The Hembrees

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Ty's baptism

On January 17th, we went to Belzoni to see my cousin Ty's baptism. It was a sweet day. He was baptized by his "Papa".

Friday, January 22, 2010

My parents are at our house tonight for a short visit. Dad has a meeting tomorrow in Hattiesburg. I told him they should stop by and see Tiger Woods:) After work today, we took them out to the new house to see the progress. They are staying with us tonight and Rob and I are going to Baton Rouge tomorrow for the Ole Miss vs. LSU basketball game. Here are some new house pics.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

BIG NEWS!!

We have a contract on our house...and didn't even have it on the market!! This is exciting, but very bittersweet for me. For 4 wonderful years, I have lived in what I would consider an amazing home full of old charm and character. You can't walk into this house and not just feel happy. We also live in a wonderful neighborhood. Belhaven is so unique and I have formed amazing friendships while being here. I have a strong connection to this house, b/c I bought it before Rob and I were a couple. Thanks dad for encouraging me 4 years ago to buy a house instead of continuing to rent. It was great advice! I still catch myself telling people that it is "my" house...i mean, my name is the only one on the mortgage. My sweet cousin, Lindsay, lived with me before I got married and we had such a wonderful time together.....and some not so good moments (the fire).

Now, we ask for your prayers. Sometime soon there will be a home inspection on the house, and being that it was built in 1931, you never know what might be wrong. We don't expect to be in our new house until March, and if all goes well with the home inspection, our buyers are letting us stay until our new house is finished. SO, I am getting a jump start on the moving process which actually made me tear up yesterday....let the packing begin:)

looks like a kitchen!

I am LOVING my kitchen!

Saturday, January 9, 2010

finally to kitchen!

Our trim carpenter is working on the kitchen now..which is so exciting. Rob and I went to the house today and could hardly stay long due to the cold weather. Things are looking great. On Monday, I go pick out granite, finalize paint colors, and get appliances ordered.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

San Antonio Christmas

The day after Christmas we flew to San Antonio to spend a week with Rob's family. We were fortunate to not have bad delays this year like we have had in the past. As always, Rob had us up early and doing as much as possible during our stay. This year we decided to spend 2 days of our trip in Houston. We got to see Brian's apartment and he gave us a tour of M.D. Anderson Cancer hospital, Hermann Hospital, and the University of Texas-Houston Medical School where he has been for almost 4 years now. While in Houston we also went to the Holocaust Museum and NASA. In San Antonio, we went to the Natural Bridge Caverns (which was really neat) and we did some shopping. On New Years Eve, we went to church and got to see Mark get baptized. We did manage to rest on New Year's day. Luckily there was plenty of football on tv to keep us grounded for the day. Mrs. Cindy, Brian, Rob and I spent a lot of the time playing Uno. We had tons of fun on our trip. When we got back to Jackson, we had one day of vacation from our vacation:)
my new rain boots

Rob has some help opening his presents

Mark, Rob, Brian

Grandpa Hembree reading the Christmas Story

Houston, we have a problem (the real mission control)

on our audio tour:)

Natural Bridge Caverns

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Christmas at Me-Mama's

We had another great year at Me-Mama's for Christmas Day. This year we had 2 new members in the family. Ty, Ruth and Jeff's new baby boy.....and Anthony, Lindsay's boyfriend. We did miss several family members and hope we can all be together next year:) After lunch, we had our annual singing of carols and opening presents. It was all fun! Rob and I drove back to Jackson that night so that we could fly to San Antonio the next day...pictures of that trip will be up shortly.

our growing family (minus 6 members)