Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Crossing the Finish Line

Fall is definitely in the air and we are finally crossing the finish line in this crazy marathon-like schedule we've had for the past several months.

This past weekend was the Treat 'Em Right event for SendOutCards in Dallas. Unfortunately, Rob wasn't able to go due to some last-minue work stuff that came up, but those of us who did make it had an amazing time!

The team has been growing lots this week... much due to the inspiration we all received in Dallas. We've added a new team member and quite a few customers to our numbers, and I am so excited to continue to watch things grow!

We leave again in 2 days to drive to Houston for Trayce and Gerry's wedding weekend! I'm so excited to be included in their special day, and can't wait to see everyone and celebrate with them while we're there! And call me crazy, but I can't wait to spend 16+ hours in the car with Rob... he's been working so much lately I feel like I've hardly seen him over the past couple of weeks so it'll be fun to hang out :)

Next week is the biggest football week of the year -- TTU vs A&M! We have tons of friends coming in town, and I can't wait to see them all :)

After that we'll be settling into something we've not been too familiar with lately -- routine! Ah, what a wonderful word! I love travelling and being busy, but I love having a routine, too. This weekend marks our last trip until January 2nd! Yay!!

Friday, September 16, 2011

I'm sorry... We've been so busy!

Wow -- I can't believe it's been this long since I blogged. On the other hand though, I can... because we have been soooooooo busy!!

The last two weeks of apartment life was hectic and slow all at the same time -- we had tons to do, but it felt like the time would never pass. Lo and behold though, it did. And on Friday, August 5th, at approximately 10:05am we officially became home owners :)

The move was pretty seamless. The only major issue was that our a/c was broken for the first two days... which caused the upstairs to get strangely cold and the downstairs to be unbearably hot. To be honest though, we were so wrapped up in our new home-ownership-bliss that we hardly noticed (not sure I can say the same for our helpful moving volunteers... but they survived :))

1 week after the move we hosted Trayce's wedding shower at my parents' house -- we had SO much fun hosting, and I hope she enjoyed it as much as we did!





3 days following the shower we were on a plane and Las Vegas bound for what would come to be known as 5 of the BEST days ever. We had such an amazing time at the SendOutCards Convention... it was truly an incredible, heart-changing experience.



4 days following our return from convention I left town again and headed to Austin for Trayce's bachelorette weekend! Again, what a fun weekend it was... hanging out on the lake and partying it up on 6th Street :)



In case you lost track... that catches us up to September. Yep -- we had almost been in our new house for 1 whole month! Although, it hardly felt like it since we'd been gone so much.

Labor Day weekend was a busy one... Baby Stetson Wayne Schneider was born on Thursday, September 1st!









That kicked the weekend off and then Friday night we had mine and Rob's joint birthday party. We had a lot of fun and received SO many wonderful cards -- it was definitely one of the best birthday's either of us had ever had!

The next day was the first Tech football game!! It was a bit sketchy at first, but we came out and won 50-10!




The weekend after Labor Day we hosted a Vintage Showcase of Homes and opened up our home for prospective Vintage neighbors. We had a lot of fun meeting new people, and the open house made us hurry up and finish all of those last moving-in projects :)









The day after the open house we moved Maggie and Ken to a new barn – it sounds silly, but I can already tell how much happier they are there. The space is so open and green, and just a relaxing place to be. It’s still very close to the house, but feels a little more country 






And that pretty much gets everything up-to-date. Work with SendOutCards has been going phenomenally since we returned from convention almost a month ago -- in fact, Rob and I promoted to Senior Distributor a couple of weeks ago and to Manager just a few days after that! :)

We received a gift card from my Mom (our sponsor) this week as a congratulations, and are headed on a date tonight to celebrate.

I'm so excited to see where the future goes over the next few months -- we are truly living the dream, and feel so blessed to have so many wonderful things in our lives!