For those of you that don't know (& those of you that knew long before me) Ashley surprised me with a trip to Fabulous Las Vegas for my 30th birthday a few weeks ago. Let me just tell you that I have the best wife. Somehow, she completely snuck this one by me. I normally have a pretty good idea of when she is up to something. I had absolutely no idea. The best part is that she didn't tell me that we were going anywhere until the day before we left. I was so shocked. She had everything planned including out flight, hotel, & seeing a comedian. She ROCKS!!! I have included a few of the 250 pictures that we took out there. If you have never been, trust me.........go at least once!!!! It is such a cool place to see!!

Wow!!

Well, I went to weight watchers last night and hit my 45 pounds down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woohoo!!!! I am so excited and can't even believe that I have actually lost that much. I want to lose about 15 more to be to my goal weight. I had to go on a shopping spree because nothing from last year fits this year. It was really fun buying a new pair of jeans!!! I will try and post some pictures soon. Nathan and I celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary today. I can't believe it has already been 3 years. Time flies when you are having fun. Hope everyone is well!

Chili Cook Off

Hey everyone.. here I am again a month later posting!! Sorry I don't feel like there is anything interesting going on right now to post. Well anyway... we did the chili cook off like we do every single year for the past 6 years. This was our 6th year. Here are some pictures from the camping weekend and the chili cook off. We had an awesome time... but we didn't win! That's alright as long as we had fun!! Mom, Dad, Brooke and her boyfriend were here this weekend and we had a fire last night and I made a bunch of appetizers.. We also played corn hole!! Which I dominated!!!


This is Nathans proud project.. he built a fire pit with the left over brick from our house.
He is so impressed with himself!! We had a fire last night and is was wonderful!!


This is our booth!! FAT B'S CHILI & STEW TOO!!

Trailer Trash Chili -- awesome outfits
They did a trailer trash wedding theme this year.. it was hilarious


Nathan & Dad


Chesney( our friends little girl) she's adorable

Me & Chesney

Nathan & Chesney

Big Underwear.. weird & gross...


Dad feel asleep.... surprise!!


Family Photo... cute!!

~Enjoying~

Hey everyone!! I know that I haven't posted a blog in a while. We have been enjoying our house so much that I haven't even thought about posting anything. We have been in our house now a month and we couldn't ask for anything better. We joined the gym right by our house and we love it. I am taking spinning classes, boot camp, and step classes. Nathan has been riding the bike and lifting weights. We are trying!! I still have about 25 pounds to go until I hit my goal!! It has been a long and hard journey, but God has helped me through it and shown me what patience really is. September 17th will be one year since I joined Weight Watchers and I am at 43 pounds down and 5 sizes down. I told myself that I wanted to be as close to 50 pounds down at the year point, because that equals out to about 1 pound a week and that is the "healthy way" to go and they say that you will keep it off in the long run.

We did have some landscape curbing done and it turned out really good. Nathan also put landscape lights. Nathan is so proud of it!!! He is obsessed with his yard, but what ever makes him happy!!! I do have to say he makes it look amazing!!!

We are doing our annual Chili Cook Off at Stone Mountain Park in GA. This will be our 7th year I believe. It is such a blast!!! That is in 2 weekends and we cannot wait!! There will pictures from that fun event!!

I just wanted to let everyone know that we are doing wonderful and just loving life!! I'm sorry there hasn't been a post sooner than this one. It would be different if I had children and until that happens then it looks like you just get information on the two of us. :)

Take care and I will post again soon. I promise!!!

I thought this picture was pretty I took while up in Blowing Rock, NC.

Finally!!!

Hi to all!!! We have been so busy getting the new house put together. We moved in 2 weeks ago and just got everything completely unpacked and hung on the walls. We had 90% of the boxed unpacked and put away within the first 3 days. We were so sick and tired of seeing the boxes. There are dumpsters across the street because they are still building houses so we were able to dispose of all the boxes. Sorry it has been so long for a post. We were a little preoccupied!! Hope you enjoy these pictures.

More pictures to come...

Another Picture of Me

I got a haircut!! Plus it was a pretty good picture showing my weight loss!! I am just really proud of myself and can't believe I have done this good of a job!!!

We're Done!!!!!

They sodded the rest of the yard already I just forgot to take a picture.. They did this wall in between our house and the next. It really dresses it up!!!

Finally the changed out the shutters to black, but they still have to repaint the front door black because they painted it green.

The mantle looks fantastic!!!

They framed the shower out and put up the glass. It looks wonderful too!! We did our final walk through today and did the punch list of all the things that need to be touched up before move in day next tuesday. We cannot wait until move in!!! We are so ready to be out of the apartment and we are sick of hearing everyone else around us pounding on the floor and making so much racket. It's annoying!!! Mom is coming in town this weekend to help us pack the rest of the apartment up and then everyone else will come the next weekend to help us get everything out of storage. We cannot believe how fast this process has gone and now it is over. It has been the greatest expierence. God has really tested our patience and anxiety, but we got through it!! It could have been worse. We also tried a new church the last two sundays and it is wonderful. We have been desiring a church for so long ans finally we feel like we are being feed by God's word. The pastor is hilarious!!! There will be more pictures soon after we are in the new house!!! YEAH!!!!

It is almost done!!!!!