Mi Ranchito!

My Aunt Sara was in town this week for a work conference, so she was able to round up a few of us Eastern Kansas people for dinner!  Aunt Carol and her son Ryan were also able to join!  We went to Mi Ranchito (love the espinaca dip!)  Unfortunately I forgot to have our waiter take a picture :(  I at least took the camera with me... eventually I'll get better at taking pictures everywhere I go.  Oh well!

After dinner we went by Ryan's house as Sara and I hadn't ever seen it!  Very nice, LOVED the porch!  Then Sara and I decided to go back to her hotel for a drink and to catch up!  It was great seeing everyone, wish we all lived closer so we didn't have to 'catch up' all the time!

Paint, Paint and more paint!

This last week, Nathan and I have been working very hard to finish painting ceilings so Saturday we could have a painting party!  I finished the last ceiling on Friday night after board reviews (boo!)  Saturday morning I went back to board reviews :-( while Nathan, his parents and his sister and her boyfriend helped paint!  I got home around one with lunch and then we hit it hard again!  Thankfully, we managed to finish all the painting!  It is amazing what a few coats of paint can do to a house!  It really feels like a HOME now!

Randine, Trey and I painting one of the last rooms!!!

 Bill was by far the best trim painter of the group!

 Miss Bailey had to be included, but she was too curious about the paint to be running around!

 Our new 'Cricket' kitchen!

Thanks everyone for your hard work!!
Next project to tackle is tiling...

Progress...

So we've owned the house since Sept 14th, so I'm a little behind on the progress pictures!


Our first project was a fence for the mini-horse...  Easier said than done!  The husband and father-in-law worked so hard that first weekend!  Ends up the back corner of our lot is where basically every electrical wire, sewage pipe, telephone wire, etc converges for all the houses on our block.  This means fence post nightmare!!  They ended up having to hand dig about 5 holes in that one spot, and they made it without any hitches!  They rented a post-hole-digger for the rest of the yard and everything was going great until the 3rd to last hole...  we kinda forgot about the sprinkler system!  So $50 later, that was all patched up and we were moving on.

The next weekend my friend Sarah and her cousin so graciously volunteered to help me finish the fence while the Husband was at a conference!  We were able to finish the posts on one side of the fence before the rain started!  Then the Husband's friends came on Sunday to finish the other side of the fence...

Jordan and I hard at work!

Kyle & the Husband finishing the last section!

Troy resting after delivering the last 'Fat Stack' of pickets...

Never thought I would be calling a fence pretty!

The big 2-5

So my birthday was back in the beginning of August, but this year was the best ever!  We had been looking to buy a house for the last couple of months and then the week before my b-day the PERFECT house fell in our laps!!  So the day before the big 2-5 we put in an offer.  On the big day, we found out from our Realtor, Travis, that the bank had accepted!!  Best gift ever!!  Then the husband took me to the Melting Pot in KC, can we say AMAZING!!  We definitely rolled out of there!

Back to the house... it was a bank owned property, so we knew that it was going to be an as is sale.  We had the inspection on the house the next week and found out that the pipes were basically all burst... NOT good news!  So we messed with the budget and decided to go ahead we could handle it.  SURPRISE... the bank called Travis and told him they wanted to fix the pipes for us AND replace the sump pump in the basement!!  So now we can say best birthday MONTH ever!

Can you tell we are excited!?

That's all I've got for now, but believe me, there are many MANY more pictures to come!!

Scaredy Dog!

So I was cleaning today, the last thing I did was vacuum.  I was putting it away and realized I hadn't seen Bailey in a while.  {If you've been to our place, you know that is really hard to do... can we say TINY apartment!}  So I started calling her name and looking in all of our 2 rooms and still couldn't find her.  I was starting to get worried as our front door doesn't always latch and she could have gotten out!  Then I walk into the bathroom to find this...

Mind you she doesn't really like the bathroom, but she obviously likes it more than that scary vacuum!

She stayed in there for another 5 minutes or so every so often peeking around the corner to make sure I didn't have the vacuum again!

Mini Horse

So we've covered the Guy and the Girl - what about the Big Dog?  We've wanted a dog since the day we got married - however, we didn't want just any dog... we wanted a Mini Horse :)  Originally the plan was to wait until we were in a house and settled to get a dog, beings our place is TINY!!  Well, we started looking at houses this last spring, so I kinda jumped the gun and convinced the Husband to get one a little early!  We found Miss Bailey Rae from a Great Dane Breeder in Wichita, KS.  She is the SWEETEST dog ever and SO much fun to watch.  When we got her she was 9 weeks old and stood to just below my knee at 17lbs.

Just after we picked her up - I could actually hold her!

The car ride home from Wichita - it wore her out!

The bear she was smaller than... for a week - Also the only original toy she hasn't ripped apart!

Sleepy Time

She has the oddest sleeping positions!

Can I PLEASE have some?!  Pretty please with sugar on top??

Nap time with Mom

Pretty Girl

Now Miss Bailey is 7.5 months and she stands to my waist at 100lbs :)

Last month Miss Bailey was fixed and she was sent home with a collar... poor girl!  She HATED it!!  She sat her butt on the couch and didn't look at me or move for about 5 minutes. (And yes she is tall enough now to sit on the couch while her front feet support her!)

She finally moved around a bit but then sat and the collar started falling to the side so she started leaning and eventually she fell over, needless to say she was NOT happy with me!

 So if you can't tell by now, we kinda like our Miss Bailey!  She has definitely put a new spin on our lives that's for sure - but we wouldn't change a thing!

Almost Official...

Yesterday was like Christmas, except I paid for my own gift...  I got my new adjusting table on Friday!!!  Happy Weekend to me!  Here are some pics of the office, now all I need is that darn diploma, come on December 10th!!

You'll have to bear with me,  I haven't quite figured out how to rotate the pictures yet :)

New Things!!

Here goes!!  I've been thinking about starting a blog for quite a while now and with all of the new things in our lives I thought what better time than now!  First - a little introduction to The Guy the Girl and the Big Dog :)  {Forgive me if it is a little long!}

The Husband (Nathan) and I got married June 2007 after dating since we were 16!  Best. Day. EVER.  We couldn't have asked for better weather for the big day!

Details...

Nathan being... Nathan :)

THE KISS!!

First Dance

(: The Perfect Pair :)

In September of 2007, Nathan started his first teaching job in Paola, KS which is about an hour away from where we were living in Lawrence, KS.  I started Chiropractic School in Kansas City which is about 45 min away from home.  So there were many late nights and early mornings for us during next few years!  We've managed to get through it though!  Nathan is now teaching in Eudora, KS (15 min drive!) and I am interning at a Chiropractor's Office here in Lawrence (15 min drive!) for my last semester of Chiro School!  This is the office I will be practicing in after I graduate as well!         

Well that is a quick synopsis of our lives in the last 3 years, but I'll be filling you in on the big details like our mini horse :) and our HOUSE later!!  Come on, I can't give you everything at once!