So it hit me today...

I was driving into work today and I started thinking about the Holidays coming up. I always look foward to this time of year. Every aspect of it I love. It allows me to show God how thankful I am for everything and celebrate the birth of Christ my Savior. While thinking about this I thought about all of the traditions my family has. Decorating, Watching Christmas movies, attending the Christmas Program at church and shopping with mom, Jenn and Honey:) All wonderful traditions. The one that brings a big smile to my face is thinking about my family picking out a tree. This is an act of Congress for my family. It has gotten better over the years but I wish that I had a video of some of the earlier years...Pure comedy.

I tell you all of this to say it hit me today that I have my own home to decorate this year and my own tree to buy. Please know that I am so excited to do all of this with Chad for the first time this year but it does not come without a little bit of sadness. Tears actually came to my eyes this morning driving in realizing I wouldnt not be waking up at the home I grew up in. I will not be the first one waking up my entire family to open presents. Yes even as a 24 year old the excitement of Christmas is more than I can handle. I literally have to take a Tylenol pm to help me sleep on Christmas eve. Don't judge! :) I won't be sitting in the floor while my dad videotapes the family opening presents. I won't have my Precious ( my dog) to distract me inbetween gifts. I have tears in my eyes once again just thinking about it. For those of you who do not know I am very close to my family so this will be weird for me.

However, I am so looking forward to waking up next to my wonderful husband on Christmas morning for the very first time. Chad and I have our very own traditions to start up and I am truly looking forward to them. Chad has no clue what he is in for when it comes to decorating...:) (Evil laugh) haha!!

I'm acutally hoping that TBS will not be playing A Christmas Story all day long...What on earth is that about?

Cherish each and every moment with your family while you are at home; even if your mom wants to play Kenny G while you open Christmas presents every year. Believe it or not; You will miss it one day:)

Wipeout

The television show, Wipeout, brings a lot of laughter into our home. Chad and I watch this show when it is on because we find it hilarious. Granted, it is completely mindless television, we enjoy it thoroughly. I watch it for pure entertainment. However, last night Chad was the one that had me laughing harder than the show. I want to know if my husband is the only one that thinks he would dominate on this show.

This has been going on the last few weeks and it dawned on me last night, “He really thinks he would tear this show up.” As soon as the show starts and someone makes a mistake Chad is critiquing them and tells me how he would have done it differently. Throughout the entire show, he states that none of it is difficult.

I have to admit it may look easy sitting at the house but there is one obstacle that I have seen two people complete and that would be those, Infamous Big Red Balls. Honestly, I don’t know who could come up with something so cruel. If I did those I am most certain I would like the folks on the television show. But, not Chad. He thinks in his competitive mind that he would complete those and move on in about 30 seconds. I just laugh.

Last night was entertaining, they have this challenge called the dizzy dummy, I think. They spin you around while you are tied to this spinning contraption. Then it stops and you are to run and climb up another spinning thing and then climb across these balls that are floating on the water. It is absolutely ridiculous. Of course the poor folks were having a hard time. They do it 4 different times!! But of course Chad just doesn’t think that it looks that hard.

Then there is the obstacle course at the end. Chad dissects every challenge and tells me what he would do. Last night the catapulted into the water in kayaks. Then they climb up this water slide where a large amount of water is released at a random time and most of the time the folks go flying all the way back down. Not Chad, He would brace himself to the slide and wouldn’t go anywhere but up. The other parts of the course are difficult to describe but you get my point. Chad gets so upset when they give up or mess up. He’s like, “There is $50,000 dollars on the line!!” The winner last night finished I think a little over 4 minutes. Chad would finish in a minute and 30 seconds tops.

Why doesn’t Chad go on the show you ask? He’s looked into it. You have to be a resident of California to compete on the show. I wish he would so he can either prove or disprove all of those hilarious claims!! I personally think most of the folks on that show are very strange and are lacking something called common sense. Last night was an entertaining evening for me and I was curious as to how many others are experiencing the same thing???

The Hubby

1. What is his name? Chad Thomas Reichert. Goes by Chad or Chadsta:)
2. Who eats more? That’s a toss up! Depends on what we are eating. If it’s Mexican I have him by a long shot. But typically it’s him.
3. Who said “I love you” first? I did. About 2 months into us dating, I told him.
4. Who is taller? The Chadsta.
5. Who is smarter? When it comes to Math and Science that is all Chad. I was not made with that part of my brain. I was built with the reading/writing/history part of my brain. All in all I think we compliment each other.
6. Who is more sensitive? Definitely me. My feelings get hurt very easily. I didn’t used to be that way. I think it’s been a process since I graduated from college. Weird. Nothing used to bother me but now I take things way to close to heart. I am working on it though.
7. Who does the laundry? For the most part me but Chad does help and he will start loads. I think he quit when we got back from the Honeymoon and decided to do some laundry when he got home from work. There are just some things that I hang up. I don’t put everything in the dryer. I came home to find my brand new bathing suit in the dryer and I remained calm. I started using little garment bags. If there is anything in the bags, Hang it up:)
8. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? If you are on the bed I sleep on the right. Mainly due to the fact that we have one end table and I stay up a tad bit later then him to watch tv or read.
9. Who pays the bills? That is all Chad. I could do it I had to but for the most part he takes care of it.
10. Who cooks? Me- I love cooking:) I love trying new recipes. Cooking is my time to de-stress myself from the work day. It helps me relax.
11. Who is more stubborn? I think we are both pretty even on this one. We can both be a little stubborn at times.
12. Who is first to admit they are wrong? Me. Chad will be the first to try and make up after a disagreement or something but he won’t really admit that he was wrong. I don’t think I have ever heard him admit he was wrong; maybe once or twice.
13. Who has more siblings? Chad does; Brother Clay and Sister Cassie; both younger.
14. Who wears the pants in the relationship? Split evenly. I don’t want to be “the wife” that tells him what to do all the time. But Good Lord sometimes I feel like I have to say little things to help nudge him;)
15. What do you like to do together? We love to laugh and have fun together!! We have so much fun in the evenings just making each other laugh. We like to watch funny movies, spend time with family and friends, go to the lake (tubing), we enjoy going to our Sunday school class, and yes, we like to wrestle around and play fight…strange? Maybe, but we find it fun.
16. Who eats more sweets? If you define sweets by, a big glass of milk and too many chocolate chip cookies than Chad has that in the bag. However, on the other side brownies are my weakness.
17. Who asked out whom first? Chad asked me out by making a bet. At the time being a GA Tech fan he bet me that if UGA won I would have to go out on a date with him. If Tech won he said he would leave me alone. By that point I had made up my mind that I was ready to go on a date and of course UGA was going to win. Best date (hands down) I had ever been on. Dinner and ice skating=Happily Ever After.
18. How did you meet? We met through mutual friends at Chad’s 21’st Birthday Party.
19. Who kissed who first? Pretty sure that was me ;)
20. Who proposed? Chad proposed on Easter of 08’. It was so incredibly sweet and the fact that both of our families were there and I have it on tape means the world to me. I always said he would never get me. That I would always know when he was going to do it but he definitely got me that day!
21. His best features? He is so incredibly handsome and HOTT to me!! His laugh is contagious and he is always laughing and smiling.
22. What is his greatest quality? I don’t really know where to begin. He is so incredibly sweet and has such a soft heart. He is self-less when it comes to helping others. He likes to have fun and make others laugh. Chad is my perfect soul mate. He makes me a better person. This was a hard question because I can’t really narrow it down to a list.
23. Tag? Tina and Amber:)

Rockin' the "Self-Propelled" Lawn Mower?

Sunday night I was so proud of myself!! I used my crock pot for the first time! Needless to say dinner was ready when I got home last night:) How wonderful! Walked in to the house and all I had to do was heat it up...Whoo-hoo!! I have many recipes to try out so when I find some really good ones I will share;)

Since we were through with dinner pretty early last night Chad asked me the question I had been dreading to hear since getting married. "Do you want to go cut the grass?" In my head, "Is that a rhetorical question? Is he serious?" I smiled and said, "Sure! Why not?" I get changed and put on loads of bug spray, hair in a cute little ponytail, I am good to go! Chad is going to do the backyard with the riding lawn mower while I do the front yard with the "self-propelled" mower. Anybody see anything wrong with that picture??? I started on the yard and about 5 minutes into it I am dripping sweat from every inch of my body. I have convinced myself that there is nothing self propelled about this lawn mower. Chad's grandfather gave it to us and I think the (Propeller?) is broke! If you have seen or been to our house you know that have some pretty steep hills on the sides of the house. I consider myself to be pretty strong and was out to prove myself last night. I start getting to the steep parts and I am literally trying to get a running start and barely make it up this hill. At one point I was completely stopped and digging my shoes into the ground. I thought after I did that last night I was pretty sure that I burned about 2500 calories:) haha...

All of this to say...I accomplished my goal of mowing our front yard!! Go me!! I will post a picture of the "mountains" in our yard so you will feel my pain. As soon as I finished I called my Mom and Dad to boast about my accomplishment!! Mom's response; "You cut the grass?" Granted I hate yard work and always did as a child the hard thing for me was pulling the cord to get it started. I recall hating yard work so much as a child this always comes to mind. My mom and dad used to bribe us to pick up pine cones by giving us a nickle for each one we picked up...

What's funny about that? Even that didn't work. Making the effort to pick up the pine cones and place them into the garbage bag or bucket was just to much for us girls. We would pick up the ones in the front yard and throw them over the fence into the back yard....then when we got to the back we would throw them back into the front yard. Accomplishing absolutely nothing! Jenn and I thought we were so clever and our parents had no clue...no really...Turns out they are much smarter than we thought as kids!!

Writing that story makes me smile :)

Really???

First off I would just like to say that I absolutely love being married. Everything is perfect. I love going home to him every night. Having said that, we have had the most random situations come up as you have read from my previous blog. I now have two more situations to add.

Last Saturday Chad went to ride four-wheelers with his dad, brother, and Barry. He left that morning and I stayed home because there was so much to do. He leaves before me to go to work so I never worry about his car being behind me. Why would this morning be any different? This morning was different because he took his car. I need to remind you that I am not used to having a two car garage yet. He took his truck instead of his car. Needless to say I got in my car opened the garage door and begin laughing hysterically to The Bert Show and I begin backing up…there I am rolling and I reach up to close the door and….BAMMM!! I am into the back of Chad’s car! I immediately get out of my car to look at his. No dents, just scratches on the paint. I was devastated. He took the news better than I thought he would. In conclusion, Yes, I am a moron!

The next morning, Chad and I are getting ready to head to church. We are walking back and forth from the bathroom to the bedroom trying to get ready. As I am walking out of the bathroom I hit my left hand on the bathroom door. Our of habit I immediately grab my hand and pull it up to look at my ring. Would you believe that my marquee diamond on the side popped out? I hit it pretty hard. Would you believe even further that as I put my right hand underneath it the diamond landed in my right hand? Praise Jesus I didn’t lose that diamond!! Now we just have to find time to drive to the Marietta Shane Co. since the one down here closed.

One thing after another. Many worse things could happen but I am thankful that Chad and I can laugh at little things. Please continue to pray for Chad and I as we are trying get our life going together. Thank you and I hope my bloopers can bring a smile to your day:)

We're Back and AirTran did not lose our luggage!! YAY!

Hello to all! First off I want to thank everyone who came to the wedding:) I hope everyone had a wonderful time! Chad and I had an amazing time even though most of it was a blur that night. I loved every aspect of our wedding...especially the rain holding off!! YAY! I loved the cake, programs, music, and the dancing!! So much fun! Everyone contributed to making that day so special for us.

After the wedding we went to Chad's house becuase he had not yet packed for the honeymoon (Why...you ask??? I have no idea). I sat in my wedding dress while he packed. Then we had to get his matress over to the house. Of course we were about half way to the house and the bottom fell out. We pulled underneath an overhang at a Suntrust bank. To which a cop pulled up next to us asking if everything was okay. I'm smiling and saying yes everything is fine but inside I was smacking Chad on the head;) We finally get to the house...matress=soaked=Laura and Chad sleeping on their air matress:) That's not it...We couldn't figure out how to turn the water heater on so we had no hot water. I washed my hair in the sink and come to find out I left my blow dryer. So Chad made a little trip up to Kroger for me...Least he could do:) All in all it turned out fine and I was laughing about it then and still laugh about it now. haha:)

Puerto Rico was AMAZING!! We went snorkling, horse back riding on the beach, surfing, and ventured through a Rainforest that was breathtaking. Inbetween all of that we relaxed, took in some sun and had the entire beach to ourselves. The resort, staff, and room were Wonderful!! Thank you again to Angelica and Johnny!! Did I mention that I sprained my ankle while surfing??? Yep, Sure did. I didn't realize it until that night. The waves down there were rather large and the board got away from me but it was still strapped to my ankle. I walked fine all day but that night I couldn't bend it and it was swollen. Oh well, its all better now.

We had a lot of good laughs, fun times and sweet moments over the past week. I still have some of my wedding cake that I would love to eat considering all we got to taste was a grape (and those are pretty standard).

Things are pretty hectic week so please dont take offense if you haven't heard from me. There is alot going on and so much to do at our home. I will call everyone this weekend! I hope you all have a wonderful week and we will chat soon!