Our first post!! :)

Today is the first day....(of hopefully many to come)....that I'm making a post on our new blog! Since most of our family and friends are many, many miles away and even several time zones away I thought it would be neat to start a website and try to keep in touch with everyone by posting pictures and stories of our, what I seem to think is, pretty exciting life out here on the west coast! I've been procrastinating ACTUALLY posting and telling you all about this site for oh about a month now.....so hopefully I won't wait another month to write to you all or upload a picture! Kyle is not completely sold on this whole "blog thing".....YET....but, maybe just maybe he will stop thinking it is silly and you will get a post or two from him as well. Otherwise, I will be writing to you on behalf of my hubby and myself. Well, for all of you that don't know yet we are officially and finally out here on the west coast in Vancouver, Washington. We are on the north side of the Columbia River which puts us in the state of Washington instead of Oregon where Kyle was living up until March of this year. We are about 8 miles from downtown Portland, Oregon and overall we love our location. Pictures of our new home will be posted soon. We spent 5 days driving from Nashville, TN out here to Vancouver, WA and made many, many random and not so random stops along the way! Well, let me stop here and rephrase part of the above statement.....KYLE spent 5 days driving and I spent 5 days entertaining him and being an awesome roady (sp?)! I love Kyle for lots of reasons and one more reason to add to the list would be that he was the driver 100% of the time across the United States........maybe because he fears for his life when I'm driving, I don't know, but that is not the point at hand now is it!! All this to say, we arrived here in Vancouver on April 10th and the big moving truck arrived with our stuff at 7:20 in the morning on April 13th! I've spent the past week unpacking, cleaning, and making our home a reflection of Kyle and I!! Well, if you ask Kyle he thinks the only reflection of himself in this house is in his man cave room and one cabinet high above the refrigerator in the kitchen where he keeps his precious kelloggs cereal bowls and plastic cups from every sporting event that he has ever attended in his life. I'm trying to wean him off of drinking out of plastic bowls and cups and introduce him to crystal glasses and glass/ceramic bowls. Ha! All in all married life is awesome and we just thank God for each other and this journey that Kyle and I are on together!