It's a Girl!

Ok.. So I know anyone who read the title of this is freaking out and thinking "are they having a baby?!" umm. NO. But we do have a new addition to our family. So.. the other day we were driving by the animal shelter and couldn't help but go in and look. Which I'm not sure the point of going to a shelter and looking at all those sad little faces and then all you want is to take them all home with you. Also, the fact that we said we would wait atleast a month after we were in our new house to look for a dog. So not sure what we were thinking! So we walk in and see these two adorable little German shepherd puppies. They were the first dogs we saw and we immediately turned to each other and said, " well you wanna get one." We were both thinking the same thing and were just so excited to see them. We were hooked. So it turns out they couldn't be adopted until 3pm that day. So we finished looking at all the other dogs there (non compared to these dogs we had already found) and decided we would come back later to look at them again and make our decision. So we came back later and we immediately asked about the dogs and a lady said, " I think they are being adopted right now." We were pissed! ha So we went into the office and to our relief found out that only one of the dogs was being adopted. So we went back and looked at the one still available and even brought Mya (our first child) to see how they would do together. Well they didn't hit it off very well but that still didnt discourage and decided to go ahead with it. The thing is.. It is very rare when you find a puppy at the animal shelter, especially a german shepherd(which we think she is a pure bred even). We also know that when a puppy comes in and is ready for adoption, the puppy is usually adopted by the next day. We knew we either had to decide that day or who knows the next time we would have had an opportunity like that! So this was our thinking and we just went for it! I know many people think we are crazy but if you know us we are both crazy about dogs and love our little puppy so much! So now we have a cute little girl at our house! We love her but yes I forgot what a chore it is to take care of a puppy. Potty training.. sucks! Also, Brent is out of town this weekend and so I am left taking care of the little dogs myself!
On another note... We signed the final papers for the house yesterday and have the keys! Its officiallly ours! yay! We went by the house and they put up a new wood fence, which is awesome and they had it cleaned. So starting tomorrow I'll start taking things over to the house! Its exciting!
WEll I will get some pics of the dog and the house up soon!!

March madness...

Ok, So after debating and going back and forth between three different houses we finally made our decision. The house has 3 bedrooms, 2 bath (of which the master bath is WAY too small but that was something I had to compromise on :( ), 2 car garage, a fireplace (we were excited about that), they had put in new carpet and painted already. It has a great big back yard for our big dog that we will be getting some time after we move in! After signing many papers and going back and forth and waiting we got the final approval for the house. We are now on Schedule to move in to the house on March 12th! I have started packing random things in boxes but for the most part we are just gonna throw stuff in our cars and make several trips. We don't have to be out of our house now til March 31st and so we will just progressively move stuff out for those 2 weeks that we have. It is a very good thing we have those weeks to do it because March is a busy month for us!

Along with celebrating both of our birthdays this week, Brent and I have the fun of going up to Oklahoma City for my friends Heather's wedding! I can't wait and am super excited to see some of my friends!! Then on Sunday (which is quite a busy day for us anyways) I have to be back for my 13's volleyball tournament. So along with our daily work and routine we have several others things going on. Like I said, next Thursday we are then able to move in to the house but that may not happen quite yet. We then have our youth group spring retreat that weekend. We will be going up to Bear Creek Camp which is a few hours away. We will be having services and also doing high ropes courses and all kinds of fun stuff! So although this should be a great time for the kids it is also bad timing with the house. Then the following weekend Brent is going on a snowboarding trip with some of his guy friends in Colorado! Although this will be a great trip for Brent, again bad timing. That leaves me with getting to move some things that weekend.

So along with our busy weekends we have our usual routines going on. I am still working some hours at the gym and also coaching. We have practice twice a week and tournaments about every other weekend. I have also been volunteering in a 1st grade class about twice a week. I have really enjoyed doing this. It is getting me some classroom experience and a chance to work with kids. I actually got to teach the class while the teacher did some planning. So for about 2 hours it was chaos. Lol, no it wasn't that bad but it was challenging. I know as a student when your teacher isn't there, you are less prone to listening! It was definitely an experience. I am thinking that 1st grade is a little too young for me! I have been accepted into my teaching program and am going to start taking my courses hopefully next week. Brent has been working hard doing wed. and Sunday nights with the teens. Along with doing fundraisers and getting ready for up coming events. He has also been interviewing to get his district pastors license (which he is not too thrilled about). He has also started playing in their softball league again. Well I think that sums up our lives for this month!!