Tuesday, January 26, 2010

This Desert Life


Here are some pictures of our New World! I don't have any indoor photos of our home yet--mainly because it's not 100% in order as of yet. Luke and I should have that completely finished this weekend.
So far the town as been great! The neighbors all came over and introduced themselves and brought us dinner. A new mexican spicy stew of sorts. I'll have to send out the recipe shortly. A little different kick and taste, so exciting to both Luke and I. Our house seen below has 5 pecan trees, so Luke and I are collecting currently and plans for a pie are in the works.
This past Sunday we took a day tour over to Sitting Bull Falls. This is a 150ft. waterfall located about an hour away from our house. We hiked around the area and plan to go back this summer to swim in the pools. We took our suits for this go round, but just couldn't bring ourselves to do it. That's it for now!


Monday, January 11, 2010

New Stuff

It's official!! I'm a New Mexican as of last night! It's been a while since the last post, so I'll say the Holidays were great.
Luke and I were lucky enough to visit both families for Christmas. We had a wonderful break seeing our families and got a bunch of great new things. I think Luke was most excited about the Wii. He is officially crazy over Wii wakeboarding from the resort game.
Luke and I brought in our 4th New Year together (yes...this is our 4th year in a row kissing) in Nashville. We had dinner and drinks with some friends out on the town and then headed to a house party to watch the ball drop.
Thursday, Jan. 7th the movers arrived. They loaded up my car, our house, and off went everything. Luke and I drove to Oklahoma to visit with my cousins as we made the half country trek. I will say Oklahoma toll road are NOT COOL! I forgot they even had tolls in Oklahoma and after donating around 13 bucks, all I can say is they should at least make the roads decent!
So...first day in Carlsbad and I'm writing from the Holiday Inn hotel computer. Luke is hard at work already and I have run the new town errands of setting up the water (they require you to come in person,) and already started the job hunt. I still have not called Navarro to find out if I got they job, but I'm guessing if they were interested in giving me the position I would have heard something as of now. Sad Day! Would have been a pretty cool deal. I guess it wasn't meant to be, so I'll take it as that. I visited the New Mexico State University Carlsbad branch this afternoon and spoke with the Human Resource woman there, so hopefully they have something for me. She seemed very interested and positive in the idea of them having something for me, so...keep you fingers crossed for me.
That's it for now! Life is happening so fast!