This & That

I have decided... I am not going to add any pictures of the house on the blog. My reasoning is... if I gave you the prize you would never endure the journey! So, if you want to see the "Hickam Hotel" you must make a reservation!! I have some weekends already fully booked!
I keep trying to get everything done to take pictures, but you know me... It never looks finished enough to actually take pictures! I want it to be perfect, and I have realized that that will take a few more months!
Jillian will be starting PREP school on September 5th. (At least I hope! Here you must have your doctor sign off on the child. I am trying to get her Hot Springs doctor to do that!) I will definitely have my camera along for that!

Go HOGS!!!! We are getting soooooooooooie excited about those Razorbacks! Of course you know Andrew talks about them ALL the time! Well, Jillian has decided that she will wear her Razorback cheer leading outfit everyday until we take her to a game! It never fails that she will ask daily, "When are we going to the Razorbacks?", then proceeds to put on her cheer leading outfit! I could have kicked myself the other day! We have a Dairy Queen about 2 miles from our house. (Jillian calls it "Queens") We went to go get some ice cream, and Jillian HAD to wear her Razorback outfit! So, here we are in the middle of LSU and Longhorn country, and here walks in Jillian with her Razorback outfit! I knew we would have the whole place calling those hogs before we left! Well, that didn't happen! The closest thing we got was a few stares! Also, Andrew has informed me that we will be buying the SEC channels on Dish! I am so excited! I cannot bear to watch anymore Dallas Cowboys or Longhorns!! So I am adding the games we are trying to attend! Maybe we will see some of you there!!

October 6: Tennessee-Chattanooga in Little Rock (My birthday is the 5th!!)
October 13: Auburn in Fayetteville
November 3: South Carolina in Fayetteville
November 10: Possibly flying to Tennessee
November 17: Mississippi State in Little Rock
November 23: LSU at Baton Rouge (If we are doing good, I am going to this one!!)

I need some new Razorback outfits, but I don't think they are allowed to sell RED clothing in the whole state!!!!

Love ya, Julie

I know, I know!!

I know that you are all unhappy with me!! I get it!! But, right now I have too much work to do. We are down to about 25 boxes! Out of 397, I think we are doing good!! They are the last few you just want to mark garage sale and put in the garage! But then, you remember... there could be something in there I REALLY need! I will have to say... after having our stuff in storage for so long, it feels like Christmas in August! There are the things you are sooooooo glad to have, and the ones you think, great what am I going to do with this!! Andrew was in St. Louis last week, so I have been Mom, painter boss, unpacker, cook, cleaner, mower, and pool boy! (Okay, so I did sign up for all of that!!)
Lisa is working on the pictures from the reception. Our wedding pictures from Hawaii are up if you want to heck those out!
www.collages.net
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Then you enter your email and your name and it will take you to the pictures! Leave me a comment on my blog about them if you take a look!

Oh yeah... since you are all letting me know that I am not blogging as much as I need to, I am going to tell you, that I wish some of you would comment more!! If you don't know how, email me and I will tell you!!

Love you all and I promise you will see some pictures up soon!

Julie

Sorry!!

Things have been crazy! Sorry I haven't posted anything latley. We will not have internet until August 4th! We will see you then!! -Julie

We are married!!

Well, the big day was Tuesday!! It was wonderful! I do not have any pictures from that. Too much was going on and I will get the ones the photographer took and post those!



This is a picture of us from the resort!

We got here on Friday, July 6th! Sunday we drove the road to Hana. It is gorgeous! It is about 60 miles one way! Although that sounds like a quick trip... it took us 12 hours to get there and back!!


This is a picture of a Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree! They are so beautiful!!


This is a cave at one of the black sand beaches! It is so beautiful!


There are waterfalls like this one all along the Road to Hana!


If you are adventurous, there is a one lane road past Hana. It takes you to Haleakala National Park at Kipahula. In order to get to the biggest falls, you have to take a 2 mile hike. This is a picture of a Bamboo Forrest. We had to walk through this to get to the falls!. It was very neat, but it gets really dark in places. I was ready to get into light at most times!!


The Pipiwai Trail has a 800 foot elevation change from the start to finish! It about killed us! This is Waimoku Falls. It is a 400 foot waterfall!


I know this is not that pretty, but it is one of my favorites! The road to Hana is so remote that if anything happens to your car... well... you just saw it!

Today, we went to the dormant Haleakala (Hal-e'-a-ka-la)volcano. It is around 10,000 feet high! That was a shorter trip! We did that in 3 hours!!


This is some plants regrowing after the volcano years ago!


I like this one too! It looks uneven, but it really isn't. While, I was just looking at the picture I thought I might have a little motion sickness!


I have the information on this flower, but we left it in the car!

Saturday we are flying over to Pearl Harbor on Oahu. It is a short flight! Andrew is really excited about that!

Nanna's House!!

The last time we went to Sandi's house, Jillian named her Nanna. Also, Jillian on her own, decided that the lake was her swimming lake and Sandi's pool was her swimming pool! So, needless to say when I told her we were going to Texas she automatically asked about Nanna! We drove over Saturday afternoon and spent the night. We had so much fun. We just sat around the pool and watched a few fireworks Saturday night! Rosco, Sandi's dog, loved the rocket we were playing with. He also thought that he should have a turn! He tried and tried to get it from Jillian. Jillian left her stoop and finally he got it! We will see them again in a few weeks!

Jillian swimming in her Texas Temporary Home!!

Jillian and I got to Texas yesterday! We are here to get a few things for the new house! We are staying at the Homewood Suites. They are so nice. The rooms have a kitchen, dining area, living area, bedroom, and seperate bath! It is like a mini apartment. They feed you a full breakfast and full dinner! It is wonderful! I have questioned the fact of even living in a house. At least here, you have a maid cleaning everything up! Today, we had a fun-filled day at the pool! Jillian loved every minute. Tomorrow we are heading to "Nanna's" house! (Jillian calls Sandi Nanna!) We are going to swim at her house for the weekend. Maybe even catch some fireworks!

Baby Hattie and Jillian

We stopped by Crystal and Damon's house on Sunday. We had to see baby Hattie! She is so adorable! She was eight days old and the sweetest thing! Jillian of course was the first to hold her! Jillian, the ham, was asking me to take pictures of her and Hattie! We are going to have to get some matching Razorback cheerleading outfits for the two of them! We also found out that Mary Ellen is pregnant! Hopefully she will have a girl! We might just have our own little Razorback squad!

Pictures from the Bahamas Trip

I finally figured out how to download my pictures from the camera to Dad's computer! They are not the best pictures. Lowe's hired two professional photographers to take pictures while we were there! They are making cd's and sending us all the pictures they took there. That should come in the mail shortly and I will upload all of those. I don't have any pictures of me and the sharks. I am going to load one of the big shark before I caught it!

The trip was amazing and all we had to do was ask and whatever we wanted was provided for us! I ended up getting a Hendrick Marine hat. I think there are less than 50 of those hats floating around! I hope you enjoy the pictures!


This is a picture of Andrew and me in front of the Lowe's jet!


Andrew wanted to look like he was big-time!


This is a picture of Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s jet. His hanger is right across from the Lowe's hanger. I wanted to stand in front of it, but planes were taking off.


This is a picture of the beach frm our room! it looks like something out of a magazine!


This is a picture of the big shark before I caught it. We were throwing out squid to get it up to the boat!


This is Doug, the Captain, and me after I caught the shark! He was so much fun! I was wiping my nose and sweat on his shirt because I had no sleeves! He was getting on to me about doing that!


This is the brand new Hendrick fishing boat. Her name is "Reel Wheels". I thouhgt it was fitting. Mr. H has never seen the boat!


When we went snorkeling, there was an island that had huge starfish.



This is the last picture I took before we left the island! It isn't the best, but we were sad to go!

Bridal Pictures!

So... here they are!! Let me tell you! I would get married everyday of my life if I knew I could do this all the time! I loved it! We had so much fun. Mom and Amanda were troopers! They really stepped up and helped with all of the duties! I was burning up! It was 90 degrees that day! I love every on of the pictures! I dont know which one to pick! I have 2 favorites. I am going to post my 2 favorites and then you all need to make a comment on my blog about which of the two I should get. I am getting a 16x20 for the reception. Please help quick. I have to choose by Sunday! I am also posting a link to all of the bridals she took of me! Like I said, if anyone is looking for a photographer, she is worth it! She is also sooo much fun to work with!

http://www.lisafeltsphotography.com/JulieBridal/index.htm

Engagement Pictures!

So... here they are! I am going to post a few of my favorites. Please check out the address to see them all! Also, If anyone is looking for a good photographer. I have a great one! Her phone number is on the proof pages!

http://www.lisafeltsphotography.com/JulieEng/index.htm

Friday at the Lake with Papaw!

Okay, so I am having technical difficulties with the pictures from the Bahamas. I cannot get the pictures from my camera to the computer at Dad's house. So, I am going ahead and posting pictures from the lake. Dad took Andrew, Jillian, and me to Lake Norfork in Mountain Home. We had lots of fun and got a chance to relax. Maybe I will post some more if we go tomorrow. The only reason I can post these is because it is from Dad's camera!

The "Great" Trip

Well, we flew in on the corporate jet! It was wonderful. Then we got on Rick Hendrick's $42 million yacht! It is beautiful. Then yesterday just me, Andrew wouldn't go, went on Mr. H's 1 day old $14 million fishing boat! It was great. And..... I CAUGHT A SHARK!!!!! I was the only one on tha boat that caught anything! It took me 45 minutes to get it to the boat. I am so sore! I have talked Andrew into going fishing today! I can't wait. Maybe I will catch a tuna! I couldn't load any pictures, but we will be back soon!

Julie

Hot Springs Village Shower

This Shower was on Sunday, June 10th. We had it at Security Title. April, Judy, Adrienne, and the two Amber's gave me the shower. It was wonderful. With all my presents, they finished out my everyday dinnerware and almost finished the entire collection for the Wilton Armetale design I had picked! We are so thankful for all of the presents we received. We cannot wait to get to Texas and have a home for all of our new things. One picture is of Jillian singing "The Stars at Night" song we changed! Also, my sister, Judy, made us a shadow box that included our announcement and a picture of us. She is not done with it yet! It is just a rough draft so she could let me open it at the shower! Thank you to all that helped with the shower. We are so thankful to have everyone of you in our lives!