Changes are in the Air

So the end of March is drawing near and that means many new changes for this family.

Since September, I have been attending RCIA, Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults, in the Catholic Church. What does this mean, you may ask? It means that come Easter I will be Catholic. I have been attending a Catholic Church since probably 1997 so the Catholic faith is really nothing new, but there are so many things I never knew that I am definitely learning. I am very grateful for my loving husband to have attended these classes with me. Since he is my sponsor it has been so nice to have him by my side.

On April 5th, Lamar starts his new job. The down part to this is that we will have to live apart for awhile. Since the new job is not in Memphis, he will be moving down there Easter Sunday and I will be staying with some friends. (I am a chicken and didn't want to stay at our current home by myself for that long) I won't be moving down there until I can find a job, which who knows how long that will take. I have been searching for something since he first found out about the job back in February, and still NOTHING! Finding a job is no easy task, especially when you have no idea what you even want to do.

On April 15th we will be closing on our new home. The kicker to this is that we won't be able to move-in until June 30th! UGH!!! The sellers of our new home are actually in the process of building a new home and really did not want to move out until their new home was finished. In order for them to be a little negotiable we got the short end of the stick. We decided to go ahead and close on the home and let them rent from us, so we could go ahead and get the first time home buyers tax credit.

These are just a few of the changes going on in our lives today. I know there are others, but why should I continue to bore you. You may have noticed, this is the third day in a row that I have blogged! I am very proud of myself. I feel like I actually have something to say since our lives are changing. Hopefully I will continue this little hiatus and will be able to find things to blog about to keep everyone updated on our lives. (Not that any of you really care) :)

Have a good day!
Lex

Snow Day

We have had a couple of snow days this year, none of which I've gotten out of work for sadly. The first one though, I did get to go in to work late, but even after we closed, I had to stay because of a ribbon cutting we had scheduled that wasn't cancelled. :) (Please cry for me now.)



I just found these pictures and thought I would share them with you. The first one is Brek in the snow last year (2008-2009) when he was still just a little puppy.





Here he is this year, next to our wonderful snowman that we built, all grown up. We still can not believe how big he has gotten.



Hope you have a great day!



Lex

Busy, Busy, Busy

This past weekend was extremely busy for us. There are so many things going on in our lives at the moment, that we both just need a little time to just relax. But, unfortunately, I don't see any relaxing times in the near future.




Friday night we went to over to some friends and had spaghetti and beer cheese sauce. This may not sound appealing to most, but it is a recipe that my mom made and we love it with our spaghetti. They all told me they liked it too, but who knows, you're not really going to tell a cook something was bad. :)



Saturday morning we had to get up early so we could drive south to look at houses. Since we will be moving, we decided that we wanted to purchase a home instead of renting. This will be our first "home" together and we could not be more excited. After looking at the houses we felt fairly comfortable with where we stood, so we decided to drive home. Little did we know that we would find something else that we wanted to look at. So, on Sunday after church we left to go back down South to take another look around and ultimately find the home we will be purchasing. We could not be more thrilled with our decision and are extrememly ready to become homeowners.

Sorry if the picture is a little blurry, I forgot to take one of the outside so I had to take it off of the website. woops!

So there you have it, Our New Home.

Hope you have a good day!

Lex

Who knows

Well, it has been a while since I last updated the blog. Can anyone say 4 months? That's crazy! I am really good and ready everyone else's blogs and keeping up to date on all of your lives, but keeping you up to date on mine is another story.

Since it has been 4 months since my last post, let me see if I can summarize what we have been doing:
October:

• Started the RCIA program at our church in Memphis to become Catholic.
• I went to Nebraska to visit my family and celebrate my nephew's 6th birthday. I had an absolute blast.

November:

• We went to Melbourne Floriday for Thanksgiving and celebrated Lamar's grandparents 50th wedding anniversary.
• We got to visit our friends Chad and Jenn who had just recently moved to Palm Beach from Memphis.

December:

• Had Christmas in Hattiesburg with Lamar's family. The thought of not being with my family on Christmas for the first time ever, really scared me, but the good news is that it wasn't bad at all.

January:

• Nothing really exciting in January, at least not anything that I can remember.

February:

• Lamar interviewed for a job in Vicksburg, MS and was offered the position.
• Found out we would be moving to the Jackson, MS area, soon
• Went to Soup Sunday at the FedEx Forum with some friends

March:

• Well March is just starting, and let me just say, it is going to be a busy one.

Well it was good to "talk" to everyone again. I really hope it won't be this long until my next post. I will really try to keep everyone updated on our new lives, but as you have seen before, I'm not very good at this whole blog thing. :)

Lex

Let's get updated

As always, it has been quite sometime since I have blogged. I read blogs by other people every day and I can tell you I am always quite impressed at how they can sit down and think of something to blog about every single day. They definitely have more intuitive than I do.

So what has been on in our life....well not to much, but I will give you the scoop since I have been gone for over 2 months.

August, we went to Chicago for the wedding of one of Lamar's cousins. We took the train from Memphis to Chicago and let me just tell you it was an experience. Something that we had always wanted to do, but something that we will probably never do again. The wedding was absolutely beautiful.

Lamar and I before the wedding.

It was an outside wedding and of course it had to start sprinkling right before it started. So we were all given these napkins so we could cover ourselves from the rain.

In September, we didn't really have too much going on. We did go to the lake over Labor Day with our great friends Chad and Jenn and her parents. We had a BLAST!! Got lot's of good sunbathing, boating, and company. We actually stayed at the cabin of some of Jenn's parents friends. It was wonderful, have to say it was much better than sleeping in a tent. :)

So far in October, we haven't done too much, but it won't stay that way for long. Next week is Lamar's birthday and then that weekend we are planning on going camping with his parents. Then on October 31, I leave to go visit my family for a week!! I am extremely excited. I am actually going to get to take the kids trick-or-treating and we are having Brayden's birthday party while I'm there as well. Should be lot's of fun and I hope to take lot's of pictures to share.

Well until next time, (who knows how long that will be) have a great day!!!

-Alexis

Girls Night

I am quite excited to finally be having a girls night. I can't tell you the last time I actually went out with just my girlfriends.

Tonight we will be heading to dinner and then to the Orpheum to watch Mamma Mia. Can't wait!
Then tomorrow we get to help celebrate the first birthday of one of the cutest little girl's ever, Lil P. Here she is last December at a Christmas party we had with some friends.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

-Lex

Stand Still

On my way in to work this morning I got to thinking about what I want out my life. Right now, I just feel like I am at a stand still in my professional career. My job is currently less than satisfying, I'm not being challenged by anything in my life career wise, and I just feel like I have need to move forward with my life and get out of this rut.

My brian has been working in overdrive these last couple of weeks trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. Go back to school? Change career paths? If so, where do I even want to start? These are just a few of my questions that have been rolling around in my head lately.

I have come to determine, at my ripe old age of 25, trying to decide what you want to do with the rest of your life at 18 when you're starting college is just too soon. Let's look into that a little deeper, how many people do you know are actually doing the job they went to school for? Well it's not many. Yes there are a few people out there that know what they want to do in life and they truly enjoy their career life, then there are others, let's just say me for example, who changed their major 4 times in college and still don't know what they want to do in life.

Ok, I know I am just rambling on now so I won't bore you with any more.

Hope you all have a good day. And I'll let you know what happens after my life gets moving again.