Joah (Neil's best friend) and Lydia's Wedding

Joah and Neil have been best friends for forever. They have been through a lot together. They have certainly laughed A LOT in all the years. Joah just graduated from UGA, got a good job in Macon, and got married in May to Lydia. We are so proud of him! I couldn't go to the wedding because it was on the last day of school for me, but Neil went.
This is Joah and Neil at his wedding. It's very hard for them to be serious, so I absolutely love this picture!

I did get to go to the reception. It was beautiful!

CONGRATULATIONS JOAH AND LYDIA!

Morning Sickness

I am now 6 weeks and 5 days into my pregnancy and thought that I was going to be one of those lucky people who wouldn't experience morning sickness. Besides being a little tired and emotional, I have felt GREAT. I was even feeling a bit guilty about feeling so great when everyone shared their horror stories about morning sickness. However, last night as I was deciding what to eat, nothing seemed to sound good. After much looking, Neil gave me a suggestion and we ate. After dinner, I felt yucky. I have no better word to describe it than yucky. I told myself it was just a tummy ache and went to bed crying. This morning I woke up with the same yucky feeling and it has stayed with me all day long. Thank goodness I'm a teacher and am off for the summer. I have exactly 3 weeks to get this under control and go back to work! All I have done today is eat small portions of anything that sounds somewhat desirable, wrote a post for my masters class, and just took a shower at 7:30 pm. The best part of my day...Neil came home an hour early, looked at the pile of unfolded laundry, dirty dishes in the sink, our unmade bed, pregnancy books scattered across the floor, me still in my pjs, and he said "I love you" and gave me a hug!

BABY

Neil and I are extremely excited to announce that we are having a BABY! We went to the doctor on my birthday, July 1 and found out that I am five and a half weeks pregnant! We are due on February 27, 2009! Watch for more updates!

Katelyn's 4th Birthday

Katelyn turned 4 on June 4. She had a princess party at her house. Neil and I were so excited to get to go spend time with her and our family.
This is a picture of Katelyn with her brother and cousins. Look at those party hats!

I love this picture. My sister-in-law hates for people to take pictures of her. Katelyn and Karen look so cute!

This is my kind of girl! She got a guitar in her lap and riding on her hot wheel. What a life.

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birtday to you, Happy Birthday dear Katelyn, Happy Birthday to you!

Katelyn is enjoying playing with her Uncle Neil! Happy Birtday sweet girl!

More Pictures

This is our bedroom. We still haven't put up any pictures in here. We might get some up before we move.

This is the spare bedroom/storage room. It is nice and has a big closet to store all the unused wedding gifts.

Here is the bathroom. We are adjusting to have one bathroom. My mom and sister came to visit a few weeks ago and it was different with everyone sharing one bathroom. Neil's sister and husband and some of our nieces and nephews are coming this weekend, so it will be a tight squezze. But we love having family and friends come visit with us!

Our New Place

I finally took a few pictures of our new place. This is our kitchen, please excuse the clutter. We are still working on finding a place for everything.

This is our living room, den, family room. Everybody has different names for it. Can you see our food storage under the futon? Hey, this place is smaller than the last, so we had to use every available space. It works well.
We are slowly getting use to living on Princess Lane. After we get rid of the sugar ants, life will be much better!

I absolutely HATE moving!!!

Neil and I spent the weekend moving. All last week I worked on packing all the boxes and labeling each and was very careful with everything that I packed. Then we ran out of boxes. So, walmart bags came in handy for kitchen things. Everything that could go wrong when moving happened! I was packing up the kitchen an hour before our friends were coming to help us move, the landlord didn't get our place cleaned up from the previous person, so Neil and I had a late night of cleaning the night before we moved in, when we went to move our stuff in the maintenance man was painting the living room...we had to work around painted walls, we have ants we're still fighting to get rid of, we had to invest in a fly swatter because we let flys in while moving in furniture, the person before us scheduled to turn the power off on Friday which meant we paid an extra fee for them to turn the power back on, do you know that every place in Statesboro charges "transfer fees" to change your address from one place to another (when they don't even do anything, but type your new address into the computer) and Neil and I have too much JUNK! I'm quite jealous that Neil gets to go to work and school, while I have to unpack boxes and clean up. However, I got some great advice from my mother during our whole moving ordeal..."Look on the brightside Kimberly, it couldn't get any worse". Thanks mom for your encouragment! The best part of moving was getting to spend time with Neil's parents who came and helped us move and clean!!! Thanks Daddy Gene and Mama Diann!