The day has come...

William and I are in Galveston this weekend for his brother's wedding! We are excited about a mini vacation and the chance to be here with them on their special day! Before we headed down here this afternoon, I picked up a used camera from one of my friends who bought a new one recently. It's a Canon EOS Rebel 20D! I'm super excited to learn how to use an SLR and hopefully I've found a new hobby!

In relation to the post title, the day has indeed come. And a little too quickly I might add. William got a call about an hour ago that he starts work on MONDAY! Like seriously a little more notice would have been nice. But we can't complain because we have been waiting on this day for a LONG time. Everything in our life always seems to be a bit more chaotic than we think it should be, so we should have guessed this would happen. God always answers prayers in his own time and I guess He felt He had taught me enough patience and now thought it right to make us think on the run for a change. Thank goodness we have internet at the hotel so William could do some paperwork this afternoon.

So looks like next week Lucy and I will be studying for COMPS/praxis by ourselves. Oh well... thus is life. Always changing....

I will post some pictures from the new camera on Sunday night! Yay!

Flowers

Here are some shots of the flowers from our wedding! I was hoping for a deeper purple color overall... but these looked great despite that. The first picture is of the flowers hanging from our unity candle. Then the three bouquets: mine, the bridesmaids, and shelby's. 

We had three center pieces. I loved them all! 

Wedding Flowers by Lisa

In other news: I have an interview set up with the Hearing School of the Southwest on Monday at 10am! I'm super excited. They seem to be a growing program and I feel like I'm quite good with jumping in on something like that and helping make change! As long as their "funds" are somewhat competitive I think it would be a great place to start!

Photo credits to Morgan Lynn Photography

Job Updates

Okay, so this information is probably slowly trickling through our friends and family, but I thought I would offer an official update.

William had an interview this past Saturday with MicroCenter in Dallas.  It is a computer/electronics and parts store. He also had an interview for Halliburton in Oklahoma City on Tuesday. Both interviews went very well. The MicroCenter job is for a part time (with a possible full time option) job in sales. The Halliburton job is for a field engineer position in the MidContinent Region. He would be working 14 days in the field and 7 days at home. The pay is supposedly good and benefits equally as good!  This obviously wouldn't be our absolute favorite job but we are excited about it nonetheless.  There is also a possibility of us staying in Dallas and William traveling to the job sites which would be best for me!

Today William was offered the job at MicroCenter. He is planning on accepting it because they are requiring an answer by Thursday at the end of the day. However, we are still VERY interested in the options that might be at Halliburton. He will find out about that job on Monday!

Check back for updates! He's going to officially accept the MicroCenter job tomorrow!

Weekend with the Newlyweds

This weekend I went to College Station. I stayed with William and we hung out with Bryan and Jonna most of the weekend. It was good seeing them. I haven't seen Jonna outside of wedding or phi lamb events in a while. I insisted we by cookie dough, make margaritas and eat cones.... just a few of our favorite past times, but this time we let the boys join. I very clumsily christened Jonna's new apartment's carpet with red crystal light. I was so upset but I think it came out. Phew!

William and I also went to see The Proposal. It was decent. We laughed a lot.

Life is starting to take a toll on us. We bicker a lot... but I hear it's a newlywed/almost married thing. I worry a lot... but I hear that's a girl thing. He procrastinates a lot.... but I hear that's a boy thing. So I guess we are normal. But I'm just super ready to have a regular life sans school and separate cities. We (really just me) have been doing some job hunting. It is starting to really feel like we are going to have to open our options up to all of Texas. One posting I saw that fits William is in Port Lavaca. It's on the water and Victoria isn't far away. I feel like it would be similar to living in San Leon or Kemah and having League City nearby. Good news is I did a quick job check for my own sake and 4 districts around Victoria/Port Lavaca are hiring SLP CFYs (speech language pathologist clinical fellowship year). That's good! Graduating in May has really got me excited. All of a sudden I have less than a year left of school. Whoo hoo!