Cheers to Ten Wonderful Months, Plus

Well, we survived the first 10 months and are now on Month #11.

We celebrated our 10th Month Anniversary on Friday, along with we FINALLY got to have our romantic Valentines dinner for two. We decided that with all the commotion this month, that we would combine the two events. Our original Valentines reservations were made at Ferrari's Villa near Addison, so we decided to stick with that decision...only 13 days late. It was nice and very romantic!! What's not romantic about Italian, right?!?! We were sat in a corner table, off to the side of all the other Ferrari guests, giving us the feel of “just the two of us”. Our table was lit with a candle in the center. And although we ate with silverware and he didn't give me a meatball, it truly was a Lady and the Tramp “Italian dinner date” experience. We laughed and smiled and held hands. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and our first Valentines as newlyweds.

Oh, and I have the first big news of Month #11: Eddie and I are finally moving out of my parents' house!! We have been looking for a house for quite some time now...each with our own wants and visions of our ideal house. But each time we've gone to tour a house, we've never had that “this is it” moment; each house has always had something about it or was missing something, keeping us from feeling like it was “our” house. So, we finally decided that the chance of finding the house that perfectly matches each of our visions is like finding a needle in a haystack; the only possibility of finding our perfect house is not by buying another couple's vision, but by creating our own vision and having it built. We know that this will take time...we still have to find land, purchase it, contact a builder, have the blueprints designed and, not to mention, wait for the house to be built. So, for the next year we're going to rent. Our real estate agent, Kristen Wall with All Star Real Estate, showed us some rentals over the weekend, and we found one. It's in Rowlett, close to Hwy 66 and Chiesa. It, by no means, is our perfect house, but it will work perfectly for the next 12 months, while we anxiously await moving into our perfect house.