Yes, It's Here

My first blog of three months. I know, just believe it. You probably can't contain yourself right now. But lest my friends think I have forgotten them, I have returned to the world of blogging.

So much has happened in the past 3 months - life has been so crazy I couldn't breathe and is now calm and peaceful.

It started when we listed our house, expecting it to be difficult to sell, while I was studying for the bar and Paul was working. When we sold our house 6 hours later, we had not found a house and I had trouble getting away to look for houses. But Paul was fabulous (big surprise, I know) and house-shopped while I studied. Our friends were wonderful - I provided pizza and boxes and mid-bar ridiculous entertainment and they came and packed up our house.

We moved into a room that Paul set up at my parent's house. Within a week there, and after looking at 50-60 houses, we found our dream house. Ok, maybe that is a little bit of an exaggeration, but we LOVE IT HERE. It so much is "us." Hardwoods throughout kitchen and bathrooms re-done, walls knocked out to create an open feeling even though the ceilings are lower, a private backyard, a cozy sunroom, a fireplace with built-in shelves, I feel so undeserving!

A week after moving in to our house (which our friends and family also made possible. I don't know what we would have done without their help) I left for Jeff City, Mo, to take the bar. The 14 hours of testing was over before I knew it and I returned to live again. Studying for the bar was the hardest thing I think I have ever, ever done. It was hard to study so much each day knowing there was too much to learn and I could never, no matter how much I studied, "conquer" the material. I am SO thankful that is done, and hopefully I pass - I will find out one week from yesterday. If I take the KS bar in Feb, I am hoping it will be a lot less stressful!!!!!

So my recent weeks have included Table Rock Lake with the family (a lot of lake and pool fun!); a CO trip to see family and friends, which included lots of laughing; estate and garage sale-ing my little heart out to try to fill our house with goodness; "recipe-shopping" as Susan calls it; and time with family (now that we are close to them, we get to see them a lot more).

I turned 26 on Monday, and I want you to know that in honor of that big day, I decided it was time to become fashionable and so I chopped some bangs. I think I like but am still getting used to them. Pics to come. My sister's bday is two days after mine (today) and we celebrated together. Enclosed is a picture for your enjoyment.