Fun Times

The last few weeks have been so much fun for Chris and I.  Chris has been off from school and he is the best stay at home dad (to annabelle) ever!  He's taken over all cooking, cleaning and shopping! 

A yummy meal I came home to last week!

We had a busy week last week- went to see Batman with our CG, went to trivia night with some friends and then they came over to to play Catan

They brought their dog Brooks too, so Annabelle had a playmate!

This weekend we really just hung out with each other a lot.  Chris helped me with some statistics (I'm taking an online course really quickly),  I practiced a lot of Pure Barre (I'm hoping to be testing out soon)!

It was one of my favorite weekends I've had so far! Lucky to be married to the man of my dreams :)

The Princess needed a bath! 

Anna loves the olympics!

Love him too much!

Pure Barre Training Day #1

Yesterday I flew out to Denver for a Pure Barre training. Me and 5 other girls are coming out to learn how to be an instructor for Pure Barre. The 3 owners are also all here with us so we're just having a good old time!
Annie, one of the owners has scheduled all of our dinners and she has seriously done THE best job at picking neat, local and yummy restaurants. Last night we went to this cool earthy type restaurant called root down. We had such a good time talking and laughing and sharing yummy food.
This morning we woke up bright and early for training! We got the the studio an hour early and I'm so glad we did because we got fun PB stuff before any was sold out.
At 9 am our training began. We took a class for the first hour, then had some introductions and then began the learning process. Let's just say there is so much to learn to say its insane. I have so much respect for all PB teachers! We took turns teaching each other and by the end of doing everyone's instructing, I was spent! I'm so not sure how I'll be able to move tomorrow.... I felt like I was very prepared though. Emilee, an instructor at Louisville PB had told me to bring notecards and that was a life saver! I really think teaching with note cards was such an easier task then brining a big notebook up.
Anyways, after training we went to dinner at this fun ceviche type restaurant. The best part of te night was when we got Karen and Lucy telling us the story of how PB Louisville came to be. Omgosh they are hysterical! Ah! Then we went out front Nd took some group pictures and owner pictures. Annie was hilarious because she couldn't get the Karen/Lucy head tilt! We were all belly laughing at them! It was an amazing night and I am just so thankful that I get to do this!
I really continue to fall more in live with PB and Karen, Lucy and Annie the more I get to know them!

Day #1 

The whole group after dinner

Studying our notes!

Catch Up!

So this month has been absolutely crazy! I kept putting off blogging about it because I wanted to do each event justice. But since I'm a month behind I'm simply going to play catch up. I'll try to post 1 pic and 1 sentence about each thing we've done since I last blogged...

Continuous events are that Chris is out of school for a month (!) and I'm OBSESSED with working at Pure Barre!  Ah I love it...

On to the last month's events:

First, all of the girls in our cg (minus Taylor) got together for ice cream at comfy cow!  It was such a blessing to catch up with these women and hear how their lives are going.

All the girls and I!

Later that week I also presented my research rotation.  That was a huge relief because once it was done, I was free from school until Aug!

My classmate Adjoa and I after presenting

That weekend my mom and Hal came into town for 4ish days (we had to beg them to stay the 4th day..).  Although we worked and stuff while they were here we still had fun! We went out to eat, went to Hotel 21c's art gallery, church, etc.  The highlight I thought was lunch at the Brown Hotel! YU-UUMMM!  It was some seriously yummy food!  Hal was determined to have a Hot Brown from the Brown hotel... Thankful for his stubbornness! 

The four of us in front of the Art Gallery!

While mom and Hal were here, Ivan and Amanda had a group of us over to their pool for hangingout/cookingout! The twins came and were in the pool for their first time! We had a wonderful afternoon and it was awesome for mom to get to meet everyone!

That week we also went to see the band Fun.  It was FUN, let me tell you!! Our awesome CG got us tickets for a wedding present :)  

The next weekend we went home for my bff, Meg's wedding!  It was the most perfect weekend ever.  I got some good bonding with Margaret and that was so nice.  All of the wedding events were perfect! I was so happy for her to be marrying the love of her life! We love you Cam!

Besties at the bridesmaids luncheon.  Love these girls!  We've been bff's since 9th grade!  

Rehearsal dinner- all of the bridesmaids with the bride!

The night before the big day... Our last slumber party with Meg as a single gal

Wedding reception! Chris and I with the Bride and Groom!

After that awesome weekend it kind of stunk to come home to move into our new place, but that's what we did!  We packed ourselves up and Jared and Chris moved it all into our new gorgeous Condo!

Chris's parents came up to help us unpacked and stayed for a little over a week! We had a few breaks from unpacking to do some fun stuff

Dinner at Doc Crows!

Blueberry picking!

Before seeing Billy Elliot

Once the left we finished setting up and returning things, etc.  It's exhausting!  But the condo is looking good!

We went to our first horse race!

For 4th of July we went over to Stuart and Taylors to Grill/hang out.  Then we went to see the fire works!

It's been a WONDERFUL month!!  Hopefully from now on we won't do monthly check-ins :)

Double Date Downtown!

This past weekend we had a fun double date with the Gibsons!  We had planned on an O'Sheas on Bardstown dinner then Settler's of Catan fun game night.  BUT we found a Living Social for the O'Sheas downtown AND NBA basketball began and their team, the Thunder, were playing an "important" game that night.  SO, we went downtown for dinner, walked around, then came back to our apt to watch the game!

I loveeee them!

Love my Hubby

The Double Daters

Gorgeous Buildings

Beautiful Downtown

Kody was Annabelle's BFF

Juli has been such a blessing for me as a newly married gal.  She and Kody have been married for 4 years and so there's so much wisdom and comfort I get from sharing with her.  Chris and I have had an absolutely wonderful first 3 months but there are still small bumps and times when things aren't perfect and it's so comforting to talk with Juli and for her to assure me we're normal.  

Good friends are a blessing.  The Lord calls us to live in community and not to isolate ourselves.  I can see how in marriage issues it'd be easy for us to isolate ourselves and think we're the only ones who have awkward moments but when we live in community and share our bumps with our christian friends, we're reminded it's normal.  Usually it's because one of us is being selfish or that we're seeking love and fulfillment in Chris and not in Christ....

SO thankful for Juli and Kody and their wisdom and fun in marriage things!!

Also, Juli is pregnant with a baby girl!!! I am so unbelievably excited for her... Lots of girlie fun projects to happen this summer!  

First Full Summer Week!

Chris and I have been looking forward to this week for so long!  It was the first week in which we thought we'd have time to just hang out and relax some.

However, this week ended up being crazy (but in ALL fun fun fun ways)!

First off, I began my first full week working at Pure Barre!  Oh my gosh I absolutely love it! Basically I spend time with the most wonderful fun and interesting women in Louisville, I work out, I clean and I manage the retail! SO MUCH FUN!  

AND I found out this week that I will be trained June 9th to be a Pure Barre instructor! AH! I'm so so so excited.  They're flying me out to *Denver* to be trained too! I can't wait.

Monday night after work, I took Riley, the oldest Pace (Our marry lessons couple) girl on our "date".  The previous week I had been on a date with Ella the middle one.  We had so much fun! First we went to Lula's yogurt where you put your own toppings on.  Then we went to the mall to look around.  Next we had dinner at Chick-fil-a where we got the neatest toy ever: a field guide to identifing trees! It was a book and each page was in the shape of a leaf and told about the kind of tree the leaf came from.  We had such a fun afternoon/night!

All of our leaf findings

Monday night Jenna and I began our new tradition of watching the bachelorette! Ah I love it!

Tuesday night we went on a double date with Jenna and Jared! They seriously are wonderful and Chris and I are so blessed to have each made good friends in Louisville who are dating! It's perfect!

Wednesday WE GOT OUR WEDDING PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!  So I spent most of the afternoon drooling over them.  Besides that it wasn't much fun because I worked on a presentation on my lab rotation for my department all night after work... No fun!  It was neat to see how much research I've done and to put it all together!

Picture taken with my phone of an on screen shot 

Thursday after work  I got my hair done! WHa WHOO!! I love love love my hair dresser, Sarah at blades salon.  SHe's absolutely the most fun person to talk to!   After my hair, Chris and I went to our Community Group Cook out!   It was so nice getting to just hang outside and eat and catch up with everyone.

Lauren, Jenna, Taylor and I!

Today I went into the lab and gave a practice go at my presentation... It went ok.  Lots more work to do.  Then, I went with Chris to pick up all 3 Pace girls!  As a thank you for their counseling, Chris and I treated them to a night out!  The girls and I went to the pool, made pizzas, watched a movie, went back to the pool, made cupcakes and now they have passed out hard and I'm just hanging out til Beth and Josh get home!  

It's been a good week... We're so very blessed

Ready to have an afternoon of FUN!

Action Shot!

Wedding #1

This weekend, Chris and I traveled back to Fl to take part in Chris's old, good friend, Matt's wedding.  Matt was in our wedding 2 months ago and Chris was a groomsmen in Matt's wedding this weekend.  

To get the best flights, we flew into Tampa.... Which means I got to see two of my besties!!  Carly was sweet enough to drive from Tampa to Sanford to pick me up from the airport and then take me back to her apt.  It was so great getting to spend the night with Carly! I got to see her life: where she lives, where she goes out, where she works, everything.  It's weird that she's my bff and she's lived there for 7 months and this was the first time I'd seen it.  She has her room and apt fixed up SO cute!  

We stayed up wayyy late into the wee hours of the morning talking.  

The next day I went to work with her! It was fun seeing how legit her work place is! 

Carly and I outside of the Deloitte Building

When she went into work, another bff, Lindsay who's a nurse was just getting off so she met me for coffee right by Carly's office! I had such a great time catching up with her and hearing how she's doing!

Me and my adorable Linds!

After we were done with breakfast, Chris and his good friend Dan met up with us,  picked me up and the 3 of us made our way to Ponte Vedre!

My good friend Katie and her husband Sean live in PV so we stayed at their house.  Sadly they weren't there... The love birds are celebrating their 1 year anniversary in Cali!  But we enjoyed having a beautiful home to stay in!  That afternoon we went to the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner.  YuMMMm was the food good!! We had such a great time at the dinner!

Chris and I with the Bride and Groom!

The next morning I got up and went to get my nails done with the bride and her bridesmaids and then hung out with them until they left to get ready.  By then, Chris's good friends Josh and Bill and Josh's gf Sarah were in town so they came to Katie and Seans and we all got to hang out before the wedding.  

The wedding was absolutely beautiful and perfect and the reception was a darn blast!  We danced the night away!

The perfect couple 

Chris and the Groom!

Chris and I after dancing the night away

Chris and his bffs

Panama City #1

Wednesday morning we got up bright and early to say goodbye to Chris's parents. Then we were sneaky and went to run errands to finish his moms mothers day gift :) We left it at his dads work so she wouldn't know we'd left one! I love happy surprises and couldn't wait til mothers day to hear that she got it!

Anyways, we got on the road and then stopped in tally to have lunch with our friends still there. I dropped Chris off with his boys then went over to littles house! I absolutely love her and love getting to talk and hang with her in person. Phone relationships are fun but being with people is so much better.

Anyways after tally we got to pc just in time to make it to a friend of ours, Catherine's, 18th birthday dinner! My whole family went and we had a good time!!

Birthday Girl and I

We went home to my moms and opened all of our presents from the wedding! My sweet marge came over to help. Oh my gosh we are so blessed!! We got so much more stuff than I even imagined! The whole living room was taken over! Ah I can't wait to take it all to Louisville!

Love Chris's Face here

The next morning we woke up bright and early and took the boat to shell island and spent the day there! It was a picture perfect day. The weather was gorgeous, Susan packed the yummiest food, and we all enjoyed relaxing and chatting. Chris also climbed the jetties for his first time with me! I really live climbing those rocks... After we climbed the rocks we really spent the rest of the day napping and talking with dad, Susan and Ross.

Chris enjoying some lunch

Paradise

Wonderful Family

Typical

When we got done with the boat we packed all of our wedding presents that we had doubles of or needed to return and headed to the beach house. There, mom, Hal and his brother Judy were waiting for us! They made us an amazing dinner of homemade onion rings and steaks. Yummmmmm! We sat chatting and hanging until late that night.

Perfection

Chris and I are so blessed to have parents that love us so much. I'm so thankful for my parents and the effort they make for us to have a goodrw when we come visit. I'm also very glad to have panama city as my home town. The beach and boat is such a fun way to spend family time!