What an exciting week!

This week was so long and stressful but so much fun at the same time! We closed on our house Wednesday, bought Brian a new truck Thursday, bought a whole house full of furniture for less than $4,000 thanks to my bargaining skills on Friday & finished ordering appliances on Saturday. We are now a week away from move in and we are so excited. There have been so many ups and downs with this. We still don't have electricity due to some girl that has the same name as me leaving an outrageous balance with Gexa Energy & we haven't finished packing since things have been so busy. We literally have gotten 4-5 hours of sleep every night for the past week & have worked the remaining hours of the day. It's been nuts, but again exciting. Tomorrow we plan to go to church & then we are going to get a generator from my friend Kate. Thanks to her and her husband we will be able to paint and tile tomorrow which means we can have appliances delivered later this week. We need to get the yard mowed, install new light fixtures, have the windows measured for blinds, and have furniture delivered and set up all before Friday. We are hoping for no major issues. :) I'm taking off all day Friday and we are going to have a moving party that evening. We are welcoming help from our TNT group at church in exchange for food and laughs. HAHA! I have to say, we truly are blessed by this group of people. Friday afternoon before I was even out of school my friend Jessica called to let me know that she had 3 trucks lined up to help if we could use them. She said she knew how anxious we were to move & wanted to help. I was touched. We didn't get to use them because we had to get things ordered and only had that night to do so, but it was really sweet. We are excited about moving in and having people over soon. We have missed entertaining as much as we did when we lived in a house before and are excited to get back to that! We are also ready for football & volleyball season to be over since things are NON STOP right now. Hopefully basketball season will be a little slower. Two coaches under one roof is fun, but it's tough to balence. Anyway, I will post pictures of the house soon. Hopefully my kitchen will be the beautiful red that I've always dreamed of by the end of tomorrow so I can have something to share. More to come soon!

Closing week is here!

Well things have been crazy since my last post. The house is almost packed after two weekends of Brian working tournaments and me packing non stop, the school year is well underway & having two coaches under one roof has been tiring, but do able. This week is the week that is going to be nuts! Tomorrow we are having two pep rallies at York & a game. Tuesday we have another game and Open House at the same time, Wednesday we are scheduled to close on the house, Thursday I have another game and Brian has an away game & then Friday we need to buy Brian a new car as well as begin work on the house. It's going to be a little stressful, but if we can make it through this week, next week should be a little easier. We are trying to make time to see each other and catch up whenever we can, but this athletic season is making it hard. I did finally quit my second job as a marketer for A Points on Friday. That means I won't be working that extra 10-15 hours a week in the evening. That will be so nice as I have been working two jobs for the last two years. Now I'll be able to do things with people in the evenings and I am very much looking forward to that. We are so ready just to be settled and to get to have a life again. We miss hanging out with friends on the weekends, but that is part of life. It's been interesting to see who has been supportive of this crazy time of our life and who has not been. We feel so blessed for the true friends that God has placed in our life and look forward to becoming closer to some people that have really been encouraging although they are not the people we usually hang out with. It's also been a blessing to be on the team of teachers that I'm with. They have been so supportive and helped out in whatever way they can. Life at York is so much better this year than last and I'm very thankful for that. Anyway, wish us luck as we set out on this week! I'm off to bed to try to get some sleep to prepare.

The tough part begins...

Well, we just finished having our first day off, Labor Day. It was so nice to spend time with Brian and friends this weekend since we both know that there won't be much time for that over the next month. We've always been busy so we are used to that, but we are about to be working every night, every weekend and are scheduled to move at the end of this month despite those crazy coaching schedules. It's going to be interesting to see if I keep my head on straight planning pep rallies, coaching, finishing up my last few weeks at my other job, going through the ups and downs of buying a home and just trying to be a good wife. I've put my big girl pants on but I'm going to have to let God control this because it's just WAY too much for me.

Brian is still loving coaching but he begins his first month of tournaments every weekend this week. That should be tough, but he will do fine. It's so nice that FINALLY we both have jobs that we get paid enough to live on & enjoy. That's something we've been praying for almost 5 years for. God is good and I know that he will bring us through these challenges just as he has every other challenge we've faced. Let's just say it will be a relief when the month of September is over. Anyway, I've got to get out the door. One of my co-workers' dogs died this weekend and she's taking it very hard. He was young and just suddenly fell to cancer that made him completely blind in a day. I've got to set her room up for a sub but pray for Kate.

Have a good week!!!!!!!!!!!!