the end of summer...

Sorry it has been forever since I've posted anything! Life got crazy hectic this last month but all is well!

We made a trip to Jacksonville, FL to see our friend, Sarah Towers, get married... it was a beautiful wedding and I fell in love with a house :)

The bluegrass band performed for the ceremony and reception

The view from the back of the house I love :)

The back porch of the house I love
Me, Daniel and Sarah
The front of the house I love :)

Woo, we have our own city!

At the beginning of July, I ended up getting two retail jobs. I work part-time at White House Black Market (a clothing store that only sells black and white clothes) and at Pottery Barn Kids. I actually really enjoy working at both places. While working, I was also keeping my eyes open for teaching jobs but it seemed like everything was going against me and so I tried to get used to the idea of maybe just subbing for the first year. Of course, as my schedules at work picked up, I found a position at Lavergne High School so I had to run out to the school before work and interview between jobs, but they ended up offering me a position which I formally accepted Monday. It is an interim position which will be for two months, but everyone seems to think it will turn into a permanent one, so that is exciting. I will be teaching five periods of American History and I am very pumped for it! The school is a great diverse school but is safe and from what I hear the faculty is progressive and motivated. God is so great to provide this for me and I am so thankful!

With the safety of having a job, Daniel and I are more seriously looking for a house to buy. We have looked at several houses but we think we might end up with a town home. While we could buy a decent home in our price range, we would probably want to do a lot to fix it up both for ourselves and in order to sell it in the future. On the other hand, the town homes we looked at were move-in ready and had nice features we would not have to update to our likings or in order to sell it in the future. I'll definitely keep you all posted on our progress :)

July also brought our first family even that we couldn't be home for. My brother, Dave, and his wife, Michelle, had their first child, Charlie. When we were in CA and these events would happen, we knew we would be able to go home soon enough, but this time we won't be able to see Charlie for a while, so that's a bummer :-( Daniel's sister, Shannon, also had a baby recently, so it's also a bummer seeing her major growth spurts and development in the first year from across the country :-( We just need to convince both sides of our family to move out here...come on guys, you know you want to! :)

In other news, Coco got fixed but has healed well and is doing fine. She has not gained any weight yet, but if she did it would be OK since she's so skinny anyway. As you can tell, she was pretty knocked out after... she wouldn't even give me kisses when I laid down next to her :)

We've also managed to have some more fun with our church friends...

Our first bowling night (and my first attempt at wavy hair)

Our first Nashville Sounds game!

Hopefully I'll post soon all about my first day of school (Monday)...wish me luck!

Love and miss you all!

K & D