Holy Smokes....it is has been a long time!

It is interesting how life changes over a few years. Since blogging here initially, I have joined facebook and Myspace to keep in touch with friends and family. I have done some blogging on there. However, I sort of like having a totally separate blog, just for me to rant, rave and ramble. I guess I'll have to just cut and paste everything onto myspace too. Why can't there be just one universal program that EVERYONE uses????

Just to catch you up on things in one paragraph, I met a dude online, his name is Ray. After a while of chatting and his returning home from deployment in Iraq, I moved to Omaha, NE to be closer to him. We were engaged in November 2008, married in August 2008, bought a house in December 2008 and found out late February 2009 that we are expecting our first child. Shew...ok.

Ray and I are finally REALLY getting settled into our new home. How long can you really call the home "new" after you buy it? I plan to say it until we are settled. So, 6 years from now it is totally possible that I will still be calling this house new. Funny how that works when the original part of the home is over 100 years old!

The house has 3 bedrooms, a great multi-purpose room upstairs and a fun porch/sun room on the front of the house. The things I LOVE about the house is the old country flair it still contains. Most of the beautiful and original (I think) woodwork is found throughout the house. The living room has 2 windows with leaded glass accents that throw every color of the rainbow into the room when the light hits them right. My other favorite part of the house? The yard!

This is no normal yard! In fact, the only grass that exists borders the street. Otherwise, it is a very well developed garden. Mind you, this is a corner lot. So, that includes the front, sides and entire back yard. Since I'm pregnant, I'm not going to be able to do as much this year as I would have liked in the yard. But, there is one area of the yard that had been dedicated to cactus, of all things. I took them out yesterday and that area will be my new veggie garden. In fact, I already transplanted some rhubarb that a very generous lady from church brought by.

I'll post some pictures in a few days. I'd go take some pics now but it seems a storm has blown up and they are calling for rain for the next few days. That means lots of flowers, right? Somehow, I don't think I'm going to have to look very far to see a ton.