Our New Apartment!

Kelly and I flew to Houston to look for apartments a couple months ago and we found one that we loved! We went ahead and signed a lease, and our move-in date is August 13th. We are going to be living at City Vista Apartments, which are located slightly west of downtown Houston in The Heights. It is a young area with a lot of people our age and has a fast growing strip of bars nearby. We took some pictures of our apartment and you can see them by clicking here.

We're Still Here!

Soooo it has been more than 3 months since we last posted a blog entry! Whoa! But don't worry, we're still here and we still plan to keep posting! We have been wedding planning like crazy this summer and have been trying to spend as much time with our families as possible! Response cards are slowly coming in, but it's so exciting to open them and see who will be there to share our big day with us! The tuxes are picked out and Kelly's dress is altered and ready to be steamed, our wedding cake is picked out, and I chose to have my grooms cake to be a Maker's Mark cake (pretty cool if you ask me).

It's crazy how much goes into a wedding and how much time both of our families have spent wedding planning! BUT don't let it deceive you, Our whole summer hasn't been wedding planning. We have gone to the lake a few times for a little R&R. Kelly had her bachelorette party in Louisville where she did a scavenger hunt around the city and we have spent lots of time with our friends and family! We both have basically been living out of suitcases since we moved back home. We stay a few days in Danville, then a few in Lexington, and we are gone basically every weekend. Although this summer has FLOWN by, we have had a blast thus far and are so exciting about our wedding! Only 24 days to go!

School Procrastination=Wedding Planning!!!

It's an 80 degree day here in Louisville and the city is absolutely beautiful! All the flowers are in bloom and everyone seems to be in a wonderful mood! I finally feel better and as Nate said "I can vaguely see the light at the end of the tunnel" as far as school goes. It's been a crazy couple of weeks here for us! School has officially taken over our lives but we've been working hard and are so ready for these next couple of weeks to fly by!

One of our newest procrastination tactics is to do even more wedding planning! Here is our updated to-do list from this past week:
-My dress came in on Monday so I get to go pick it up and take it home when we go to Danville for Easter
-Mailed our save the dates
-Basically finalized the guest list (definitely the hardest part yet!)
-Begun working on our Marriage prep for the church
-Both of our Moms have found their dresses

And we just may have found the groomsman Bowties and Holland's flower girl dress! So excited a the prospect of Bowties by the way :)

Other than that we're just living for the weekends and enjoying getting to spend time with our families and friends! This weekend we'll get to spend time with both of our families for Easter, next weekend is our Engagement Party, and the next weekend is Thunder Over Louisville then it's finals and DERBY!!!

Life is good, God is good!!! HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

Land Ho!

After a 14 hour drive from Florida, Kelly and I have successfully made it back from spring break 2010. We went on a 4 day Carnival cruise to the Bahamas. We went with 16 of our friends, 2 of which were in the same room as we were.

Our first stop was Freeport, where we went to a beach for a day. Our second stop was Nassau, where we took a tour of the city on a horse-drawn carriage. We saw the US Embassy and other brightly painted buildings (since pink apparently holds up best to the sun and weather). We then ate at Senor Frog's and went to a beach on Paradise Island near Atlantis.

The beaches were all beautiful and the sun was shining every day except for the last one, which was our day at sea. Dinner was amazingly delicious every night, where we had steak, lobster, salmon and tons more. For dessert every night we ordered the WCMC (Warm Chocolate Melting Cake) with an extra scoop of ice cream. The only way to describe the WCMC is pure heaven.

We had a blast on the cruise, but it feels great to be back home. We are going to Danville and Lexington this weekend to see our families. We're going to have dinner with our parents in Danville so that the Whites can see the church and country club, where our wedding and reception will be. Then we're going to Lexington on Sunday to meet with the priest who is going to marry us, Father Norm, to talk about pre-marital stuff.

Spring break has been fun, but busy and we have plenty to do for school in the next few weeks. Only one month left until school is over and we are free for the summer. We can't wait!

Winston's Game of Hide and Seek

Winston is our main form of entertainment throughout the day and here is a video of him attempting to get his Kong from under the couch. He continually swats at it, but never gets any closer. He gets more and more frustrated if we don't help him and will eventually start barking and going crazy.



Here is another video of Winston playing with a grape. This one has been on Facebook for a while, but is definitely still funny. Instead of eating it, he just plays with it. Obviously his mom never taught him not to play with his food...

Taylor's Visit, Snow Days, etc!!!

Sooo we've been a little absent from our blog scene, but it's for a good reason! We've been crazy busy lately. Last weekend we had Taylor come up and stay with us while Mom & Dad went on a trip with their friends. It was so much fun! We had a blast taking him out to eat with our friends and just hanging out and playing rock band! Seriously, we played rock band for about 8 hours over the weekend! I think that it's safe to say that we had quite a romantic Valentine's Day! haha!

We've also had a couple of snow days, so we decided to create a video of Winston playing in the snow for your enjoyment!!!

Other than that we're just gonna keep on studying and trying to graduate...we leave for our Spring Break cruise in 24 days so that's keeping us going :)

Crockpot, Wine Glasses and...a pink iron?

So in an effort to be proactive Nathan and I decided to get started on our gift registries so that we could post the link our our wedding website (which Nate has been working hard on!). Well let me tell you, registering is quite the experience!

It started off pretty simple...knives, crock pots, wine glasses taking turns with the scanner. Everything was easy, we were in agreement with everything...well until colors came in. I was of course immediately attracted to the pink bottle opener, which was quickly shot down. Then we went looking for pots and pans. Did you know they made pink pots and pans? AND pink mixing bowls and measuring cups? I was ready right then and there to have a pink and black kitchen. Nate made sure that I understood that this would be OUR kitchen and there would be no pink involved. So we decided on a red and black theme and Nate thought he had taken care of my little pink craze...then we got to the laundry aisle. Was it any coincidence that the best iron there just happened to be pink? I don't think so. Nate protested, of course. BUT he quickly changed his mind once I reminded him who would be doing the ironing/laundry in our house. And guess who got their pink iron on the registry! It was a great victory for me and our future home :)

Can't wait to get to linens!