Spending Time With Your Spouse

Well since I have started my new job at Panda, Drew and I have seen less and less of each other. I hate. it. I have my job at school from 8-2 then Panda sometime from 4-5 to 10 at night. I work every day of the week now and so that means that I work when Drew has off so we don't see each other. I hate it!
Tomorrow is going to be my first Saturday off since I have started Panda and I am super excited about it!! We are going to go look at a couple houses then while Drew is at work I will do homework and go to lunch with my sister-in-law Christie. We are also going to Denver with Jeff and Jenny! I'm pretty excited about that.

We may be seeing more of each other now that Drew is no longer in his lead intership position and works 5-10 rather than 1-10 and today was his last final so he is done with school until fall. I also have Monday and next Saturday off so wooohooooo!!!! :)

I wish we could spend more time together. We have not really had that time together since we got married. We have both been working and going to school that I don't think that we have really taken time for just ourselves other than camping during spring break which makes me sad. It's the end of our first year married and I would have thought that the first year would be like they say the "honeymoon" year and well it has not been really. Jeff and Jenny are really a great example to us on spending time together. They have been married for about 5 months. They make time for each other, they go do things together, go on dates, take pictures. They are super cute!

Bridal Shower

My mother-in-law gave me a bridal shower on April 21. It was fun. I'm glad everybody was able to make it who showed up. There were some problems which I will not go into but just so "people" know, do not talk crap about somebody to their family and go to their party, if you do not like the person then why are you there? Grow up!
Anyways, it was a lot of fun. Got some presents like a crock pot, cookie sheets, cooling racks, cookbooks, kitchen towels, frames, etc.
Thank you everybody who made it a fun day for me and thank you mom (Shelly) for putting it together for me. I appreciate it.
Here are a few pictures from the shower.

Sad Sad Day :(

Well guys, it is back to house hunting for us. The house didn't go through. So like I said yesterday, HUD homes go to the highest bidder. Our bid won but we found out today that the bank would only allow us to get a loan of 110 because that's what HUD appraised it for. Even though it really is worth 130-140 we cannot get a second appraisal. Anyways, so the bank would only let us get a loan for that home of 110 and would have to come up with the 19000 over on our own. Pretty shitty deal if you ask me. Sorry bout my language, I am just super frustrated. So we cancelled it and we have to wait and see if their is a second bid in line if not we can rebid but we'll see.

We saw a couple other homes today but unsure about them. Man this is ridiculous. We just want to find our home already. I'll keep you guys updated.

We got the house!!!

I don't think I have mentioned that we have been searching for homes for the past month. Man, it is so frustrating going through it. Every time we wanted to get a house somebody would already have an offer on it. We saw one pretty much across the street from where we are now but found out it was a HUD home. Apperently with those homes, the highest bid gets it. That kind of worried us. It is a nice home with 3 bed/2 bath and it was listed at 110 but is really worth like 130 or more. It was last sold for 165 I believe. Well our bid was 129 I think and we thought that that was low but we got it! We are signing all the paperwork tomorrow. I am super excited! Oh my gosh, I do not think you know exactly how happy we are to get out of these apartments and neighbors and put our money towards something that we will own. Here are the pictures of the home. :)

Front (getting rid of that tree, it blocks the house view)

Back

Back

Entrance

Living Room

Dining Room

Kitchen

Family Room

Family Room

Master Bedroom

Bathroom

Bedroom

Second Bathroom

Acquired talent

So I have been looking on pinterest for new hair styles and have fallen in love with the waterfall braid. I have been wanting to have it for weeks now. I finally tried it today. I think I did a good job for first trying it out. I love it! It's a super cute braid.
Here's a pic of how it turned out. What do you think?

Back to School.....Yuck!

Well my vacation is officially over as of last week. Spring semester started exactly a week ago. I am just taking one class, Pakistan. I don't understand why Pakistan would be a general class. I just hope it isn't too hard. It is my last class in order to receive my Associates and then move on to transferring to UCCS and getting my Bachelor degree.

I miss the time that I used to have when I didn't have school and only one job. I am so over school, but I have many more years of it ahead of me. I just need to stay focused, especially this semester. I just need to pass this one class and then I move on to my next step in life. I am so excited to get my Associates. I will then feel like I am half way there and less stressed out. Well guys, wish me luck. Oh, and my finals week for this class is the week of the sealing and reception and when all my family will be in town. Suck! I am going to be so stressed out then and throughout the semester, I will be worrying about wedding planning and school and work. Ugh! We'll see how it goes. I have to do good in this class or I am going to be so mad at myself for not finishing my Associates when I should have.

Happy Birthday Drew!!

Drew's birthday was yesterday. He is now 23. What an old man! :) I got balloons filled with helium and hid them in the storage closet. I got up before he did yesterday and snuck the balloons a couple at a time into our bedroom. They also had little notes at the end of each balloon saying why I love him. He was so surprised when he woke up. I also got him a card and put it on the door knob for him. He didn't have enough time to read the notes so he took them with him. I also got him a birthday cookie for him to come home to. He already had a birthday cake from work. We didn't see each other again until 1040 when I got home.

We are celebrating his birthday tomorrow so I was going to save his presents until then but he got me to give them to him last night. I got him two pairs of shoes he really wanted. Tomorrow we are going to have dinner at Tucano's to celebrate his birthday. I'm pretty excited. I've heard so many good things about that place.