I can blog, right?

I have to admit, I'm a bit of a blog stalker. Publicly I would admit that I probalby check a few random blogs once a week to keep up with people that I know (or once knew). Secretly, one of my favorite time wasters about every other day is to read through blogs of several people I know, and even those people that I dont. A bit of an obsession, but mostly because I wish I had the creativity to come up with some of the witty blog posts that other do.

So, in my own attempt of creativity, and maybe even a little bit of therapy, I've decided to take a crack at this whole blogging thing. I plan to use this blog to talk about not only things going on in my life, but things going on in our family life and maybe just general topics.

So much has been going on in our lives lately. The big one (of course) is we're getting married in T-minus 51 days. Seriously? I still have 157 things on my to-do list before we can get married. It can't be 51 days away! Not like we haven't had the time, we've only been engaged for a year and a half, but being the procrastinator that I am, I feel like there's still so much to do, and I constantly have a feeling like I'm forgetting something. The wedding nightmares are starting to intensify and become more frequent. All ladies that have gotten amrried before me know exactly what I'm talking about. Let's hope there's a few nights of uninterrupted sleep between now and the wedding!

I finally found a new job!!! I could put more explanation points to prove how excited I am about this, but I think you probably get the picture. I have been looking for a new job since Thanksgiving and am so excited at the new opportunity in front of me. I have learned a lot from my time at PwC, but it's just time for me to move on to something new (and for the sake of our relationship, time for me to find a more life-friendly job). I'll be working as a Senior Staff Accountant at Kansas City Southern in their External Financial Reporting group. Freaking excited! Hello life outside of work! I am definitely looking forward to not being expected to work evenings, work weekends, think about work when I'm not working, dream about work (have nightmares about work) and constantly worry about work. I start my new job on May 24th, and couldn't be more excited.

Our children, our dogs, keep us busy! Duke is currently in what we call his "winter depression." Without being able to go out and fetch birds (his favorite pasttime) he kind of mopes around the house, begging to be petted. Not that he goes without. Please, he's the world's biggest lapdog. He gets to sleep with us almost every night. We're spoiled. Daisy keeps growing like a weed! She's almost as tall as Duke (and pretty freaking cute). I'm glad I won the battle and got a puppy. She's at least finally crate trained, and with the warmer weather we can leave her in the outside kennel all day and not have to come home at lunch anymore. She's our "sock monster." Daisy's favorite activity is to find as many of Kyle's socks as possible and carry them around the house, depositing them in random places. Lucky for him she doesn't chew them....yet.

As if planning a wedding, changing jobs, and taking care of two crazy dogs isn't enough; we thought we'd take on remodeling the bathroom as well. **Pause for reaction** Yea, we should have known better. But we don't. Lucky for us Kyle's brother, dad and uncle came to town to help us tackle our project. We could not have done it without them! Our bathroom was functioning before, but that was about it. Now, our bathroom is pretty :). Like, amazing pretty. I'm so pumped about the finished product. I'll post pictures soon.

Whew, good first post. Stay tuned, I am hoping to make this a regular activity!