Friday Blessings

Happy Friday!! Hope everyone had a great week and is ready for the weekend. I know we are!! Saturday hits a "big" marker for us.. haha.. we are at 3 months! :) and still going strong. I've had a really good few weeks. Just been happy, extremely busy and been able to finally catch up with some girlfriends over dinner and lunches. Robby has been super busy after work training and I was getting bored and kind of frustrated that I didn't have anything, except take the dogs out and feed them. A girl can only have fun doing that for so long. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE our pups. But its not that exciting. I needed a little more to entertain me :) So I decided to make a HUGE effort to plan dinner nights with the girls and had lunch with one friend. It has really been nice catching up with them without the stress of worrying about a wedding or whatever I had going on months ago. But I think I also have been realizing how blessed Robby and I are. I know that has a lot to do with how happy and satisfied we are with life.

Robby bought his house before we met and has worked so hard with his dad to remodel it. They pretty much gutted the entire house, so its all new, except the kitchen cabinets and appliances. He loves this house and I can see why. It was his first big purchase that he saved up for and all the hard work he put into it is amazing, and it shows. We have had family and friends over since getting married and have gotten a lot of compliments. I never really had a huge attachment to the house until now. Especially now that we are making it a home for us. Its not crazy big, its older but has a great sense of "home", and its US. What a great home to start our lives together in. I will definitely be sad when we have to sell it one day down the road when we outgrow it. I really want to thank all my family that has come over and said how much they love the house, how much they can tell Robby and his dad, and me at times, have done to the house and how it feels like a home when they walk in. They also reminded me how blessed we are to have a nice warm house in our first year of marriage. Most people are not that lucky to have something like this. It really made me think and realize that this really is a nice home for us and to stop complaining about how small it is or it doesn't have this, or that. (we are NOT trying to keep up with the Jones's). I love it!! And we are hoping to get our first  new couch together this weekend and selling the old ones. We found a great L-sofa/couch and it will replace the "leather" and microfiber ones we have now that we have already outgrown. Again, so blessed to be able to get this.

Another blessing, we both have great jobs!! I know I have complained a lot about my job, but I need to stop. I am finally happy with what I am doing. I don't necessarily LOVE LOVE LOVE my job or work environment, but I am satisfied and I have it pretty good here. Its close to work, I don't get in trouble if I am running a few minutes late because the dogs wouldn't come in or my coffee wasn't done brewing. I can take off time pretty much whenever I want and I don't have to take work home with me. I can't speak for Robby but I would say he feels the same way about his job. Plus, really, in this economy, we should just be thankful to get a paycheck coming in to support ourselves. A lot of people don't even have that. So I am trying to fix my attitude about how I feel in the workplace and need to just shut my eyes (and mouth) to things that bother me (except when I am in desperate need of venting to Erica! - shoutout!) So I really am blessed with a great job (not career - job).

Robby and I have also been able to do a lot of adventurous things. From whitewater rafting - going for the 2nd time on Sunday, to ziplining, to buying a canoe and taking it to the river, getting a new puppy and learning how to train him and deal with "puppy stuff" and in October we will be taking a tethered Hot Air Balloon ride! We also planned our yearly Hilton Head Trip for September. Really looking forward to getting away for a few days to recharge and celebrate our engagement last year there. Robby training for his Full Ironman has been adventurous, for him at least! From getting lost on a bike ride that was supposed to be 40 miles but ended up being 72! To swimming 2.2 miles in under 2 hours. We really are blessed to be able to have done all these fun things.

And last, but not everything because I know there are things I am forgetting (or purposely leaving out), we are blessed to have been chosen to find each other and learn that we would one day be married and spending the rest of our lives together. This might be a sappy post, or annoying post, to some of you out there but I have just realized how blessed we are and felt compelled to write about it. We get along so well, we communicate, we love spending all the time together that we can, we get along, we don't fight (not yet at least) and we really compliment each other. I am so lucky to call him my best friend and husband! I have grown to love his little quirks and they just make me smile, because that is how he was made. I will never try to change him, nor will he try to change me. We understand this is who we are, and if you don't like it, so sorry! :) I love being goofy and childlike with him. I hope that he will help me keep my sense of humor and lightness about life many many years down the road, especially after kids.

Everyone out there is blessed in some way, you just might not see it because society is so concerned with material things. I know we have a lot of material things, but I don't care if we don't have the biggest house in the neighborhood or out of our friends, I don't care if we don't have the nicest or most expensive cars. I feel lucky that Robby has taught me couponing and saving because it allows us to do everything that we enjoy. I don't care what people think of us or how they judge us. We are so happy, and I know that a lot of people out there can't say that. "Thing" do not make you happy. Sorry.

So now that I am off my soap box, and probably have lost a few readers by now, I am happy! It's Friday, we have a lot planned for the weekend and we are blessed! Thank you to those (especially my mom and her sisters) that have showed us this and continue to remind us so that we don't get off track! :)

If you need help finding how you are blessed, I am sure I can find something, its always the little things :) Wheeww that made me feel good.

HAPPY FRIDAY!!