New Job!

Me and Kenny from tonight - can't let my nice hair not be documented, although I suppose I'll be looking better on a daily basis starting next week!

I suppose it's time to come out and say it to our blog readers - I got a job! It's a little surreal, which is why I haven't really announced it to many people.

Starting next Wednesday, I'll be an Associate at Hand Arendall - an Alabama firm with its largest office in Mobile. I'm not tied to a specific practice area, except that I will probably be doing mostly litigation. There will probably be employment in the mix, but I'm not sure of what else.

Tonight I went to a happy hour that they have monthly, which was really fun because I got to meet a lot of people and see my office. The offices are on the 30th and 31st floor of the tallest building in Mobile and I have a lovely view :-). I'm sure I will have more on the subject after I start, but I wanted to pass along the good news to those of you who would be interested. It is my first real post-law school job, so I'm very nervous about it (bring on the insomnia!), but excited about the opportunity too!

Update: I forgot to post a picture of the flowers Curtis gave me on the day I got my offer - so sweet of him :-)

We went to Cracker Barrel Today for Brunch

And saw this for sale:








Hilarious.


And before you judge the state of Alabama, it is also available for fans of BYU, Utah, and Syracuse. Sadly they don't carry Stanford, UCLA or USC.

Southern Rain

Luckily I had just taken Kenny out to play and go to the bathroom, because this happened!

We're having fun on the patio watching it!


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Our new home: Living Room/Dining Room

Today I had a renewed motivation to finish putting the house together. It's mostly done, but there is still some organizing to do. I got my keyboard working and actually played for a little bit on it! I also put together our bookshelf with all of our pictures.

Don't mind the sleeping doggy :-)








We put two of Grandma Hart's paintings in our stairwell. We don't have the kind of large walls we had in our old apartment to hang our larger pictures, but this seems to look good. We do have a few more pictures that we need to find places for. They mind end up being stored as we wait to move into a larger house.

(yes, those are our UCLA and Stanford hats, that will probably be moved after I post this blog, lol)



What's on TV? "Anderson," Anderson Cooper's new talk show. I'm enjoying it.



My grandparents' table and chairs found their way to Alabama! Our first table was so small, and so I asked my Grandpa for their table when he moved out of his house. It didn't belong to my grandparents for very long, but there is a fun story behind it: My Grandma loved shopping for deals, I remember how much she loved to shop at Pic&Save, and she called my Grandpa frantically and asked him to bring the pickup truck they had at the time over to a garage sale to buy this table. He asked her what she planned to do with the table they already had, and she said that they'd give it to someone in the family. So that's what they did, it might not have been in the family for long, but my Grandma used it at the end, and she would probably find it quite funny that I use it now, in Alabama of all places!

One thing I love about the front room is the light. We have large windows on three walls, and even with the blinds closed I don't need any artificial light during the day. It was one reason I signed off on the apartment sight-unseen, because that was the first thing that Curtis noticed. It's not a huge space, but it's big enough, and the TV area especially is very cozy.

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Kenny After Daycare

Kenny had his first day of daycare today - he was only there for about 5 hours, but he definitely needed a nap after, so he slept until his daddy got home.



Kenny later in the evening when he was ready to go to sleep:







He's pretty low energy today as well - I'll probably take him to another daycare for a few hours tomorrow, as that is the one that he is boarding at while we are in the Bay Area next weekend.

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Power is out!

But we have our cell phones and the iPad with 3G connectivity - thinking about playing a game, we probably have another hour or two of light.




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Our Patio and BBQ!

When I got to Spanish Fort I looked around our neighborhood and saw that EVERYONE had a BBQ on their porch, with very few exceptions. Plus they had some kind of patio furniture, so I knew that we should try and make use of the space, other than for bike storage.

So yesterday, we went to Lowe's - Curtis' manly side kicked in and he got really excited and we picked out our grill - which had the key feature of being very compact for our space.




Curtis had the honors of cooking our first dinner on the grill: Steak with grilled corn on the cob and a grilled onion soaked in butter. We also had salad and rolls with our dinner, which was delicious. We even opened up a wedding present that we hadn't yet: grill tools and a tray!



We also bought a couple of patio chairs and a table, and Kenny is happy that we will go out there to hang out from time to time.







Tonight we're probably making BBQ Chicken :-)

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