2 Months

Tomorrow is our 2 month wedding anniversary.

For those of you old married couples, this seems like a small victory to take lightly. But for us, every day is a celebration! It has been a mere 2 months since the best day of our lives. I still get chills thinking about that day and about the life that we have now.

So much has happened in 2 months and I’m so glad that things are the way they are. I love being married. I love living together. I love getting to make our home into our home and I love raising our puppy. I love getting to see Phillip every single day and getting to sleep in on the weekends together.

I love him and I love being married. Happy 2 months!

Winding Down

Finally, after a couple of weeks of craziness (thanks to a new puppy and having two weekends out of town in a row) things are settling down.

I am so excited to see where this life is heading. I’m already so pleased with where it has already gone. Things are really looking great.

Phillip is closing in on the end of his summer semester – and about to begin his last semester in college! We finally found all of the wedding presents a home and are about to have everything hung on the walls. Murphy is starting to develop quite a nice routine with us. And we are finding time to crack open the cook books and experiment with our new kitchen gadgets.

I am still on the hunt for a job I can be passionate about. This week I will be looking harder than ever. It’s time for me to find something that makes me feel like I haven’t wasted all of my money on an education that leaves me without a related job. Here’s hoping…

Lazy Sunday

Today we officially reclaimed our second bathroom from Murphy. This is no small feat. He stayed there his first night here and has occasionally been fed in there. Basically, it has been puppy-proofed and unusable for the past 5 days in case we’ve needed it. But now that he has a cage and is used to it, we’re taking the training wheels (I mean bathroom) away. This is quite the victory in the Long house.

We are also mastering the art of house training already. Murphy is so smart (living up to his breed’s expectations) and already knows what to do. We don’t have to wait on him. He doesn’t mess around playing instead of doing his business. He’s pretty much great. Although, this being apt to house train faster could be because it is so hot outside and he doesn’t want to be out there longer than he should… but we’re going to keep going with our “he’s so smart” theory.

In other news, not much is going on. I’m still working and Phillip’s still working and going to school. He will definitely be graduating in December! It’ll be nice to have a husband that’s on a more full-time schedule with me so we don’t have to keep missing each other in the evenings. He’ll also be going back to his skimmed down work schedule soon to coincide with his school schedule. It’ll mean a little less money to spend but more time with him. I like that tradeoff.

Oh! And my grandparents on my dad’s side are moving up to Bedford! Isn’t that great!? I’m excited to have them around and in a place they’ll love. I feel like they are going into a super fancy and snazzy retirement community that is all about their residents having fun. They might have such a good time they won’t have time for us.

Tomorrow starts a new work week. And next weekend Samantha’s crew is coming up to celebrate Jeremy’s birthday. I foresee a weekend of sister time and laying out by the pool. Definitely looking forward to it.

I’ll end with pictures of our wonderful addition to our family. He really is a wonderful dog and doing so well as an apartment dog. We love him like a child already and consider him as part of our family. I can’t wait to see how he grows up and to see our future kids love on him. And him being just two days older than our marriage makes him even more special to us.

We Got a Puppy!!!

Murphey is a 7 week old border collie. We got him Wednesday night and our lives have been different ever since.

We weren’t in the market for puppy, really, until Phillip mentioned something Tuesday night. We have always wanted a dog and knew they would play into our life for years to come. Wednesday, however, it all came together too perfectly for us to pass up on him.

He is certainly a challenge already. But man is he fun. And tonight, while Phillip is working, I get to have someone to play with! No more being lonely and bored. I at least I can talk to him. I’ll post pictures asap.

Far Too Long

Oh my goodness. I can’t believe it’s been almost two and a half weeks since my last entry! How lazy am I for not updating!?

Here is the updates in a nutshell…

The wedding was beautiful and had such special touches to it. Congrats to the new Garcias!

The next weekend we spent in Austin with Heather and other friends. It was a blast and served as a much needed vacation for us. We got to see Samantha too! Plus, I got the new iPhone 4! Finally!!!

This past weekend I went to College Station to celebrate Grace’s birthday and to officially move out of the apartment down there. It was bittersweet to leave that place I’ve been staying at for two years. I’m not good at nostalgia, so it also felt really weird.

Things are so busy around here without us really doing much of anything at all. I have been working extremely hard so when I get home, all I want to do is sleep. And as you can see, our weekends have been rather busy as well.

Other random things: We finally finished our thank-yous and they should be in the mail tomorrow! There are so many possibilities for our future floating around and it is so exciting to see where it will all go. My car battery died this morning when I was trying to go to work. We are in the midst of uploading wedding pictures to facebook. I’ll post some here too!

Enough with the random and scatter-brained thoughts. More will come. I promise I will not stay away this long ever again. I feel like I have let all you followers down. Hmph.