THIS is why we are friends..

Hey followers.. there are a ton more on facebook so go check them out! But heres a few pictures from our wedding shower the other day. It was a Jack and Jill theme one and I might say it was fun, I actually encourage other people to do the same and have fun with it. cause we did!

we got a laundry basket with pregnancy tests from Bryson and Marlee... neat.

good friends!! DEVIN!! shes a star.

Groomsmen and little brother!

Bridesmaids... yup.

Decorating the house.. a work in progress but heres a peak :)

Well folks, its time. We have started decorating the house and setting it up. Tomorrow will be my first official day at the house. We've got the most of things moved in and set up kinda. Still boxes everywhere, and Sunday is our shower so there will be TONS more of things laying around. So heres some pictures and a tour of what we've got set up so far. Enjoy!

Ive always been a sucker for dark floors..even if its not real wood.

One wall of the living room and the recliner..which I'm sitting at now.

This is hanging up in the office, it was painted by Hannah Kluge whose art is about to be HUGE i promise you. Iowa watch out.

This is the hallway by the stairs and the door that leads to the side porch.

This is the mirror in the living room...and me in it.. taking a picture outside of it.

This is a few of our crosses that havent been hung up, they have places to go though.

more of them...

This is one of the red walls in the kitchen. EVERYONE needs alphabet magnets!

Well this is my corner in the office... for now until her stuff moves in after the wedding and we'll re-arrange accordingly. That dresser has been in my family for about five or six generations. Ive got a rocking chair that is much older, but it has a oodle amount of stuff sitting on it now, sorry Grandma Becky, I'll clear it soon!

LOVE: is friendship set on fire.

This is our Pennsy cross...given to us by a friend from up there. it has the different names of Christ all over it.

The magnets!! The irishman is a beer top opener Alessa got me in Ireland. And the polar bear one, well when we were "just friends" we stopped at a gas station and a sweet old mexican lady made me buy it for Alessa cause she was so pretty. It says, have you had your bear hug today?

Alessa in the bathroom mirror.

everyone loves a tiled bathroom floor, right?

this is looking through the doors of the laundry room, through the office, and into the hallway before our bedroom.

just a random corner in the kitchen.

Thats it for now folks.. keep coming back and keep track of our progress. :) And no, we arent living together yet. We're going to wait until after the wedding. But I'm staying here, because in just about a week, our roommates are getting hitched, so i needed a place to go so we decided to start our home early! Its a technique I picked up from Jimmy and April Hatcher ;). Have a good day and be blessed!

ah 754. slow down life.

Jimmy Hatcher and I.. the first roommate of 754. we were messing with this and his words were.."if we were twins and these umbilical cords this is what we would look like in the belly." He was always a philisophical (sp?) guy.

well the old duplex, well its been a good two years. Packing up this place is just kinda what it is. I've had about three roommates living here. Two married, and one just moved on. Its been a good place to live, landlord extremely fair, and not far from all the essentials..

but, its time to move on to bigger and better things. All the electricity water interenet etc shall be moved to the new house and saturday my new home of residence and address will be 363 Orr. *big breath* ooftta our first home! Thats kind of exciting and wierd to say at all the same time. Life please slow down.

Back when April was still ms. collier, and Jimmy was her honey do boyfriend of all things, he was the first roommate. Probably been my favorite roommate in the many it seems i've had. Crazy sense of humor and that big brother type. Now they are moved off and expecting the groups first "nephew" little Wyatt. All his Stephenville "aunts and uncles" are going to spoil the heck out of that kid.

And then after Jimmy was Doug, oh Doug. Mr. California who actually went to a college in South Dakota and then we both met up in Texas. He was fun and his sense of humor was about like Jimmys, dry and upbeat.. its a true combination.

And then came Aaron, the current. It seems we went through it all at the same time. With our two ladies planning their weddings under the same roof, we were constantly in the same boat sometimes. Even before we were roommates there was always talk of it, and then I guess it came too. His love of the Rangers as everyone knows seems to be stronger than anyone I know, but thats a good thing, we all should have something like that in life.

But like i said, good things come to an end. I've been blessed with good roommates all through. I've never not got along with any of them and came out good friends with all of them. In fact two of them are groomsmen to be.

So 754 S third, its been fun real and real fun. From pumpkin carvings, man nights, packings, movings, wedding plannins, barking dogs, wierd neighbors, mormom visitations, door to door sales people getting angry, and much more.. you've been a good bachelor pad. But its time to move on to what we'll call our "first house" and bigger things in life.

Holla!

So it begins...

Well here's the bandwagon jump on. Blogging!! By no means are we celebrities that you want to know everything about our lives, nor should you worry we will post the "un-needed" (that word looks off to me). But on here you can be sure you can follow our lives as we know it on that particular day. I cannot promise anything daily, but I will try to do it on the regular. So if you want, send me a message on facebook on what you want to know about us!! Cause really a good blog starter would help. But like the title said this is also for some reflecting on our own. So here it is.
*ahem*
Captains blog.
The day is March 22, 2011. I'm sitting in the library, with a to do list of homework that really starting this blog trumped. Between the two of us school is not really on our minds right now. It should be more so but its not. Alessa did her first all nighter clinical at the hospital last night, so more than likely she's a zombie right now.
I'm working at Triple T Longhorns as a certified poop scooper and tail polisher. But thats fine it suits me. (comments from the peanut gallery to themselves).
Wedding planning is getting finalized, just a little under two months to go! Wedding shower is on this coming Sunday. We'll keep you updated. And of course...drumroll... I should be moved into our house this week. Now thats whats up!! I'll do a picture post of it after we get it all done and finalized and moved in.

Well thats all i know to write as of know. So on ending is a challenge, invest in someone today. No not a hello, hi, I was thinking of you text. Actually INVEST in someone, genuinely be interested in how they are at in life, do more than a text and call them, and then do a follow up with them tomorrow. Peace out A town, be blessed.