Home sweet home!

Is anyone actually still reading this little blog of mine?! I do apologize for my absence; we've been busy having LOTS of summer fun! We have been away from Temple for 2 weeks, but we're back home now, and Rob is back to work as of today. I can't believe football season is upon us!

Anyway, the first week we were gone, we went to Abilene. We figured we better get back one more time before we couldn't do it again until after football! We had a great time hanging out with family and friends, relaxing by the pool, celebrating our anniversary at Perini's (YUM) and getting ready for our vacation with Rob's family.

After a week in Abilene, we were off to Miami! We met the family there, and just spent the day hanging out, really. We ventured to Coconut Grove for dinner, and we stumbled across this delish restaurant! I cannot remember the name of it, but they had great seafood.

Kathy & myself...

Rob (with a goofy face) & his twink...

After dinner, the 'cousins' ventured down to South Beach just to say we did it...it was pretty crazy on a Sunday, I can't even imagine what it's like on a Friday or Saturday! I kept picturing Snooki or The Situation roaming the streets...ha! And speaking of Jersey Shore, Rob & Will's cousin (Kathy) recently moved to Jersey...we're definitely looking forward to visiting her and doing some fist-pumping in the future ;-)

Just getting my toes wet with the blogging thing again...

I'll be back soon with pictures from the cruise! Promise.

Happy Monday!

"does this river go in a circle?"

Last weekend was such a fun one! We went ahead and started it on Thursday...because it's summer, so we can do that :) We began by helping Lexi move in to her new home of Temple, TX... Woohoo! Everyone is here now!

That evening, a couple of our besties pulled into town. We were so excited to have Jerrod and Julie visit us for the weekend! We didn't take a lot of pictures (imagine that) because we were too busy catching up and having fun!

On Friday we drove down to New Braunfels to float the river...

The only proof we have that Jerrod was, in fact, at our house that weekend:

Thanks for that, Rob ;)

Silly hats are a must for river-floating. Julie kept saying we looked like Tamra from RHOOC! Hahaha...we totally do...except for all the plastic surgery.

We had a blast on the river...so much fun that we were all in bed by about 10:30 that night! Fun in the sun can wear you out. I'm sure it had nothing to do with the copious amounts of queso we ate when we got home. Nothing at all.

We got up Saturday morning and headed to Round Rock for some shopping.

The boys were thrilled! ;-)

Aaaaand that about wraps up our weekend:

food, river, lots of laughs, more food, shopping and more food.

Doesn't get any better than that, right?!

Thanks for coming to see us Carroll's... We're already looking forward to your next visit!

3 years!

We celebrated 3 years of wedded bliss yesterday! It's hard to believe just how quickly time passes by...it feels like just yesterday that I was a love-sick 15 year old ;-)

(I know I'll probably be saying that when we celebrate 10, 20 & 50 years, too)

July 5, 2008 - one of my HAPPIEST days!

I have to say, last year brought us a whole lot of crazy!

Nothing we couldn't handle with the help of our Father, though.

I graduated from HSU.

We sold our first 'together' home and bought a new home in December that we hoped to grow into. Growing turned out to be more of a struggle than we could have imagined, unfortunately, and we're still praying for our family!

Then (in April?) we made the decision to make a move to Temple, TX.

Wow! Talk about CRAZY! We did some house-hunting and found yet another home.

3 houses in 3 years? Let's not keep that tradition alive, babe ;)

We closed on the sale of our house in Abilene, packed up the truck and headed east!

And here we are today...settled in our new home of Temple and adjusting to life away from everything we know. It's exciting! I know this is going to be great for us, and there isn't anyone else I'd rather be on this adventure with! Thank you for being YOU! I love you so much, and I'm looking forward to many, many more years of happiness with YOU!