Happy Holidays!

I spent the day after Thanksgiving getting out my Christmas stuff and decorating the house for the holiday's! It was so much fun, but so much work. This is the first time since we have been married that we actually get to be in our own place for Christmas so I wanted and still want everything to look perfect. For the past few years I would decorate in Texas, but then we would leave for the Holiday and never really get to enjoy everything!

Today we looked for our first REAL Christmas tree and that was an adventure! It was freezing. Windy and flurries actually and we just couldn't find the perfect one, well I couldn't find the perfect one. Scott kept saying, "How about this one?" and I would find something wrong with it. Eventually he gave up and I found a good one.

In case you can't tell I am just really excited for Christmas because it has been a crazy year! We know we are blessed and we can't wait to celebrate with the people we love! We hope you do the same!

Happy Holidays!

Too Long!

I thought I would be so much better at keeping up with this blog, but I was wrong. For starters we have been busy since we moved back. It's amazing how fast the time has flown by! And second, I've come to the realization that our lives are kind of boring!


One good thing is I finally got a job after a four month break! ( Well it wasn't really a break) I am doing marketing for a home health company and really enjoying it so far. Here are few more things that we have been doing and some random thoughts as well if you care!


Husker games! Adjusting to the cold, not sure what I am going to do when it snows! Watching my friends belly grow (her first child due in Feb) hanging out with friends and family, continuing to re-connect with old friends thanks to me finally joining FACEBOOK! Eating way too much Valentino's, Runza and Ville Grill! Go Obama! New car! Friends wedding! My new blackberry or should I say crackberry. Finally getting to wear my Uggs! Cooking comfort food since it's cold! Looking forward to the holidays! (We don't have to travel 15 hours this year)


I think that about sums it up of now! I will promise to update again soon and hopefully about something more exciting! Oh, and here are some random pics from our friends wedding and other stuff from this fall!

Me and Amanda at the Husker game

Friends Wedding!

Great Weekend

It has been awhile since my last post, but things have been busy. If I haven't said it enough I will say it again, I love being back home! It has been so great reconnecting with friends and family and we are truely blessed with how things have gone so far. This weekend was a perfect reminder of how special friends and family are and how important it is to really make time for those special people in your life.

One of my friends from Willard had her bridal shower and bachelorette party this weekend and it was so great to be a part of this special time for her. We had so much fun, and well worth the aches and pains on Sunday and still today. Yes, one thing is for sure, it takes much longer than it did in college to recover from a night out! Thanks Chris for making me stay and to the rest of you for making it a memorable night! Below is a picture from the party before we went downtown!

My brother David and his girlfriend were also home for the weekend from Houston so that was also great. My brother is hilarious and always has the best stories. We laughed, ate great food and just enjoyed our time! We miss him and wish he was here! Below is a picture of my siblings and significant other's minus my little brother Mark who was MIA!

Please Pray

I know we all have a long list of things to pray for these days, but I have one more request to add to your list. Our great friend Jason left today for a six month tour in Baghdad and I just ask that you keep him and his wife in your thoughts and prayers. Please pray that he, and all of the troops stay safe and have the ability to call and email their loved ones as much as possible. Please pray that his wife stays positive through these next six months and uses her friends and family for support. Most importantly please pray that he arrives home safely!

Thank you!

We Made It!

After one more 1,000 mile treck on I-35, a week living out of a suitcase at my sister and brother-in-laws house and hearing that our things would be arriving later than expectedand at double the cost......WE FINALLY MADE IT TO OMAHA! We are so happy that the move is done and we are very excited to be home.

I did learn a few things from this experience and I want to share my advice and thoughts with you just in case any of you are moving or plan on moving far away in the future.

1. When moving companies give you an estimate no matter how exact YOU are with your inventory, they will find a way to screw you. I have never seen so many hidden charges in my life and none of them, with the exception of the gas charge were explained to me until after our things were at the warehouse. My advice is to budget for double what they tell you.

2. Why do all movers smoke and leave the butts in your grass? And why do they smoke right in the middle of taking your things in and out of the truck so the ashes get on the boxes...yuck!

3. Why is there always one person standing around doing nothing while the other two men are doing all the work?

4. We thought about just getting a uhaul and doing the move ourselves, but we thought it would be way too stressful. It really would have been stressful, but we would have saved thousands of dollars so think about what's more important, for me it was my sanity.

5. Probably the most important thing I learned is that moving long distance is one of the most stressful experiences and it is very expensive. Be ready to drain your wallet and savings accounts!

Aside from all of this, we are happy with our decision and know this was the right thing to do. This is home and nothing beats that.

Goodbye San Antonio

So tomorrow is moving day! We have anticipated this day for many months now and it is hard to believe that as of tomorrow San Antonio will no longer be our home. For the past few weeks we have been slowly going through each room of the house packing things up and wondering how we came to have so much stuff for just two people! Thank God for movers!

As I walked around the house tonight, going from room to room, making sure nothing was left behind, I found myself realizing how much I will miss this house, this city and the friends we have made. It has only been 2 1/2 years, but in this short time this is where we built our life and home. When we moved here we were engaged, living in a one bedroom apartment, not knowing a single person and wondering if we had made the biggest mistake of our lives. At the time it was the biggest and scariest decision we had made as a couple. Looking back, moving to San Antonio and starting our life together, 1,000 miles away from family and friends, was the BEST decision we ever made. We had no one to lean on but each other and we were forced to explore and simply grow-up.

As I look back tonight at the past 2 1/2 years I feel bittersweet. I feel much more sad than I thought I would be about leaving, but so excited to be close to our families and friends again. This has been an amazing journey and chapter in our lives and we hope that we can come back to visit sometime soon. Thank you to all of our friends who have welcomed us into your lives and listened to us when we were homesick, or in my case, stressed out about any and everything. We will miss San Antonio and all of you very much. Thank you for being so good to us! We will always remember this time in our lives.

Friends

On my first post I explained why Scott and I started this blog. One of those reason's was to reconnect with friends that we have lost touch with. I remember after graduating college how many of my sorority sisters and I vowed to stay in touch. It worked for awhile, but then we all started going our separate ways getting jobs, moving away, starting grad-school and simply starting another chapter of our lives. This includes myself when we moved to Texas. Part of this is my fault and it is one of the things that I regret very much. Many of us can't even find the time to email, pick up the phone or send a text to say, "hey."

So where am I going with this? Well after my first post I emailed an invitation to view our blog to all of our friends and family. I didn't even know if I had current emails, but I just sent the invite out anyway. Today I logged in and was trying to re-arrange some stuff, which by the way did not work, still practicing with this thing, and noticed that we had six new comments. I am happy to say that I had some comments from some of my favorite people. We were in Willard together at Nebraska Wesleyan and we have so many great memories together. These girls made not only my day, but my week! I just wanted to take a minute to say thank you to Amanda and Kelly and tell you both how happy I am that you said hello. This is why I started the blog and I hope you continue to keep me up-to-date on your lives and I hope we can catch up soon!

Also, for those of you have lost touch with someone special just take a minute in your busy life to send an email, pick up the phone or even send a text to say hello. You never know who's day you might brighten!

About Us

So I guess I should start by saying hello to all of you since this is my first blog post ever! I guess the purpose of this blog and the reason why I wanted to start one is because life goes by so fast and I often times look back and wonder why I never treasured all of the great moments. This is a way for not only Scott (my husband) and I to remember our life together, but to share our stories with all of those people that we have met and want to keep in touch with as we move away, those of you we have lost touch with, and those of you, who are yet to be part of our lives. Even with family this is a way to feel connected when we are too busy, live far apart or just haven't made the time. So that is why we are doing this. I have wanted to do this for awhile now, but "life" just got in the way.

I also wanted to take this time to share a little bit about Scott and myself. We have been married for two years now and started our new journey as Mr. and Mrs. Wenz in San Antonio, TX where we have lived for about 2 1/2 years now. We got moved down here a few months before our wedding (June 3, 2006) for my job at the time, as a Pharmaceutical Sales Rep. Scott teaches 7th grade Texas history and is so amazing with his kids. I know, I could never handle all of those hormones either! We are just a young, happy couple going through the joy and stress of our life, and somehow we or I decided to share it with all of you!

So why are moving back to Omaha, Nebraska of all places? Well, that is home and there is no place like home in my opinion. Scott grew up in Lincoln and me in Bellevue/Omaha whatever you want to say, and our family and friends are their. Once you move away you have a new appreciation for your family and where you grew up. Plus, for all of you who have never been to Omaha, which I imagine is quite a few, it is a GREAT place!!!! Again, the main reason we are moving is because of family. See around November of this year my grandpa had a quintuple bypass. He luckily was having some life saving symptoms and survived the surgery, but for a few days it was touch and go. The whole process was horrible and the hardest part was not being their. I knew there was nothing I could do, but just being helpless and far away really put it all into perspective for us. I didn't want to get a phone call and not have the chance to say goodbye. I have been very fortunate in my life to have all of my family, including grandparents around me to celebrate birthday's and holidays with. After this we knew we wanted to move home to be around family and savor as many moments as possible.

It's amazing how things come together though because we got our wish. Scott got a teaching job in Omaha and I am currently looking, which is a whole different post. Our house here in Texas sold after five, almost six long months and the movers are coming on the 21st to pack us up and take us Home.

In a nutshell this is us and where we are right now! We will post more soon. For now here are some pictures of us and of course Boston!

Our Spoiled Boston!

Skiing in Breckenridge, Co in March.