Our first Air Force ball

Enoch took me to the Air Force ball this past Friday. We had a good time and had fun dressing up. It was nice to finally have a date night with each other. I personally enjoyed how handsome Enoch looked all dressed up. It was special to be a part of this birthday celebration with my Airman. On a side note, it was crazy to get ready after work and even crazier to accept that I FORGOT my mascara/make up bag at work! What a nightmare! I managed to keep my composure and still have a good time:) Oh and thanks to my friend Marissa for giving me the nice dress I wore at the ball:D

Melany fighting me to try on my wedding shoes

what a little diva!

The best part of the night: dessert

Home Tour

Since we've moved to our new house, we have dedicated a lot of our time after work and on weekends to our home. And now for some self-disclosure: Enoch and I are neat freaks, we hate having a messy, disorganized house. When time permits, we try to do what we can to have a clean home and have a "house of order." And believe it or not, Enoch does like to keep our house clean more than I do. Ah! What a dream come true.. A man who likes to organize/clean/work on our home with me!

  We have put away almost everything that was boxed but there is still one room we have to tackle, and that's our office/craft room! For now we are taking a break from organizing/unpacking since we have other things like family history, studying for our classes and training for a marathon :)

We still plan to change things around our house, but below are some pictures of what our home looks like from the inside for now. We plan on changing/adding some decor and possibly painting in the walls in the future. We are very happy with our home. It is a refuge and our happy place.

Our Melany modeling our new dining table

Our entry-way, the french doors lead to our office/craft room

Our living room

The princess's room

The king and queen's room

Memorial Day Walk at Medina River

*This is a late post because we are still organizing, training and working on our house. 

       On Memorial day we wanted to get away for a bit from all the unpacking and organizing for our home. We are workaholics and I felt it would be nice to give us a break from it all. The walk was short and sweet with some hills but overall, it was a very peaceful time to be with each other.

Our strawberry shortcake

Melany wanted to throw herself in the river

Fiesta Texas with Emily and Houston Trip

         We went to Fiesta Texas on Friday 8/23/13. We got there at around 4pm and the park closed at 6. Ah! But luckily, there was almost no one there since it was the last weekend where kids had off for back to school. Emily and I were amazed at how many rides we got on despite the time. It was so much fun and scary at times to get on those crazy rides. But Emily and I had a blast and it was so nice for me to spend some time with Emily.

        The next day we headed to Houston, Texas to visit our grandma, Cecilia. She is staying with my aunt for a while and they wanted to see Emily before she went back to California. We saw our grandma and then headed with my cousin, Mynor and his wife, to Kemah beach. We were exhausted afterwords but happy we could visit with our family whom we usually don't get to see that often.

With my cousin Mynor and his family

Visiting our grandma at work

My 27th Birthday

   
 This 27th birthday was a pretty unique one. One of my dreams in life was to own my first home before age 30. This birthday came six days after we bought our house. What a blessing, and a dream come true. More importantly is that I was able to have my sister, husband and daughter by my side to celebrate it.
    My day started by taking a quick 3 mile run with my hubby, which we don't often get to do as we always have to push Melany on the stroller. When we got back home, Melany woke up and sang "Happy Birthday" to me in the early morning. And for some reason, this made me utterly happy, I felt so much joy and happiness to hear my baby wish me a happy birthday. Her "And  a birthday to you" rendition was one of the highlights of my day. She sang that song over and over to me until I left for work. At work, my co-workers were nice enough to get me a balloon outside my office, and gave me a lovely cake and cards. Even my patients were wishing me a happy birthday.
     After work, the fun started. Emily, Melany, Enoch and I headed to my favorite type of restaurant, a Brazilian steakhouse. We laughed so much and of course, my sweet Melany kept singing "And a birthday to you!"

Posing with the best b-day gift ever!

Don't mind Melany, she was ready to go home

My Coldstone cake, Yummy!(it took us 1 week to finish it:)

Going to bed after a great day with my singing queen

Our home!

We had to wait about 5 days for the grass to be planted and when it was finally in, I had to do a mini photo shoot of our house. She was the star of the show!
 Our move went pretty good. My strong, hard-working husband pretty much moved in all by himself because I was working. Enoch got some help from the missionaries, but overall it was all him. We don't own much furniture, and we didn't unpack some stuff from our previous move. Nonetheless, packing and unpacking was my second job after work. And luckily, Emily was visiting us the next day after we closed on the house, so she was also of big help to us.
       We love our home, not just for it's looks, but because of what it will mean to share so many memories in it. We are enjoying all the space, and freedom. We went from being in a tiny 1 bedroom apartment to this gigantic home. Once we decorate each space inside, I will post pictures here. We are so excited for this next step in our lives. And we can't wait to share our home with family and friends. Yay!

A picture with Emily during her visit

She's a runner, just like her mama

Picking our house-Part 2

     The day finally came when we closed on our home, Wednesday August 14 to be exact. Enoch asked for the whole week off to do pre-inspection and final inspection on the home, as well as packing and moving. I took the day off work on the day of closing and we drove about 25 minutes to sign the paperwork with our mortgage company. It was so exciting to drive to the office since it gave us a sense of relief to know that all the stress involved in buying a home was soon going to end.
  So we signed the paperwork, got our keys and gave a very big "Sigh" and "Hooray!."
     In case you were wondering, our house is 2,500 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 1 game room upstairs and one office downstairs. To get a better feel, the layout is below.
       I have to thank my dear husband for making sure we always had all the paperwork filled out from start to finish. We know that none of this would've happened if it weren't for God. He is mindful of our sacrifices, obedience and faith. He listened to our prayers throughout this whole process!

Happy clams waiting to sign the papers

Before

Ta-Da! After

Upstairs Layout

Downstairs Layout