The Craziness Continues...

So it has been a crazy month. Cory and I found, bid on and got our dream house. It is a colonial style yellow two story house with a fireplace, garage and huge fenced in backyard. We close on the 21st and we are so excited!! We will be in the Windsor Lake ward with Cory's brother Mike, and some other really great people. Even before we got the house, Cory and I both felt like that was supposed to be our ward which was a little hard because my best friends are in West Columbia. But at the same time it is easy because I know that is where the Lord wants us. Last week Cory and I went to want Mike and Jenn play softball with their ward team and met so many nice people, including the bishop and it was just wonderful. I think we are really going to love it there! The house needs some work, but nothing we can't handle. Basically just some paint, new carpet and updating. I wish I had a picture to put up but everytime we go by, I have left the camera at home. Hopefully I will get some up soon.
We have also gotten a dog. I have not decided yet if this was a mistake. He is very cute but very hyper and crazy. He likes to bite which is probably his worst quality and I think the process of potty training needs no explaination. He is a Siberian Husky who we have called Warrick (too hard to say), little dog (when we hadn't thought of anything else), Grendel (which is reserved for our first mastiff) and finally Lupin (we are sticking with this one, even though I sometimes still call him little dog). He has his aborable moments which helps when he behaves like a terror. I think it will be a lot better when one of us moves into the house and we can let him romp around in the backyard for a while. It is defintely good practice for being parents, one day in the not so near furture. :)

Lupin's two personalities: super cute and super vicious. And yes, that is my arm. It is fine now though. :)

He hasn't quite gotten the posing for pictures thing down yet. :)

Today we checked two big items off our to do list. We had our engagement pictures taken which was super fun! Naomi was great and I am so excited to see them! After that we went by H H Gregg to check out their Labor Day sales and ended up purchasing all of our appliances! We got a great deal and some really nice things! They are going to deliver them for us the week after we close so we can start making dinners and washing our clothes over there while we work on the house! :) Things are working out so much better than I had ever imagined and I thank the Lord every day for such wonderful blessings in my life!

It's a Crazy Life, but a Good Life

So wow. In the 3 months since I last updated I have gotten engaged, graduated from college and started a new job. And those are just the huge things. That doesn't include the canoe trip to Augusta, celebrating 4th of July at the river house or the everyday monotony of cleaning, cooking, laundry and starting my wedding workout program!
So big things first. The engagement. Cory and I got engaged on April 25th when we went to Biltmore for the day. I absolutely love it there. It reminds me of all the grand houses I visited in England and it makes me feel a little like Lizzie Bennett traipsing about the country side. We've been several times but I had the inkling that this was THE time. After one foiled attempt in the gardens, he asked me in a little alcove in front of the house. He was so nervous that there wasn't going to be a time to ask and he was ready. He said he felt like Frodo carrying around THE RING. haha. So of course I said yes and have been constantly answering my moms many questions with "yes" "no" or "I like that one best" ever since. She has very easily taken the role of wedding planner and I am glad to let her do it. She is so talented and much more creative than I ever hope to be. So now I mostly just wait for December 5th to get here and plan the honeymoon down to every small detail. We are going to Disney World and ever since I booked it I have been slightly obsessed. We are super excited about it though!
About three weeks after I graduated I found out I had gotten a job at the Department of Transportation as a GIS Analyst. Basically, I make maps which is a great job for a geography major. It is exactly what I wanted to do and I love it! I feel so blessed to have gotten such a wonderful job at such a hard economic time. I work with some really great people and get off at 4 every day which I absolutely love. And I will have exactly the number of vacation days I will need saved up in time for the wedding!
Right now I am just trying to get all the small details of getting married taken care of. I booked the temple on Wednesday and did not stop smiling for about 2 hours afterwards. Something about that just made it seem more real somehow. Right now Cory and I are in the process of looking for a house. We have been approved for a loan so now all we have to do is find our house! It is a very exciting but draining process! We have also started registering places and it is so much fun! It will be even more fun when we have a house to picture all these things in! Well, that is a very quick and dirty update on my life! Now that I am sort of caught up with everything I will hopefully be better about posting consistently on here! I will definitely have a lot going on to write about! :)
If you want to know more about the wedding, we do have a site on the knot. It's http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/EmilyKing&CoryWatts .