you're inviting all of us to dinner....hmmm

so, the first thing i will expand on is my mother-in-law returning home from iraq.....well let me tell you a little history of this story here for a second....

when i met mike, his mom had already been deployed to iraq. she is a captain in the army reserves...she is a surgical nurse. she is such an inspiration to me....i am proud to call her my mother-in-law. so anyways, she was gone when mike and i first started dating....while he moved to oklahoma....and asked me to marry him. i had never met his mom before we got engaged....a little crazy!!!!
she started her second tour in iraq i believe....forgive me if im wrong....in january of this year....so she has been gone majority of the year. we communicated with her through facebook, email, and phone. so for a couple weeks before she surprised us that she was home, tom had been telling us that he didnt think she was going to be home in time for our trip to mexico!!!! {eep-which im very excited about}we were all pretty bummed out because of course she is a big part of this family and missy wanted her mom to be there for her wedding. well....the other night tom decided that he was going to have us over for dinner and he was going to invite missy and josh. now, him asking us to eat with him wasnt the thing that gave it away since we normally ate dinner with him every night....what semi gave it away was that he was asking missy and josh over to HIS house to have dinner and HE was going to COOK for US?!?!!?? hmmmm....something fishy is going on...haha. so mike was still at work and he decided he was going to go for a run afterwards so i walked over to my in-laws house {which is literally down the street from our house now} to get some exercise. apparently i almost ruined the surprise because they were planning on both of us coming together and didnt hear the garage door open when i came in. i walked in the door and josh was already there...which was strange too because i knew missy had to work that night...and tom had his camera out and was like..."wait...im just taking pictures tonight...turn around and act surprised ????" so i walked in and set my stuff down and OUT POPPED LISA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yipper skipper!!!!!!!!!! what an awesome surprise. were so glad to have her home!

Long Time No Blog :0/

well hello there!!!! :) its been quite a long time since i have blogged, but like my cousin Katelyn Charnock, (who has an amazing blog btw,) i have been totally inspired by her and Aimee Charnock, (whom i shall claim as my "sister-in-law.") my husband and i have been super busy since the last time i blogged. we have had many many changes to share with you. i will try to be short and sweet with most of them, so i can get to the more inspirational blogs. so here goes the list of things that have changed since the last time i blogged....

1. we moved out of missy and josh's house! yippie skippy!

2. we got our first apartment together here in ohio!

3. my mother-in-law has returned from iraq!!!!!! hooray!!!!!

4. we planned an amazing vacation to mexico for missy and josh's wedding!! eeep....super excited about

    that!!!!

5. i started taking pictures....i would eventually like to start my own business one day and take pictures of all

    the beautiful things and people in this world!

6. WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hip hip hooray!!!!

i am sure there are tons more events that happened between then and now, but those are the major ones that i will expand on....hopefully i will be able to do this in a timely manor, but we leave on saturday for this amazing place The Valentin Imerial, in Riviera Maya! so, i might not be able to make the deadline of friday for all of these posts, but i will do my best.

so, to my very minimal followers, i will work on my blog and make it more interesting!! please leave comments...i would love to hear what you all think!!!