Wednesday, December 3, 2008
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
FINALLY!
Our living room is finally painted! Can I please tell everyone how excited I am! Tim and I got started Saturday afternoon about the time of the Georgia game and we finished around the 3rd quarter of the Tennessee/ Alabama game. We now have 2 whole rooms down and 8 more to go. I was actually "lucky" to paint because my husband is a perfectionist! He is an excellent painter and has a hard time letting anyone else help out (which I can understand). He very nervously handed me the roller and gave me about a good 10 minute lesson on how much paint to get on the roller, how to put it on the wall and then how to blend. I will say this was the very first time I have ever painted an entire room without 1 single drop of paint on my clothes, hair or even the floor! I was taught well! I'll post the pictures of the room later on this evening.
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Random Things
Mandy Thrasher has now "blog tagged" me! I am next in line to share 5 random things about me:
1) I will be more than happy to share a few pet peeves: People who DO NOT silence their phones in church! Seriously, can you not go an hour and a half without talking to someone? Also, people at the bank who wait until they get to the teller to fill out their information.
2) I love to read cookbooks! I read them cover to cover just like a book.
3) I might be the only person over the age of 5 that still loves colored sprinkles! I can't eat vanilla ice cream without them!
4) I lived in a 1 bedroom apartment with 2 great danes for 4 years. After living in a home with them I have no idea how I ever did that!
5) I still do not know how to properly apply eye shadow! I try about 3-4 times a year whenever a party/ event calls for it....but it really never looks right!
Now I tag Jennifer Anderson and my sister Heather!
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Dining Room Makeover
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Home Improvements
This is the living room looking in from the dining room. The girls aren't loving the fact that they now have to sit on the floor. It's a daily battle that Tim and I are determined to win!
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Friday, October 3, 2008
Welcome to the family
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Blessed
I'm dedicating this blog as sort of a huge THANKS to God for all that he has done for Tim and I over the past few months. I got back from running with a friend yesterday and it just sort of hit me how blessed we are.
Our lives took a turn back in early March when Tim started talking to me about moving up to North Carolina. I was very much against it at first---I mean, who wants to leave the comfort of home, great friends, family and job to go and live 500 miles away? So the praying began. It was very simple: open the right doors for us, help us to listen to You. Once we found our house in April it began to sink in that we were REALLY moving away! It was then that I realized that I had no friends up here, no crossfit (our gym where we've worked out and trained for over a year), no home church, NO TARGET or anything else that I'm used too. My praying grew a little more specific: give me just one friend, help us find a wonderful church, please let me find a job, help me with homesickness...what will I do without a Target around?
It's now close to the end of September and Tim and I feel a little more settled in. We've been able to meet some really nice people up here! We've found a church that we both really like, I've got a couple of girlfriends (not just the one I had prayed for), we've found people that are into fitness like we are (and will do the bootcamp we're hoping to start in a couple of weeks), I now have a job (yay!!!), I have someone to run with in the mornings, I haven't been really homesick in weeks---and the last time I went home to GA I really missed being up here! And lastly, Target's only 40 minutes away, and Wal-mart's not THAT bad.
God really is good, and He absolutely has the best interest of all of our hearts. He does hear us when we pray, but chooses when the answers come. He is full of love and wants the best for us. He expects us to listen to Him when He speaks and to follow where He leads. It's so simple...yet why do we sometimes make it so hard? I've learned that just because God may not answer a prayer in a week (or in 4 weeks) that it's ok. He probably has answered it in a way that I wasn't aware of...an even better way. I encourage you all to stay steadfast in your prayers, because God really and truly is good.
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