God's Blessings!

Today is the Day that I got MY FIRST CAR!  I went up to Springfield to car shop with Christine in the rain and we found a great deal!  

So Garrett and I went up the next day for a test drive together... It was just the price range we wanted (we didn't have to go up at all) AND much better than we were expecting to find!  Low miles, brand new tires, and orange! The seats lay down completely in the back and front so we can carry things the whole length of the car (like Ikea) We bought it!  It is a Saturn Vue all wheal drive and 4 cylinder. We drove it today and got 25 miles to the gallon in town. We test drove it Tuesday but we waited till Friday to pick it up. So for me it was like three nights of sleeping like a kid on Christmas eve. Oh my goodness I was so so excited this morning when it was finally time to go pick it up!  I had all my CD mixes burned and in a new case, I had a notepad, mileage book, sticky pad, ipod, sunglasses, and an umbrella all ready to put in the car just the second we got it.  Perfectly my mom needed to go up to Springfield so garrett and I were able to ride home together!  We are LOVING it! 

 It drives so great, the turning radius is my favorite part.  It's so pretty too!  So tonight was our Date Night so garrett had this awesome Idea, we picked up subway and then drove down to the dam backed in to a perfect spot and sat in the back of our new suv and had a picnic while we watched the tons of water fall.  

Small Group at the Trueloves

We decided to take a week off from our new study and just have a party with our small group : )  The trueloves had us all over to there house and we had a bond fire in the backyard! Complete with hotdogs chips soda smores and ice cream. They are awesome friends!  We are very blessed to get to have such great people to do small group with every week! 

baby coming soon!

I got to go down with mom dad and Aunt val to arkadelphia this weekend for jack jacks dedication and lori's baby shower.  It was so great to see my sister!

 There is a baby coming soon so we had a party at lori's church!  Our theme was backyard baby so we had picnic baskets and table clothes, clothes line with all lori's baby clothes and pic hanging on them and sandwiches, dip and cupcakes.

Gorgeous night!

We had our date night this week and went down to the landing to cantina laredos. We sat on the patio by the fire and water. We had one of our very first dates here. It was a absolutely gorgeous night to sit outside. We got a LOT of cheese dip too so it was great!  We walked the landing and then went to Starbucks which was so so fun!  It was just so relaxing and again just perfect outside. We shared a carmel frapp and went through some cards we got from church answering questions about it... it was really fun! We had such a wonderful time together tonight!

Sundays

Oh goodness today was wonderful! After church and lunch we went up to Springfield with Luke and Christine we went to the mall and shopped and then went down town.  We ate outside cause it was so nice!  and then just walked around... and of course stopped by the mud house to get a grasshopper.  It was just a gorgeous inspiring fun day with friends and each other! 

Date Night

It was a friday night, our date night!  Wonderful food is a must because we almost always go to Panda house!  After that we got to go visit our little new nephew and hold him for the very first time!  He's just so little.  Then we headed out to our "secret" evening activity... garrett started driving past the high road and on this long curvy middle of no where kinda road... about half way in garrett said... Oh I forgot to remind you to wear socks. I just started laughing that just made the night more fun so we went to walmart and got some new socks for me : )  Then ended up of course at bowling!  Which I have been wanting to do so long! It was lots of fun!