Since May of this year Thomas and I have been doing "home improvements" to our little rental house. Painting, tiling, cleaning, organizing. It has been never ending. Our goal was to finish with all projects by the beginning of September. Well we are just a couple weeks shy but our house will soon be OPEN for business. We couldn't be more excited! The paint supplies are put away, the floors are getting clean, laundry is folded and ready for a new home, and yes all the walls are looking so fresh and so clean clean.
We can finally enjoy our weekends and go out with friends without feeling guilty knowing that there was a MAJOR chore we could have been checking off our to-do list instead.
So we're almost finished... just in time for fall.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
BLT.... Butt. Lats & Triceps. Bachlorette, Lemon & Tea.
Lots of BLT's going on tonight! I'm making BLT's for dinner, then I am going to the gym and while I am at the gym I am going to catch the season finale of Bachlorette. Now, usually I am not a huge reality T.V. fan... but Thomas has bible study every Monday night from 7:30 till about 11:00, and SINCE we do not have cable here at home ....reality television has motivated me to get my post wedding booty to the GYM!
Luckily, I didn't gain any weight on the honeymoon thanks to doing Yoga every morning for any hour with an AMAZING instructor... but we ate like royalty all week long. It's hard to fit in time to go running and lift weights with work, trying to organize the house and get home every night to make dinner and make sure the house doesn't get too messy during the work week. Thomas usually goes in the morning with his friend Andrew and I switch it up with my times. I get anywhere between 3 to 5 times a week with an hour workout at least, then I add in yoga where I can. It is important to both of us to get into a routine early on. Exercise is extremely vital and so we make it a priority. We grocery shop at Trader Joe's every Saturday and we are both trying to learn to cook more healthy foods. It's all about making time for health... whethers it's physical, emotional, or spiritual. This morning was a perfect example and I am so grateful to have a spouse who I can talk and walk through this journey with!
Well off to make dinner! Thomas should be home any minute!
Friday, July 24, 2009
The Gift that keeps on giving
One big bow... that's what a wedding is like.
It comes falling down way to fast and then it's over, and at first there is a sadness - but then like a child who was just preoccupied with the fancy box something came in you realize that what's inside is ten times better
Almost everyday I find myself surprised. Wecan never truly know everything about one person because every morning they wake up different. They look different (even it's only because their hair has grown), or they act different (because they don't get as over emotional about things as they use to -thank god!) and you find them even more joyful to be around. All of these changes are unexpected, pleasant surprises that bring tears to your eyes when you least expect. They are the changes in day to day life that make you happy you are with that sole person who is not at all boring, but instead your own personal pandora's box full of wonder and excitement. The dull and mundane days certainly come, after all, we aren't made to handle constant amusement... we would simply get burnt out by all that!
So this is what life is like, in the midst of a chaotic messy home with walls that still need paint and junk sitting in the den waiting for a good yard sale day, things that have yet to find their resting place in the attic and clothes that should have gone to good will a month ago. Every room is filled with something that doesn't belong, and the to-do list and the idea of organizing the mail just gets pushed aside to read together before bed time, or take a walk after dinner instead. When everything really can wait why doesn't it feel that way? I am reminded to sit in the stillness before my God and let myself, and him just be. Enjoy the sweetness of these days before children, while we are still young and energetic and dream and laugh... try to make it a habit to stop even in the chaos to soak one another in like the sun, so we can store it's warmth and save it for rainy and cold days.
This is what it's like.
It comes falling down way to fast and then it's over, and at first there is a sadness - but then like a child who was just preoccupied with the fancy box something came in you realize that what's inside is ten times better
Almost everyday I find myself surprised. Wecan never truly know everything about one person because every morning they wake up different. They look different (even it's only because their hair has grown), or they act different (because they don't get as over emotional about things as they use to -thank god!) and you find them even more joyful to be around. All of these changes are unexpected, pleasant surprises that bring tears to your eyes when you least expect. They are the changes in day to day life that make you happy you are with that sole person who is not at all boring, but instead your own personal pandora's box full of wonder and excitement. The dull and mundane days certainly come, after all, we aren't made to handle constant amusement... we would simply get burnt out by all that!
So this is what life is like, in the midst of a chaotic messy home with walls that still need paint and junk sitting in the den waiting for a good yard sale day, things that have yet to find their resting place in the attic and clothes that should have gone to good will a month ago. Every room is filled with something that doesn't belong, and the to-do list and the idea of organizing the mail just gets pushed aside to read together before bed time, or take a walk after dinner instead. When everything really can wait why doesn't it feel that way? I am reminded to sit in the stillness before my God and let myself, and him just be. Enjoy the sweetness of these days before children, while we are still young and energetic and dream and laugh... try to make it a habit to stop even in the chaos to soak one another in like the sun, so we can store it's warmth and save it for rainy and cold days.
This is what it's like.
So EDITable.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Love & Marriage
Well life is getting back to normal. It's been almost one month exactly since the big day.
To answer a few questions:
1. The honeymoon was in St.Lucia, it was amazing... it was a dream. It was something out of the VH1 shows about celebrities.
2. The house is coming along, but taking longer then we thought... but it's okay! We are having fun and laughing a lot.
3. We are in our "newly-wed" hole, and frankly don't want to come out of it. Waking up in the mornings is proving to be the biggest challenge, but we try to motivate one another to go to work.
We are getting into our rhythm as couple, and there have been many interesting things to discover about one another. Quirks that only come out with you are living together and married. It is an adventure, and we are loving every minute of it.
My wedding dress is currently hanging in my closet at the house and I just want to wear it one more time......
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Remodeling
This weekend has been spent remodeling our new home in Falls Church. We will be renting for two years (hopefully more, God willing) and the conditions of us moving in (expressed by muah) were that we paint the whole house and redo the floors in the kitchen. This has been no easy feat.
My Dad came over yesterday afternoon and we began the work - well Thomas, my Dad and his guy friends began on the floors while I took care of some wedding to-do's and grocery shopping for having more people come over to help me paint. It was an intense, hot, tiring day of painting, laying floors, cleaning, pealing wall paper... THE WORKS.
Today I woke up so aching and exhausted that I didn't attempt to even go to our little house to continue helping. Yes, I left the boys there to do all the work, and attempted to get MORE wedding things checked off since we are only 18 months away. Sufficient to say I am sprinting at the end of this race... 18 days till we say "I do", and I have so much "TO DO" and not enough time to do it.
Tomorrow we will be laying the grout in the floors, and finishing any painting we can. Tuesday I am going to Jacksonville for a work trip through Friday! Then I get back and it is crunch time for the wedding. I only have a couple "little" tasks to take care of, but they are time consuming and I must be organized. Thank God I have such a wonderful, loving, godly future husband who is supportive of my needs and, yes, even my wants (like wanting to get the floors re-done). He sure treats me like a Princess.
Can't wait to move in after the wedding, and nest and do MY part of the remodeling in making us a cozy home that is welcoming and warm.
Thomas you are simply amazing, and to everyone that has come over to help us (Lauren, Sery, Paul "Wallpaper- Master" Obreezy, Shua Tao, Dad, Jordan, Tommy, and Keith) Yall are the BEST! Thank you a million times over for helping us get our home ready! You are true friends.
xoxo
A
My Dad came over yesterday afternoon and we began the work - well Thomas, my Dad and his guy friends began on the floors while I took care of some wedding to-do's and grocery shopping for having more people come over to help me paint. It was an intense, hot, tiring day of painting, laying floors, cleaning, pealing wall paper... THE WORKS.
Today I woke up so aching and exhausted that I didn't attempt to even go to our little house to continue helping. Yes, I left the boys there to do all the work, and attempted to get MORE wedding things checked off since we are only 18 months away. Sufficient to say I am sprinting at the end of this race... 18 days till we say "I do", and I have so much "TO DO" and not enough time to do it.
Tomorrow we will be laying the grout in the floors, and finishing any painting we can. Tuesday I am going to Jacksonville for a work trip through Friday! Then I get back and it is crunch time for the wedding. I only have a couple "little" tasks to take care of, but they are time consuming and I must be organized. Thank God I have such a wonderful, loving, godly future husband who is supportive of my needs and, yes, even my wants (like wanting to get the floors re-done). He sure treats me like a Princess.
Can't wait to move in after the wedding, and nest and do MY part of the remodeling in making us a cozy home that is welcoming and warm.
Thomas you are simply amazing, and to everyone that has come over to help us (Lauren, Sery, Paul "Wallpaper- Master" Obreezy, Shua Tao, Dad, Jordan, Tommy, and Keith) Yall are the BEST! Thank you a million times over for helping us get our home ready! You are true friends.
xoxo
A
Thursday, May 14, 2009
"You don't need to change a thing about you babe... from where I sit you're one of a kind."
Well we are less than one month away.
Two weeks ago we had a weekend of moving, bridal showers thrown by friends who love us and support us, and now we are in the chaos of all the last minute to-dos of now having a home to get ready, and a wedding to finish planning.
God is faithful and good (no doubt), but I am on edge most of the time, especially with the new job and uncertainty of little details about the wedding. It's amazing how the true control freak inside a person really comes out before a wedding... and when I say person I mean ME.
The latest accomplishment? I finalized flowers, finished the guest gift boxes, and I made the flower girl baskets. Thomas has been working day and night to get the house we are renting ready.
According to theknot.com I have 102 more things on my to-do list.
102 things to do in 29 days.
I'd post it here but it would make any sane person go mad, and any happy person cry.
Needless to say I am excited, but sometimes it is hard to ENJOY the present moment when most of your day is focused on getting things ready for the wedding. I am just ready to be Mrs. Ali Wear, to live together, enjoy one another, and not have to do wedding planning on top of my 9-5.
Time will fly. I know this... but I wish it would fly faster.
xo
A
Two weeks ago we had a weekend of moving, bridal showers thrown by friends who love us and support us, and now we are in the chaos of all the last minute to-dos of now having a home to get ready, and a wedding to finish planning.
God is faithful and good (no doubt), but I am on edge most of the time, especially with the new job and uncertainty of little details about the wedding. It's amazing how the true control freak inside a person really comes out before a wedding... and when I say person I mean ME.
The latest accomplishment? I finalized flowers, finished the guest gift boxes, and I made the flower girl baskets. Thomas has been working day and night to get the house we are renting ready.
According to theknot.com I have 102 more things on my to-do list.
102 things to do in 29 days.
I'd post it here but it would make any sane person go mad, and any happy person cry.
Needless to say I am excited, but sometimes it is hard to ENJOY the present moment when most of your day is focused on getting things ready for the wedding. I am just ready to be Mrs. Ali Wear, to live together, enjoy one another, and not have to do wedding planning on top of my 9-5.
Time will fly. I know this... but I wish it would fly faster.
xo
A
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