Framing Process

Yesterday the framers put up our walls for the first level of our new house! I am so excited and proud, no words can describe it! What a wonderful Christmas this will be. There is only one more thing that would top this Christmas off and that would be the news of us expanding our family and so far it does not look it is our time yet. The framers say next week, Tuesday to be exact, they will be working on the upstairs!!! I never really dreamed of building a house until I married Kelly. I never really dreamed of many things until I meet Kelly! I know I may say this often but I am very blessed that I have Kelly in my life and I know he feels the same. He lets me know this every day! In the mornings he makes my lunch for me and even makes me breakfast if I have time to eat it!

Oh I am so angry right now! I just put my video that I made of walking through our house and facebook took it off b/c of copyright laws. I have a song on there that I didn't sing so I guess I have to have Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's permission! So stupid. I'll find another way to share my video. Next I'll try youtube. Guess I better figure it out. I'll post pictures and hopefully a video later on!

Update

Last week we finally poured the concrete!! Our house is finally on it's way! Now we have no idea when the house will be finished or when we will start but it's so relieving for the slab to be done!! I think we will start framing pretty soon. As I type this, Kelly is talking with one of the guys that is helping Kelly build our house, right now. They are trying to figure out how much material we will need to frame it!!! I will keep everyone updated.

Favorite Time of the Year!

Thought I would post another blog. I am so excited that Halloween is over, now time for the 2 "important" holidays!! This time of the year is my favorite time of the year!! Cooler weather, good meals, great desserts, and more importantly it's the time we get to spend wonderful quality time with our families! I kind of wish Thanksgiving and Christmas were a little more spread out but I will take what I can get! I cannot wait till our house is finished. I am going shopping right after Christmas for next year's decorations! You just wait, the house we live in now isn't decorated for any holiday really but the end of next year it will be so decked out! My best friend, Tonya and I are planning an awesome Christmas party! It's going to be so much fun and like no other Christmas party that you've gone to. We are so pumped and have already started planning the big ol shin-dig.

I truely believe that next year will be an awesome year for Kelly and I. I do feel that next year will be a big year of change! I'm hoping by the end of next year we will either be having a baby or expecting one soon. And then we have our house. Our wonderful, much talked about house! It is really coming along and I will post more pictures soon. Dont take it the wrong way every year has been a great year for us but next year will be BIG! I can feel it! No matter what happens next year, every year Kelly and I get closer and closer. We are so blessed!

And Here We Go...

Ok so we have started our house now!!!  We got the forms up back in May I think but now we are really starting to make some major progress!

This was back in May or June

A few weeks ago, Kelly and his dad worked their tails off for a couple of days while it wasn't raining and was dry enough to work. It has been raining here for 3 or 4 weeks nonstop it seems like! Today is Sunday and the last day we had rain was Tuesday, and we (aka Kelly) got to work on our house!! We now have a crew (the concrete guy and his worker) helping Kelly and they are

making a lot of progress! Kelly said hopefully by the end of tomorrow we can put the plastic down and then Tues and Wed tie the steel. And yes that means by the end of this coming week we should be able to pour the slab!! Weather permitting of course. It is suppose to rain Wed, but that is the only day as of right now. I've been checking the weather every single day! I am so excited! We still dont really know when we will start framing but hey we are starting to get there! I imagine how our house will be and I get so excited  everytime I think of it! I know I've said this in the past before but this house is truely much more than "just a house" to me. It's our family's future! We will raise our family in this house, they wont ever have to move around from house/apartment to another. We will have a happy and stable life for them! Kelly and I are both extremely excited to start our family and hope to bring a new little one to the new house when we move in! Keep us in your prayers as we try to expand our family!

This was taken this morning

Just A Quickie

So here is a quick little update. I have spent this weekend in Houston with my bestfriends! I have had a great time and it will be bitter sweet leaving to go home tomorrow. Sweet because I miss my Greta and Husband and doggies very much and can't wait to see their smiling faces tomorrow. It's hard being away from Kelly and makes me appreciate having him close to me every night and snuggling! It's how I start my day and it's also how I end my day. Leaving will also be kind of bitter because these two girls are some of my closest friends and I do miss them. I have friends home but you know what I mean, you can never replace the long time relationships! However I am so excited that my other best friend, Tonya, has moved back to Granbury! I have so dearly missed having a bestfriend close to home! I just hope we will be able to spend more time together now. Kelly has been at home working on our new house. Roughing in the plumbing. This is the first dry weekend that we have had in a few weeks and they say we might get some rain on Thursday so we have to get a lot done in a short period of time. I know Kelly can do it but I feel bad but it is very hard work. My boy works hard!! I love him more than anything in the whole world!
We got a new desktop computer so I'm hoping to keep everything a bit more organized on it and I will be posting more blogs and will be keeping everyone up to speed on how the house is coming along! Also sometime this week, I will take pictures of our current house and post them. There are still a lot of people who haven't seen the house we live in yet and I'm excited to share some photos!


I am so happy about where Kelly and I are at in life and get so excited thinking about our future together. I probably think and worry about our future a little too much but I like to plan everything and I love to dream! If I talk about our house too much or talk about our kids (even though we dont have any yet) it's just because I am so happy and excited about everything. I have a really nice picture of what everything is going to look like and the conversations we will be having in our new house. I picture how the kids will be running up and down the stairs, tracking in mud all throughout the house, and how we, as a family, will gather around the rocked fireplace on a cold winter night drinking our hot cocoa. This house that Kelly is building us, is more than just a house to me, it's our future and man does it look GOOD!

Getting up there

I woke up this morning was did some deep thinking. What have I done with my life so far? Where am I going? I am really excited for where my life is going, not so happy with all the choices I've made but you live and you learn from the past and your move on! For the life of me I couldn't remember how old I was this morning. I thought I was 25. It wasn't until I did the math that I realized, I'm 26 years old. WOW!! That's four years away from 30! I really need to take a deep breath and relax and just enjoy where I am at today. I have a big habit of when things are going good for me,I find a way to make things go sour. I'm not comfortable with things going smoothly for some reason. Maybe I can blame my childhood for this?! I do this without thinking about it. It wasn't until last summer that I realize I do it (actually my counselor helped me realize this). From this day forward I'm going to enjoy life and not dwell on what I want right at that moment. In time I will get everything that will make me happy, I just have to be patient. Our house is coming along, slowly but surely, and we have plans to start our family soon!! You know life is not bad at all. We aren't strapped for cash (like too many people these days), we are lucky enough to build a big beautiful house out here on the ranch, we have 4 awesome pets that we love and adore, and our family is amazing! I'm also taking another shot of a vegetable garden. Wish me luck! I bought a book to help me this time!
The point of this blog is that I have finally realized how I act (very selfish!) and that things are never as bad as you think they are. Unfortunately I always think the grass is greener on the other side and really it's not! Please don't get me wrong I am a very grateful and happy person, it's just this week is always a rough week for me, some years it's rougher than others but I get through it! I always do!

Memories

So today I remembered what this coming Wednesday is (I dont ever forget just sometimes I lose track of time): 6 years ago Aug 19, my son Kyle was born and 12 years ago my mom past away. I know I've talked about Kyle before on a few blogs but have not really talked much about my mother. You know after you lose a loved one, things are never the same. The grieving gets easier but it never goes away. I think you grieve for the rest of your life. It's not a bad thing, but is a bit hard at times. When my mother died I was a freshman in high school, actually I missed my second week of high school b/c my mother was in the hospital in a coma. That whole freshman year I was lost and kind of in a daze. I was failing most of my classes. I wasn't really there at all. I remember when I first got my driver's licence I kept thinking to myself, "there is someone that I haven't told about my new car and about my licence". Finally one day it hit me, it was my mother, she didn't get to see me for that major milestone in my life. Every time I have a big event in my life I always think of my mother and how much I miss her. The next major event in my life (I hope) will be having a baby. It saddens me at times because everyone has their mother to spoil their child rotten but I don't. I know I have my grandmother (which I am so glad I have her I would be lost without her), I have Candice, my dad, and lots of other family members who love and cherish me, but it's not the same. But that's life and life isn't fair. I've known that for many many years. It is important to know that I have no regrets and honestly I wouldn't change anything. I love my life. I am a true believer that everything in life happens for a reason. We may not understand it but it does. All the events in my life led me to who I am and where I am today. If even one thing hadn't happened then I may not have meet Kelly and married him! I wouldn't trade that for anything in the whole world! He is the sweetest guy anyone could ever ask for and I love him dearly!
Every now and then I can still hear my mother's laugh. Unfortunately, these memories come and go. But one thing I don't ever ever forget is how much she loved me! I know she had a rough life, but she tried and she always let us know that she loved us! I really wish Kelly could have met her and vice versa. They would have really loved each other I know. I often see someone at a restaurant or at the store that has some quality that reminds me of my mother and I hope that never stops! In a weird way it's comforting. It kind of reminds me that she is always here and is looking down on me.
I can still hear my mother and sister laugh/chuckle at me at my piano recital. It wasn't mean, it was well deserved! I had terrible stage fright and froze up at every recital. And maybe they weren't laughing at me and I just dreamt it, but I knew they were thinking it! LOL. I cherish these memories and am glad I have them! I know there are people out there that don't have any memories of a parent and I am lucky for the years I did have my mother here with me!
This Wed I will be taking flowers to their grave site like I do most years. This week in August is a biter/sweet week. I am sad they are gone but at the same time I am happy for the life that I have now!