Meet our newest addition!

Meet our house!

She's definitely a BEAUT! Super simple, tradition ranch style home sitting on less than an acre - Ha!
No, but REALLY we love her!

She's older than us (circa 1982), gray accents (our fav), and needs TONS 'O work...But we're up to the challenge! In fact, we've already proven ourselves to her - but you'll have to be patient to see the pics of our upgrades & remodeling!


A little over 1400 square feet, a 1 1/2 car garage (1 car and a lawn mower...OR really Kenny's bat...I mean MAN cave), 3 bedrooms! *guests please invite yourselves* (including my CRAFT room! :) and of course 2 baths! We love our first little starter....to future rent house home!

Please come & see us (often!)

Back to Reality!

Well, after a super long sabbatical from my blog, I'm finally back! AND - since I have 1 follower that shouldn't be tooo bad for the rest of my future fans! Gotta laugh about that one! So without further ado, I'd like to sum up the last couple of months in a few bullet points...

• Following a 6 month stint with NO job...I found 2 amazing jobs!! Which meant 80 hour weeks during the months of October - December!
• I currently work as a Sr. Manager at a home interiors store - which I love and hate all in the same hour!
• Kenny still works for a bank...(hint...what's in your wallet?) - but is AVIDLY looking every day for another one!
  
• We bought a house towards the end of April!! Woo hoo! And love working on it and making it our own!
• Mom & Ronny (along with us) will be moving out of the rent house ... into their own apartment! Which means that after 3 1/2 years of marriage, we'll be ALONE! We won't know what to do with ourselves! BUT, we are extremely excited! **Note: we absolutely love our family and don't regret any of the memories we've shared, please do not take this as mean or in bad terms!**
• We're still learning how to be grown ups and STILL trying to figure out what to do with our lives!
• NO we're not pregnant nor will we be pregnant soon!

Hope this kinda catches you up to speed! I need to update this more and I really think that I will since it will include our UPDATES to our home! We love this fixer upper...and it just HAPPENED to be on the same street as our rent home! Godcidental! So stick with me..AGAIN...and I promise to keep you updated! Ha!

Love always,
the newlyweds (again!)

Well...so far not good!

Already didn't complete two days!! Can you believe it? :( But, I believe that where you start is not where you will end...I clench on to that statement all the time! :)

How is everyone? I know we're all busy and only have about 50 days until the BIG day! I'm working like a MAD dog and being extremely creative in my Christmas shopping this year...partially due to playing catch up after 5 months of not having a job! Now, thank you Lord, I have 2! I am VERY blessed, and VERY tired!!

If you walk into a Walmart and see a Game Islander with LOADS of games on it, please just say THANKS to your merchandiser from Hasbro! We have completed 3 already! PLUS - we have 3 to go! I have also been working for Kirkland's, I'm an assistant manager! So lately, it's been 60 hours a week! BUSY..but working, which is awesome!

Cannot wait for the holiday season, the fall weather here in Texas is great....mid 70s in the day...50s at night. If you have loads of fall leaves in your backyard, will you send a picture to me!? Rhonna has SNOW and I'm super jealous too! :)

We've been having fun playing loads of games and watching movies lately, hope you all are doing the same!

Love you much,
K&L

To keep up....

I'm challenging myself to this:
Do you think I can do it?? Happy Halloween all!! On one of my future posts will include our costumes!! :)

We love you all!
K&L

Will you do me a favor?

After thinking and praying and wondering for a LONG time, I've decided that my next action step will be teaching in either an elementary school or middle school (probably 5th grade max)! I love love love English, Social Studies, Geography, Math, & Reading. I'm not sure what I will teach, but I should be prepared for anything and everything! In the mean time, I've resolved to doing a couple of things -

1. Collect Lesson plans
   
2. Collect CHEAP CHEAP school supplies such as paper, pencils, markers, crayons
   
3. Collect books...grades 2-6
4. Collect board games
   
5. Collect decor for my classrooms (ie, posters, rugs, chairs)

will you do me a HUGE favor?! If you are working on getting rid of some stuff, find yourself on the sale aisle in Walmart where paper is 5 cents, or find great books in a garage sale or in your own home that you want to get rid of ... will you forward them to me? I need everything that I can get and with your help I can fully furnish my classroom with little cost!! If it costs, just send me a quick email (lidamathews@gmail.com) or call/text me (see FB if you're a friend)...and I'll be more than happy to reimburse you... BUT you have to call me! If not, you might think it's a great price and I may not have the $$ at the time!

I so appreciate all of you!!

Lida

P.S. I'm not quitting my MK business, I'm just going towards something that I feel that God is calling me to do!

Thanks again!

Busy Lives are ALWAYS a blessing!

**Note: The pictures from this post were taken by Kenny's IPhone, some are GREAT and some not so good...bear with me until I can take pics with my better camera!**

We've been working working and having fun these past days! Sorry to not keep you up to date, I have to get better at that...just by the time its time to blog, all I want to do is READ the blogs!! I promise to work on my posts and make them more and more interesting!!

So without further adieu...


we had a fab time at our concert - Creed...back after 8 years away! we missed you friends!
This was the most amazing concert, and we're actually in the Guinness Book of World Records - 259 HD cameras were on the stage!

here are some more pics..
we were soo incredibly close, we loved it - BUT before we went...

here's the date we had! We don't get these often, we ate at an AMAZING vietnamese restaurant prior to the concert and thank GOODness we did - because food was outrageous! 1 beer=$9.50, nachos=$8.50!! The people in front of us had 4 beers each+2 pretzels (there were 2 of them)+tickets....=outrageous!: We ate on less that 20 bucks!

My Meal: Thai flavored..yummy!

Above is Kenny's meal...which was SUPER yummy too!

At the Concert - :)
(Amazing pyrotechnics..Kenny of course loved them!)

THIS was amazing...their last song was HIGHER...and every time they said higher, flames would shoot up! We loved it!

OH - and I must mention my little friend:

It's hard to see...but it's a camera that kept going back and forth....no matter how many times it did it, I would look and look at it! Leading to the realization that I'm a fish and like shiny (or not) things that move...ha!

Us before the show! Our view...

We loved our seats! :) Thanks Mom & Pops Mathews - we loved Kenny's birthday gift!

Well, if you guys haven't noticed, its fall....I absolutely love fall because my FAVORITE season is right around the corner...I know you know which one that is because I have a countdown on my blog! :) Kenny's favorite holiday is Halloween, even though we couldn't decorate too much due to outside decor+weather=a HUGE mess....we decorated some inside this weekend:

and this...
Eventually there will be multiple foggers (we have 3!), bones in the yard, a crime scene in the driveway, and scary ghosts in the tree! We can't wait for the SPOOKY day! We'll show you some neat decor later this month! But...just for laughs, when you are deciding what to wear as a couple to a party, it's SUPER hard to find something that is fun, affordable, and ... easy! So we went to Party City (LA friends, ya'll are missing out! SUPER CHEAP & fun costumes!) in search of the BEST thing to wear..or at least some ideas...BUT we couldn't pass this up - and I had to catch it...if you didn't know Kenny, you'd think he could definately PULL THIS OFF! :)

isnt this hilarious? I totally want this to be his costume..but...it may not pass, and we may have to settle for Joker & Harleyquinn...pictures soon!

Happy decorating, enjoying great weather, eating great food, thinking about Christmas (and Tday!), battling traffic...ahhh..Houston, and doing other fun things you do!
We love you!

Weekend Fun!

Stay tuned for pictures of our happenings for that past week & our weekend decorating extravaganza!

Love you all!
K&L