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We celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary last Tuesday, June 5th.  It started out like any other day - work for Casey and school and work for me.  However, he informed me that we had dinner reservations at one of my favorite restaurants downtown at 7pm.

I was looking forward to date night out on the town and counting my blessings all day long. 

Dinner was not all my sweet husband had planned though.  Within a minute of us being seated, our waiter rounded the corner with a beautiful arrangement of red and white roses in one of OUR pitchers.  The florist was none other than Casey himself.  He explained that he wasn't exactly at his office all morning long.

I am so thankful for this man. 

"Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." Psalm 37:4

And yes, we are still enjoying the them.

 

New, New, New

Hello blog friends, happy June! 

Do you ever mark a date well in advance on your calender, stare at it again and again, and suddenly you are living the very date you've circled and anticipated?  I had one of those experiences THIS week.  At the end of March I found out that I was accepted into graduate school at Southern Miss in order to pursue my Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology.  I was so pumped!  My letter informed me that I was to report for advisement on May 25th, 2012 and classes would start the following week.  So, I marked those dates on my calender with my faithful pink flair pen, and now here I am, done with my first week of school.  I started class Wednesday.  It was a pretty long day - 9 hours of class total, whew!  Welcome to summer school.  Yesterday, I was assigned my first client, and I will do my very first therapy session with them next week.  

Needless to say, this is something new going on in our lives.  I am a student again, toting around text books and mechanical pencils.

Another 'something new' occuring in our lives is.........

We will be HOMEOWNERS!

That's right, at the end of June we will close on a house that I thought was the uglist house in the world.  Everytime I drove by it, I thought, "Yuck, they need to tear that place down."  Thankfully, someone saw the beauty in it, bought it, flipped it, and put it up for sale again.  We are beyond grateful. We are grateful for their vision, for a house with a fresh start, and for the backyard - a big, blank canvas for us to work in.  It will bring us much joy (and sweat) in the coming years to work side-by-side in that yard. 

We are looking forward to turning that house into OUR HOME. 

"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."  Joshua 24:15

(I know that verse isn't talking about the physical house itself serving the Lord, but it just popped into my head while writing.)

Have a great weekend!

High School Graduation Number 2

On Friday, May 18th my youngest brother, Aaron graduated from high school.  Hard to believe that six years ago I was in his exact same shoes.  Time FLIES. 

This picture really depicts the absence of my other brother Stephen.  He is currently working an internship in North Dakota for Ducks Unlimited.  Needless to say, he wasn't able to make the trip down.  However, we did skype with him that night - that's the next best thing these days.

This brought back memories...

Here he comes!

Honor graduates sit in the front rows - woo hoo!

And just like that, the moment we've all been waiting for has come and gone.

After a change of clothes/shoes on my part, we couldn't resist the beautiful Delta sunset.

Freshly cut wheat field - one of my favorite sights.

Boys will be boys, always and forever.

We ended the evening with a moose tracks ice cream cake. Yum, yum, yum.

Congratulations Aaron, we are so proud of you!