Update through pictures...

4th of July with my Baby!

Kickball in the Drive Stadium for work with Larissa and Jennifer

Weekend in Boone with Melissa and Luke

Drive Game with the Wiggans

Bumper Jumpers with Luke

Manly Luke!

Night out with Friends in Downtown Greenville

Aaron and Malcom at the Farmer's Market

My Birthday at the Biltmore House!

Clarice's Wedding in Charleston.

Leah's wedding in Hilton Head

Aaron's Birthday

Getting back into the swing blogging.

So lately I have been thinking that I should update my blog every now and then. While I would love to scrapbook mine and Aaron's life together I just don't see it happening...blogging would be a great way of digitally archiving our life together to look back on one day. I keep saying that we have nothing to say and will blog once we have children, but have realized that this is a sweet time in our marriage that I want to remember forever...so hopefully more to come soon!

Weekend Getaway to Biltmore

Last weekend Aaron and I took a much need weekend vacation, we went to the incredible Biltmore House in Asheville, NC. It was awesome. It is so amazing to think that this house was built by a bachelor.
Saturday night we attended the Live Flower Carpet Event. It is a tapestry made from 144,000 live plants and flowers, it was so beautiful. This also gave us the opportunity to enjoy the house and property after hours-without the crowds. We even got to crash a wedding down in the garden. We had a great weekend and can't wait to go back through the different seasons of the year.

On the back terrace of the house.

The Biltmore House

View from the back side of the house....could you imagine this being your back yard?

Flower Carpet

Flower Carpet up close.

Mexico Mission Trip

July 7th-July 12th Aaron and I had the opportunity to go on a mission trip with our church and other Christians from around the country to Zorrillo, Mexico. While there we were in 4 groups and each built a house for a family from the local church. It was an absolutely amazing week. I saw first hand how blessed we are to be Americans. I actually watched a child eat a popsicle from the trash. The house we built was 16' x 20' with a loft over the back half of the house, to us this would be a shed but to them it was a mansion. I can't say I am like Aaron and want to make building a career-but I can now say I built a house no a home for a very deserving family.

The entire week was such an eye opening experience that I hope to repeat for many summers to come. Wednesday night we had the opportunity to fellowship with the local Church of Christ in Zorrillo-what an amazing time of worship. While we did not speak the same spoken language we were able to sing and praise God together in one language-LOVE. It was so amazing to me to see how little they have and how joyful they are. It really puts what is important in perspective-it is not the things or the money but the promise we have for eternity.

View of the town looking up the mountain

The children of our family-Leily and Guadalupe-they were such hard workers

House at beginning of Day 2

Their old house

Building Crew with the Family after the Dedication in front of their new house

Crazy Summer

The last two months have been so busy for us both. Aaron has been helping Kade and Amy with their house remodel and I have been traveling a lot. I have been to Florida, New York, Michigan and Mexico. Hopefully I will be able to post soon about our Mission Trip to Mexico...we are so very blessed to live in America.

Flowers

In one of our attempts to avoid unpacking Aaron and I planted some flowers in our front mulch area. I love to go home every day and see the new blooms we have.

Dahlias-These are My FavoriteI love these because they always have lots of blooms.

This is a vine plant we are trying to get to grow up our mailbox.

Work in Progress

Everyday we get a little more settled in our house, however it is still a work in progress-I think it will be for many months to come. Our second guest room was our great accomplishment this week. We moved our clothes in giant trash bags since it was just 5 miles, however that made the unpacking process a little more tedious. Thursday night we spent the evening getting all of our clothes organized and put away-what a sence of accomplishment!!

Before

After