The CUSHION.....has COME!

FINALLY! They personally delivered our missing cushion today. After all the turmoil over a simple loveseat cushion...I think Tyler was thinking he may have to sue this furniture store if they never had given us what we already paid for. It is all well now. Thank goodness!

We both had a long weekend away from one another. I traveled to east Texas for one of my friend's weddings. The wedding was nice, but emotional for me, since it was my best friend since high school's wedding. Many memories shared together with Melissa.
It was nice to get to see friends and family. I only got to see my parents for just a wee bit. I did get to see my best friend Jamie McCurdy and her husband, B.J. and their little beautiful girl, Emma Noel. That was a special treat for me, since I NEVER get to see them.
I also got to spend alot of time with my college roomates, espeically Megan, her husband Greg, and their adorable little boy, Hayden Joseph. They are such wonderful parents!!! Seeing Courtney and her husband John was delightful as well. I wish we all lived closer to one another!

I missed Tyler horribly, however. We do not like being apart at all. He ended up going to Synder, though, and got to spend alot of time with his younger brother Mitch and his mom and dad. He spent the whole time fishing and came home with a sunburn from sitting out on the pond all weekend.
We were both happy to be home Sunday together.
I only have 4 more weeks of school! My kids are taking the Math TAKS test tomorrow. I am praying they do well. I am looking forward to the summer break and going back to east Texas to see my neice, Landry Brooke, after she's born.

Well, that's all for now around these parts. I will seriously post some furniture pics another evening when it's not past my bed time already.

No cushion....

Our cushion has yet to come...

Tyler and I are reading this book called "When people are BIG and God is small"..he just read to me from the comfort of his chocolate brown recliner: "People who fear God, fear nothing." I'll just leave it at that.

We are enjoying life married to one another in Clovis, NM in our home. We are looking forward to starting a family soon (Lord willing). Our plan is to start trying in July or August. We are really eager and excited!

Our Furniture has ARRIVED!

Well our furniture FINALLY came on Thursday afternoon. I couldn't wait to get home from school to see it! Tyler called while I was at work and told me some astounding news, however. He said all the furniture was there except one cushion for the loveseat! We laughed a lot about it, but were a little annoyed. I mean how can you not notice that a cushion is missing???? Were the people blind that packaged it up??? Very strange. Tyler called the furniture store and they said they were going to ship it directly to our house within 4-5 days. So we have our couch, loveseat with one cushion, and Tyler's recliner. We really love it all and have enjoyed it so far. We are thankful the Lord allowed us to be able to finally purchase furniture of our own. We pray it will be used for His glory and purposes always in a hospitable home.

I will be posting pictures soon!~

Making homemade pizza on the grill

Tyler got this new idea from our accountant this week about cooking pizza on the grill. He said that it is very delicious. We like delicious, so we decided to try to it out on Sat. night. I thought I had gotten all the ingredients. I loaded up the pizza crust/bread with what I thought was correct and Tyler started the grill. We put the pizza on the grill and thought we'd wait about 7 minutes before we checked it. After we checked, I thought it smelled like it was burning, but I figured a little while longer is what it needed. So after 10 minutes we checked it again and it was completely black on the bottom! Apparently our grill gets extra hot and we had never made pizza on the grill before. We decided we would try to eat it anyways, and just scrap off some of the burned bottom. It was very delicious just like our accountant said it would be, but after a few minutes of chowing down, Tyler asked me "Did you put any pizza sauce on it?" and I was like "NO! That's what I forgot! I'm so sorry!" I apologized because I know that he LOVES alot of sauce and I didn't put any on it. Poor guy. But he survived and enjoyed it without it anyways. We decided it was def better than pizza in the oven and next time we will do everything better. No burning it and include sauce. We love making funny memories with one another like this one.

We have been enjoying our house and yards and trees and everything about having our own home.

Snyder Trip

Well we traveled to Synder this weekend to see Tyler's parents and brothers and our sister-in-law and their son, Hudson. We hadn't seen them since Christmas so we were eager to get to. We LOVE going to Synder. There's something about getting away from the place you live all the time and getting out in nature in the middle of nowhere with family. No cell phones, no traffic, no jobs....just relaxation and fun. Tyler and his dad and brothers fished on their pond and Haley went on walks and jogs and got to watch movies and play with Hudson and have good talks with Brooke and Peggy. We played the game Sorry one night and Brooke beat me. She beat me in this other game too. I hate losing. Oh well, I plan a rematch next time.
When we were leaving Synder Sat. evening we came across three little wild pigs eating corn that Mr. Steve had put out by the pond. They were so cute!
I know most the pictures are of Hudson, but he's just so adorable I have a hard time not taking his picture.

Haley's mom and sister come to visit!

Haley's mom and big sister came to Clovis last week for a visit. Becka (sister) had never been to Clovis before and it was Dee's (mother) second time to visit. We were all on Spring Break so they came for 5 1/2 days. It was alot of fun and they helped us decorate our new house. It was really nice to have some help and advice on where to hang things and where to put things.
They helped Haley decorate Tyler's office at the church and it looks so much better and he actually likes being in there now!
We went all over Clovis to all the shops we could find ( consignment stores, antique stores, Big Lots, Hobby Lobby, Goodwill, etc.) It was sweet to get to be with them and do things we used to do all the time when we lived closer.
I think they both enjoyed their stay and liked Clovis. Another wonderful thing they got to do, was hear Tyler preach on Wed. night. He did a great job and it was so great to have my mom and sister there.
One day we traveled to Amarillo and ate at Johnny Carinos and did some browsing around. Then on Thursday we took these pics outside on our back porch before we took them to the airport to fly home.
Thanks mom and Becka for coming to see us and help us so much!!!

College Friends come to visit

Haley's good friends Emily and Cassie came through Clovis on their way to California yesterday. They stayed with us and were the first to be our overnight guests in our new home. We had such a fun time catching up and laughing about college memories. It was a sweet blessing to have some old friends come and visit.