An update on life...

I try to do a good job keeping y'all up-to-date on everything, but sometimes I feel that I might leave a few things out. Today, I'm going to play catch up and fill y'all in on somethings.

Living in Alabama
We love living here. It's hard to believe that we've almost been living here for a year. And as crazy as that seems, it really feels like yesterday that we moved. Are there things that we thought would be different once we moved here? Absolutely, but we have adapted very well to our new location. We knew immediately that apartment living wasn't for us, and once we got settled in our new home, we couldn't be happier.

Both of our jobs are going great. The Mr works extremely hard to make sure his customers are happy, and most of the time this requires him working a lot of overtime. I love my hard working man, but he needs some downtime just like everyone else. My job is busier than ever. But I love being busy. I'm taking some much needed time away from the job with a four day weekend. Yes, today is my Friday! #whoop

I still hate rush hour traffic. (Big shocker there!) However, I love working so close to home. And it still baffles me that it takes me 35 minutes to drive my 8 miles to work everyday!! #ridiculous The Mr really doesn't have to deal with it much because he gets to work at 7, and only drives 3 miles to work. #lucky

We love living close to so many wonderful places to shop, however, we rarely go shopping. Publix and CVS seem to be the places we shop the most, with Target coming in as a close contender. We have great places to eat, and try to take advantage of those at least once or twice a week.

Church Home 

We're still struggling here. We've visited quite a few churches, but haven't really found our place yet. We know that we are going to have to make some scarifies in some of the things we want to find our fit, but y'all it's hard. One thing that probably aggravates me more than the Mr is the fact that we have churches all around us, but not one has invited us to come to their church. We've even attended these churches and not had anyone to even speak to us. Really?! This past week, I've had two people ask us to come to church with them. However, one will be at least a 25 -30 minutes drive for us. The other, we attended this past Sunday, and we just didn't feel like it was our church. So the search continues. We are also going to go back to the ones we have already visited to see if we feel differently about those. It's just hard, and if you've moved to a new city, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

Adding to our family 

I'm going to lay it all out here for y'all. After having the taste of the wonderful feeling of being pregnant back in the fall, I want it again, badly. We obeyed the dr.'s orders and took it easy to let my body heal by letting two full cycles pass before trying to conceive, again. Well, I just knew we were pregnant about a week ago. I felt it. I felt like I did when I was pregnant before, maybe it was wishful thinking, or maybe I really felt it... but Sunday we found out that we aren't again this month. I hit rock bottom. The pain of wanting something so badly and not having it when I want it... yeah, it's killing me. So we won't have a little Sowell in 2013. And the Mr's response, well, we didn't like that number anyway. (Which is why we both have 2012 vehicles. HA!) We haven't given up on bringing a child into this world, but it's a struggle for me because I want it, now. I feel like my purpose is to not only be a wife, but to also be a mom. And I'm not a very patience person. So we wait. And from now on, we (meaning me) aren't going to stress about it. We are very happy with our marriage, and our sweet southern life. And no matter the if, when, where, and how... we are still going to be happy in our marriage with or without a little one. But y'all, I'm praying so hard that it's with. 

Our New Home 

As you might remember, before we moved into our new home back at the end of August, we did some much needed renovating. Well, we've done a few things since then, but we still have two big projects left. (I say we have three, but the Mr says two!) 1) repainting our screened in deck, adding new flooring to it, and then re-screening it 2) renovating our upstairs guest bath 3) painting a few more rooms throughout the house 

We are in the process of picking out everything we need for the deck, and hope to have it completed by summer. #fingerscrossed I want our upstairs guest bath renovated before we have a baby. Guess we know we have at least 10 months before that needs to be completed. And painting, well, I'm going to have to sweet talk my mom in helping me with this because the Mr hates, and I mean HATES painting. 

Other than that, we buy a few new pieces of furniture for our home here and there. And love how comfortable it is, and not just for us, but for our guests as well. When we bought our home, we knew we wanted it to be big enough to one day fill it with the sweet sound of children and still have room for company. And I'm so happy we have that. 

Friendships 

I'm so blessed to have met some of the sweetest fellow Alabama bloggers. We meet up at least once a month, and I cherish my friendship with them. They have been a great sense of encouragement , and a wealth of knowledge about places to shop, eat and be around these parts. 

And my friends that I've had forever, well, I love them still to the moon and back. No miles can tear us apart. And every chance we get to hang out when were are near each other, we do. We make the best of it by texting, calling, and of course social media like instagram and twitter! =)

I'm super excited to be meeting two of my friends face to face for the first time tomorrow. Did you read that Darby and Jessica? TO-MOR-ROW! #wordscannotexpresshowexcitediam If y'all don't already follow me on instagram, do it. (joyhsowell) Because I'm sure I'll be posting about all the fun I'm having with my Texas sisters!


So did I catch y'all up? Have any questions that you feel like I need to answer?! Let me know!