Home Sweet Home

Well, it's been two weeks or so since i've updated! I think that I had pretty good reason to slack, however, I'm glad to be catching up now!

Sunday, August 29th, Carson and I were able to move in to our apartment! Carson's dad, a couple of his friends, one of my friends, and his brother and our future sister-in-law came to help! We unloaded our stuff from his parents' house and then drove the 3 miles to our apartment and unloaded the same stuff into the apartment. While the guys carried everything in, Ashley, Laura and I began putting things away! After a few hours we had everything moved in, set up, put together, and organized!



That night, in order to begin getting the use out of Carson's huge TV and all the work that the 3 strong men and my extremely strong husband did to get it up our flight of stairs, we had a couple of our friends over to watch a movie. Carson made me stop organizing and cleaning and take a break and relax! BUT, I picked up where I left off first thing the next morning! After the cleaning and organizing was finished, I went grocery shopping, and then FINALLY felt that it was time to sit back and enjoy our space :)




The next weekend we had our first house-guests! Justin and 4 other friends from Life Action came to visit Carson and I. They pulled in late afternoon on Saturday night and left Sunday afternoon. The 3 girls (Biffy, Bekah, and Candace) stayed at Carson's parents' house and Justin and his friend Jason stayed with us. After movies, pizza, BCD, Phase 10, church, Sunday lunch with amazing garlic bread (that I made :)) we were sad to see them go... But we definately had an amazing time and I was very thankful to get to see my brother before he hit the road!

School has been going great, and i'm continuing to learn SO MUCH. We have now completed 5 weeks of our in-class essentials. In 5 more weeks we will be hitting the floor and providing services for real-live people! Scary! And exciting! I've been making good grades which I am very proud of and happy that i've found something that I love to learn and do!

Carson's school and work has been going good too! He's also been making really good grades, and apart from the parking scenario at the community college and the mile walk to class, he enjoys it a lot! :)

Cars and I have been growing closer and closer each and every day! It's been amazing to see God take proud selfish people and change us slowly into humble self-less spouses. I am learning to be content with the time that we do get to spend together and to not waste it demanding things from him -- to lay aside my pride and just enjoy time with Carson! We're nowhere NEAR perfect, but I truly am thankful for the relationship we have and the friendship God has given us!