Most of you knew I was, for lack of a better term, reluctant to move to "the burbs" of Houston, but we loved this house. Our subdivision is new, so all the neighbors are pretty new and interested in the other neighbors, so they put together a cook-out. I am happy to say, I LOVE our neighbors! One is even from Cincinnati (yay!). I thought it'd be much harder to meet people, but we really get along with so many of our neighbors. How lucky?
This is Eleanor to the left, yes, as Brandi pointed 
out, it looks like what COULD be our child, but it's not. We took a trip to Oklahoma (a first for me since before the wedding!) and the family got to meet sweet Vivienne. The picture to the right is Mike holding sweet V. Then we drove to good ol' Wichita to meet sweet Eleanor and see B Parks. Oh, how I miss her, and aren't these 2 of the most beautiful babies?I've started a new job.
No way ever could it every fill the void in my heart that is TAZA, but it literally fell in my lap the day before I took the big move to Houston. It has turned out to be a great transition for me. It's 7 minutes from my house and the hours are incredible flexible because they asked me to manage it, so I make the schedule ;) This shop isn't the typical shop. Dawn, the owner, has these huge ideas. Before I knew it, it is more a small cafe, not a coffee shop. At first, we thought we'd be able to use La Terza, our (Taza's) roaster from Cincinnati. Unfortunately and fortunately, there is a local "Chuck/La Terza" called Katz Coffee that the owners daughter has a relationship with from a previous coffee shop. They do fair trade and all the service that Chuck did. So in my mind, it's a local Chuck and therefore, I feel better about that. Sorry Chuck. I miss you! Either way, I feel lucky, it's nice to be in a shop and meeting local people. One thing I've learned about this area of Texas is that they don't like "fancy" coffee. I had some of Chuck's Sumatran brewed and literally every single customer said, "Don't you have regular coffee?" So now, I write "regular coffee" in parenthesis underneath the name of the coffee we brew. Oh Texas...
And tonight, I got home from work and the sun was setting and it just looked so pretty. My phone doesn't do it justice, but our house definitely feels like HOME. We went to Lowe's last week to try to start playing around with colors for some of our walls. So fun...
Speaking of home, we have some incredible visits coming up from some of our favorite people. 
Well, let's backup, the day after I got here, Jessica was here for 3 WEEKS! It was so good to have her here and it helped me transition so much from living with 9 people to living with 1 person and sometimes having an entire house to myself. I love you Riddle, but you ruined me for a small amount of time and I couldn't be in the house by myself. This picture to the left is Jessica touching Evan's neck. It was SO fun having her here. She helped me drive around the city lost. We went to some of my favorite places that sweet Jen Caro took me to see. And all of this before we found out that SHE PASSED THE BAR EXAM! Congrats! Oh, and COME BACK!
One of the other 
Well, let's backup, the day after I got here, Jessica was here for 3 WEEKS! It was so good to have her here and it helped me transition so much from living with 9 people to living with 1 person and sometimes having an entire house to myself. I love you Riddle, but you ruined me for a small amount of time and I couldn't be in the house by myself. This picture to the left is Jessica touching Evan's neck. It was SO fun having her here. She helped me drive around the city lost. We went to some of my favorite places that sweet Jen Caro took me to see. And all of this before we found out that SHE PASSED THE BAR EXAM! Congrats! Oh, and COME BACK!
things we almost did while Jessica was here was get a dog. A few things happened that day, Jessica almost passed out of heat, Evan agreed to and we adopted a dog and her name was Sammy and she would have been the perfect dog for us. We were pretty sure she was house broken. She was a red heeler and that's a dog that's good for kids and super chill according to the shelter. She was sick though. We thought it was just a bad case of kennel cough, but after a full 24 hours of green puke, no eating or pooping, we reluctantly came to the conclusion that we were not cut out to take care of a sick dog. If either of us had been "dog people" and would have known what to look for, we could have kept her, but she was so sick and we had no idea what to even look for in her. Christy, if you ever read this, I'm so sorry :(So, back to our visitors. My best friend Jessie is coming in a week and a half! I'm SO excited. She will be here for exactly 48 hours and I cannot WAIT to pack every minute of that 48 hours! Evan's parents and grandmother will be coming down the last week of October for an entire week. We're so excited to get things ready for them and to show them all the great things in Houston. Plus, it's our first house! How fun is it to show them through all of those new things. And last, but certainly NOT least, my Mom and Dan will be coming in January for the week of MLK Day. I'm hoping my baby sister can join them... I'm pressuring her to. And maybe Miss Armstrong will grace us with her company as well ;)
And I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but I have to go to bed because I have to be at work at 5:30am tomor
row (yuck) so the last thing that is the most recent and right now most exciting is that WE BOUGHT A TRUCK. Now, before I get e-mails about gas mileage and everything else that makes buying a truck a bad idea, let me assure you that the second we signed the papers, we started saving a substantial amount of money in every single possible way. And I LOVE it. LOVE.So, lots of stuff happening. Miss you guys...
