Meet Annie!

Two weeks before the wedding, Mom and Abby went to pick up this cute little puppy!

This little thing has had many names in her life already, but now she's stuck with Annie forever :)

On her first day home with the family, Annie got to go with us to the Memorial Day Parade in Sandston.  She was such a good puppy, and only got scared when the marching band came by! haha.

Our Summer/Wedding Wreath

When it has come to making our house more of our "home," we had really been focusing on the inside the most.  But, about halfway through the summer, we started working on the outside, too, and have lots planned for future projects :)

We really needed some color on the front of our house, and I knew I wanted to make a wreath.  We had already bought a new colorful rug to put at the front door {which happens to be in our wedding colors....total coincidence, I promise}, so I started brainstorming what I could do for the wreath.

I knew I didn't want anything too overwhelming right now, but I wanted it to be colorful and definitely "us."

I ended up using all leftover decorations from the wedding & our gifts, and all I had to buy was the wreath, which of course I got on sale at

Married Life: Adjusting to new schedules

Once we were married, we knew that we'd have to get adjusted to each others' schedules and would have to figure out a schedule that works for us.  Actually, we had been thinking about this long before the wedding, as our work hours were drastically different.

For those of you who don't know, Matt wakes up at 4:30 for work and is gone before the sun comes up.  Because we're in the same room, his two alarms naturally wake me up, as they should.  They're just doing their job.  Most mornings, after we both wake up, and he gets ready for work as I stay laying in bed, I'm usually up for the day.  Over the summer, that was fine, because I didn't have a set schedule, as I had the summer off.  Now that I'm back at work, it's sometimes a problem.  I'm now waking up about two hours earlier than I need to be, to have an adequate amount of time to get ready.  However, I do get out of bed earlier intentionally, so that I don't have to rush, I can finish packing my lunch if I need to, and to make sure my blog post is up for the day ;)