Andrew's Graduation and WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!

I completely forgot to update about Andrew's graduation. It was definitely a good time for all. We went and saw the unveiling of the website. It was a joint project between the video and photo guys. (You check it out Picture Health). Then we had TWO cocktail hours, one at the school where we could view the website, video projects, and photos. Basically a sampling of everyone's work. The second cocktail hour was at the hotel before dinner. I really think we all could have done without the 3 hour break before dinner. lol. Dinner was good, the guest speaker was not. He gave a 45 minute speech that really could have been cut down to about 15-20. The sad thing is we found out later this was the 4th time he'd given the same speech and he had cut it down by 45 minutes already. I really don't think I could have sat through 1.5 hours of that speech! After graduation we all went out to Limericks for one last get together. Which turned out to be our 3rd to last get together with some of the guys since we also went out to breakfast at Stellas and dinner at Dino BBQ the next day. Overall we miss our friends, but are happy to be moving on to the next chapter in our lives.

At cocktail hour at Newhouse

The Marines in the photo class plus two Marine guests

Mary, Me, and Shannon

All the girls
Michelle, Laura, Tiffany, Kailey, Janell, Me, Mary, and Shannon

Andrew getting his diploma!

Andrew and I

Mary, Me, and Shannon at Limericks

The new chapter in our life started off a little differently then we anticipated. When we arrived in Jacksonville we were looking for a rental property. A cute single family home for us to make our lives in for the brief time we're supposed to be here (3ish years). Well evidently God had a different plan for us. We were unable to find a rental and actually got laughed at and called insane by a few realty companies when we informed them how many pets we had and how big our puppy is. Luckily we have some good friends who recommended a realtor and a mortgage broker who have been nothing but great to us! Because of them we were able to find and put in offer in on a beautiful house. 3 bed, 2 bath, and they will be adding a 2 car garage. We were lucky enough to hear yesterday that our offer was accepted. In approximately 14 days we'll be moving in to this brand new house. Then over the course of the next 30 days they will build our garage. When the garage is finished we will be able to close on the house and it will be all ours! While this step in live is definitely nerve wracking (even more so since we weren't planning on it), we're so excited to have a place to call our own. They're also going to sod all of it, cement our driveway up to the garage, and landscape the front.

Our first home!