going to the chapel...

I'M GETTING MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!

busy days and sleepy nights

i am still a bad blogger. my days are filled with patients, insurance, frequent trips to the little girls room, MUCH eating (mostly cheese) and trying to stay awake. my nights are filled with dinner, time with kevin, and sleep (interrupted by MANY trips to the bathroom). don't get me wrong...i am happier than i have ever been in my entire life :) but pregnancy definitely takes a toll on your body and lifestyle! tonight, aunt tina took my very first preggo profile picture...i have a baby bump :) i will post the picture soon...hopefully! Things are going good in the Delta. Ready for spring to be here to stay so i can plant some flowers in my cute little yard!! Mama will be coming for that weekend, i need BOTH of her green thumbs for that project :) Other than weekly checks on the baby, and just hanging out with family...things are pretty quiet around here...and i like them that way :) Flossie Jayne is still a princess and is still NOT excited about not being the only baby in the Horton household :) i take full responsibility for her spoild-ness...and only hope i do not do the same thing to my child....although i fear that i will :). on the baby front, we have picked out names for the little munchkin! If he turns out to be a little Kevin, his name will be Ethan Jackson...and he will of course be called Jack. If she happens to be a precious little Emmie, she will be precious Emma Claire. We are excited about our little family and both couldn't be happier. In the meantime, my steak is done....so i must go :)

-E

very bad blogger..

so i disappeared for a while..my apologies. no explanation really, just getting settled in in my new life, job, home, etc. things are going great in the delta, land of mosquitoes and cotton. i'm settling into my new job nicely. i have many busy, long days...however, i DO get off early on fridays...which sort of makes the late nights bearable:) our new home is more perfect than either of us imagined it could be. pictures to come soon i promise. all the rooms are finally decorated to my liking...although the office will not be an "office" for long....soon...like, in the next 6 or so months soon...it will be turned into a nursery. that's right folks, kevin and i are expecting a baby in early October :) we are very surprised..but couldn't be happier. we already love this little one so much and can't wait to welcome him/her into our home ( of course i want to welcome "her", and he wants to welcome "him"). we heard the sweet little heartbeat last night...it was magical, and i never realized how special it is, as a woman, to have the gift of being able to bear children. i have always dreamed of having a child...and i feel like every day i am LIVING a dream...wiht the man of my dreams :) ok i'm done being sappy now (note: pregnancy makes you ultra weepy!! )
that's really the only news i have...work keeps me too busy to be a facebook stalker, myspace stalker and regular blogger...which makes me VERY unhappy. i miss my interwebz friends! anyways..i am going to try to be more regular and keep updated with baby H's progress, as well as some pictures of the new house. if the weather would ever decide if it's going to be spring or frigid winter, we could do some landscaping and plant some sweet little flowers...here's hoping :)

-e

bittersweet farewell...

well, today is kinda my last day at dux d'lux. i say "kinda" because i'll still be doing commission-based work from my lil home office...but it's my last day at my desk in my office at dux d'lux as inside sales rep. we had our last girls' lunch...and that was really sad :( i've come to really enjoy those gossippy lunches...and i will definitely miss the girls. i know we'll stay in touch, but not seeing them everyday will be different for me for a while. BUT i am oh-s0-ecstatic about moving TOMORROW! it's been a really quick 2 weeks...seemingly so mostly because everything has just sort of fallen into our laps..job-wise, house-wise, etc. we'll be pulling out sometime around noon tomorrow afternoon and heading to our new house in cleveland...and unpacking and cleaning and unpacking and arranging..well...for a LONG time. i'll be off work monday & tuesday...so i plan for our house to be completely settled by the time kevin gets home from work on tuesday. maybe i'll even have dinner fixed for him....awwww i'm a good lil wifey already :) 

am really excited about starting my new job. think it will be fun, busy & challenging, which is everything i'm looking for right now. the office peeps i'll be working with seem really nice & easygoing, and so does the doctor i'll be working for. i'm really excited about our new house being right down the road from beth & john, as well as lil Dylan :) when i need my baby fix, i'll just go borrow him for a lil while :)

as EXCITED as i am...i will really, really miss my family here in starkville, as well as my friends. i've gotten really spoiled to having my parents right down the road for 2 years now...and it's been really nice. also having my sister around is really wonderful...we're the best of friends and it will be hard to be away from her and the sweet babies...not even gonna GO there..or the tears will flow. those kids have my heart and i love them so much! i know we will be back quite a bit to visit...i dont want to miss anymore than i have to! 

we're spending the night with my parents tonight....as my apartment isn't so much livable right now...boxes everywhere, sheets already packed...you get the idea. my mama has promised us a dinner of crawfish etoufee, my favorite dish, and fluffy pancakes in the morning. i think i could get used to "visiting" her house... :) 

next time i post, i will be a resident of Cleveland, MS. lookout, Delta, here i come :) 

-E

my very own red front door

so here are a couple pictures of the front outside of our new home :) i just love it. as you are looking at them, imagine there are tulips planted along the walk from the driveway to the front porch...because as soon as spring has been sprung, they will be there! i can't wait to make this house my new home!! 

home sweet almost-home

this weekend was a very productive one. my mom and i headed to the delta after work on friday. we met my mom's sister's family & my kevin for dinner and then had drinks around a bonfire. saturday morning we were up rather early to go look at houses for kevin & i (he had to work and missed all the fun :( ). the first house we looked at was H.U.G.E. for 2 people. i would have lost kevin...and most definitely lost FJ! despite the "bigness", something was just off...it was DARK..really dark. and the carpet was much older than i prefer, plus...no fenced in yard for the princess. So, to the 2nd house we went. I must admit, at this point, my hopes were pretty crushed. we had our hearts set on that big house...but i just couldn't live with the inside, and it definitely wasn't move-in ready. when we got to the 2nd house, my spirits were immediately lifted. IT HAS A RED FRONT DOOR! if you know me, you know that i absolutely ADORE red front doors. there's something just so inviting and friendly about a red front door (promise, that's the last time i'm going to use the phrase "red front door" in this post!). Anyways, we went inside and i fell in love! it has light hardwood floors, and khaki walls with white trim...and LOTS of windows! so there is LOTS of natural sunlight coming in. it has a fenced in backyard for the princess and the kitchen is FABULOUS! it's newly remodled with new appliances and fabulous countertops.  the living room is huge (and i can't wait to fill it with all new furniture...when money allows..). the bedrooms are nice sized and i've already picked out which will be our bedroom, our guest room and our office. the ONLY downfall to this home is that it only has 1 bathroom...but it's not teensy tinsy, and we will make it work. overall, for our first house, i think we should be proud of it...and it will make a wonderful first home for us. i can't wait to get in there and clean clean clean and really make it ours.  :) so...if anyone is around on saturday and wants to help us move...feel free! the tentative schedule is as follows:

Friday, Jan. 16th: 

Finish packing while waiting on Kevin to get to town

Saturday, Jan. 17th:

Load up my entire LIFE into a covered trailer.

Head to Cleveland.

Unload my entire LIFE from the trailer.

Unpack, and hang pictures and make this house a HOME :) 

Sunday, Jan. 18th:

Finish unpacking, arranging, and rearranging.

Go grocery shopping to stock our NEW KITCHEN.

Monday, Jan. 19th:

Circa 5 A.M: Head to Starkville for doctor's appointment at 8:30.

After doctor, head to Dux to finish out last 2 days of work.

Tuesday, Jan. 20th:

After last day of employment at Dux, head to Cleveland to see what my Honey has done in our house! :) hopefully, lots of manly, handy things that i can't do. Oh, the joys of living with a man! 

Wednesday, Jan 21st:

First day at Dr. Blake's office...and first day we get to come home to each other after work! 

Can you feel my happiness?

-E

On the way to work this morning, i was listening to the local country music station, and Sugarland's "Want To" came on the radio. I really listened to the lyrics of this song...and it really does fit what i'm feeling in my life right now. For the first time in my life, i have jumped in head first without analyzing it to death (even though i tried!) and for the first time in my life, i am truly happy with EVERYTHING. even though i do NOT want to not see my niece and nephew every day, or my parents & sister every day..i know this move is what God has planned for me...and i know that Kevin is the one he has picked out for me...since we were both tiny babies. It's so amazing to have dreams, and to meet someone who has the SAME dreams...and to put your lives together and have dreams together. 

I packed a cooler and a change of clothes
Let's jump in, see how far it goes
You got my heart and your daddy's boat
We've got all night to make it float

We could sit on the shore
We could just be friends
Or we could jump in

The whole world could change in a minute
Just one kiss could stop it spinning
We could think it through
But I don't want to, if you don't want to

We could keep things just the same
Leave here the way we came
with nothing to lose
But I don't want to, if you don't want to

I got your ring around my neck
and a couple of nights I don't regret
You've got a dream of a degree and a shirt that smells like me

Yeah we both got dreams
we could chase alone
or we could make our own

The whole world could change in a minute
Just one kiss could stop it spinning
We could think it through
But I don't want to if you don't want to
We could keep things just the same
Leave here the way we came
with nothing to lose
But I don't want to if you don't want to

Never waste another day wonderin' what you threw away
Holding me, holding you
I don't want to, if you don't want to

We could keep things just the same
Leave here the way we came with nothing to lose
But I don't want to, if you don't want to

But I want to
But I want you 

-E