birrrdd.

we did nothing fun today. haha. 

by that i mean we took a four mile walk to the seminary and back.

but sadly i didnt not take my camera...

although it was a good thing because i could barely bring myself back home.

anddd we were running late for church this morning so i decided to put my makeup on in the car. but to put your makeup on in the car you actually have to bring your makeup with you. so yes i went to church without makeup. God was teaching me to be humble and not proud. and that i dont need makeup even though i really think i do. 

(if we were back in brazil i wouldnt have even thought about it. let's go back j!)

moral of the story:

im out of shape and have no memory.

this cute little picture has been printed out and framed and is currently sitting on our computer desk.

(i would take a picture, but i didnt charge the camera battery.

ill work on that before tomorrow.)

but a) i love it because i love birds and b) it reminds us to be adventurous in our home.

okay- so not necessarily "in our home"... but in this city.

during our walk tonight we discussed the fact that we live here and how awesome it is that we have only been married 9 months (on thursday! wow!) and we get to live somewhere completely different and be our own people. and this is big for us because we have lived in the same area our whole life. but we have been here for 2 months and havent done much. we dont want to be standing at Southern on graduation day and regret our time here. we want to live it to the fullest and experience kentucky for all its glory. we want to know our way around without a gps. we want to be able to have our family come visit us here and say "lets go to this quaint little restaurant we know." or "lets go to this place we know just because we live here and discovered it." besides "becoming louisville", we also discussed our future and what it looks like to us. but at the end of that conversation we stated that it is not up to us. God is in control and he has a plan so no matter what we plan ourselves, His plan is ultimate and we are just going to honor him with what he brings our way. we even pointed out houses that we like and different things we like about the houses. all in all it was a good walk, besides the fact that i am out of shape. we are "planning" on it being a regular thing because we do live in this wonderful city that believes in sidewalks and pedestrians. and our goal is to be able to walk to the pie kitchen. (kinda defeats the purpose, but they have really good pie.)

get ready. tomorrow's monday.

but guess what the end of this week holds for us?

i will do this...

posting is terribly hard when you feel as if no one is listening... yes i like to think you hear my voice or some type of voice when you read this. but i will do this... i will. so as i listen to pandora again (they cut me off because i reached 40 hours of listening time... i need friends if i listen to music that much, at least it was mostly the shane and shane station) im going to tell you friends what is on this mind of mine.

so a quick recap...

our shower did not work, and when i say shower, i mean the faucet worked but not the head so this is what we "got" to do for a couple of days until the maintenance man could come by... because of course this happened on a saturday when he doesnt work. we took baths the five year old way. (sorry matthew and lauren, j grabbed it.)

 next, i did the laundry- always a good thing. but i washed j's wallet. oops. and the poor thing just isnt the same anymore.

sorry this isnt much... we havent mastered a social life here. ehhh...

we have officially been in this city (i will use no words to describe it) for 39 days. the weather for the past week has been rainy and no sun- which absolutely kills me- and then progressed to flash floods, winds strong enough to pick my car up, and tornados. but thank our dear Lord we are safe. and also something else to thank Him for, the sun came out today!! imagine my excitement. i wore my long forgotten sunglasses again. it was oh so magical!

well when i got home, my lovely mother had sent me a package... 
you see... when you decide to order something from ebay you need to first check and make sure the shipping isnt 30 dollars and then you need to make sure it didnt process your order even though you backed out. i did one of these things. can you guess which one i didnt do? well because of my "carelessness" (i call it fate), my mother got a wonderful email that said she won her bid- of course she said "What bid?" So my mom received this lovely gem below in the mail and being the wonderful woman she is, she (of course!) monogrammed it and added a bow for me and sent it on its way to KY. i was so excited when i got home from work today and opened it.  my husband was even more excited about it than i was... okay we all know thats not true. about the 5th time i pointed it out to him he said "it's great sweetie". haha. obviously he doesnt appreciate a good monogram and bow. 

but another fun fact is that we recieved a package yesterday too... 
my mother in law sent us my husbands bible that she accidently took home (i feel so bad that she had to pay shipping for the gigantic ESV study bible- 8 dollars in shipping to be exact) and many spices for me to cook with and a cute little umbrella... 
i guess she watches our weather too. 

this week is just full of many fun surprises from home... including a tentative date to visit our favorite state at the end of this month. thats right, you guessed it. we are making our first trip home and this girl could not be more excited. we just miss our families, friends, and home church more than we can imagine. 
oh you want to see pictures of them... im so glad you asked!

my absolutely precious sisters in law and cousin in law!

the "band of thieves" as we like to call ourselves.

my dad and my grandpa. :) two of my favorite men.

my lovely momma!

my wonderful in laws.

amazing women from our church... 
wish i could show you all the amazing women 
but apparently i dont take as many pictures as i think i do.

and their super super cute kids! 
they look just like their mommas.


there are so many more, but like i said... where are the pictures? :)


okay sorry friends, this was terribly long and maybe i shouldnt post all this. but i am. or maybe i should just post more often... yep thats definitely it. and of course, thank you for reading! :)