Fall around the corner...

Well today is the first day of September! I don't necessarily have anything to really update you on... but since it's a new month I thought I should write something haha.

Things have been going well, I've made miniscule progress on the "to do" list from my last post. I've gotten some sub jobs! :) I worked a half day on Monday at Lubeck, and I worked today, the next two days, and 2 1/2 days next week at Franklin. I'm happy about that, I'm hoping I get lots of work coming up, we could use the money of course.

Speaking of which, Brew is working late tonight again. He likes his job but gets frustrated at the fact that he seems to get the shaft so to speak. Any late orders and stuff that comes in he has to take care of. Seems like the other two service reps get off on time or shortly afterwards whereas Brew probably works over more than he gets off on time. The paychecks are nice though. I told him that that sort of thing happens almost everywhere. People pick favorites for no good reason and sometimes you get stuck w/the crap all the time. I have a feeling though they are going to put a cap on overtime soon and if that's the case then I know he won't be working as late anymore lol.

Duke's doing well. He's pretty much into everything. I can't count the number of odd random things I've pulled out of his mouth the last couple of weeks. He has a knack for finding things that are not edible and wants to chew/eat them. He's doing ok on housetraining. He had a kick there for a while where he'd sneak through our bedroom closet to get to the 3rd bedroom (which is not being used for anything other than keeping some of my uncles' junk in still) and pooping. I've since baracaded the closet so he hasn't done that anymore. He's starting to go to the door too when he needs out and he has been making it through the night and when we aren't home w/out using the bathroom in the house. Sometimes he'll slip up, especially if I'm trying to do dishes or something and not paying attention, but mostly he's doing well. We're trying to break him of play biting and chewing on people. We're open to suggestions. We've just been smacking him on the nose but that doesn't really seem to phase him. I don't want him to play rough since we have young nieces and I just don't want to get any of that started. Overall though he's a pretty good dog :)

Alright I've rambled long enough-- I'll write more later when I have something more interesting to say LOL

Our puppy & other stuff...

Well our puppy is home!!! We decided on the name Duke. It just seemed to fit him well plus Brew & I BOTH liked it. Which if naming this puppy is any indication of how difficult it will be for us to name our kids then we'll have quite the challenge on our hands... But here are some pictures :)






He's still working on housetraining but so far he's been pretty good. I just have to be paying attention to him when he goes to the door cause he doesn't scratch or whine every time. He's getting the hang of it though. At night he sleeps in our bedroom, we just close the door to keep him corralled. He has a little doggie bed. (Ours is too crowded as it is- and there's no way he'd fit when he's full grown so we're not starting the sleep in our bed thing!) When I'm not home he stays in a crate, which he does well in. I just put him there so he doesn't tear stuff up lol. And he never pees in there either so that helps.

In other news... I haven't had any work yet (it's a slow time of year for subs). Last year I didn't work till mid-September. Which, we do ok with what Brew makes but I have a feeling after a week or two I'm going to get tired of sitting at home. Not that I don't have plenty to do. My to-do list is plenty big enough...

To DO:

- Wash Dishes (UGH this is never ending. I HATE doing this and try to talk my hubby into doing them as much as I can. I soooo wish I had a dishwasher!)

- Laundry (again, another ongoing project. Not only am I trying to keep up w/just our everyday clothes but also washing new sheet sets & blankets & off season clothes, etc. as I'm STILL unpacking)

- Finish wedding thank you cards (This is ALMOST done-- I just have to get some more envelopes cause I ran out for the last three, and mail Stef & Bas' from the post office since I don't know or have the correct postage)

- Unpack, clean, and organize guest bedroom/office (Where I'm at right now! It's coming along. I'm trying to get it straightened up and stuff by this weekend so we can move my dresser, bookshelf, and Brew's old bed in)

- Clean and organize our bedroom closet (yea it's kind of a jumble right now)

- Clean out the 3rd bedroom (this will require my dad's trailer and a place to put some of my uncles & grandparents' old furniture that's shoved in there now. I'm wanting to get it CLEANED so I can re-paint in there and we can use it for storage and the like. Eventually it will be the nursery whenever the time comes for babies :))

- Clean the rest of the house (because by the time I do all the above it'll be a disaster!)

- Finish my wedding scrapbook & work on my Thailand scrapbook (This is about the only fun thing on the list haha)

So yea, no shortage of things to do. I just need to find some motivation somewhere. About all I've wanted to do is sit on my butt or play w/Duke lol.

Alright well I need to get off here & get ready to go. I'm teaching clogging lessons for Teresa (from now till the end of the semester actually-- she has a Thursday night class)

Until next time... :)

New Addition

Well, this coming weekend we will be welcoming a new addition to our family!



He's a beagle/lab mix and he stole our hearts! <3 He's a very calm, sweet little guy. The only reason we didn't bring him home this week is because we're dog sitting for my parents while they are at the beach. (yea- the beach- without me!:-p lol) But yea I'm super excited to bring him home! He is currently unnamed but the names in consideration are: Sam, Duke, Jett, Bolt, and Coal. Brew is insisting on a "masculine" name (since we are going to have him neutered), so he nixed a lot of my cutesy names (like Barkley and Dudley...) but those five we actually came to a consensus on. We'll ask around & then on Saturday when we get him we'll know for sure what his name is.

Well the chickens done cooking so I'm going to go! (I'm making chicken enchiladas for dinner- yum!)

Good news/bad news

Good news- We have internet at our house!!! :-D

Bad news- My laptop was stolen out of our Jeep sometime Saturday night :( We live in a really safe area, and I normally don't lock our vehicles (though I also don't normally leave things like that IN them either, just forgot to get it when I got home). So that sucks major. We filed a police report but I'm not counting on getting it back. At least we still have a desktop computer.


On that note that's all for now- I'm headed to meet Whitney for dinner then clogging practice.

Married Life...

Well it's the first post we've made since our wedding & honeymoon! In short, married life has been great so far! We are really happy :) We've had a few spats now and again but so far we've been getting along & adjusting to living together quite well I think. We're proud of us :)

I still don't have internet at the house yet. Mainly because we haven't moved my desktop computer yet. It's been a slow process LOL. I want to have it moved by the end of this week though, so maybe we'll be able to get internet in August.

We've finished pretty much all the house renovations. I will get pics ASAP! We only have the 3rd bedroom that hasn't been touched yet, and the outside stuff. Hopefully the outside stuff will be done by Fall and the 3rd bedroom by the end of the year. The bedroom we're going to use as kind of a catch all room, but we'll store Brew's drumset & my scrapbooking stuff, so I can sort of have a little scrapbooking room :) Haha of course till it's baby-time.

Speaking of babies, several people have asked me lately if/when we're having kids. The answer is YES we are and it's just a matter of when now. Truthfully we both sort of have the "itch" so to speak, BUT, we want to have at least 1 year to ourselves to get used to "married life", finish house projects, and just have the chance to take a trip or two without kiddos. I'm not sure how long that will be, but we've both decided to wait until our 1st anniversary to decide when. We may decide to go off bc on our anniversary, or we may decide we want another year or two. We don't want to get in too much of a hurry!

Some upcoming things we're looking forward to...
Aug 6- Melissa's brother's wedding
Aug 7- Our niece Makalyn's 1st birthday
Sometime in Aug- We're going SOMEWHERE, not sure where lol, maybe to Columbus for a day or a theme park, just a weekend cheap trip :)



Alrighty, hopefully my next post will be from OUR house on OUR internet haha.

Wedding Pics!

Link to our wedding pics (on facebook)

Our Wedding 6-26-10

House projects are coming along. Kitchen is done (Thank the Lord). Just some minor detail work left (like curtains in kitchen & bedroom...) and a lot of cleaning/moving/unpacking. I promise lots more house pictures very soon! (And Honeymoon ones!)

My plan is to be able to move my stuff this weekend, and then call Suddenlink next Monday morning and have internet hooked up sometime next week. That's the plan anyways. I'm going nuts not having it. I'm using the internet once in a while at mom's or my babysitting family's house.

Until next time!

We're hitched!

Well the title says it all! Brew and I got married June 26, 2010. Everything came together and the wedding was wonderful. It felt like it went so fast though!

Our wedding evening/night we went out to dinner then stayed at the Blennerhassett hotel. Then Sunday morning we headed to Petersburg, WV where we stayed at a wonderful bed and breakfast called Breath of Heaven. Check out their site here. . We spent 2 nights & 3 days in the mountains of WV and visited Spruce Knob, Seneca Rocks, Smoke Hole Caverns, and Blackwater Falls. We had a blast!

We came home to an unfinished house and are living out of boxes and bags. We still never got the cabinets finished in the kitchen, and the old laminate is off the countertops and the sink is sitting in the floor. We're putting in the new laminate tomorrow and hopefully finishing cabinets this weekend. I can't wait to actually move the rest of our stuff and actually set up house!

Well that's all for now. Hopefully our wedding pics will be in today or tomorrow and I will have pics soon!