morning was full of tearful goodbyes, as we said good-bye to all of our friends from out of town that came for the wedding. It was hard to say good-bye when you don't really know just how long it will be before you see each other, but just because there's distance doesn't mean that great friendships can't be maintained. None the less, it was still really hard. That night Danny and I went to bed early to prepare for our next big adventure..a 14 hour drive to Tyler, Tx. We went monday morning bright and early to pick up our 26 foot Penske truck + car dolly. We spent alll day packing it, and finally pulled out of Des Moines at 7 pm...got to the Walgreens down the street to get some snacks and came back out to find out that Danny's car had died. What a great start to our trip! So Danny's dad..my father in law :D came out to jump the car and we started out on our trek again. 40 miles later all of the service engine lights come on in Danny's car that I was driving so we pulled into a rest stop where his car proceeded to die again.
2 hours later finds us en route back to Des Moines, and a dead alternator in Danny's car. The
plan for today is for Danny's dad to trade out his alternator for a new one, and then start our travels to Texas again. Hopefully we won't run into any more troubles along the way. In the mean time, I'll put a link to pictures so you can see those as well!! :D
~Mrs. Laura Goodding
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Saturday, July 17th I officially became Mrs. Goodding! That has been the best feeling in the entire world being married to your best friend. That day went by faster than I was ready for, and I feel like I wasn't even myself that day. It just felt like such a surreal experience, but despite it being the hottest day ever, I wouldn't have changed it for anything! It was the perfect day, and I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful ceremony and reception, as well as how great it felt to have so many family and friends there to share the excitement with us! Our videographer did a fantastic job as well of putting together a ceremony hi-light video (which I will probably watch everyday, its so good!)
Laura & Danny's Wedding Day Rewind... from Tom Haggas on Vimeo.
That next morning was full of tearful goodbyes, as we said good-bye to all of our friends from out of town that came for the wedding. It was hard to say good-bye when you don't really know just how long it will be before you see each other, but just because there's distance doesn't mean that great friendships can't be maintained. None the less, it was still really hard. That night Danny and I went to bed early to prepare for our next big adventure..a 14 hour drive to Tyler, Tx. We went monday morning bright and early to pick up our 26 foot Penske truck + car dolly. We spent alll day packing it, and finally pulled out of Des Moines at 7 pm...got to the Walgreens down the street to get some snacks and came back out to find out that Danny's car had died. What a great start to our trip! So Danny's dad..my father in law :D came out to jump the car and we started out on our trek again. 40 miles later all of the service engine lights come on in Danny's car that I was driving so we pulled into a rest stop where his car proceeded to die again.
2 hours later finds us en route back to Des Moines, and a dead alternator in Danny's car. The
plan for today is for Danny's dad to trade out his alternator for a new one, and then start our travels to Texas again. Hopefully we won't run into any more troubles along the way. In the mean time, I'll put a link to pictures so you can see those as well!! :D
~Mrs. Laura Goodding
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Wedding Week
So here I am entering my last week as a single girl...this time next week it will be all over, I will no longer be Miss Rhein, but Mrs. Goodding. I can't believe that after almost two years of planning for this wedding that it is actually here! It feels so weird to think about that, I still don't think that my brain fully understands that when I say that the wedding is Saturday that I'm actually really really going to be getting married this Saturday! I have never been more excited for anything, and I have never felt more ready for anything in my life!! I feel like I should have so much left to do because I'm so used to having a million things left...all my checklist on theknot.com says is "have fun at your rehearsal" and then "Smile, Relax, and enjoy your wedding day" :) Actually I guess I have one more to add..."memorize your vows" haha I've gotten them written..just need to memorize them..and make it through them without crying ((yeah right))
Friday night was my bachelorette party thrown by my little sister aka maid of honor :) SOO much fun :) I don't think I have ever taken that many shots in such a short amount of time haha. Lessons learned from the evening: Lemon Drop shots are the greatest things ever. Swinging on a swing over a bar is SO FUN. and most importantly, selling suckers for $1 makes you major mulah!! I only had something like 40-50 suckers to sell and ended up coming out with $115 at the end of the night!!! Um why didn't I do that every night until the wedding?!
My aunt from New Jersey is here in town to spend the week with us before the wedding, so thats been exciting! My grandpa comes wednesday, and one of my bridesmaids comes thursday. :) I'm really wishing that I took this week off of work, but we needed the money so I'll survive I suppose, it just would have been nice to have that week off to get things done, but money is money :) Sometimes though I just feel like I'm going to wake up and really have like a year left to go until the wedding or something! It just hasn't completely hit me yet.
One thing that didn't completely hit me until last night was the fact that moving to Texas with Danny meant leaving behind everything and everyone. I mean I know when you move you move away from people, but it just didn't connect with me for some reason until one of my best friends started talking about it at a friend's wedding the other day and we both just started crying. It's going to be so hard moving away from all of our friends and family, and I'm going to have an even more hard time because I won't know anyone other than Danny. He at least has other students he'll study with at grad school. It just won't be the same without my besties close by, even if some are a few hours away now. A few hours is nothing close to 12 hours..
Sorry for the scattered post, my mind feels so jumbled right now!! Next time I blog though I will be a married lady!!! See you on the other side!! :)
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
June
Holy cow its the last day in June...that means next month is ....JULY!!! I don't know whether to feel excited or extremely nervous...maybe I'll just go with both! I can't believe how quickly it came up, and how much I still have left to do! On top of that we have our big move the Monday after the wedding! I'm super nervous/excited about that!!! Its a 12 hour drive (booooo!!) but we're splitting it up into 2 days..there's no way I could have driven 12 hours straight through!!
I'm excited to see our new townhouse and nervous at the same time, its really hard to go by pictures to get a size idea..it looks pretty spacious in the pictures..hopefully its that way in real life! We just got our electric company picked out last night so we will have electricity/air conditioning when we get there. (yay!) I also have a job interview already lined up which is awesome! I've been filling out petsmart applications online and got a call for a grooming/pet stylist the other day and the manger was super nice and understanding about us not being there yet and wants me to call her when we get down there, so hopefully I get a job with them!
Speaking of jobs, after job hunting ALL summer I finally got a job; go figure its when we have 3 weeks left until we move..but money is money. I'm really bummed because I LOVE this job!! I got a job at Petco as a grooming assistant and get to give doggies baths all day and brush them out :) Its soo much fun! Especially because there are tons of cutie pie dogs that come in :D Yesterday was my first day and I mostly just helped some and stood around and watched, but today I get to wash the dogs by myself so it should be more fun today!! Yay!! Now if only I can figure out when to tell them that I'm leaving haha..I feel so bad only being there for 3 weeks because everyone there is SUPER nice!
And poor Danny..I feel so bad for him, he is working 70-80 hours a week trying to get more money (rental trucks to drive to texas are expensive!!) I can tell he is just so overworked and so over stressed :( Our honeymoon will definitely be well needed!! Although I am sure we are just going to want to sleep the whole time!! I'm still super excited though!! At the same time I'm sad to be leaving Iowa..we won't know ANYONE..well at least I won't. Danny has his grad school friends, but all my friends are back in Iowa :( Hopefully I make friends there fast otherwise I will be really lonely!!
I kind of wonder how it will all feel after this is all over with the wedding and the move..if it will just feel like I have nothing to do with my life anymore because this has been my life for the past year! I can't remember my life without an overwhelming amount of stress in it haha. I guess we will see soon!!! 18 more days!!!
I'm excited to see our new townhouse and nervous at the same time, its really hard to go by pictures to get a size idea..it looks pretty spacious in the pictures..hopefully its that way in real life! We just got our electric company picked out last night so we will have electricity/air conditioning when we get there. (yay!) I also have a job interview already lined up which is awesome! I've been filling out petsmart applications online and got a call for a grooming/pet stylist the other day and the manger was super nice and understanding about us not being there yet and wants me to call her when we get down there, so hopefully I get a job with them!
Speaking of jobs, after job hunting ALL summer I finally got a job; go figure its when we have 3 weeks left until we move..but money is money. I'm really bummed because I LOVE this job!! I got a job at Petco as a grooming assistant and get to give doggies baths all day and brush them out :) Its soo much fun! Especially because there are tons of cutie pie dogs that come in :D Yesterday was my first day and I mostly just helped some and stood around and watched, but today I get to wash the dogs by myself so it should be more fun today!! Yay!! Now if only I can figure out when to tell them that I'm leaving haha..I feel so bad only being there for 3 weeks because everyone there is SUPER nice!
And poor Danny..I feel so bad for him, he is working 70-80 hours a week trying to get more money (rental trucks to drive to texas are expensive!!) I can tell he is just so overworked and so over stressed :( Our honeymoon will definitely be well needed!! Although I am sure we are just going to want to sleep the whole time!! I'm still super excited though!! At the same time I'm sad to be leaving Iowa..we won't know ANYONE..well at least I won't. Danny has his grad school friends, but all my friends are back in Iowa :( Hopefully I make friends there fast otherwise I will be really lonely!!
I kind of wonder how it will all feel after this is all over with the wedding and the move..if it will just feel like I have nothing to do with my life anymore because this has been my life for the past year! I can't remember my life without an overwhelming amount of stress in it haha. I guess we will see soon!!! 18 more days!!!
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Its official!!!
Danny and I signed our lease on our first home together today!!! I have so many emotions going through me right now!! On the one hand I am beyond thrilled that we FINALLY have a place to live!! For a while I was seriously thinking that we were going to end up living in a big cardboard box!! On the other hand I'm nervous about moving to a place we haven't physically been able to go and look at aside from pictures and reading reviews. I feel so relieved that this whole process is over..no more spending hours of apartment hunting everyday..its done! I am so excited as well to be starting out on this new adventure, moving to a new home, seeing and doing new things, just everything that comes along with moving to a new place out of your comfort zone! Then I also feel elated that this places is ours..not juts mine..or his..or our parents house..its ours together, and whats even more exciting is that when we move into our new home I will be moving in as Mrs. Laura Goodding...a wife...no longer a girlfriend of 5 years! That feels so good just reading that..I can't imagine how much better it will be when its a reality!
So that leaves me with 4+ hands of different emotions haha most than I can possibly contain in myself! I've caught myself several times today thinking or talking to someone about the plans after the wedding and realize 'hey! we are actually moving down there..we have a home waiting for us to move into, not just a theoretical place that we have yet to have found!' We are one step closer to starting the rest of our lives together!!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Graduation
Danny and I will both be graduating from undergrad college this weekend!! It's so hard to believe that 4 years has gone by so quickly!! I know we will both miss all of our friends after graduation. It's such a mix of feelings for me at least to be graduating. Danny still has at least two more graduations ahead of him in his educational career. Me however, unless I decide at some point to go back to school this will be my final graduation!
Earlier in the week I couldn't wait to be done with finals and be done with everything. No more tests for the rest of my life! Can't beat that!!! However, when I woke up this morning it felt like a smack in the face when I finally realized this is it! No more being in school, I'll actually have to be a "real grown up". While I'm excited and looking forward to this new chapter in my life I can't deny that facing it for real is slightly intimidating. Danny is much more optimistic than I am and tells me to embrace this new exciting stage. For him its exciting to be graduating, to be moving to a new home in Texas, and to be starting a new chapter in our lives. Yes it is very exciting, but I like to have somewhat of a general idea of what I'll be doing-which I don't. I need to learn to go with the flow more I suppose!
Hence the inspiration for starting this blog. Among the many new changes that goes along with graduating, Danny and I will also be moving out of the state and leaving both of our families behind. We will be our own family..along with our caravan of animals making our own mark in Texas. Despite being excited for this new chapter in our lives together (especially as husband and wife!!!) it's sad leaving our families behind and it's going to be hard being further away from them. I want to stay in touch with everyone as best we can, with not only our families but our friends as well. What better way than a blog about our new adventures together!! :)
Perhaps I won't be the best at updating it..and I will try my hardest to not fill it up with senseless wedding talk :) but I can't wait to see what types of adventures we fill this blog with as we start our lives together and in a new state! It will probably be crazy and exciting, as most things usually are in life, but it sure will be one heck of an adventure! :)
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