Life is Good :)

We're loving it here in San Antonio!! We're beginning to feel a bit more like "locals" and less like "visitors". We even updated our driver's licenses to make it official! We're making new friends, looking at churches, learning our way around town, and getting unpacked and settled into our apartment. Poor Darrin has already had to golf twice for work, such a rough life! :) We went to Austin for a training for him last week that was very beneficial and he's been getting lots of business to help him learn.

My latest adventure is that I've started trying to cook a few nights a week, with one real deal recipe meal a week (this doesn't sound like much, but for me it's a HUGE accomplishment!) Allrecipes.com has become my best friend. Last week I made a grilled salmon that had a soy sauce and brown sugar flavor to it - pretty delicious!! I even tried out a Cinnamon French Toast recipe for brunch one day that was A-MAZING! (Darrin didn't get to enjoy it because he was already at work, oops I slept too late.) Yesterday I tried out a recipe for meatloaf which was another hit. I've also made some of the old traditional favorites like spaghetti, Hamburger Helper, and cereal. (Hey, I gotta take a break some nights!! :-P)

Last weekend my family came into town for Kaitlynn's volleyball tournament and we had a great time with everyone on Saturday. I didn't realize how homesick I had gotten until they all left! We're looking forward to football season when we can come home more often and see our family and friends.

As fun as it's been to have no real schedule and just get settled in I'll be so ready to start working! I have an interview this Thurs. at 1 pm that seems very promising so please say prayers for me. Also Thursday is Darrin's Birthday!!!! :) (the big 24)


I guess I better run get back to doing nothing - ah!

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

Chloe checking out leftover flowers from Abby's wedding

Soot attacking "Pink Mokey" (that's monkey without the "n")

our angels posing pretty for us :)

We've got another busy weekend ahead of us so I'll post again on Sunday evening or Monday. Love and miss everyone!!! :) :)

Week One

Darrin had a GREAT first week at his job in San Antonio! He's spending his mornings in the warehouse getting a feel for the products and what the guys do there and then spends his afternoons learning his new job of inside salesman. He's really enjoying it and has some fun coworkers. His outside guy Robert and his family have really gone above and beyond to make us feel welcome in our new city. They invited Darrin over for dinner one night last week and shared their cable with him (because the cable and internet had not yet been set up at the apartment.) He even had to golf for work on Saturday afternoon - this has GOT to be his dream job! :) :)

I had a busy 2nd to last week getting caught up on projects that I've been trying to complete at work and trying to look online for jobs in SA in the evenings. I did get a chance to go out and ride horses one evening with Mom and Kaity, which was so peaceful and relaxing! I'll miss things like that when we're 2 1/2 hours away. :( It's sure been fun living with my family like "old times" but I reallllllly miss my husband and wish he was here with me!!

Because someone had to be home for the cable/internet setup on Saturday, I went back to San Antonio to spend this last weekend with Darrin. I put about a million more holes in the walls of the apartment (nail holes from hanging pictures) and a few holes in the bank account, checking out the area shopping while Darrin golfed. Then we went to dinner with Robert and his family at Spaghetti Warehouse. On Sunday we went around looking at some nearby shops and had a great lunch together before I started packing to head back to Bryan again. Sunday was tough to leave again, but this is our last week apart and then we can finally live together in our new city!! We're definitely looking forward to next week! We did have to miss Martha's birthday on Saturday, but it's probably a good thing I wasn't there when she opened her new Nook that Perch got her...I might have tried to steal it!!!! ;) Sounds like Perch did a great job of making it a special day for Martha. HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY MARTHA!!! :) :) 

I can't wait to get to SA next week, live with my husband, and start job hunting and getting to know our new place. I've already got 2 people I'm supposed to meet with when I get there, and I'm signed up to go to a career fair on Thursday! We're even planning to go visit a new church next weekend!!! :) This is such a new and exciting chapter in our lives! We are so blessed to have been given this opportunity and feel so confident that we are following God's will for our lives!