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Weekend Update

Not a whole lot going on this weekend, which was wonderful! Friday night I got to spend some time at home in the evening with my "Friends." Heehee- I had a couple friends over and we just vegged and watched episodes of Friends. Now that I'm looking back over my weekend...I pretty much watched Friends all weekend. How lame...but yet so enjoyable! Anyhow, Wes played Risk with some friends upstairs for a while. Saturday- I could have slept in, but did I? No! I was so upset that I couldn't just sleep a little longer. I was awake by 7:30. Oh well, maybe my dream of sleeping until 10am is lost forever...

Lisa & Shannon came over Saturday morning. It was good time spent catching up. It's great having family here-although it felt a little weird at first how we were all going back to our own homes in the evening! Usually we're vacationing together, so it's been an adjustment to have our own space! Wes & Jason came back from shopping at the Outlets. (Yes, I said shopping!) and Wes decided to make a big Saturday lunch for everyone. It was very yummy. We had our first experience eating at the dinner table in our 2nd bedroom. Let me explain... Last Tuesday our apartment flooded, unfortunately. We had about 3 gallons of water in there and had to get it extracted by some fancy machine... Well, in the midst of this, we had to rearrange the furniture so the carpet could dry. After said carpet was dry, we decided after living here for almost 9 months, it was time for a re-arrange. With the limited amount of space in our living/dining room, we decided to turn Wes's office/2nd bedroom into our dining room/Wes's office. Thus, giving us more space in the living room and utilizing our 2nd bedroom when needed. Now, all I think we need are TV trays and we'll be set!

Today was nice. We didn't need to be at Crossings until 9:15am! Lately, I have been playing keys in our Worship band on Sundays a lot more, which is great because I really enjoy it. But, it was really nice to take our time getting to church a little later this morning. 6:30am just gets a little too early to have to leave the house by! After church, Wes, Ryan (our friend & upstairs neighbor) went to eat lunch at the Gondolier. Had another yummy pizza. Wes got sick and thought the food was not good. Then we got to listen to someone at the next table complain about their meal and then storm off. Now, I'm not usually someone who really speaks their mind on these blogs, but is it really necessary to tell a restaraunt manager that the "veal parmesan" wasn't really what you expected and you think you know how they should prepare it and then get angry and leave abruptly. Is it really that important to you? Maybe that is just foreign to be because it's not really my nature to complain in restaraunts or at least not to someone in management (If it's not good I usually just don't eat it, and tell those around me.)

The rest of the afternoon was great- worked in our filing cabinet. Always feels like there are papers to be filed away, shred or handled. It's a never-ending pile. This evening, we walked down to my office and I worked for about an hour. Wes walked down with me to take some time to read and pray. It was really nice just to get out of the house. We've definitely been home-bodies this weekend.

My favorite part of the whole weekend... spending time with Wes. We've been really trying to develop more friendships outside of each other, and I think we've been doing a great job and growing those friendships and making more of an effort to do things separately. With that said, sometimes it just takes a little time away to really enjoy each other's company. It's nice to miss him. We had several opportunities for some girl time/boy time this weekend. I've decided that it's very difficult for me to understand how to remain two separate individuals, and yet rely completely on each other (apart from our dependence on our Creator.) I guess it has to be some type of inter-dependence. It's a very difficult idea for me to grasp.

Does anyone else have this type of issue? How do you handle or manage? Any tips?

Photo Overload

Happy Anniversary!

Tomorrow is our 2nd Anniversary! I can't believe it's already been 2 years! I wanted to post some photos here of the "special" day. If you can believe, I still have some prints I want made. I had an opportunity to look through some of the photos Whitney took and I think I may get some prints made.

I loved our wedding. We had so much fun! (I hope every one else did, too!) It's been fun to think back and look at these pictures!

My Husband, The Manly Man

Yesterday afternoon was quite the eventful day. I unfortunately had to leave for a quick doctor's visit during the afternoon, but as I came back to work I noticed a frenzy in the office!

They found a snake in our office and it had slithered into a closet and was hiding. So, there was only me, Megan, Kristen and Mike. (All of which were freaking out and being very girly!) So, I called Wes and asked him to come down a little early, since he was picking me up at 5 to go grocery shopping. And, he decided that it would be fun to try and find the snake himself.

Since the closet door had been shut for a few minutes, the snake had come out and was sitting in the floor. So, Wes poked at him with a stick (to make sure he was real!) and then he went into the corner. So, he and another guy, Lee, began taking out all of the stuff in the closet trying to find him. Then he realized that he had moved up the bookshelf and was sitting on a book that was open. (Kind of random, I know!)

So, they finally were able to pick him up and put him in a tote to take him outside. And, they let him go at the pond across from the office. It was a little too close for me, but oh well. Hopefully he will find a new home there and stay!

I was so proud of Wes- and impressed! I will never be afraid if we have any critters or creepy crawlers in our house. I know that he will protect me and get rid of anything for me.

One Step Closer

We are officially debt free, except for our student loans! Just paid off the last credit card!

In the past year we have paid off the following...

1. CarMax (Car Loan)
2. Dell (Big mistake- never finance technology!)
3. First Tennessee Bank Visa
4. Capital One Visa

Woohoo!

My Mission this Week (Which I have chosen to accept)

Watch all 3 X-Men movies. Well, I know it's a tough mission, and there are plenty more important things that I could and should be doing, but...

Wes would like to see the new X-men movie, but I was very unwilling, since I haven't seen any of the previous movies. And, quite honestly didn't really think I would enjoy them much. However, Whitney & Jeff offered to let us borrow their DVD's of all 3 previous movies, and I began watching with an open mind.

I have only 1 movie left, and I must say that they are pretty good! I am surprised at how much I have enjoyed watching them. I only have a few more days to watch the last one, but hopefully I can find the time at some point. And, then I will be able to willingly and anxiously accompany my husband to the movies and see the latest one (and actually enjoy it!)