Fishing

Brian went fishing almost every weekend while I was still working down in San Antonio. And I knew that once I got here he would want to continue. I enjoy fishing too...just not every weekend! So here are a few pictures of us fishing in a river.

I was having issues with getting it snagged on the bottom. It was really frustrating. Brian ended up spending half the time getting my line untangled! Needless to say, we didn't stay at the river for too long. After I stopped trying, Brian got his line snagged as well! It was kind of funny!

So after the river, we went to try the lake. This was much better! However, the spot we picked was kind of tricky to get to. We had to climb down these huge rocks to get to the lake. And some of them were pretty wobbly.

But we made it!

And I even caught a fish!

The sunsets here in Kansas are gorgeous! Watching this sunset was the best way to end our day.

Having fun in Manhattan

Some of you may remember what happened to me during the first month of moving to San Antonio. Yea that's right, I ripped my fingernail out and I had to drive myself to the Emergency Room. Only I had no idea where that was!! So I went to the only gate I knew of at Fort Sam (and with tears rolling down my cheeks) asked the guard where the hospital was.
So Brian made it a point to make sure I knew where the hospital was here at Fort Riley and here's my proof that I found it!! :)

Hopefully I won't be visiting this place anytime soon!

And now for a few updated pictures of our house. We finally have tile!!! We're only 3 weeks out now, so hopefully we'll be seeing a lot of changes here shortly. The last time we were there they had the padding for our carpet ready to lay down.

The fist picture is of our tile backsplash in our kitchen. You can also see the kitchen counter top, but it's pretty dirty.

The countertops, fixtures and toilets are also in.


Like I said earlier...we have tile! Here's the tile in our entryway.

Now for the fun part. We bought a jet ski yesterday! We took it out to Milford lake and had a blast. Apparently the old owners got it up to 70 miles per hour, but I didn't go over 50! Brian got it just over 50 at one point and time. It's so much fun!!!

Milford lake is absolutely beautiful! It's also extremely big. I don't think we even saw half of the lake and we were out there for almost 2 hours.

I had to get a picture of Brian's hair ( I know...mine isn't much better). But I just love how it was standing straight up in the front from the wind!

Caution!!! Extremely Long!!!!

Well I have been very busy these past few weeks. I'm warning you now.... this will be a pretty long post. But I'll include a lot of pictures, so hopefully that will help!!!

I'll start off by showing a picture of us at Seaworld in San Antonio. Heather and I stayed fairly dry on this ride, but her sister did get drenched!

This was taken at Shalin's wedding. The wedding was one week prior to me leaving San Antonio.

Here's a picture of the Padalecki's. They have been so awesome to live with!! They really made me feel like I was part of their family. They kept me busy which was nice because it made the time away from Brian fly by!!!

That same weekend, we took a gambling bus to the Coushatta Casino in Louisianna. It was a 7 hour bus ride there. We gambled for 10 hours and then turned around and came back. We had a lot of fun. Jeremy's 85 year old grandmother came with us! I actually won $150 at the craps table with someone else's money!!! They found out that I had never played before so the guy next to us put $10 of his own money down for me so I could roll. I turned his $10 into $150 and he didn't even want me to pay him back his $10!

Here we are at the rehearsal dinner for Oscar and Christine's wedding.

The next morning Hadley played in the water. I'm sure going to miss Hadley's smile and her laugh!!! Even Dutch (the dog) got in on the fun!

Later that day I went to the airport to pick Brian up. He flew down to go to the wedding and to ride back up with me to Kansas. Hadley fell in love with Brian. It was so sweet watching him interact with her! She is so smart. She only met him a few times, but the entire time he was in Kansas she would refer to him as "My Brian". "My" being me, because she also has an uncle Brian.

Here we are at the wedding. Hadley was the flower girl and Heather and I read scripture in the wedding. It was a beautiful wedding!

Here's a picture of the beautiful bride, Christine!!

The next morning was moving day. Brian did an awesome job of packing my car. I don't think I could've squeezed one more thing in there. I was just happy that there was room for Brian to drive back with me!!!

Once we finally got to Kansas it was time to unload my car and try to stuff everything into our hotel room. Here's what we'll be living in for the next 5 weeks!! Sorry for the mess!!

Brian took the first Monday and Tuesday off from work so we could spend some time together. We went to Kansas City to a Royals Baseball Game. We also went to a driving range at a golf course here in Manhattan. It was nice to be able to spend so much time with him!

Golf is not my game. I'm much better when I have a bat in my hand and I'm swinging at a larger ball!!!

I hope you enjoyed this post. Sorry again for the length! Hopefully I'll be able to stay caught up now. I'll post updated pictures of our house sometime soon!! We hope everyone is doing well!!