here's our house so far...

I have been so bad at posting pics about the house. I have been busy and have had other things on my mind. Life out here has been a little crazy but I see them getting probably crazier but so much more fun! I am trying my best to post more updates as life goes on! Oh blah de oh blah da. Life goes on...!! Kelly and I put a down payment on his pool table for the house! We are super excited about that! Kelly had an awesome birthday this year! No one could ask for a better birthday!

We will always remember

suppose it's time to do another blog. A week or two ago Kelly came home to one of our dogs badly hurt. It's was Pinky, Kelly's fav dog (dont tell the others LOL). Pinky's neck was badly scratched and was bleeding pretty bad. Kelly and his dad cleaned Pinky up and gave a shot to help with infection. This whole time I was in Fort Worth visiting my sister and my nieces. I rushed home as soon as I picked up my niece Brookelyn from school and poor Pinky was very lethargic and helpless. Kelly and I put Pinky into the car and drove up to my work. It was worst than I thought. They started shaving her neck and it was looking worse and worse. They finally got her on some heavy meds and we left her there over night. I felt so bad for our little Pinky! The next morning I went to work early to check up on her and to tell her how much we love her! Throughout the day I talked to her and gave her hugs. There was this nasty smell coming from her skin and it was getting worse and worse throughout the day. One of the drs. at work said we really needed to do surgery on her to see if anything in her throat was tore. I remember going back there while they started surgery and they saw it was not looking good. I rushed into the bathroom to wipe my eyes and as soon as I came back out I saw the look on Kelly's face and dr. Mccall shaking his head that it was worse than anyone expected. Pinky's whole entire throat was torn up and beyond repair! We had to euthanize Pinky and that was so difficult for Kelly and I. Poor poor Pinky and poor poor Kelly. This was his baby, his dog, who went to work with him and was extremely loyal to him! That night we buried her in the pet cemetery here on the ranch! We will miss Pinky! But we are very fortunate that we have such great memories with her and lots of pictures!

Greta (cat) and Pinky (dog)

PS I did not proof this post but I will tomorrow. I am tired and need to get some rest!

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!