A T2 Marriage: May

Travis and I are loving owning a home! It has been such a blessing and such a joy to have! We love that we can have people over, house small groups, spread out, work on projects, watch Prim do laps around the backyard, watch Tuff watching Prim do laps...

We are so grateful to be in Fort Worth and feel like our community is being established here. We don't know how long we will be here, but we are loving it. Travis is enjoying his job at XTO as a Lease Analyst and I am still working as a Dental Assistant in an Orthodontic Office. I work in people's mouths..

We definitely learned alot through buying a home. We ended up being "homeless" for about 2 weeks because we got kicked out of our townhome and didn't know if we were ever going to close with our home. We were so blessed to have Travis' Dad take us in and my Aunt Trese and Uncle Marty to let us store everything in their townhome garage! Yep, the four of us (Trav, Me, Tuff and Baby Prim) stayed on Travis' Dad's futon! It was definitely a memory maker. We didn't really know where anything was for 2 weeks... but we had coffee in the mornings with Pop and watched Modern Family at night as a big family :)

Our first guest was Trav's Mom. She was driving to Austin and came to spend the entire weekend with us! We LOVED it. She took us to Lowes (Trav's favorite place..along with every mans) and we got paint, a BRAND NEW FRONT DOOR (original didn't have a master lock and I think a child could kick it down) a fan and so many wonderful necessities with buying a home. It was such a great weekend. We painted the whole kitchen including the cabinets. We now have a deep purple kitchen with creme colored cabinets :)

My parents drove down attached with a UHAUL with my bedroom furniture!! We now have a guest room thanks to them!! Travis and I rented a Jack Hammer and a Tiller (which I learned that day what it was) and tore up our random concrete slabs and pathways in our backyard and tore up the dry rocky weedy soil. It was exhausting but fun to work on it together. We were palnning to seed our soil and for it to take years..but this is what happened...
Mom calls me at work..
Mom-" Tricia, Salvador and Alfonso are at your house..
Me-"Mom, who are these people?"
Mom-"Oh, they are going to sod your entire backyard! Dad and I are taking care of it.."
Me-"Mom! Thats so awesome!! Thank you! How did you find them?"
Mom-"I met some of your klife families here and met some of your friends and asked them.."
Me-"What how? Mom, only you would find these people and meet them."

We now have a backyard!

Libby (my best friend) and her boyfriend-Peter- came from Tulsa to help us paint! We knocked out two rooms..one was formally a nasty Ralph Lauren Denim Paint..which we painted a chocolate brown..and painted the dining room a sage green. Love them :)

Tuffy's Tales: Well, this little big eared dog keeps hanging on my jugular and biting my nose. Mom and Dad tell me to practice the fruits of the Spirit, but its hard with the patience...

Prim's Peeps: I love to play. I love to jump and lick Dads face at 4 am! I love: bugs, dirt, grass, flying objects, strings, floss... Mom calls me a Hippie.

Joys and Learning Curves of Marriage: Travis and I found that we love working on projects together! Its quality time and an activity. Find a project for you and your spouse to work on!