The Story of Our Life: Goodbyes, Visitors, & New Adventures!

So much has happened since the last time I posted, wow!

Two weeks ago was my last week in College Station, and my last week apart from Darrin. It was full of mixed emotions and lots of goodbyes. :( I spent lots of quality time with my family before leaving town. On Tuesday they had a going away lunch for me at work, Wednesday night I got to go get ice cream with 2 of the little girls from my kids' choir, and Thursday night I went to the Sunday School social for the Young Marrieds class. We are really going to miss that class and all of the incredible couples in it! Friday I tearfully said goodbye to all my friends at work, but some beautiful flowers arrived to help make my day a little happier (thanks Perchy and Martha!!) Darrin came back to town that weekend to help say goodbye and we celebrated Martha's birthday Friday night, then went to Brad and Jill Hodges' wedding with my parents on Saturday. Sunday we traveled home to FINALLY live together again! :) :)

The week in pictures:

Ice Cream with the Sapps

The beautiful flowers I received at work

Some pictures from Brad and Jill's wedding (Noone really wanted me to take any more pics so the one I'm in is borrowed from Abby and the other is my parents walking in - they were so cute in their matching colors :))

Our first week back together in San Antonio was wonderful! The Slaydons (Scott's family) came to town for a few days and the kids helped me make cupcakes one night. Those kids have some MAAAD cupcake decorating skills. On Thursday I went to an informal interview/lunch where I made some good contacts that are trying to help me find a job. I also went to a career fair which to put it nicely was terrible and a complete waste of time. :) Darrin had to go to Houston on Wednesday night through Friday to train with Bo and Adam. It was definitely tough being without him those 2 nights!! :( While he was gone one night I went to work out and made a friend, Sammy who is also a recent A&M Graduate and got her degree in Finance too! (She lives in our complex so I actually met her at the pool one day this week to hang out.) On Saturday night we FINALLY got to have a date night for the first time in like a month! We went to our (well MY) first ever Imax movie to see Inception!! Darrin looooooooved the movie (it confused me a little, but was definitely a good one.) It was soooo nice to have time together and alone! Sunday we visited our first San Antonio church, Community Bible Church. It was nice, but a little too contemporary for our taste and the preacher was wearing blue jeans (if you know me you know blue jeans don't belong in church, ugh!) so it won't be our new church home. We're planning to visit another one this weekend!

The cupcake decorating (yep, Kennedee's wearing a pink apron, I made him! :) )

Proof that we both still exist and love each other. hehe These were taken at Abby's wedding on 7/3/10

Sunday the other Slaydons (Damon's crew minus Damon) came to visit. Me, Tara, and the boys went to Six Flags on Monday while Darrin was at work. We wish he could've been there but had a great time. I'm planning to drag him back and make him ride all the rollercoasters! :) :) On Monday morning (before 6 Flags) I went to another interview, this time with a staffing company. Again, not my cup of tea, but a job's a job and right now I'm unemployed! After the Slaydons left I spent the rest of the week job hunting online everyday and slowly working on unpacking and decorating. I probably sent my resume to like 15 different companies. I don't know how Darrin did this for a year - it's a never-ending process!

Darrin's getting settled in at his job and still really enjoying it, yay!!! He was full time inside sales this week and getting thrown in head first! He's been working hard and learning the ropes and we (me and the kitties) are so proud of him!! Here are some pictures of our not-so-little-anymore babies.

Soot Chasing cousin Gimli's tail around