The bathroom project

Putting up the backerboard and tile

Christmas at the new Holt Home

Here are just a couple pics of our first Christmas morning together. We were in our home for Christmas morning then traveled to Lubbock and Amarillo.

Let me clarify

My husband thought perhaps I should clarify my last update.... I don't actually go up to someone's home and look in their windows. I look in their window from the car out on the street. My face is not smooshed up against their windows. I am several feet away... safely on the street.

Anyway, hope everyone (actually only Jenny... she is the only one that reads this) is getting ready for Thanksgiving. I am excited to go to Arkansas. My sweet husband and I are going to BEAT the heck out of the Wallace's!!!

Married for 3 months

I want to get better at this blog thing because it is so neat to look back and read what other people have done over the past several months... I want to be able to do that too.

Here is an attempt... One of my favorite things to do is drive around at night (this is going to sound weird) and look in people's windows. I told you it would sound weird, but the people have their windows open so I'm not doing anything wrong. I like to look at how their house is decorated, see if they are watching TV, etc. I just think it is so interesting that we are all in our homes at night and doing normal things. We feel so isolated in our homes, but right next door (just a few feet away) another family is doing what they normally do at night.

Anyway, after our study with other first-year married couples, Brian took the long way back to our house so we could look in people's windows. He didn't say anything about it; he just did it. It was really nice of him and I had a good time... lot's of people had their windows open!

Married for 3 months now...

Here are some pics

We've been married a month

My cousin/sister puts me to shame as to how often she keeps up with her blog. I can't blame it on being busy, just being married, being a PhD student, moving.... becuase she has 3 little ones... she's busy too.

Brian and I have been married just over a month. The first week being back from the honeymoon was difficult but we are loving married life and trying to be intentional about making it positive. We met with our pre-marital counselors Thursday night and will continue to learn from their wisdom for the next several months.

Brian made me a very sweet dinner for our one month anniversary. It was a good memory.

I love my future husband

Brian is bit of a loner... that makes loving him hard sometimes. I can be a little insecure because of this. Most of the time all it takes to make me feel better is a little time together to reconnect. Today Brian came and sat beside me while I was getting ready to go to class. For no particular reason he just spent a few minutes with me talking with me and being sweet to me. It was really nice!

Regardless of what my future husband does... God is faithful... I will dwell on His faithfulness.

18 days left

18 days until our wedding. I am so ready for the day to be here so I don't have to do anymore planning. I worked on the music, the budget, and the reception today. Yesterday we got our marriage license... every time something gets done it feels so good to be able to check one more thing off the list. Of course, renovating the house will be a never-ending project. It will all be memories that I will cherish.

Jenny made me do it

Well, my cousin (AKA sister) has been on me to start a blog. BTW - she is also the one that got me on mySpace. I will have to update my profile soon, but between planning a wedding, moving again, and trying to pass my Stats class I don't have much time. I am glad that she got me on here though... I think it will be fun. Thanks Jenny! Love you!