Graduation Day

Chris graduated with his masters degree today and I couldn't be happier or more proud of him. It is a nice feeling knowing for the first time in our lives he will not have any more homework.








Us with some of our friends in the fellows program






Went to lunch afterwards to celebrate at McAlister's Deli and got some of the famous sweet tea for the last time. :(



Congratulations Chris!!!

Watermelon Festival

This past weekend we went to the watermelon festival in Hope Arkansas and it was pretty fun, but really hot and kind of interesting. Lots of...well, let's just say "countryish" people. :)I cannot believe I didn't get pictures of the watermelon slices, but they were 1/4 of a watermelon...huge! In fact, I really didn't get pictures of much, it must have been the heat exhaustion getting to us. Anyway, I did get pictures of the best part...so funny. Chris and I got to see our first ever lawn mower races...lol! It was great.

Here is a picture of a huge lawn mower just outside the races - we just thought it looked crazy!


Lawn Mower Racing :)


This place was completely silent except for some cheering so all the noise you hear in the video is the lawn mowers. They were so loud. We ended up not watching too long because us and our friends ears were starting to hurt. Our hearing was a little impaired for like an hour afterwards.

Crazy Thunderstorms

So we have been having storms all week...one second it will be nice and sunny and then BAM all the sudden there is a down poor. Absolutely love it though. It has been nice to be cooled down to the low and upper 80s rather than the normal high 90s and low 100s.

Before the storm


During before it gets too crazy


Video of the craziness...the thunder is really loud, but you can only hear it slightly on the video over the crazy rain.

July Happenings

Well, it has been forever since I have been on here so time to fill you in on what's been going on. Chris and I took an apartment hunting trip to Michigan the end of June and found a really nice place that we are so excited about, but don't really have any pictures of our exact place so won't really post any until we get there. Really, this month our time has consisted of deep cleaning, projects, and packing things up in boxes or bags to take to goodwill so we don't have so much to do come actual moving time. Luckily, this time we don't have to pack ourselves, so that will be really nice. Time is flying, already it is only about 1 month until we move and less than that until they come to pack us up. We will be packed up about 1 week earlier than we head out of town so hotel living here we come!

Project - we have been talking forever about painting our tv stand black to match all of our not so new decor anymore and finally this weekend, we did it.

Before

After

Cleaning - I didn't take a before and after picture of the oven because that is just wrong, but here is the oven half way done cleaning, looking pretty good - I hope my next place has a self cleaning oven. :) Actually, I found this easy oven off spray and it works amazing!


Boxes and bags - yes you see correct, we are getting rid of all our John Deere!!!



Much to our surprise, we found this little critter in our apartment this weekend. He was just hanging out in our bedroom on the ceiling! Chris caught him and went and put him in some bushes outside. He was such a tiny little guy!




And last but not least, we finally got all of our keychains in a little display case. We collect a keychain in every state we go to. We are still missing Idaho and Nevada, but we will be able to get 5 more keychains on our next move plus we hope to find one in Canada too sometime while living in Michigan.

Michigan

Chris and I found out this morning that we will be moving to Michigan for his job. We were not really wanting to go there too much at first, but we are looking on the positive side and we are excited to start another adventure. We will be moving the end of August - the time here has passed so quickly and it will be hard to leave. But at the same time, we may fall in love with Michigan as much as we love Texas.

Dog sitting for the week!

This past week we dog sat for our neighbor - a girl Chris works with. The dog is so cute. This was the 3rd time I have kept her and she is so much fun! Her name is Lola and it is so fitting cuz this dog seriously thinks she's a princess. Hope you enjoy the cute pictures and videos. It makes us want a dog of our own (Chris more so) as you can see he is the one playing and I am the one taking the pictures. :)

4 Year Anniversary!

This past week, Chris and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary! We didn't do anything big since we will be moving again the end of August and are hoping to take a house hunting trip the end of June or July, but we had a great time just spending the day together. We spent the day in Shreveport, Louisiana at some outlets and the weather was perfect. However the real reason for going to Shreveport was for our new favorite restaurant...Salt Grass Steakhouse. They have one in Dallas, Texas, but that is three hours away and Shreveport is only one hour away so we opted for that drive. I can hardly stand being in the car for more than a couple hours ever since our move here with the 26 hour drive.


Happy Anniversary to us! It has been such a wonderful 4 years!!! Looking forward to many more great years together!!!

Another Family Visit

This past week my parents came to visit us and we had so much fun! They arrived on Tuesday the 17th and left early this morning, the 25th. We were sad to see them leave.

We went on a Dinner Cruise in Hot Springs Arkansas.



We went to the Crater of Diamonds (a state park where you dig for diamonds and get to keep what you find...we only found dirt!) There were however 13 diamonds found the day we went.









This is the large hole we dug.


This is the closest thing we found to becoming rich. :) Not too good!


My mom and I enjoying a little bit of pampering after our long day of digging.



Headed to Shreveport, Louisiana for our day of shopping at the outlets.