Josh Update Plus Apartment Pictures!

Well I haven't given much of an update since Josh left and there are no wedding pictures up yet! So, let's get to the juicy details. Well I don't know about juicy...but here are the details!!

JOSH WILL BE HOME ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you couldn't tell by all my exclamation points, I'm just a little excited. hehe We have fortunately been able to e-mail back and forth...even several times in one day sometimes. If we catch each other online at the same time then we get a chance to message back and forth rather than waiting hours or until the next day to hear from each other. Although, I really do wish I could hear his voice. :-(

He hasn't really liked being cramped on a ship the last month, but who would really. He said that ship life is really hard and very stressful. I did write in my last update that he's getting to work on the deck and not scrubbing dishes, but I think some days he wishes he were scrubbing dishes. It's definitely manual labor on the deck moving really heavy chains, doing all the needed jobs to ready the place for planes to land, and some mechanical work. He works from about 6am-6pm with a break now again...which is his e-mail time! It's definitely been a growing experience for him and I both...but probably more so him. Since he's been gone our things from Louisville arrived and I am DONE decorating!! Well, done decorating with all the things we already own that is. Our room still needs furniture in it and there a few wall things I would like to add. Josh's mom will be bringing a few things when they come visit in August that are some Navy memorabilia from his grandpa that I can't wait to display. Basically, I feel more at home now!

I've visited a church the last two weeks that I really enjoy! I met a girl named, Amy, last week and as we got to talking she's from SPRINGFIELD, MO! She is just here for the summer living with her sister and brother-in-law while doing an internship at the church. She'll be graduating from CBC in December and walking in May. Which means, if I move back home during Josh's long time away, she'll be in Springfield and we can continue our friendship! We've been tanning on the beach a few times this week and she and her sister came over last night for a girls night. The Lord is definitely blessing me. Speaking of blessings....I GOT A JOB!! Unfortunately it doesn't start until August. A slight turn of events happened on their end and will end up having help until the end of July when they thought they needed someone else. But like I said, the Lord is blessing us and providing financially for us in lots of other ways! He is so good...ALL the time.


Below are some picture updates of what the apartment looks like so far!!


Look familiar? This is our guest room.

Our room...not much in it....gotta get more stuff later.

Dining room!

Fun Fiesta Ware always brightens things up!

The only addition to the kitchen (besides more serving ware)...a favorite IKEA item that
has followed me through all three apartments thus far!

The piano that hopefully I can relearn to play!

Finally a cozy living room!

My New Home in Kentucky!

I'M HERE!! Finally, I'm graduated and off to the new city of Louisville! I must say, my apartment is coming together quite nicely (pictures below....although it's not all done yet). My parents and grandma helped us move everything in and helped get lots of things decorated! It was SOOOO nice to have them here to see where I'll be for a while and to help out with the move. Lauren and I would have been out of luck if it weren't for my dad! That's for sure!

My roommate, Lauren Hodson, and I attended at MEGA church this morning that has close to 16,000 in attendance every Sunday!!!! Ya I know...that's big time! They have elevators and escalators to take you to the balcony, a very large coffee shop, and stadium seating! CRAZY BIG! The pastor preached on divorce and what the Bible says about it...it was very good! Lauren and I plan on visiting again next week and also going to a Bible study on Tuesday night that's offered for people around our age. We're planning on visiting other churches as well, but we definitely want to give each one two weeks!

So far Lauren and I have been shopping at a great mall (one of 4 or 5 I think), searching for a karaoke bar (no luck there...maybe soon there will be a funny post about that), putting our apartment together, tanning out by our pool, and exercising at a really pretty park! We have yet to get super lost and are picking up the area pretty fast!

As for meeting people so far, we have yet to do that! haha Hopefully Tuesday night we'll be able to meet some people our age to hang out with. I surprisingly met a wonderful guy, Josh, a month before I left Bolivar and am missing him pretty bad.... :-( Looks like I'll be making a visit home in about a week for some fun dates with him...so get ready...here I come!