This week

This week will probably be (another) busy week. I am back at work after being off for the last two weeks (yet another benefit of my current job!). And truth be told, it has been nice being back. Unlike nearly every day for the past two weeks, I haven't packed (or even touched) a single box today! Very nice! (I'm sure that will change when I get home this evening however.)

Tomorrow is Eric and my 2nd wedding anniversary. No big plans, but maybe we'll go out to eat or something. Eric plans to spend most of the day getting a load of stuff in the trailer to take to Callisburg on Wednesday. Since we already found a house (oh yeah...did I mention that?) we are taking loads of stuff when we can to try and make the actual moving day a little easier. Then on Wednesday he will make a quick trip up there and (hopefully have some help there) unload the trailer at the house.

Wednesday my parents will be here so that my mom can go with Eric and me to my big doctors appointment on Thursday. This is the BIG one...the sonogram. Hopefully Baby Lew will cooperate and we will find out if we need to start buying cowboy boots or bows. Then on Thursday after the appointment, my mom and I are going to just hang out and have a fun, relaxing day. That will be a very nice and welcome break from the past couple weeks.

Friday will be spent getting everything ready for our garage sale on Saturday. I have never done a garage sale myself, so it will probably be quite the learning experience. I am just hoping to get rid of a lot of stuff, and maybe make a little money. We'll see!

Saturday is the big garage sale so the day will start quite early. I am hoping everything will go well and we will actually have people come by. That afternoon my wonderful friend Summer is coming to spend a couple days with us. I am excited about that since I haven't seen her in about a year and a half. (Has it really been that long?!?) She will be with us until Tuesday and says she will help pack. Should I feel bad about putting a friend to work like that?

Somewhere in all of that I also have a hair appointment, we have to figure out what is wrong with our dryer that suddenly stopped working last night, and have to clear a path to the guest bed so there is somewhere for our guests to sleep. No problem! Never a dull moment around here!

Weekend Update

We had such a great time this weekend. Being in Plainview, and on the Wayland campus brought back lots of memories from the years I spent there. Friday night a group of us got together and had a great time catching up and looking back. It was lots of fun looking at old yearbooks and old pictures and laughing at the silly (and sometimes stupid) stuff we did. And even better was looking at current pictures of everyone's kids and families, and hearing what everyone is doing now.

Mike & Summer, Kevin & Sarah & Elizabeth, Eric & Mandi

Sarah, Mandi, & Summer (This is kind of a tradition for us...just missing Kala.)

Here's an upright shot of us (Mandi, Sarah, Summer).

Saturday morning we made our way to the famous Spudnuts Donuts establishment, where we again spent time talking and laughing with good friends Sarah & Kevin, and Summer & Mike. We proceded from there to the campus where we (unsuccessfully) were planning on attending the actual "reunion" part of the festivities. Since we obviously missed that, we gave ourselves a tour of the campus and oohed and aahed over the new student activity center. (Where was a place like that when we were there??) I think the most memory-inspiring activity was the trek through our old dorm. Summer and I dragged Eric and Mike up and down all the hallways of the dorm, pointing out which rooms we lived in, who lived in each of the other rooms, which stairs we had to drag our friends up in the middle of the night when they were not able to do so themselves (ahem...Michelle!), how the bathrooms had not changed at all, the basement where the laundry area was still quite stinky and scary, and even the backyard with a funny (although somewhat unfortunate) story about laundry and misfit kids (Rachel). After a yummy lunch at Leal's we went the the basketball games where we caught up with some other friends and had a good time visiting. Overall, the time spent in Plainview was really great, and I guess we will make the journey again in 10 years! (Maybe we won't wait that long this time!)

Following our time in Plainview, Eric & I went to Lubbock where we spent Saturday night and Sunday with our good friends Kelly & Kory. Kelly and I met while working as auditors together at DK in Abilene. She has been, and will always be, an amazing friend, a delicious and talented cake maker and decorator, a fun scrapbooking buddy, and a genuine person who I am happy to call my friend! We had a fun time with she and Kory Saturday night eating pancakes (you've got the love the Lion's Club!), playing pool (although not the original plan), watching wedding videos (Eric's favorite part!), and eating chocolate pie (yum!).

Kelly & Mandi

Me & Eric...we don't have very many pictures of us, and this is why!

Kory & Kelly

So, other than being super tired, everything about the weekend was great. And I can't wait until I get to see my friends again!

10 Years!

That's right...I have been out of college for 10 years! Wow! In May of 1998 I thought I was on top of the world because I was about to graduate from Wayland Baptist University. (That's in Plainview, TX for those of you who don't know...and if you don't know where Plainview is...well, you're probably in the majority!) Anyway...so there I was, about to be free of classes and studying and tests and, uh-oh, everything I had known for the last four years. Exciting...but extremely scary at the same time. What was I going to do? Where was I going to live? Where were all my friends going? Yikes! I guess I finally figured it out, because here I am...ten years later...and doing okay!

So this weekend we are going back to the scene of the crime...back to the plains of West Texas, "where the wind sings loud her name." Oops - got a little carried away there. Homecoming 1998 at good old Wayland is this weekend. Fortunately, this weekend will be a chance to reunite with friends of long ago and catch up on the lives and families of the people I surrounded myself with for four very fun and fulfilling years of my life. It will also be a chance to introduce most of those people to the most important person in my life now...my amazing husband. I can't wait! It will also be a chance to remanisce about some of the fun and memorable times we had. I am excited to show Eric around the campus, take him to Kidsville, have him taste a Spudnut Donut, show him the dorm and house I lived in, eat at Leal's with him, and just let him experience (if only for a day) some of what I was like before we met. I am also super excited about seeing my dear, sweet friends Summer, Sarah, and others, and spending time with them laughing and just being silly (because let's face it - that's what we do best!).

I will try to remember to take lots of pictures (try is the key word here), so that I can share them and have them as memories of what I'm sure will be a wonderful weekend.

Happy Birthday Eric!

Today is Eric's 31st birthday...Happy Birthday, Babe! So if you know him, give him a call and wish him a great b-day!

Here's a picture of Murph giving Eric a great big birthday smooch...

So last night I talked to my sweet friend, Summer, about our plans for this weekend. This weekend...holy crap...has is really been 10 years since I graduated from college?!? What have I done the past 10 years? How old am I? Good grief...