Back to Kernersville!

After a year of living in Whitsett, we have moved back to Kernersville! At the beginning of July, we knew our lease was coming to an end and decided, pretty spontaneously, to move back to Kernersville. We really loved living in there and we knew it was where we wanted to live eventually so we decided to go for it. We are really excited to be back and we love our new apartment!

XOXO

The Move to Atlanta

We found out at the beginning of this year that my father-in-law's company was closing their Roanoke branch and relocating everyone to Atlanta. After many months of talking and planning Josh's parents and 2 sisters moved down there at the end of July. 

Before they left, we went up to visit one last time the weekend of July 4th and took these pictures in front of their house. This will be the only house that Josh's whole family will ever live in together. They moved there a few months before Josh's little sister Chloe was born. (Even I lived there for 2 months after Josh and I got married.) 

(Josh's sister Charity was in Korea for 6 weeks before they moved so she was not in these pictures.)

The weekend they moved down to Atlanta they stopped by our apartment. Matt ended up staying with us for the weekend but the rest of the family just came by for a pit stop. We snapped some family pictures which will be the last ones for a while.

We miss them already :(

Baby Gizzy

Last week was a very hard week. After Kitty had emergency surgery that did not make him better, we had to put him to sleep. :(  At first we thought we should wait a while before getting another cat... but after a day or two without Kitty we knew we needed another little kitty to love on.

We searched for kittens in the area on www,PetFinder.com and we were immediately drawn to this adorable girl named Gizmo. So on Friday I went to the Humane Society of Alamance County and picked up our baby! 

She is the sweetest, most adorable little kitten!

We love our baby girl!
XOXO

Kitty Miaz

Our sweet, silly, crazy Kitty died this week. We had to put him to sleep after emergency surgery for a urinary blockage did not fix his problem. We are so so sad and miss him so much. He will always be an important part of our family.

Matt came to visit!

This is super late since Matt came to visit weeks ago... (the week after Mother's Day) but I already uploaded the pictures so here we go.  Josh went up to Roanoke to see his mom for Mother's Day and Matt came back home with him.

We met Josh for lunch almost everyday. :)

and took super cool jumping pictures...

and Kitty loved having Uncle at home with him all day while Josh and I were at work...

Thursday night we met up with friends to go see The Avengers and then went to Steak & Shake afterward. It was a fun night and we got home around 12:30 am.

Saturday we went to my parents house and then drove to Charlotte to go to IKEA!

Josh got a new desk that Kitty loved immediately.

Sunday, we drove halfway up to Roanoke and met their family at a Mexican restaurant in Martinsville to have dinner and drop Matt off. 

We had a fun week!

He's coming back on Saturday to cat sit while we go to the BEACH!!!!!

Woohoo!

April

HOW is it April already!? A quarter of 2015 is already over., what??

I love it though. I love Spring. I love the blossoms and green leaves and daylight savings and this warmer weather. Josh and I have been going on walks every night after dinner. It's the best. 

XOXO

Josh turns 26!

Josh turned 26 today! :) Matt came down to visit and we had Zack's for dinner and this cake after. Tomorrow the rest of their family is coming to town. It will be a good weekend!

XOXO

Surprise Snow Day!

Josh got up for work this morning and I heard him yell from the living room, "Babe, check for school closings!" I jumped out of bed and ran to the window and saw snow falling! It was very exciting since this was not forecasted at all. Even though it was a pretty lame accumulation, school was cancelled for me and Josh worked from home and we had a fun day relaxing. :) 

We took Kitty outside to see the snow and he rolled around in it and ate some grass. 

While I did have a fun day, I'm a little annoyed with all of the snow days. We missed everyday last week (Feb. 17-20) because of an 1/2 inch of snow and about 1/10 inch of ice on Monday! But now they're calling for 4-6 inches tomorrow night-Thursday morning. Ahhhh I need Spring to get here ASAP,

Christmas Day 2014

It's crazy that this was our third Christmas since we've been married! Every year, so far, we do Christmas Eve with Josh's family and then drive home late Christmas Eve night to have Christmas morning in our apartment. My mom had a tradition to always give me and my sister new pajamas on Christmas Eve night and now Josh and I do that for each other. So Christmas morning we got up and opened our presents to each other in our new "jingle jammies."

After opening presents we drove to my parents house for breakfast. Then headed to Raleigh for lunch with my mom's family. 

Every year some of the guys play foosball, this year Josh took over for my dad. ;)

Since Josh and I got married we do gifts with my family on Christmas night. We drive back from Raleigh and put on pajamas and open presents. It's something to look forward to all day on Christmas. :)

We had a great Christmas with both of our families! That is the best part of the season. 

XOXO