FOUND!

After what seems like years of searching (really 2 months if I'm being honest) we have found our house! You would think just finding a house to rent would not be that hard but we quickly found it was.

Our new house is super close to Kristin and the boys, Kelly, Josh Lamkin and a couple others - I'm very excited about our new neighbors. It is an all brick house with hardwood floors. 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and an amazing kitchen the house is old but the kitchen is newly renovated and beautiful!! We really wanted 2 bathrooms but if we both want to be in our bathroom now (at the same time) one of us has to stand in the shower. So at this point 1 big bathroom would be awesome.

We move in the same weekend of my first wedding shower - sorry Josh! I have been looking at home related blogs trying to get ideas of how to decorate on the cheap; we definitely plan to stay there for a while. The owner is being very cool about letting us paint and do pretty much whatever else we want.

I stumbled across this blog, http://www.younghouselove.com/. I basically want this couples life. They blog and makeover things (rooms, houses, yards, etc.) for a living!

Of course we want to immediately get Bacon (the dog) now that we have a house but have decided it's best to wait until after the wedding. Which is in 86 days!!

Girlfriends

I had a conversation the other night with a girl that I don't really know that well and the first thing she said to me was 'Yea - I don't really like girls that much'. This is one of my biggest pet peeves especially at this period in my life I feel like I am leaning on my girlfriends more than ever. There was a time in my life where I used to say the same thing because I thought it was 'cooler' to be friends with the guys. It makes me sad for girls that don't have girlfriends or that think it's fun to fight with other girls. Guys are great and I have some wonderful guy friends..but you need the girls!!

Lately it seems like with Josh studying and working all the time I have had a lot of time to catch up on lost time with girl friends.

It just feels really good to be surrounded by good girlfriends. Those are the people that take you out to Smiths when you make your first sale, listen to you complain when have a bad day, be the first to throw you a birthday party, engagement party or wedding shower, watch stupid movies with you, talk about chick-lit, go bridesmaid dress shopping with you for 4 hours looking for the right color, take the time to schedule phone dates with you from D.C. or half way across the world, not give up on double dinner dates even if it takes 3 years, workout with you, shop and eat with you when you don't feel like working out, dance like an idiot with you, let you send all your wedding presents and RSVP's to their house, send you cards for every occasion, tell you when you are doing something stupid and go for a glass of wine with you after a long day.

I could go on and on but you get my point. Y'all know who you are and I love you - you make my life better everyday.

(some of) My Favorite Boys

Last weekend Josh and I registered. It was an interesting experience. Originally we were both super excited; 'We get to pick out anything we want and people will buy it for us?!'. We started at Crate & Barrel and I instantly got overwhelmed there are so many things and options I had no clue what I wanted. Plus I have to decide right now what I will want in 6 months and use for years..pressure! It took us about 3 hours we gave up and went to lunch. After lunch we headed to Macy's where I was clearly over it and we left quickly. Josh has said that I am free to go by myself or with Kristin he even offered to watch the boys.

After registering Kristin brought Sawyer over for his sleepover at our house. We took him to the park and spent most of the rest of the day there. We had so much fun; the playground, kickball games, dogs and bicycles. He slept for 12 hours which was awesome and then waited patiently at the table for Josh to make his pancakes. It was for sure a nice glimpse of 'family life' but I'm still good. Josh however...


Discovering Josh's belly button it was apparently the most fun






Josh is his favorite person ever :)

Happy Birthday Katherine!!

Happy Birthday sister of mine!! Your one of my favorite people and I'm sad that I can't celebrate with you today. Have the best first engaged birthday ever..Love you!




Hopefully there will be lots of singing tonight :)