House Pictures!

Welcome to our house!

This is the back yard... I have some really pretty rose bushes... when it doesn't snow...

The Front Entry Way

The little hallway that leads to the dining room, upstairs, 2 bedrooms, and the bathroom.

Sorry this one is a little dark. This is the dining room.

Hmmm.... I wonder what this room is????

And this would be part of the living room....

And this is our electric fireplace....

I promise that I now have furniture in all the rooms... maybe I can actually get some pictures of the furniture and the other rooms.... =)

Car Accident....

So I was involved in a one car accident on Friday...

My car hydroplaned off the road into a light pole in the ditch. The witness behind me said that I should not have walked away from the wreck and that I must be very lucky. I told him no that I am just VERY blessed. He was very nice to stop and make sure that I was ok and to get me out of the car because he was afraid that lighting would strike the light pole and my car would be hit as well. Mike (the nice witness man) stayed with me until Stephen's dad could get there.

Mike (remember the little witness man) said that as I was coming out of the curve that my car started sliding to the right and then I went to the left (I know that you are just supposed to let it go the same direction, but I was really SCARED!) and then it slid to the right again. He said that I spun around a couple of times and then took out one guard wire on the light pole, hit the light pole with the front right side of the car, and then the back bumper got caught on the light pole. (see why he wanted me out of the car??? not to mention that my car was sitting in about 5 inches of water...) This is the FIRST wreck that I have ever had and the last one that I ever want to have.

Mike said that my car was headed straight for the light pole, but something happened and it went off to the side....

So this has been a really bad week... Wednesday night Stephen pulled a muscle in his back and was down and had to go to the doctor on Thursday and then I wrecked on Friday morning... So we were both kind of out of commission for the latter part of the week.... BUT we did have an AWESOME revival. =)

So today I am VERY sore, but I am back at work. So happy that it was not more serious.... ANYWAY....

=) Heather

Pictures

Ok so I totally took these pictures from my sister.... but I just had to have them for the memories.... {and we haven't really taken any since then} We had our engagement pictures taken the other day... {I can't wait to see them!!!! They are going to be good...}

****ENGAGED****

Ok so I know that this post is a few days late... Ok make that a couple of weeks late.... but it has been hard to get around to posting this with everything going on.



So for those of you who do not know the story here it is....



Friday March 27th I was leaving from work a little early, because we had our Spring Conference that night and I had to go home and get ready, on my way home I called Stephen just to talk to him. We were talking when he said that he was going to get up and give thanks to everyone that had been a part of getting this together and at that time that we were going to give honor to our pastor and pastor's wife. He said that he had some roses that he wanted me to come up on stage and give to her when he got up there to start talking {it should have been obvious from this point}. I told him that I would only after he told me that no one else would help him with this. lol... During this time I had been aggrevating him over some stuff that we had been talking about and told him that he had told me that he would be proposing within the next 4 weeks about 3 weeks prior to this conversation. He told me that I needed to stop thinking about it that I would ruin anything that he had planned. He also told me at this point that he would need about a two week extention because the place that he wanted to do this at was not ready yet. So I said ok hung up the phone and went home to get ready. When I arrived at the school I was talking to everyone and he walked up, handed me the roses and asked me to hold them. After this point I don't think that I saw him again until he got up on the stage. While walking around holding the roses, people kept coming up to me telling me how pretty the roses were, all the while I was telling them that they were not mine.... {yeah I felt really stupid at the end of the night}.... so we go in the auditorium to get ready for the concert and I make sure that I am on the outside so that I don't have to go crawling over anyone to get out to go on the stage and made sure that I was close enough so that I didn't make a big scene to walk down the aisle. After the concert was over just before the preacher got up, Stephen's dad got up there to talk for a moment before Stephen {I would later find out that he was the one who took the ring up there}..... So when I saw Stephen go up there and start talking I made my way up to the stage to stand off on the side where no one could see me {although they all saw me walk up there and hide....} Anyway.... Man this is turning into a long story..... He starts thanking everyone and then he was talking about Bro and Sis Snowden and how when young men start to look for a wife that they should put the girl up against Sis Snowden. {In my mind at this point a very quick thought ran through my head that it was really weird that he would mention this tonight... but oh well... } So then he looked at me and told me to walk on out there. I walked out there and was looking at the Snowden's just smiling and they are looking at me smiling and I was wondering what was going on. It took a few seconds for me to realize that they were not coming up on the stage for this. He then began to say that when he started looking for a wife that he found the closest possible thing to Sis Snowden.... At this point he pulled the ring out from the pulpit {which his dad had taken up there and hidden for him}.... Once he did this everyone in the room stood up and started yelling.... I on the other hand started backing away from him shaking my head because I could not believe that he was doing this here on the stage in front of everyone... That's when he looked at me and asked me to come back over there or he would chase me to ask me.... lol.... He said some of the sweetest things and then got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.... And the rest is history.... We are getting married in September and I can't wait.... And for those that want to see the ring here is a picture from the website.....

The Case Of The Missing Voice....

dum dum dum.... (ok so that was supposed to be music.... lol)

So Friday morning I woke up and my voice was a little scratchy and my throat was a little sore, so I thought nothing to worry about, right???? WRONG! By 8:45 that morning I sounded like a deaf person trying to talk.... (I am not making fun, this is just how I sounded.... just ask my sister) I went all day long like this.... not fun....

Saturday Morning - Surely it will be back to normal.... I haven't talked for at least the last 8 hours... so I should be good... not so much... just not happening.... so on this day I talked barely above a whisper...

Sunday Morning - great Leadership meeting at the church this morning.... still can't talk... Heather, tell us how music is going when is the chorale starting?.... (deaf person talking here) "It will start this Tuesday night...." (Ok so at this point people are looking at me like I am retarded and pitiful as well.... great feeling) Yep I am your music director... I promise that when we sing and I teach you the parts it won't sound like this .... hopefully????

Monday - So surely after 4 days my voice should be back to normal and all the little old people that call into work on Monday's should be able to hear me.... not a chance... spent the whole day on voicemails hoping to get well soon..... tonight went and ate with family and promised to go to the nurse practitioner today if I didn't sound any better.

Tuesday - woke up @ 6:00 because I was supposed to have something ready for Stephen to pick up (and had forgotten about it.... oops) grabbed the phone to find out just how long I had before he got there and miraculously THE VOICE IS BACK!!!!!!

Oh my goodness you don't know just how happy I am... I will never take my voice for granted again... I don't think that the people around me will ever be this happy to hear me talk again.... lol... Stephen said that he couldn't wait until I could talk normal again... (I told him that it was annoying.... lol... he didn't believe me until a couple of days later... )

Anyway... fun fun...

So we finally got the washer and dryer installed in the house and had to change the cord (Thanks David for the phone advice!) so glad to have a way to wash clothes at my house... I didn't think that I would ever be so happy to do laundry in my life....

so until next time...

SPRING CONFERENCE!

SPRING CONFERENCE 2009!

Where: Warren County High School Auditorium

Date: March 27th, 2009

Time: 7:30p.m.

Music by: Kyle Elkins and the Experience Band

Special Speaker: Bro. Luke St. Clair - Anderson, IN

Hope to see you there..... =)

Busy... Busy... Busy...

Busy... that's what we've been..........

Non-stop......

Cleaning and remodeling the church... music practice... trips home....... work..... and various other church and other activities......

Oh my goodness.... Finally had time to sit down and blog for a moment......

Tonight we are heading to Nashville to pick up the living room furniture and mattresses for my house and various other things. So again no rest tonight.... I may be able to make up for it all this weekend.... maybe.... =)

So as soon as my furniture is in the house I promise to post pictures. =)

until then....