These are the Days to never forget

Sunday, November 11, 2012

The Great Eight

Today our Bud turns EIGHT YEARS OLD! We can't even wrap our minds around him being 8. It just doesn't seem like he's been around that long. He brings a special light into our lives and we can't wait to celebrate his 8th birthday when he's home for Thanksgving. His birthday celebrations add even more wonderful memories to the holiday each year. You can visit some past memories here, here, oh and here!

Better Than We Deserve

So lately I have been working my tail off at work! My boss was recently promoted and the supervisor of my unit left for an opportunity at another chemical plant. So with the help of the engineer in my department we have been running the show all by ourselves. I'm not going to lie it's been pretty tough at times but man have I learned a lot. Long story short, all of that hard work paid off because while we were in Philly management called to offer me the Superintendent position (my boss' old job) over my entire department! Needless to say I was exstatic and I wish I could have had a picture of Drew's face when I hung up the phone and told him. It was the proudest expression I've ever seen on his face, which in turn makes me so grateful that he stands behind me and supports my growing career. Before we left for Philly I had the feeling that I had a pretty good shot at the supervisor position but superintendent is something I saw as a career goal at least five years out. As the old cliche goes, being in the right place at the right time is half the battle. And now Drew is convinced he's going to be a stay at home Daddy...we'll see about that!

Drew has also started building our dear friends, Matt and Brittnay's, home in the town where we all grew up Watson. We were pretty bummed when they moved out of our neighborhood last year. While Drew was working on their lot he noticed there was a house down the road a little ways that had burned down. Matt who is a realtor took to finding out what the story was on it...and turns out the owners were looking to sell it. Another long story short Drew and I signed a purchase agreement on the five acres down the road from Matt and Britt's! It's beautiful with an acre pond that is full of bass for my Andrew to fish in, right in our back yard! I can't wait for him to see it! We're keeping our fingers crossed that it all works out! Friday after work we flew over the property to get an areial view of it.

And on top of all of that Drew and I leave for Hawaii in 27 days!! Does life get any better?!

God has once again truly blessed our family this year, we have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving Season...as Dave Ramsey says, "We're doing better than we deserve!"

At all times and for everything give thanks to God!

Ephesians 5:20

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Punkin' Carving

While Andrew was home for his fall break we invited some friends and family over for a night of pumpkin carving, weenie roasting, and smores making! We had a great time!

Happy Halloween everyone!

City of Brotherly Love

Here I am again playing catch up with the blogging world...and once again it's been over a month since my last post! What's a girl to do, ya know?! So much has happened since my last post, I don't even know where to start...I finally settled on starting with our trip to Philly and celebrating Drew's birthday.

Our trip to Philadelphia was a mix of business and pleasure...Drew's pleasure and my business. Since I work in Treatment Services I have to keep up my DOT certification so every two years I take a refresher course in order to get re-certified. The good thing is the classes are held in some pretty cool cities. We had a great time, ate some amazing food, and we were able to visit our country's past that previously we had only learned about in history classes! We definitely recommend a trip to Philly to take in the sites that were at the forefront of our country's founding. Here a little of what we did, saw, and ate! Enjoy!