Life back to normal.

So I found my livejournal account from 2008 and the only thing I can say is how thankful I am that life has evened out for me. Life from 4 years ago was so different from my life now. I was in such a random place in my life then. I knew what I wanted but it was like nobody else was on board! LOL. And let's just not start on the relationship front from then! It's crazy that only one year after those sad and frustrating posts I met the love of my life. Since then everything in my life has fallen into place. Truth be told within a month of starting to talk to Dave life shifted, everything fell into place and my life was in order for the first time in almost forever.  Dave and I may argue from time to time, but I really am lucky to have him in my life and I have never looked back. We may have only been married for a year and a half, but it really feels like we have been together forever. As sappy as it may sound but we just fit together. Everything fits together with us and my past is drowned out and replaced with the new memories of us! (yeah I know... sad, sappy, and all of that, but I at times just feel as if I need something to remind me of the depressed dark girl I once was and how far life has taken me.)

Dave and me. Finishing up a wonderful fun day at the zoo

 by watching our nieces playing at the park!

Family has gone home, and I am left here trying to figure out what to do with my days. It's crazy! We were go go go for a week and a half, and now everyone is gone and I'm left trying to find something to do. On top of that my car is broken! Soemthing about a belt or whatever! I'm so sick of car problems! We have had so many issues with cars I'm just done with it!  I can't wait until we both get reliable cars! School should be starting soon, and I'm ready to go back to work.....

 Dave and me. Just hanging out with the family!

My Brother and Sister-in-law! I couldn't ask for better in-laws! 

We all get along so well! I love when they visit! Hope to 

get to see them more often! 

We are getting ready to work on getting our fall garden started. I'm very excited to get it going! Growing the few tomato plants I did this summer really has shown me how fun a SMALL garden can be! I'm not going to go crazy or anything just enough to supliment some of our  food expense and to get the good taste of home grown food! I haven't realized how much I miss home grown veggies until having them again (but isn't that the way it always seems to be).

My current tomato plants! Looking forward to starting 

my new garden!

So I know I haven't been very good with this whole blogging thing, and I'm trying to decide where to go with it.... I'm not sure if I should keep it completely random or decide on a theme to go with. The thing is my life is so random... I like growing a garden, reading, cooking, crafts, sewing, pets, education and the list goes on... I might just have to keep it random to keep up with my life. I know this was a lot spit out all at once, but I think that starts catching everything up from my last few weeks or so! (Eventually I will figure out how to be better at this thing...)

Crazy week...

I plan on writing more tomorrow, but a quick update before bed. We have had a fun week with family. I have missed them so much since Christmas.  We have kept busy filling our days with all of the things We want to get accomplished this week! We spent yesterday in the city and today was closer to home just spending much enjoyed time together!!!  Pictures to come soon!

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Family and Fun

My brother-in-law and his family are down from Connecticut! They got here Thursday and it has been such a full and exciting weekend! Dave, sadly, had to do his army thing this weekend so we didn't get to spend much time with him. Today is his birthday. I got him a fan for his car. It sounds like a crazy gift, but the AC has been out on his car all summer and he has had to drive in 100 + temperatures in stop and go traffic for a week (not quite that high, but still high since May)! He seems to be quite happy with the gift and will try it  tomorrow.
Tomorrow will be another exciting day with the family. They will be down for another week and it seems to be full of more adventure and excitement.
On other notes. The drywall guy will be here Tuesday and Wednesday to attempt to fix our laundry room again! Hopefully they will get it fixed this time! Well that's all I have for tonight. I'm going to try to get some pictures posted of the family this week! My sister-in-law will be taking some pictures of Dave and me this week too, so hopefully I will have some good pictures of the two of us to put up!

A little change...

I changed the look of my little spot on the internet. We are just sitting around the house for the afternoon. We went to church this morning (although we over slept and missed our life group session this morning) I ended up spending the time in the nursery. I was able to play with the one year old kiddos.
We spent the afternoon sitting around the house watching "Star Trek: the Next Generation." I need to be working on school work but am not in the mood.
I made red beans and rice for lunch, but they were not finished in time for lunch so we had sandwiches and them for dinner. Nothing much really going on right now.
Oh, my uncle is doing much better as of last night! We have had many people praying for him, and continuing to pray for him and our family.
My brother and sister-in-law will be down in a few days. I miss them and am very excited to get to see them again! Living 16 hours away is difficult to keep in touch with everyone. My family lives 9 hours away from us. It's taken a while to get used to. But I enjoy the few times we get to spend together. I am excited to spend the next week or so together.

::Sigh::

Everything has been a little crazy! Where to start... Well lets start with an hour ago and work backwards..... I found out my Uncle is in ICU with (what I have come to believe is) liver failure.... My Aunt is falling apart (understandably in my opinion) since they have been married since she was 14 (in any other situation that would be quite a romantic statement...). I was going to post earlier today, however we got about 2 cm of rain and our drought ridden City didn't know what to do with itself so our power went out for like an hour...
I was able to spend the 4th with my husband which was a nice treat getting a day in the middle of the week to just relax and spend some time with him. I have started attempting coupon-ing again. Being a substitute is good during the school-year, but nothing during the summer (benefit: I have the summer off! Woot woot! Downfall: no money!).
Last week we had VBS at church. Which was such a great week! We had 32 kindergartners (yes, 32 five-year-old's in one room!) We had so much fun and I got to know more adults in the process. I also brought home 2 more pets! We now have 2 beta fish! Which brings our pet population to up to 3 cats, 2 dogs, and 2 fish! Yes, that is 7 pets! What can I say, we love animals! Our first year anniversary of living in Tennessee has come and gone. I am so happy we moved here. I have my moments where I miss the people (I'm sure everyone has those) but we have met so many amazing people here!
We went back home and spent Father's day with my daddy! It was a quick trip (we got there at 2 am on Saturday morning and left at 2 pm Sunday- For those counting that is 32 hours... Yes, we drove 8 1/2 hours to see my family for 32 hours and drove back another 8 1/2 hours.... We must be crazy).
I found out at the beginning of the summer that my sister is going to have a baby! And we found out last week that it's going to be a girl! I have had my struggles with this since we want a  baby... But in the end I am quite excited for them and I can't wait to help my family spoil her! (that's what aunts are for right? I do understand my sister is going to do the same with our baby, but I'm ok with that!)
I think that sums everything up pretty well... My tomatoes are starting to ripen... I was able to eat my first one of the season today! We are working on clearing things to start a proper garden (since my plants are currently in pots next to my back door). I am planning on planting a fall garden and I can't wait! It's crazy. When I was in high school I HATED working the garden and here I am (don't say anything but my parents were right when they said "one day you will appreciate this knowledge!") SUPER excited about starting a garden here (although in my defense ours will be tiny compared to the 2 acre garden my family had growing up!)
I think that really is about it.... We are off to bed to watch an episode of Star Trek.. Te he he! I am working on keeping up with this better! (No really I'm serious this time... I'm going to eventually get better!)


Here are some VBS picks! So much fun and I wanted to share!