Weekend Update!

Well, this has definitely been an eventful weekend to say the least. Friday evening Rob and I spent most of the night working on picking up our home (much needed) in order to meet with our real estate agent on Saturday.Everyone was so worn out by the end of the evening but one guy in particular was so tired he had to spread this long legs out on a chair with mom and crashed out underneath his K-State blanket.

 With much anticipation of Saturday came and we had some encouraging news and information from our wonderful agent Mike. Although none of the news we heard was of surprise, we are still overwhelmed with everything that we 'should' do before we put our home on the market, oh yah and he wants it on the market this week if possible! YIKES. Anyways, we're just trying to keep the mindset to work on one project at a time and we'll continue to work on things throughout the duration of selling our home. We are so excited to be starting this new chapter of life and definitely looking forward to moving somewhere closer to our families & friends. We will keep you all posted as our adventure takes form!

Today, Sunday Jan 30th, Rob and I woke up early to run the 3M half marathon here in Austin, Tx. Although we both had mixed opinions as to how 'good' the race felt, we were both elated that we did much better than either one of us anticipated. We both managed to clock in at the same time, 1 hr 16 min and 59 seconds! Really only ~6-7 min slower than our last race which we trained our rear ends off for! The weather was definitely our first obstacle. Original projections were temps in the 20's until 2 days ago when the warm front remained; therefore we had >65 deg and lots of humidity. Fortunately it was overcast and a lit rainy throughout the first portion, the sunshine did come out for the last couple of miles. We're both recovering this afternoon in PJ's and plan to finish off our evening with a yummy margarita for Ashley! Well, that is a weekend wrap from Austin!

Showing off our medals at home!


Love,
Rob, Ash, & Porter

Garage...

This weekend Rob found an amazing internal motivation to begin the long process of organizing and cleaning our home with much anticipation of putting our home on the market. I came home last Saturday from a long day of work to find Robby cleaning out the garage on a beautiful day. While going through many boxes of randomness we have managed to sort out stuff to sell, goodwill donations and things to put into a storage unit. We did stumble across the following items in a random cooler which was followed by much laughter, I think I was nearly in tears once he put the contents of the cooler on. Please see below:

Cooler with random contents inside. Seriously, why is there a clown wig?

Getting back to work in style

One more close up shot!

In addition to the garage, which looks like you could actually park inside, we have begun to tackle the inside organizational projects too. I've been working on the master bedroom closet and we ended up re-arranging our entire bedroom. It looks awesome! Future pics to follow.

Random story to conclude the blog...This weekend I was headed back to work on sunday morning, I went to feed Porter and he was so exicted that his nose got him into trouble. He was following the bowl down to the ground, scooped up his snoot and completely knocked every morsel of food onto the floor. He somehow had half the contents eaten off the ground before I could even stop laughing to get my camera. Somehow his messy accidents are so adorable on occasion.

From sunny Austin, Tx with love!
Rob, Ash,  & Porter

Life Lately

Oh how time flies! Hardly seems possible that I haven't made an entry to our blog in over a month! Rob, Porter & I had a wonderful christmas! My parents & Bret were able to make the long trip down to Austin to celebrate Texas style! Although the weather was not as cooperative as we had hoped, it was still much warmer & nicer than Christmas in Kansas. All three of us cleaned up shop well with all of our wonderful gifts from family & friends. I know I got more than I had asked for including two Vera Bradley travel bags, an awesome reversible down vest, gift cards, a kitchen aide mixer & carpet cleaner! Robert also received several useful gift cards, a multitude of coffee & purchased "us" a wonderful 42" LG television. He has definitely gotten more use than I although I'm not complaining...it's AWESOME! And Porter's surprise Santa brought him included a giant new bone & giant new posture-pedic bed.



Enjoying my presents!Thanks Aunty & Santa





Modeling the goods





Snugglin up with CC on my new comfy bed

Now that the holidays are over, we've managed to get most of the Christmas stuff down and back into proper storage. Rob and I have now entered his favorite time/season of all....planting season. This is the unfortunate time of the year where my second guest room is completely taken over with his plant starting rig-a-mo-ro. Below you can see the tedious assembly process as well as the joy in his twinkling little eyes as he carefully lays each individual seed into its designated place. If a stranger were to walk into our toasty, make shift greenhouse they would be concerned with may look like illegal substances growing tall & strong in our home! Every night Robby likes to head to the plant/man cave and just watch his little green bundle of joys grow & grow. Can't wait for them to be in the ground and to have that room more organized, not that we use it all that often.

Step 1- Begin assembly




Step 2:
Add the lights!

Step 3: Make sure your pet approves all set up

step 4: Cheesy smile & begin to plant seeds one by one!

 Stay tuned for more posts, hopefully less than one month away from now!

Love,

Rob, Ash & Porter