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Hi!

I'm alive.

But have failed my blogging commitment exceedingly.

Since I have last written lots has happened.

Monica and I went to canton where we nearly sweated to death and met this little lump of love.

He was seriously one of the most heart melting creatures I have ever set eyes upon. He tripped over his own ears and when he drank water out of a bowl his ears just bobbed along side in the water. It took some serious strength to not bring him home with us.

I haven't stopped begging Andrew since. He's growing a great distain for all things puppy.

I don't blame him.

On every grocery list and to-do list we would make I would write:

-Get puppy.

Even though we didn't come home with a new puppy, Monica and I happily obliged to love on these two. Monica and Bret's furbabies (my nephpups) (riduculous, i know), are the sweetest.

After spending some time with the Burketts, I got to hang out with my pal Allie for a day. She took me to the airport and I was off for a 10 day visit with my honey.

We began the unpacking journey in our amazing little house.

It's such a great little place. We already love it.

I spent a great deal of my time in New Orleans cleaning feverishly. Anytime I got tired of cleaning I just thought about how much less I'm going to feel like cleaning after spending 10 days in Hawaii.

Here's a glimpse of our little neighborhood:

And our amazing (work in progress) backyard.

Being there setting up our house made me so much more excited about moving. Not that I wasn't excited before, there was just a good deal of apprehension, which is partially still there, but not nearly as much.

I'm so excited to start our new life together.

It was great for me to get plugged into some of the ministry Andrew does in NOLA while I was there too. I helped our with the baseball team Andrew coaches.

They are a rowdy, crazy, untrained group of little boys that can make any calm and rational person decide to pull their hair out and jump in front of a moving vehicle, but I already love them.

I already want to adopt 4 of them.

These always help ease apprehensions, too:

Just one week until we get married.

Garsh, I cannot wait.

Side note: I take my NCLEX (nursing licensing exam) on Friday at 8am. I am slightly overwhelmed/stressed/worried about it, which I believe are normal feelings. However, I could definitely use your thoughts and prayers! Also, my car kicked the bucket today. Thankfully, due to generous friends (allie and family), I am borrowing a car to get around until we figure out what to do.