alarms

so here i am, in my own little world, blow drying my hair [at 640am mind you] and when i turned off the blow dryer i hear my car alarm going off!!!! as i go running out to the livingroom i see my sweet otis looking up at me with a mouth full of my car keys. boy, my neighbors must love me today.

Thrilled

I just discovered there's a Red Robin in Abilene!!!!

Cluck N' Fries...here I come!

House

Now that Jon and I have received orders...the people came to fix our flooding problem! haha. Better late than never I guess! And it fixed the flooding problem itself, but it still makes this big lake in our driveway-which is super annoying. But we're moving in 5 months so...oh well! We'll deal!

Memo

Well, for those of you who haven't got the memo yet....

WE'RE MOVING!!!!

Come the end of March, Jon and I will be loading up and going to lovely Abilene, TX!

We are very excited about being able to be closer to our family.

[4hours from Clovis, 7.5hours from Abq]

And we're also excited about the fact that Jon will be working in a clinical setting...meaning M-F, 7-4 sorta deal...

so he'll be able to go back and finish his degree with that schedule...and I'll be able to finish up my Nursing degree there as well.

Lubbock is only 2.5hours away from us...and Southwest Airlines has cheap flights from most places into there, so we'll be more easily accessible!!!!

We are very excited for the move...we know it's going to a busy begining of the year until we get there and get settled. But we know it'll be worth it to have family close by and to be able to finish up school.

We're trying to get the ball rolling on the little things-

Transferring my nursing license into Texas is one main thing

Finding a house...which we can't really do until March

Finding a job...which I've started looking for, but it's hard to know what positions are going to be open come March/April.

So for now we're just focusing on wrapping our heads around the move. We will be sad to leave the great friends we've made here, and the wonderful job I currently have...but we know it'll be worth it in the long run.

SO!!!! That's our news!

We'll keep everyone informed as we go along!

The Finished Product

We finally finished our pumpkins!

Future pumpkin pie!

Jon's Pumpkin!

Jalane's pumpkin!

A perfect pair :)

Pumpkin Patch

Quick Update

Hello everyone! We are still alive and kicking!

Just wanted to give a quick update on things going on with us lately...

Jon and I have been going back and forth with the lovely ERA rental people because our flooding problem still has not been fixed!!!!!!!!!!!! Granted, it hasn't flooded in awhile, but we still get a huge lake in our driveway to where we have to go out the back door when we leave the house. It's so frustrating.... and if anyone has been watching the weather, there is a tropical storm "Henri" out in the Atlantic that looks like it could possibly come this way.

On another note, Otis is doing well too...After the first day he really was back to himself. We had some issues with keeping him away from his stitches, but we put together a jumpsuit looking outfit for him to keep him away...poor pup. But his stitches look great and he's doing fine! He gets the stitches out next Wednesday so he'll be good to go after that.

Other than that we've been working away! Staying busy... we love and miss everyone!