Jonathan & Ivy's (oh and Dalton too) Visit

Jonathan had the whole week off from work for his vacation time and so they wanted to come and see us! We were very excited about having them. They came on June the 19th and stayed till Wednesday the 21st. We had a very nice visit with them. We hadn't seen Ivy in a while and she sure popped out! She looked great!
Monday after Galen got home from work we all went out to eat dinner and then went and saw Nacho Libre... great movie! Tuesday we spent the whole day shopping, while Galen had to work, when he got home we all went to Hanna Park to walk on the beach. Jonathan wanted to take Dalton and let him run freeeeeeeeeeee.

Surprise!!!!!

On June 12th 2006
I hadn't been feeling quite the same for sometime, I was noticing things that I had never expereinced before - I wont go into detail.
So that Sunday (the day before) I asked Galen if we could buy a pregnancy test...
Monday night I took it and I will let you look at the picture to see the results....




WE'RE HAVING A BABY! YAY!!!!!

The next day we headed back to St. Augustine to go on our Scooner ride. We were so excited about this! And it was - it was so much fun and very relaxing.
After our ride, we found this little deli/ sandwich place to eat lunch at. After we filled our bellies, we headed home (well, back to my home) and they got their stuff together and headed back to Ocala (sniff sniff)
We had a wonderful time together and I highly recomend going on that Scooner ride!

The FIRST time we had company come!!!

On June 5 & 6th Mom and Becky came to visit us and take me (Carrie) to St. Augustine with them. This day we had been planning for a while for Becky for everything she did for us for the wedding. It was really nothing compared to all that she did for us.
On Monday they came to pick me up and we went to St. Augustine and went to the Outlet stores and bought some stuff....
Then we headed over to Caps. Which is a cool restaurant right on the intercoastal. After that we headed back to our place and Galen gave them a tour of this area of Jacksonville that we live in. One of the places that we took them to was Hanna Park, and we took a walk on the Ocean.

Cameron's Graduation - May 27th

CONGRATS to Cameron!
He graduated at Verity, the same school Galen went to. Gavrielle started going there too last fall and next year we'll be going back up there for her graduation. Mom Houser came too, it was good to see all of them and we had a very nice weekend together.

May 20th

This was the same weekend - and we meet Kyle for lunch in the "lovely" Villages.

Jodie's BABY Shower!

I wanted, and Galen wanted me to go to Jodie's shower. I was so glad that I did. My mom came with me too and we enjoyed watching her open her gifts and be so excited about her things. I gave Jodie one of those diaper genies and my mom gave her a baby album and some adorable outfits. Jodie looked good for being 8 months pregnant!

May 13th 2006 - The Eddy Wedding

Yay, another wedding! Jonathan is a good friend of Galen's and so is Rachel. They all went to school together up in Michigan.
God has brought together Jonathan and Rachel and we wouldn't miss this wedding for anything! We are so excited for them. They got married up in Atlanta Georgia, so we headed up there for the weekend. It was a beautiful wedding and there were so many friends of Galen's that were there that also went to school with him, that he got to see, some of them the first time in two years.

May 2nd

Just wanted to say Happy Birthday to Mom Pruss! Shhh, she turns 50! But we all know that she sure doesn't look like it :)
We went to Ocala (actually Weirsdale) to visit Dad and Mom for the weekend. After church on Sunday we went out to luch with Mom and Dad and Jonathan and Ivy. We had a nice time.

Ummm, Babe, you can't fit in the truck, get out of there!

The Big Move to Jacksonville

Ok! well, our next adventure was moving to Jacksonville a few days after we got back from our honeymoon. We had NO IDEA that we had so-much-stuff! Sheesh! We had to get the biggest truck and we still had it packed full! Thanks everyone for all your wedding gifts!!!! It was great though, here we are just starting off and we had so much!
Poor ol' dad, we wiped him out. We were living on a second floor and moving in to a place on a second floor. Needless to say - alot of walking up and down stairs.
Mom was there too helping us out so much too!

Tucker! What the...

poor guy he's receeding

The Natural Bridge

This was an amazing sight to see. The Natural Bridge - one of the Seven wonders of the world!
We had to drive about two hours south of where we were staying, but it was worth the drive!
These pictures just don't do it any justice, it was so tall and wide.
To think that God made this and that no man has even touched it to make it look like this, that is a wonder!

The Luray Caverns

One day we went to The Luray Caverns to see the Stilagmites and the Stilagtites.
They said that the tempature is 58 degrees all year round - berrrr.

THE HONEYMOON

The Big Day that took so long to plan, was over - just like that! Wow! What an amazing day!
For our Honemoon we went to Luray VA. It is the northern part of the Shannondoah Valley. It was so beautiful!!! It was Spring time there and there were all kinds of trees with blooms on them and different colors of flowers growing in the fields - amazing! We stayed in a GREAT cabin (it was more like a cabin/house) It had two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a livingroom with a fire place and skylights, a huge kitchen with everything in it that you could possibly need, and a wonderful deck that went around most of the cabin. Part of it was screened in, which was nice, and then there was also a nice hot-tub with a gorgeous view of the Shannondoah Mountains and the Shannondoah River flowing through the middle. It was so the best place we could of asked for!