Our new home

We've made the move!  This weekend some of our very, very kind friends sacrificed most of their Saturday to help us move to our new home.  There is absolutely no way we could have done that alone, and we'll definitely be paying them back with lots of backyard cookouts this summer :)  Before showing our projects, I thought you might like to see the new place.

  A driveway!  A yard!  We're definitely excited about those.  We're also anxious to start chopping down that forest that has started growing in our flower bed.  That large tree in front of the fireplace has a power strip embedded in it.  

This patio is bigger than our apartment in DC.  That's no joke.  

Living room

Dining room

Basement

Kitchen.  How do you like our wood paneled dishwasher?  

Obviously there are also bedrooms and bathrooms, but those will come later.  Until then...

Back to the happy

Nothing says, "I'm back to blogging," like my last post.  Sorry for the sadness. 

I'm still extremely sad about losing our baby, and this weekend's holiday doesn't necessarily make it any easier, but at least I have a distraction.

Joel and I bought a house! (cue applause)

We've taken the plunge and are moving to the 'burbs in just a few short weeks.  (Hence the bloggy name change)  Our new casa is definitely a fixer-upper, so I plan on blogging our changes along the way.  I don't have any acceptable pictures right now, but I'll be posting some soon to give all three of you an idea of what we're working with.  We'll definitely make some blunders along the way, but I'm very excited about transforming this house, Sasnett style.  We'll be learning quite a bit, fo sho. 

"This is what we call...

...an abnormal pregnancy," Dr. Masel said sadly.  Blighted ovum.  I knew it before she said it.  That's the problem with being an over-researcher.  Knowing way too much.

I was pregnant for 9 weeks and 4 days, though, technically, our baby stopped growing at 5 weeks.  We went to the doctor for the very first appointment on Thursday.  I was determined to hear the heartbeat or something, so I got Joel to come along as well.  I'm so thankful that he was there.  Thursday ended up being a very long day (in the hospital from 10:45-3... at least) with plenty of tests and too many tears.

I am now a mother, but I do not have a child in my arms.

I never really understood how that changes a person until now.

Oh, please listen ladies and gents!

This post is good.  I mean, it's right on.

For a long time, I've had a hard time with the idea of "the one."  Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love Joel.  I feel like the luckiest girl in the world to be married to him.  I am very positive that we made the right choice in marrying each other.  But, I would be lying if I said that he completes me... or that I couldn't have married someone else.  We could have married other people and still had good and God glorifying marriages--even if they might not have been as fun :).   

I don't want to restate what the post already says (go ahead, read it).  I just don't like that we keep perpetuating this lie of "the one."  Let's teach young girls to be Godly women and make Godly choices... they're going to learn enough about fairy tales elsewhere. 

Hello out there!

Well, it’s looks like my blogging bug died out as soon as I created the page.  Maybe because it took me forever to figure out how to import the posts from my old blog.  Now I’m ready to start writing again, and I think I may have lost my bloggers voice!

So, please bear with me as I figure out what this blog will be like.  I think the first few post may be a little catching up on life in the past 8 months.  Partly because I know a few people from Chatom will want to know, and partly because I will forget all of it if it’s not written somewhere.  And who doesn’t want to document their whole life on the internet for the world to read?  Privacy... who needs it?

I'm Baaaacck!

So, I decided that I would start blogging again. I really enjoyed blogging while I was in Spain. I didn't do much after I got back (wedding planning + school = no blog time), but now I think it's time. There are exciting things happening in our life, so please be excited with us as we share!

P.S. I think I deserve points for learning how to import all of the posts from my old blog to this new one....

100 years is a long time

Last weekend I made a trip back home to Chatom. I've been making a lot of those lately, and will make a lot more in the next 4 months. In the first few years of college I rarely made it back to Chatom. Going home usually meant going to the beach! I'm really glad that I've been able to spend so much time in my hometown recently, though. It's been so nice to soak up my last few months in Alabama while remembering growing up in that small town. I know I'll always be able to come back, but DC is much farther away than Auburn!

This time I went home to celebrate the 100th birthday of Chatom Baptist Church. Should it be anniversary? Either way, 100 years is a long time! It was so much fun to sit in that church and just listen to the history. It was especially neat because so much of the history includes my family. My great-great-grandparents were founding members of the church and set an example of faithfulness that has continued until today. I'm so thankful that the Lord continued to call the Schells/Hensons/Smiths/etc. to himself! I certainly hope and pray that he continues to do so for another 100 years!