So fresh and so clean!

WHEW! What a whirlwind couple of weeks this has been!

We are finally all moved in and settled in Panama City Beach. We LOVE our new house, and I can't wait to post pictures of it, but I can't do that just now. I'll update later and let you see. :) I'm getting used to the city as well. I've never stayed down here longer than a week at a time, so I really think it will be a blast for us until Kerry starts school.

Both of our parents came down with us last Saturday to help move the furniture and such. We couldn't have accomplished such a task without them! Mom has stayed with me since then to help hang curtains and pictures, and Kerry has gone back to work in Montgomery for the week. He'll be back in PCB with me on Wednesday, and we'll have a week together to finish up the little nit-picky things that need doing.

I've applied for jobs at 3 different places now, so please pray someone accepts me! We really need it for the health insurance in particular. Oh and some income would be nice as well (haha).

I took Otis to the beach for the first time on Wednesday. I think he hated it! He's not much for water anyway, but every time a wave would come up he would bark at it and try to bite it! SO cute and funny. I have a video of it, but it would only hurt your ears, so I won't post it. :)

Headache update: the 2nd MRI was good. No cervical syrinx was noted, which is a definite plus for this situation. I have an appointment in Birmingham with a neruosurgeon Tuesday morning...not real sure what that will accomplish, and it's a LONG drive from PCB, but I'll let you know what she says. I have actually felt better the past couple of days with my new meds, so we'll see how this turns out!

Almost there!

We are roughly a week away from the big move to PCB! The last couple of months flew by so fast. Now we have boxes and clothes thrown all over the place in this cute little house we've called home for just over a year. BUT, we're moving to an equally cute home in a place we both have always wanted to live, so maybe we'll enjoy it even more! I'm still on the job hunt even though I'm licensed in Florida now. Please pray that I find something soon! It's a daunting feeling knowing I will be the sole income provider over the next couple of years. We do have savings, but we'd rather not touch those, and we will have loans to help, but that's just more debt. At least my car is paid for! Kerry's should be soon, as well.

My last day of work at Chilton Medical Center is this coming Wednesday! SO SAD about that. I have met some awesome people, and I love them all. My time with them was too short, but we knew it would be a possibility. I can only hope that I will find another "dream job" like I have there someday down the line. I don't have much faith in that, though. ;)

An update on the headache thing...

As most of you probably know, I've been suffering from pretty rough headaches for nearly 6 weeks. After a really bad spell last Sunday night, I went to a neurologist on Thursday and had an MRI of my head. Still don't know the results yet, but the doctor seemed positive it was a fairly common case of migraine headaches with a bit of an odd presentation (in that they've not gone away for more than a couple of hours in over a month and no medication is touching it). Please continue to remember me during this frustrating time period.

I'm going with my Jenny today for her bridal portraits! So exciting! She's less than a month away from her wedding now, so I'm getting nervous with her. Chris is an AWESOME match for her, and I wish them tons of happiness. :)

I'll post some things after the move and show off the new nest.

Peace.

Bark in the Park '09

While the boys went to Tuscaloosa for A-day, mom and I took Odie to Bark in the Park out at Cooter's Pond! It was a beautiful spring day, and there must have been at least 75 other dogs out to enjoy the sunshine. Otis met several other weenies, as well as 2 Great Danes, a Weimeraner (sp?), a Bull Mastiff, a Great Pyrenees, 3 Pugs, several mutts, and even a Chinese Crested. He had a ball! There were games, relays, and treats for all the pups.

It was good to spend a day out with mom shopping and talking. I miss getting to do that with her! Maybe someday we'll make it back to good ol' Covington County so that we can stay as close as we'd like to. Kerry and I only have 2 months until our next move. Yikes! Keep us in your thoughts as we pack and get ready for the next chapter of our lives.

Martha Stewart, look out!

Finally a night to relax! I love not working weekends right now. Kerry's at work and Otis could care less what I'm doing because I gave him a rawhide to chew on, so I hit our local Michael's store and got creative. After weeks without a wreath on our door, I finally have a pretty spring one. I'm kind of proud of it, if I do say so myself. Check it out!

Hope this post finds everyone well. God bless. :)

We are so very excited! Kerry got the call that he was accepted at the Gooding Institute of Nurse Anesthesia in Panama City, FL. This is a huge thing for us! We've prayed and dreamed that this was the school for him, and now the choice is made. We would have been in Nashville if not for this, and if you know us you know how great this news really is. We want to be close to home. And to live in Florida?! How great is that!? Life seems to be falling into place all around us and we are just SO excited and SO blessed beyond belief. The only downside is another move. In the first 2 years of our marriage we will have lived in 4 different places. Yuck. You'd be amazed at just how much junk you accumulate and how NOT fun it is to pack it up and put it in a U-Haul and pray nothing breaks. At least this time we know it will be longer than a year (which when we leave here it will have been a little more than...). He is slated to graduate December 2011. Sounds like a long way off, but it also sounds like music to our ears! We plan to settle after that and build a house, hopefully in Covington County. Continue to pray for us! This is immensely wonderful and scary at the same time. A new place, a new job, new everything is all just around the corner again. Everyone we know already in the program promises that this is the toughest 2 1/2 years, but if we survived this long, we'll make it through anything I fully believe. And in 2011, the year he graduates, we will have been together for 10 years. WHOA. We also found out that Misty will be doing her residency in Little Rock, Arkansas, so that's at least 3 more years for Jonathan and her to be away. Maybe someday we'll all land back in the same general area. Until then, we'll keep on like usual!