House Hunting

Well, let the house hunting begin.

What an experience this has been already. Ben and I have been spending all of our free time researching and driving around looking at houses and neighborhoods. So far we have actually been inside a whopping two but the first one we fell in love with and is probably going to be the house we compare to all the ones we will look at in the future.

We are shooting to move around Christmas since that is when our current lease is up so we have given ourselves a deadline of the end of October to have an offer made and accepted to meet that goal. With that being said, however, if we do not find something we will just extend our lease so no worries folks, we are trying not to Rush it too much. (can't help it though just trying to live up to our name =-) too corny?...sorry

Other things we have enjoyed this month:

- Goo Goo Dolls concert: one word- Amazing. It was such a great date night reliving songs that were popular when we started dating, bringing back such great memories. I hope they come back to the Houston area soon, I would drop everything to go to another one of their concerts. And to think we were sitting outside...listening for free...that was just the icing on the cake.

Boys/Girls Trip: One weekend Ben went up to College Station to play golf and catch up with his buddies. They had a great time drinking beer, whacking a few golf balls, driving around town and doing guy stuff. In the mean time I headed down to Clear Lake (south Houston) to hang out with Miss Ashley soon-to-be Holland. I spent the night at her parent's new house and we spent a good part of Saturday walking around a Bridal Expo in downtown Houston getting ideas for her wedding next October, it's been so much fun being her MOH.

- Portland trip: We took a trip home for Labor Day it was so nice to go home, see a bit of the beach and the water and to see our family. And let's not forget, spending some much needed time with the pup, Rollie. I do not think there was a moment that she was not right next to us when we were at my parent's house...including sleeping with us (in between us). I cannot wait to have her up here with us for good. We spent the weekend hanging out visiting with the folks, shopping, and eating the local cuisine. There are a few places that you have to eat when you make your way to Portland, TX including Dixie Cream Donuts, Taqueria El Tapatio (taquitos), and you have to make the short drive to Corpus for Kiko's Mexican food, I am happy to say we made it to all three.

-Couple's Bible Study: We have also joined a Couple's Bible Study with my brother and sister-in-law, Hollis and Jessica, and some of their friends and friends of friends. We have been twice now once at Hollis & Jessica's house and once at Drew & Becca's house. We are studying couples of the old testament. It has been really interesting hearing everyone's take on different bible stories and questions that the book we are following has asked. I can tell we are all going to be great friends by the end of this. We meet once a month and everyone takes turns hosting. Hopefully by the time our turn rolls around we will have a house to meet in.