New Home and Church

So finally the post about my new home. The city of Waco is crazy on how the homes are set up in areas. The house that my brother bought is in a really nice area and the less expensive homes then the street behind has some really expensive homes. It is crazy, my brother said some of the homes behind us are half a million dollar homes. I couldn't believe it, at home they would be in a neighborhood all in itself. Here are the examples of the homes I am talking about:



Now for our house, it is really cute!!

It is a 3 bedroom home with 1 full bath and 2 half baths, then we have of course a living room, dining room, laundry room and I think it used to be the garage but it is a den. I have the smallest room out of the lot, which is fine by me. I needed to learn to live with less. In my old house I had a ton of stuff but alot of it was just junk. I mean when I moved out of my house I took what I thought was less to my parents house since I didn't know if I was going to be there or not. And even then I still had to purge things and I still have a storage shed with some items. There are some cons about this but that is because it is an older house. I am having to relearn that I have to actually wash my dishes, this place doesn't have a dishwasher. Then the other thing is the full bath it doesn't have a fan so we have to open the window to help the steam go out. The thing with that is if you are in the shower and the water is running or there is water in the tub then you get shocked opening the window. It drives me nuts and I hate getting shocked. Other than that things have been great. I am getting to learn the area.

Then Sunday I went to church with Jonathan, more of this I want to talk about is the Catholic church we went to. I am not Catholic and neither is my brother but he helps tape their service. It was the St. Louis Catholic church and this church was gorgeous!! I forgot to get pics of the outside but I did of the inside. The architecture of the church was amazing and they have such gorgeous stain glass work. Here are some pics of it.







I wish I had a better camera so you can really see how beautiful the stain glass was. If I was Catholic I would love to get married in this church. So it was nice just looking at the church while the service was going on. Well I hope that I will have more adventures and stories for you guys here soon!!

Song of the day

I was watching 27 Dresses the other day and I love the part where they are in the bar and start singing Benny and The Jets. It has been stuck in my head and for some reason I keep wanting to sing along to it. So I hope you all enjoy it!!

My Trip

So I am finally on my computer and uploaded my pictures from the drive down here. On Wednesday we left my parents house in Shiloh. My mom did most of the driving on our trip down there. And I like when I was a child did alot of napping in the car. Most of the car ride I was asleep, there is something about a car ride that makes me extremely tired. And with me napping I didn't get a lot of photos but I did get some. To head to Texas we headed through Missouri first.

The hills of Missouri, I saw alot of it. I don't know I liked seeing all of the different formations and how they just came out of no where.

The hills of Missouri, if I would ever retire I think I would retire in the hills. The views are amazing and I would love to watch the colors of the leaves change throughout the seasons. Also you can see the truck that we took to bring my and my brother stuff down to Waco.

Another view of the mountains

This was a BBQ place in Missouri. It was just a little trailer sitting in a parking lot.

The sign for the Bass Pro Shops in Springfield, MO. I wish we had time to stop.

One of the many churches we passed along the way.

The McDonald's in Oklahoma you go under it. It stretches across the entire highway.

The Hard Rock hotel and Casino in Tulsa, OK.

Now the rest of the pics are from Thursday. We stopped outside of Oklahoma City, OK and Thursday morning we woke up to thunderstorm and lots of rain.

More rain!!!

Moore, Oklahoma, home of Toby Keith. I didn't take the pic in time to show that on the water tower.

The casino ran by the Native Americans.

Saw lots and lots of flat land through OK. I slept through most of it.

In OK, there were some hilly parts and they had a little road that you could look out. It was just a little small road and they called it a Scenic Turnout.

We stopped at an outlet mall in Texas and they had a food court. Well you can tell by this picture what was there in the food court, nothing!!!

The sign for Texas MotorSpeedway. I was so excited to see this!!





I took a lot of the speedway, Can you tell I love racing?? I can't wait to go to a NASCAR event here!!!

Downtown Fort Worth, my hometown!!

Sorry for all of the pics but I was having fun along this trip. We got down to Waco around 4 pm on Thursday and unloaded the truck and got things set up. Went out to dinner with my brother and our roommate. I will post pics of the house and about going to church tomorrow.

I'm Here!!

This post is going to be another short and sweet post till I can get my computer online. Right now I am borrowing my brother's until he can get me on their wireless server. I took some pics on the drive down and they are on my computer to help tell my story of my trip. We got down to Waco around 4 pm on Thursday afternoon. Got the truck unloaded and my room set up. Then yesterday did some running around town and today had lunch with my parents and took them to the airport. That was very very emotional!! It is weird being down here and I feel so out of my place. More coming later with more details!

Song of the day

So this song I heard on the drive down to Waco. And it just struck a cord with me, I don't know why but it just did. It is a Patti Loveless song.

Update from the road

Just wanted to quick update, we left for Waco this morning around 9 am. We got into Oklahoma City around 7 pm tonight. We made extremely great time for all the construction and traffic we ran into. Had dinner at Cracker Barrel and now just relaxing in the hotel for awhile. I will post this weekend with some pics I took driving and all about my trip.

Busy Busy

So my world has been crazy crazy crazy!! I will hopefully be able to post a longer blog post about some things. Tomorrow I have to be packed well at least everything that I want to go on to the moving truck since that will be here on Tuesday. Tuesday we are packing the truck and then Wednesday morning we are leaving for Waco!! I can't believe it. I am right now more scared/nervous than ever. But watch for more later about things!!