emily kate

I've been doing some blog reading lately, but not so much writing. Just haven't felt in the mood for it I guess. But I just went back and read some of the things I had written about in 2005, and it's so interesting to see what was going on at that time. This summer Brandon and I will celebrate our 5 year anniversary. It's hard to believe it's been that long! Our first year of marriage I was student teaching and he was the grad. assistant at ACU. We lived in a one-room garage apartment. We cleverly positioned a screen to be a divider between the "living room" and the "bedroom." I remember when we moved out of that apartment and into our rent house I was so excited that we actually had a closet for our vacuum cleaner and didn't have to keep it at the end of our bed. In the garage apartment we shared a tiny closet. We did enjoy having our parents and my Nana over a few times for meals. A couple people would sit at the table (that had a leaf down and was pushed against the wall), some could sit on the loveseat, and one or two would sit on our bed. It was cozy, but it was ours, so we loved it. Then after a year we moved to a rent house on E.N.11th. It was really cute and had just been redone with new paint and carpet. Our landlords were so nice, and like I said, we had a place to put the vacuum cleaner away, so I was way excited! The house we live in now (and have for the past 3 years) I just love! We were really lucky to get it the way we did. Summer, Chad, and Ava had just bought a house around the block, and our friends were moving out of this house, so she called and asked if we were interested. Without looking at any other houses, we decided to buy it from them. It's been great for us. We love the wooden floors, the exposed wood, the breakfast nook. We had the kitchen redone to add storage and paint the cabinets.



And this is my favorite addition to the kitchen. I love it when this cute little girl comes over and makes cookies with me! She is the sweetest niece and I love being her aunt!