New for the School Year

So, the school year in Colorado has started and now the school year in Texas has started. I have started nothing. Essentially this means that I am officially not working this school year.

Okay, okay...I am will be subbing in the district in which we live. For some reason, that isn't real work to me. It is getting paid $80/day to babysit. Not my idea of a real job or even real work. I know! All districts need good subs. Teachers love good subs. I can probably work almost everyday. However, even working everyday as a sub, I bring home less than $15,000 for the year. It almost doesn't feel worth it. Any money is welcome, but when you are used to earning your own money...this is just insane!

I keep thinking that there is something--something important--I am supposed to learn from this. Maybe it is how to be dependant without feeling it. Maybe it is to learn how to communicate with Nick even better than we already do. I just don't know. I want to be working. I want to feel like we are going to make it financially...and I am terrified that we won't. I guess that is a pretty common fear these days, huh? Not exactly a comforting thought.

I am grateful that Nick has a good job. We are continually blessed as he continues to do well with his work. Perhaps I need to learn to be thankful for the things I do have. I'll work on it.

Elway!

As much as I love John Elway, this is not a tribute to him. Actually, Nick and I added a new addition to our family this week in the form of a puppy. His name is Elway. He is a coffe and tan colored lab/collie mix who is a fierce bundle of energy! He is our fearless little boy who loves the water and jumping frantically all over his sister, Joey.

Here he is cuddling with our Broncos blanket. Totally appropriate!

Here and Happy

So, obviously it has been a long while since I have posted anything, but we are in our house, happy, and getting settled! I have been playing house and hanging out a lot. I found the library and church, so those are my big social outings. I need to go pick up our pool key from the HOA office, and then I will be there working on my tan as often as possible. :) This should actually be often.

I will have to post some good pictures soon. After we get the office set up and I feel the house is under control I will post some pictures from our life here. It is a good life! I love being married. I love being with Nick every day...it is rough being here sometimes, but worth every sacrifice and every lonely moment. He lights up my world when he walks in the door.

Overwhelmed

I cannot pretend that I am not drowning in all the things I need to get done here in the next few weeks! I have so much to do, and I am at the point where I just don't know where to start or which end is up! Not to mention that I am trying to see everyone in the next few weeks, and there are lots of people to see!

So, I have a to do list that is HUGE! Here it is, just in case you think I am exaggerating!

1. Grade Research Papers
2. Huck Finn Essays
3. Romeo and Juliet Work
4. Pack Kitchen
5. Clean Living Room
6. Laundry
7. Pack Bathroom
8. Pack dresser
9. Clean out/pack storage under stairs
10. Clean out/pack storage unit on patio
11. Call about marriage license
12. Pick up copies of marriage license
13. Send off paper work
14. Change sheets
15. I think you get the idea! I can't even begin to think about everything else!
16. Oh! Call the moving company with new address
17. See, I told you this was bad! I am adding to the list in my head even as I type.
18. Find a JOB! (Freaking out about it a little!)

And now I need a nap!

We did it!!

So, we did it. We got married on Friday in a simple ceremony at the courthouse, and it was just fantastic. We spent a busy weekend with family and friends. It was great, and yet there is a part of me that is very ready for us to just be together at home with nothing to do but spend time making dinner and hanging out together. The next time Nick is here, we will be running back and forth between Denver and Montrose going to graduations and then packing up and moving out! Literally! Okay, really, I should be packed by then, so we will pack up the last minute stuff, my dog, and probably the TV and start our journey to Texas.

We talked a little about taking a trip to the coast somewhere and spending a long weekend together. This will be our mini-honeymoon. Then I will really start to plan for our wedding ceremony for next May. It will be wonderful! I am excited about it. It will be great to spend this year playing newlyweds! Yeah!!

Oh Goodness!

Well, we did just get engaged, and on Friday we are getting married. Yes, it is sudden. Yes, it is fast. Yes, I am ready. Yes, I am excited! I actually cannot wait to be Mrs. Sadler, and I am kind of relieved that this has worked out the way it has. I feel at peace with it all for a lot of reasons, and I can only hope that we will make it through this next month of packing and cleaning and moving.

Nick has been looking at houses for us. He is such a rockstar! I am pretty impressed with him and his willingness to find us a place to rent. He spent the day yesterday looking with our fabulous leasing agent, Becky, and they are going to check out two more places today before making a decision.

There is what looks like a great house on the realty website we have been looking at, and I am crossing my fingers that this place will be as great in real life as it looks online. Then I am praying that we will be able to get it! In the long run, what really matters is that we have a house to make a home and that Nick is the one who lives in it with me.

Is it May 25th yet?

Engaged!

So it is official! Nick and I got engaged on March 20, 2009. It was spring break and I was there with him. It was the first day of spring break, and I was thrilled just to be there with him for an entire ten days. He took me to dinner and arranged with the restaurant for us to have a table set up with candles and a picture of us and a custom made Broncos jersey with Sadler on the back hanging up. He was so cute! When he got down on one knee, I immediately started to cry and had to shake my head yes because I couldn't talk very well. So, we are getting married in CO on Januray 23, 2010. I am moving on May 25, 2009. I am so excited and nervous and stressed out--but in a good way!

Here is a picture of us right after he proposed.