Wow it has been a while! And I never posted pics!! I am such a horrible person I know!!! Oh well. . . I will post some when we are all officially moved in! hehe!!
Mark has been at the new job for about 3 weeks now and he is LOVING LOVING LOVING it as am I!!! We are ssoo where God wants us right now and it has just been wonderful!! He is actually "staff" here, which means he gets salary and A DAY OFF!!! That has meant more than you can even imagine!! Since he technically "works" on Sunday he is given a day off during the week, sorta like to make it a weekend. Since he was part of the secretary staff at Macedonia he had to be there mon-fri, and work all day Sunday too! It wasn't bad, this just frees us up to do "weekend" type things (fri and sat) without losing hours. We do really miss all of our friends at Macedonia and hope they are all doing well and we can catch up with them sometime soon!!
He is doing such a good job getting to know the kids and settling into life in Harleton, he is even more ready to move out there than I am ! He works so hard and is enjoying getting to be mentored by the pastor Bro. Scott, its just been great!
Anyways, so more news is there is now a dishwasher installed in my new house!!! I CANNOT begin to describe to you how ecstatic and happy this makes me! I went over there last night just to see it and run it (without dishes but who cares) and just grin at it!! The men who worked on the house have done AMAZING! It looks like a TOTALLY different place!! I am so excited to move into there!!! Sadly though we are puppiless at the moment, our dog had an accident when he slept under Poppy's tire and sadly passed away :-(. Mark has promised me another puppy as soon as we move though, so I have been searching for the perfect one!
Well I better go and pack now! I am taking our girls to SAGE a girls conference in Tyler and Mark is with the boys playing and youth ministering at Dude camp! Then there is SNAC after church on Sunday with an easter egg hunt for the youth, so it should be a busy weekend ahead!! I cannot wait!
Friday, April 3, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
A Week of Painting!!
Well it is the last day of spring break and I can confidently say I only did a small amount of homework :-)But this is NOT because I was being lazy and sitting around all week, no way, I have been painting like a mad woman!
In case anyone doesn't know of I have forgotten to tell what is happening, Mark got the youth minister position at Harleton (yay!!) We are so excited and couldn't be happier! Well along with the many perks of the new job (such as a day off, that was AWESOME, a gas allowance, insurance, and so many more)comes a place to live. Now this is not just any "place to live", this is a 3 bedroom, two bath, massive house (especially when you compare it to the one bedroom apartment we have been staying in at ETBU). We are estatic about living there and all the freedom the church has graciously allowed us to have, one of which was painting.
You see, the house is huge, but is ALL wood panneling, and when I say all, I mean everything, every wall, was wood panneling! Wood panneling is not my favorite thing, and I have been wanting to paint something (make a house my own) since we got married, and the church allowed me to do it! Such a huge gift, I don't think they know how happy it made me. I got to pick all my own colors and everything, decide what I wanted where and was able to get in there and do a lot of it this week that I had off.
Of course paiting doesn't come without its bumps in the road, and this project was no exception. We decided to go with an orange for the office room, and got a color we thought would be great, but it turned out to be WAY to bright. It scared everyone, so after seeing that two coats didn't help the color, we had to go back and get a deeper orange. Luckily that was the only paint change that had to be made. We painted the living room/kitchen area, as well as the hall, a khaki color, that turned out to be way prettier than I thought it was going to be. The master bedroom is a light blue that matches our bedspread and will look great with all the dark furniture we have! By the grace of God we ran into one of the men that has been working on the house at Lowes one morning and he told us to have them tint the primer, which in turn saved us a step of painting. Instead of painting primer and then having to do two coats, the tinted primer took care of the primer and the first coat. It also saved us money which is always good!
All in all we got everything done but the guest bedroom and bathroom!! I couldn't have done it by myself, that is for sure. My family was phenomenal, with everyone coming to pitch in EVERYDAY, spending their spring break working as well! I don't know about you, but not many parents, grandparents, or brothers would do that willingly! I am so grateful to them and ALL THE HARD WORK they put in! It looks amazing and got done in half the time it would have if it had been just Mark and me painting.
I am on my mom's computer right now trying to upload the pics, but it isn't working! I will do it when I get home!
In case anyone doesn't know of I have forgotten to tell what is happening, Mark got the youth minister position at Harleton (yay!!) We are so excited and couldn't be happier! Well along with the many perks of the new job (such as a day off, that was AWESOME, a gas allowance, insurance, and so many more)comes a place to live. Now this is not just any "place to live", this is a 3 bedroom, two bath, massive house (especially when you compare it to the one bedroom apartment we have been staying in at ETBU). We are estatic about living there and all the freedom the church has graciously allowed us to have, one of which was painting.
You see, the house is huge, but is ALL wood panneling, and when I say all, I mean everything, every wall, was wood panneling! Wood panneling is not my favorite thing, and I have been wanting to paint something (make a house my own) since we got married, and the church allowed me to do it! Such a huge gift, I don't think they know how happy it made me. I got to pick all my own colors and everything, decide what I wanted where and was able to get in there and do a lot of it this week that I had off.
Of course paiting doesn't come without its bumps in the road, and this project was no exception. We decided to go with an orange for the office room, and got a color we thought would be great, but it turned out to be WAY to bright. It scared everyone, so after seeing that two coats didn't help the color, we had to go back and get a deeper orange. Luckily that was the only paint change that had to be made. We painted the living room/kitchen area, as well as the hall, a khaki color, that turned out to be way prettier than I thought it was going to be. The master bedroom is a light blue that matches our bedspread and will look great with all the dark furniture we have! By the grace of God we ran into one of the men that has been working on the house at Lowes one morning and he told us to have them tint the primer, which in turn saved us a step of painting. Instead of painting primer and then having to do two coats, the tinted primer took care of the primer and the first coat. It also saved us money which is always good!
All in all we got everything done but the guest bedroom and bathroom!! I couldn't have done it by myself, that is for sure. My family was phenomenal, with everyone coming to pitch in EVERYDAY, spending their spring break working as well! I don't know about you, but not many parents, grandparents, or brothers would do that willingly! I am so grateful to them and ALL THE HARD WORK they put in! It looks amazing and got done in half the time it would have if it had been just Mark and me painting.
I am on my mom's computer right now trying to upload the pics, but it isn't working! I will do it when I get home!
Monday, March 16, 2009
Not Me Monday (thanks Lee Ann)
Well I saw this on Lee Ann's blog and decided it looked too fun and I had to do it. Today is also the first "official day" of Spring Break as well which thus begins our week of painting our house in Harleton (pictures to come soon) Anyways, here this goes, I hope I do this right (Lee Ann will certainly tell me if I don't haha! Love ya girl!!)
Today I did not sleep in until 9:45 while my hubby got up and left at 7:30 for his first day on the new job at Harleton, that would be mean. . . nope totally didn't do that!
I did not up and leave my backpack, with my entire life inside of it (my Bible, laptop, phone charger, makeup, homework) in the hotel room in Oklahoma City on Friday night. Good thing that in-laws where there in case I just so happened to do such a crazy thing and bring it back for me. I would never leave something that needed, nope not me.
Mark and I totally did not come back to our apartment on Sunday to do nothing but chill out for the first Sunday in a LONG time. I mean honestly, if we were cleaning machines that day, not couch potatoes, enjoying a wonderful day of rest. That would not be us at all.
We also didn't sleep through the alarm for two extra hours on Saturday, not when there were two weddings to go to, and a drive to Vivian to make so Mark could be a groomsman, that would be completely irresponsible. Although I think one would understand after having to drive all through the night to get back for these things arriving at 5 in the morning, all to wake up with a jolt at ten realizing we shoulda been up at 8!! Yikes! That wouldn't be us in real life, that would be us in a bad dream. . .
I didn't go out to work on the house and forget the hammer that I had previoulsy said I need to get in order to take out all the nails and stuff in the new house to get it ready, that would be sorta silly and very frustrating.
Well there you have it! NOT ME MONDAY!!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Running Crazy!!
I feel as if my life has been going 90 to nothing for the past week and nothing is slowing down. In fact the more I finish, the more things seem to be added on my plate. I know I only have 9 hours and am living in a typical "love semester" but the past week has been crazy!
I actually hate the week before spring break or any other extended holiday for that matter. It is like the teachers all say "oh no, we need to have these grades in before midterm!" and begin to assign things like crazy! And they are not just small things, oh no they couldn't be those, they are projects an dall that just seem to pop up out of no where! Ok so maybe I am exaggerating a little, but it is how I feel!
Tomorrow we are heading out to Oklahoma City for the Cliftones to compete for Tate. . . this is really the reason why I feel as if I am going crazy; I have had to finish up everything early for teachers because I will be missing classes Wednesday and Thursday! I am so excited about this and nervous all at the same time! I cannot wait to get out there and take an early start to spring break!!! Please be in prayer for them!
Well I am at work, which is crazy, so I will write more later!
I actually hate the week before spring break or any other extended holiday for that matter. It is like the teachers all say "oh no, we need to have these grades in before midterm!" and begin to assign things like crazy! And they are not just small things, oh no they couldn't be those, they are projects an dall that just seem to pop up out of no where! Ok so maybe I am exaggerating a little, but it is how I feel!
Tomorrow we are heading out to Oklahoma City for the Cliftones to compete for Tate. . . this is really the reason why I feel as if I am going crazy; I have had to finish up everything early for teachers because I will be missing classes Wednesday and Thursday! I am so excited about this and nervous all at the same time! I cannot wait to get out there and take an early start to spring break!!! Please be in prayer for them!
Well I am at work, which is crazy, so I will write more later!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Moving On. . .
This past Sunday was our last Sunday at Macedonia. It was bittersweet, leaving the people we have grown to love there for a place we know we are called to be. I will tell you one thing, we have the absolute best Sunday School class anyone could ever ask for.
This past Sunday they had a pancake breakfast thing in our honor (ended up blowing the breakers, but hey that is half the fun huh). It was so special and they made SSSOOOO much food! I couldn't believe the generosity and love that was shown to Mark and me! It was beyond anything I had expected. I had truley made good friends there, that I was sad to leave and they were sad to have us go. The Sunday School was just a fellowship time, just sit around and visit with each other, which was wonderful. They then surprised us again with this little book full of notes and well wishes for us, as well as gathered around us and prayed for us. That was proabably the most special time of all. There is nothing like having good friends pray you out to somewhere you feel God leading you to go. They also announced it at the end of church and had people come by and wish us the best and say goodbye. All in all a bittersweet time, leaving a place with wonderful people, and being excited about heading out to where we are called to be. It is exciting and scary all at the same time.
I am still working on getting Mark and I a hobby. I don't know what is wrong with me lately (though I think it is senioritis) but I am just not wanting to do anything, nor do I have the energy in which to do it. But I know I need something other than school and reading that I do for fun. We have recently started playing tennis after he gets home, but I want something besides that. I dunno. . . I have been watching HGTV a lot and so I want to be creative in that way I think. I dunno!!
I also did Gillian's 20 min workout video (you know the kick butt girl trainer off The Biggest Loser), and "OH MY GOSH!!" Yikes! She is so hardcore, it is 20 mins of craziness with no breaks, I repeat, NO BREAKS. It was nuts!! Anyways, I did it, and liked it, and everything, until I woke up this morning, unable to straighten my left arm. The inside of my elbow is KILLING ME! Like completely! I have never done this before. Each side of my body is equally as sore except for that, which feels like I pulled it! I cannot straighten it, and do you know how many times you need to straighten your arms a day. Seriously putting on socks and shoes, getting cereal down, picking up your backpack, I mean the choices are limitless! HAHA!! Oh well, I still have to do it, but man I hope I can make it through!
This past Sunday they had a pancake breakfast thing in our honor (ended up blowing the breakers, but hey that is half the fun huh). It was so special and they made SSSOOOO much food! I couldn't believe the generosity and love that was shown to Mark and me! It was beyond anything I had expected. I had truley made good friends there, that I was sad to leave and they were sad to have us go. The Sunday School was just a fellowship time, just sit around and visit with each other, which was wonderful. They then surprised us again with this little book full of notes and well wishes for us, as well as gathered around us and prayed for us. That was proabably the most special time of all. There is nothing like having good friends pray you out to somewhere you feel God leading you to go. They also announced it at the end of church and had people come by and wish us the best and say goodbye. All in all a bittersweet time, leaving a place with wonderful people, and being excited about heading out to where we are called to be. It is exciting and scary all at the same time.
I am still working on getting Mark and I a hobby. I don't know what is wrong with me lately (though I think it is senioritis) but I am just not wanting to do anything, nor do I have the energy in which to do it. But I know I need something other than school and reading that I do for fun. We have recently started playing tennis after he gets home, but I want something besides that. I dunno. . . I have been watching HGTV a lot and so I want to be creative in that way I think. I dunno!!
I also did Gillian's 20 min workout video (you know the kick butt girl trainer off The Biggest Loser), and "OH MY GOSH!!" Yikes! She is so hardcore, it is 20 mins of craziness with no breaks, I repeat, NO BREAKS. It was nuts!! Anyways, I did it, and liked it, and everything, until I woke up this morning, unable to straighten my left arm. The inside of my elbow is KILLING ME! Like completely! I have never done this before. Each side of my body is equally as sore except for that, which feels like I pulled it! I cannot straighten it, and do you know how many times you need to straighten your arms a day. Seriously putting on socks and shoes, getting cereal down, picking up your backpack, I mean the choices are limitless! HAHA!! Oh well, I still have to do it, but man I hope I can make it through!
Friday, February 20, 2009
Good Times
Well this week has been pretty good I guess. Really it felt like we were all just waiting on the weekend, but hey who isn't? Overall the week was good, though not a whole lot happened. Mark and I had a Monday to ourselves, so we did our usual watching of Jon and Kate Plus 8 (courtesy of me of course, there is no way Mark would watch it on his own), and then wen to bed. . . Tuesday night Eddie was speaking at Release (the college Wednesday night type thing at ETBU), and so he and his fiance (almost wife in 22 days) came over and we all caught up, then went and listened to Ed speak, which was good as always.
Wednesday finally got here, thank goodness, because I knew that for at least one Wednesday I wouldn't be by mys
elf in my apartment, waiting on Mark to get home. After class I went over to LeeAnn's house (sssooo cute by the way) with Traci and we all ate and caught up really for a good few hours!!! It was amazing! I love my friends and glad that nothing has really changed besides the amount of time we see each other during the week. They really are amazing friends and I wish we had all gotten a lot closer A LOT sooner than our last year in college. It was so nice to just be able to spill out frustrations (and have someone understand/agree with you) and share joys and changes with! I love it! I am so excited for them as they begin their careers and go off. . . though that is sorta sad, so we just wont think about that right now.
Thursday night Mark had Cliftone practice, so I was home chilling out, which was ok, because that night I found out Hugh Laurie who plays Dr. House on House is from England and in real life has a heavy english accent!! Not so on the show, no he sounds American all the way! This led to somewhat of a YouTube fascination to pass the time.
This brings us to today, which was pretty good, if only because it is Friday! I had a headache for the majority of the day, and ended up having to just close the curtains and lay down with a cold pack on my head and my hands over my eyes. . . only to have to wake back up and go to work. However they did let me leave early, which was good! Mark spent the day with Blake who came in on Thursday and stayed with us! I love it when he comes, he is so much fun! I am glad they finally got to have just a day for themselves. . . I am not sure they have had one of those since the wedding if not before, so it was long overdue! They are like two little girls when you get them together, giggling, laughing, fighting, laughing again! It is so fun just to watch! I am thankful he has such an amazing friend in a brother. Tonight Mark was gone again to get fitted for a tux for Eddie's wedding, so I went with my family to Shoguns and it was ssooo good!
Welp I believe that catches us up. . . Tomorrow we are going out to my house to have a little get together with the youth and get acquainted with them a little bit. It should be a lot of fun and I am really looking forward to it. The
n on Sunday we are out at Harleton Baptist to go in view of a call, for which I am also excited and nervous! Please pray for Mark because he will be speaking! God really has blessed us beyond measure! My cup runneth over!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
God is SSSOOO good!!!
Well it has definitely been a while, has it not? There is a good reason for it, because so much has been going on in these past two weeks that I couldn't really talk about, and I knew if I got on here I would say something accidentally. I have wanted to talk about it so bad, but couldn't until now.
Now that I have built yall up I guess I can let you know what is going on. Mark is changing jobs once again, but this time it is a little more permanent. He applied and got the job as the youth minister for Harleton Baptist Church. We couldn't be more thrilled! It all happened so fast, and not so fast at the same time. God really has been at work these past two weeks, that is for sure, because there is no way there is anything we could have said or done that would be as good as this! We are so excited to be starting on this new adventure in our lives, but are sad we are leaving our new found friends and youth behind at Macedonia. It truely has been a roller coaster ride, but one that is just so much fun, I gladly just strapped myself in and hung on tight to enjoy it.
The final interview type thing was this past Wednesday and I got to go with him to that one. It was really more of a "so what do you think about this event? how is this going to work" type of meeting then a "Hey here's the job" thing. The church announced to the youth and the rest of the church last Sunday they had asked us to come in view of a call (which we will be going to on Feb 22), so the youth wrote down some questions they had for him. I cannot tell you how excited we are to go and just get to know those kids in Harleton. I know a few of them, but not near as many as I used to, and I just can't wait! I know I have said it a million times, but this really is SUPER exciting.
On another note, because of the job change we will also be moving soon to the youth minister's house provided by the church! I will post pictures as soon as I have some, but lets just say it is HUGE compared to our tiny one bedroom at the moment. It has a master bed/bath, two bedrooms, a hall bath, living room, kitchen, and all the closet space a girl could ask for! The church moved the house down the street not long ago, so they are working on getting everything like the electrical, gas, and plumbing all up and going. They are also going to add a covered porch, gravel drive, sidewalk path, the works it seems! This is such a huge blessing, one we are incredibly thankful for!! We did have an opportunity to walk through it on Wednesday night, so Mark could see it, and of course so I could get design ideas hehe. I have been watching my fair share of HGTV that is for sure!
So yeah, that is what all has been going on in our lives. God has been moving like crazy, revealing things to Mark and me, as well as to the committee members at Harleton, and we couldn't be happier. Life has been so amazing, and we have been blessed over and over again! To God be the glory!!
Now that I have built yall up I guess I can let you know what is going on. Mark is changing jobs once again, but this time it is a little more permanent. He applied and got the job as the youth minister for Harleton Baptist Church. We couldn't be more thrilled! It all happened so fast, and not so fast at the same time. God really has been at work these past two weeks, that is for sure, because there is no way there is anything we could have said or done that would be as good as this! We are so excited to be starting on this new adventure in our lives, but are sad we are leaving our new found friends and youth behind at Macedonia. It truely has been a roller coaster ride, but one that is just so much fun, I gladly just strapped myself in and hung on tight to enjoy it.
The final interview type thing was this past Wednesday and I got to go with him to that one. It was really more of a "so what do you think about this event? how is this going to work" type of meeting then a "Hey here's the job" thing. The church announced to the youth and the rest of the church last Sunday they had asked us to come in view of a call (which we will be going to on Feb 22), so the youth wrote down some questions they had for him. I cannot tell you how excited we are to go and just get to know those kids in Harleton. I know a few of them, but not near as many as I used to, and I just can't wait! I know I have said it a million times, but this really is SUPER exciting.
On another note, because of the job change we will also be moving soon to the youth minister's house provided by the church! I will post pictures as soon as I have some, but lets just say it is HUGE compared to our tiny one bedroom at the moment. It has a master bed/bath, two bedrooms, a hall bath, living room, kitchen, and all the closet space a girl could ask for! The church moved the house down the street not long ago, so they are working on getting everything like the electrical, gas, and plumbing all up and going. They are also going to add a covered porch, gravel drive, sidewalk path, the works it seems! This is such a huge blessing, one we are incredibly thankful for!! We did have an opportunity to walk through it on Wednesday night, so Mark could see it, and of course so I could get design ideas hehe. I have been watching my fair share of HGTV that is for sure!
So yeah, that is what all has been going on in our lives. God has been moving like crazy, revealing things to Mark and me, as well as to the committee members at Harleton, and we couldn't be happier. Life has been so amazing, and we have been blessed over and over again! To God be the glory!!
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