Blab 'n Gab

I figured I should recap our honeymoon to remember how awesome it was! I know its six months later, but it is definitely worth documenting! We were at the big island of Hawaii near the town of Kona. Day 1 We left at the crack of dawn, about 4am from the hotel (a mere few hours after the wedding ended). We jumped on a 2 hour plane from home to Atlanta, then a 5 hour ride to LA, followed up by 6 hours to Kona, Hawaii! Talk about some tired honeymooners! We ended up arriving at 2am our time the next day, so that’s almost 24 hours of traveling! We had a nice dinner at our almost deserted resort hotel (May is the perfect time to vacation because all the kids are still in school) and then called it a night! Day 2 Of course, when you fall asleep at 8pm local time you wake up at the crack of dawn! We awoke to the sound of thousands of birds going crazy! You couldn’t see them since the sun wasn’t up yet, but it was amazingly loud! We then went down to the big island breakfast,

Ok so WOW. Blog Fail. I haven’t updated since the week before I got married, which was almost 6 months ago! The wedding went off without a hitch... except the groomsmen getting sick the day of the wedding so we had to have an usher fill in and then the post-wedding drama with the photographer threatening to not give me my photos. That’s not too bad, right? :) But, Hawaii was amazing so it made it all worth it! Now onto the for real good news! We made an offer on a house and it was accepted! You may ask, why are you buying a house after only 6 months of being married? Because we’re ready and we can afford it, so why not?! Rent is a waste of money! We were originally going to wait until the spring, but when we found out we can get out of our current renting lease we figured we could start looking early! Of course, looking early causes you to find houses you love, and with the economy and housing market the way it is we found some good deals with a very low interes