we can't forget we are thankful

i hope you all do not think we have forgotten about you!

we have so many thank yous and so many thoughts we are so excited to share with all. and we will. promise.

jasen and i just bought the envelopes for our thank you cards. we will be working this weekend to make sure we can get them out by next week.

(fingers crossed)

driving across country...hurricane scares...moving trucks...moving in...new jobs and birthdays have all passed...so we are ready to get it done!

so i hope you all know how thankful we are...and how we could not have had the day of our dreams...without you.

so be checking those mailboxes soon!

our newest addition to the family

GILBERT!!! or as i like to call him.... G Money!







what a pimp...

more fun with IKEA

so here is my absolutely stunning and amazingly beautiful wife having a ball with antique stain from our fav place....IKEA! enjoy the pics...once we finish staining these i think the transformation will be complete and we will take ya through a photo tour of our place!! woo hoo!!

let the transformation begin!

so a couple of weekends ago we withstood rita with no probs at our place and took that chance of a couple free days off to begin the process of making our apt our home! here are some pics from that process...also the moving van FINALLY came from CA a week ago today and here we sit with everything put away and our fall decorations on point! (pics of that to follow as well!)

for now, enjoy the photos of us painting the kitchen and dining room and setting up good ol ikea furniture!!

our first dinner in our new apt!

here are the pics from our first dinner (chicken and spinach raviloli in a five cheese alfredo sause) as mr and mrs ashdown in our apt!
enjoy!

pics of our apt!!

so since we have nothing else to do today....we figured we'd finally get ya pics of the apt!! check it out!!

the quiet after the storm

we are safe!! all is well, we headed to our friends house last night and hung out there. the storm headed east of us so we didnt get the worst of it. we hardly got any of it. just about 2 inches of rain and 50 mph winds. this morning we headed back to our apt and we didnt loose power here! so as we wait as the city starts back up - we went for a 2 mile run this afternoon! yeah!!

so once again, we are safe and doing great! no damage no nothing! thanks for all of your prayers for us, continue to keep our friends east of us in your prayers, sounds like it is bad over that way...

thanks again!

mr and mrs ashdown

we are safe!

so as some of you know we tried to leave yesterday, we left at 10.30am and at 6.30pm we had only gone 25 miles. yes, 8 hours and 25 miles. so because of all the unknowns with traffic, water, and gas - we decieded to turn around and come home. so as of this morning, the hurricane is still moving more east, taking us out of the most dangerous part of the storm. so in about an hour or so we are going to shelter with our friends radkey and christine. they are in the northwest part of houston and have stocked up on everything we will need.

so keep us and all of our wonderful houstonians and neighbors in your prayers! we love you guys and will keep ya posted as well as we can.

some of our memories...

so here are some photos from the wedding!! in a word....ahhhhhmazing!! thanks to nikki for these pics...you can check out all of her great photos of our day at The Past and Pending.

enjoy...