Hump Day!

Well Wednesday=humpday=we are on downhill slide of the week!! WEE!! Tomorrow is Friday for me though! Bryan's Friday was today....so I guess Tuesday was our hump day! Anyhow, good news, the Area Director (my boss's boss) canceled our field ride. =-) LOAD OF STRESS, GONE! So, now Bryan and I can finished getting everything ready for closing day! YAY! Hope everyone's week is going as well as ours!! xoxo

What a week!

It's been a long week! My weekend is here, but Bryan is working today and tomorrow. =-( He has to work weekends unfortunately! So, Sammy and I hang out together! He's a good bud! This week seemed exceptionally long! Maybe because we are getting all the little logistics for the big day (CLOSING DAY) finished up! So next Friday at noon Bryan and I will be sealing the deal and within a split second spend most of our savings, be home owners and have a mortgage! SCARY! While it is scary, we are both SO excited. We will have a place that we can really say is ours, something that we bought together! I joke with a lot of my doctors about how the "honey-do" list has already started. The good news for Bryan is he can't really start it until we have the money! haha... No, there really isn't that much that has to be done on the house. The biggest thing is the back fence needs to be fixed. There is a hole in the back and we don't want the little guy (Sammy) getting out. Speaking of the backyard, I can tell Sam is going to be VERY excited, considering right now when we throw the ball for him he goes sliding into the wall. He gets his momentum up and then all of sudden he has to stop and BAM! into the wall he goes! haha...He's SPEEECCIALLL....lol. So besides the house we are also working on those darn things called taxes...I think someday I might write a book titled "Everything Noone Tells You About Being a Grown Up!" I think is something that should definitely be a "required read" in college! =-) Apparently after you already pay a lot of money out of your pay check every two weeks, the government likes to collect a little bit more at the end of the year so that way they can bail out everyone else who can't manage their money! (I guess they pay for roads and other necessities too...) Next week is going to be even more crazier then this week! I have my boss's boss (the Area Director) riding with me! Talk about high anxiety! So if everyone could say a little prayer....I'd be appreciative! So Thursday is the big ride along with him and then Friday we close. We take possession of the house Friday, but apparently it is normal to let the sellers have two additional days to move out because they don't like to move out until they have money in hand...whatever...I was planning on having a sleepover...I guess we can scrap that idea....As soon as we get the house we will take pics and post them!!!!!!!!

Grammys......and The Bachelor

Ok so we had a nice Sunday, lounged around, did laundry...then watched the grammys...I don't get famous people...there were some high points but,....the low point....Kayne West and MIA: HORRIBLE!! MIA was pregnant, which isn't a bad thing, but put something on that is flattering! NOT SEE THROUGH!! Kayne West was sporting a mullet/fro..haha..goofy..The other thing with the grammys is that I felt as though it was all British people...did anyone else feel that way? I was excited to see Carrie, I enjoy all her performances, but she sang and old song and wore a whimsical outfit that didn't fit the song. Overall the outfits were just weird. Girls were wearing fluffy/poofy dresses that looked like a horrible 80s prom outfit. So what was good in my opinion? Jennifer Hudson is an amazing singer and always gives me chills. When she sang the National Anthem at the Super Bowel I couldn't get over how great she is! Sugarland always puts on a great performance and Jennifer Nettles is a little cookey, but I love her! Adelle, Chasing Pavements was also great..she has a different voice and the song just sounded very much like a classic! Bryan's favorite was the 4 rappers...KW, MIA, TI, J-Z, and lil Wayne...go figure... Anyways, can't wait for tomorrow, Bachelor is on and we are going home! For the home dates they are coming out to the DFW area b/c Melissa is from here. I really hope Molly gets cut tomorrow. I can't stand her...she is fake and there for the wrong reasons. She just wanted to be on T.V. The moment I knew I didn't like her was when she already had a rose for the night but still stole Jason away from another girl who was trying to have a conversation with him. Greedy!! I like Jillian the best. I think she's a keeper. We will see what happens!

CATCH UP!

Ok, so we started this blog during summer...yes summer in the hopes that we could let everyone follow along with the wedding plans...Well, that never happened. So here we are in FEB! But, we are going to get good at this blog (or should we say I(Nicki) will) Bryan probably won't want much to do with it. But, the whole reason for getting it was so that family could check out what is going on with us without having to have a facebook profile. Well, that obviously is NOT a problem anymore b/c it seems as though EVERYONE is getting one! Even so, we will still blog...

So CATCH UP TIME!

Bachelorette and Bachelor parties!

We will start with wedding festivities! The bachelorette and bachelor party were a blast. I had a lot of my good girlfirends at the bachelorette party and my Maid of Honor had us play BAR FOOTBALL! We all dressed in our best Texas Tech outfits and went from bar to bar. Each bar was a "Quarter" and each type of drink was worth so many points. To be quit honest....it all got really confusing after "pre-game" and "1st quarter". It was a blast and Court did an AWESOME job planning, best Maid of Honor ever! Bryan and his friends spent quit a memorable weekend on the lake. His dad even joined them for the late night! Needless to say, at the end of the night some of the guys woke up with permanent marker all over their face...Now, seeing as how they are guys, they didn't take any pictures, and if they did, they never made it to me. Bryan always seems to complain about me taking way too many pics, but he has stated he wished he had pics from that....so no more complaining every time I pull out that camera Bryan! Enjoy the pics of the bachelorette party!

Wedding Day!

September 13, 2008 came all way too fast! Before we knew it, it was time to tie the knot. The wedding turned out great! Everything we both could have imagined. I had all sorts of help setting up! Mom, Cammie, Grandma, my Aunt Debbie, and cousins Sarah and Katie. The actual day of wasn't hectic at all. Things all seemed to fall into place...that's probably b/c of all the help from families and my amazing bridesmaids. (Our programs had a typo in them and my bridesmaids didn't even tell me, they took care of it and got them reprinted at no cost for me! I love them!) About 200 people came, as expected, and I think for the most part all 200 had a great time. The dance floor was packed throughout the night and I'm pretty sure most of all of our guests drinks were also on the dance floor. Oh well, having fun is what matters right? One word of advice to friends who will be getting married in the near future.....enjoy EVERY min of the reception, it goes by WAY to fast!

Here are some pics!!

The honeymoon....Playa Del Carmen!

Well we got off to a rocky start for the honeymoon. Hurricane Ike was our worst enemy! He ran over Houston and caused all sorts of problems for not only people that live in Houston, but also for those individuals (Bryan and I included) who needed to stop through there. So the morning we were scheduled to leave, they canceled our flight....what a drag...we finally got rescheduled on another airline and had to drive to Amarillo to leave. We eventually got there and the first day was a blast! The next day Bryan came down with a horrible soar throat and bad fever. He was like that for the rest of the week until the very last day when he started feeling better. We got him some antibiotics at the hotel "doc". Scary...but they got him back to feeling well. The Royal, where we stayed, was beautiful and had everything honeymooners could want! We will try again another year...

Until next time,

The Turnbows

So the honeymoon.....