Hi my name is Beth and I am an awful blogger

Remember me? 

I really should win the award for worst blogger EVER! 

There are so many things I have been wanting to blog about, and they all come to me while i am driving. The sad thing is my thoughts don't seem that important when I get home to my computer.

.... I need to work on that.

I started this blog so I could keep my family/friends updated on life as a Bream. But mostly it was so I wouldn't forget where I've been.

... I have done an awful job at both.

So there is a lot that happened since my last post. I will hopefully remember to give details in later posts but for now I will just keep it short and simple.

* we moved into our cute apartment and two years later we moved out! why you may ask? well...
* we bought our first house! 
(but before the house buying and after moving to Texas...)
* I worked at a daycare as a preschool assistant teacher and let's just say I could have quit after the first week. I learned very quickly daycare's are not the place for me. 
* found the right fit for me as a nanny for the most precious three year old boy. That little guy has my heart!

That is the very short version. 


until next time...


 

We Made It!

It has been crazy! So sorry i have been falling behind on keeping you all updated on what's going on with us. I was really hoping to have some pictures for you but since all my camera cords are packed away the pictures will just have to wait till we get unpacked in our new place. Where to start.... hmm. Let's start the whole way back where i left off last time.

Mike and I had a great time with our family and friends in PA. The two weeks with them went by way too fast, but we were excited to get back to Lynchburg to start packing up our stuff. We had a litle over a week from when we got back to Lynchburg to the time we left for Texas, it sounds like a lot of time when you dont have to work but we ended up needing more time. Mike and I were able to spend almost every week night with our friends then during the weekend his parents and my mom and sister came to help up move. We could not have moved with out them! Our mom's kicked butt with cleaning and Mike's brother and Dad did an amazing job with packing everything into our moving cubes.

We left Lynchburg Monday March 15th and arrived in Keller on 17th. Since both of us had our own cars I followed Mike the whole way, which was kinda nice for me since i didn't have to worry about missing any exits. It was wonderful being able to listen to my "cheesy girl music", as Mike calls it, the whole 19 hours. We stopped in Nashville the first night and Memphis the next night. I can't wait to share our fun pictures from the trip!

Thanks to Uncle Dave and Aunt Jill, Mike and I have been crashing at their beautiful home since we got here. They actually just got back from Disney World last night so we have been taking care of the house and their adorable dog, Snickers, these past few days. We actually just got apporoved for our apartment so we will be moving in on Tuesday! Talk about a fast answer to prayer. Now all we need is for me to find a job : )

I can't wait to move into the apartment, it is beautiful and full of so many little details! No more tacky yellow counter tops like back in Lynchburg! yay! I am SO excited to start decorating it and since its a two bed/two bath apartment I will need to do some shopping! Once we get settled in the apartment I will share some before/after pictures of the space and some new decorating ideas I have gotten from other blogs. I am even more excited to have internet there!!! I will now be able to keep the blog updated on our lives and put a little decorating twist to it as well. Time to catch up on my favorite blog's.... see you soon!

only a few months behind....

I must be THE worst blogger ever! I somehow find time every day to check everyone's blog but don't have 5 minutes to update mine. I promise to become a better blogger starting now! Why you may ask? Well I will be having some extra time on my hands now that Mike and I are moving to Texas. We found out about a 3 weeks ago, so we gave our two weeks notice at work and headed up to PA to visit our families for two weeks. That's where we are now, in Pittsburg visiting Mike's family and next week we will be in Lancaster visiting with mine. I promise to give you the down low on all our travels once we get to Fort Worth, but for now i just wanted to leave you with a quick update. See you all soon!

fall check list

I am so excited to actually be checking things off my Fall List, because I feel like I am making the most of our last fall in Virginia. We have had SO much fun accomplishing our "Fall List", here are some pictures to prove it!

this is the hubby and our friend from work Ben at the Gross's Family Apple Festival. I think my faovite thing about this picture are the mountains and clouds in the background.

the beautiful mountians on the way to the apple festival

look at all those trees!

The hubby and I suprised a friend of ours by coming to visit her and her husband in Fredericksburg. While we were there we did all kinds of "fallish" things like going on a hay ride, going thru a corn maze, making a bonfire with smores, and my favorite going to a pumpkin patch. I love how the orange sticks out agaist all that green in this picture....

We found the perfect pumpkin!Me and the hubs with our amazing friends (who we miss so much) Jamie and Susannah before entering the corn maze

Back in Lynchburg we made carmal apples twice! it is such a fun process.... sticky but fun! Here is our end results the first time we made them.

My first trip to the apple orchard this fall was with 3 amazing friends. This is Randa and I picking our apples

Then i went again with Mike and the Wagners. Here we are posing with Ronnie Jr at the apple festival.

Here is a small glimpse of my fall decoration skills. The leaves, walnuts and acorns were all found in the woods while the hubs and i played golf frisbee with the Wagners...

Hope you are having a fun time checking off your fall list!

fall is in the air

I am LOVING this fall weather. I am not one that enjoys cold weather but i do love the atmosphere fall brings along every year. From all the fun things you can do with pumpkins to the trees changing colors... i love it all!


This fall is really special to me because this will probably be our last fall in Lynchburg Virginia. Such a sad fact to face. I LOVE that we can enjoy all four seasons here (without the extreme winters like in PA). If things go through for us we will be in Keller Texas in January and from what i understand there is just a hot season and a rainy season. Don't get me wrong I am SO excited to have an average of 85 degree weather everyday, that is my heaven. BUT i am sad to say goodbye to not only the fall weather but also to the mountains and the beautiful trees that are here all year long.

So, in honor of our last fall in a state that gets to enjoy all 4 seasons i have made a list of all the "fallish" things i want to do!

1. make pumpkin muffins

2. decorate our home for fall

3. bake some pies! maybe a pumpkin and apple?

4. go to an pumpkin patch and pick out the perfect Bream Team pumpkin to carve

5. carve a pumpkin ( i promised Mike this year we would carve a pumpkin with the Steelers emblem on it.... we shall see how that turns out)

6. bake the seeds from the pumpkin.... so good!

7. go hiking

8. go to an apple orchard

9. make caramel apples

10. enjoy the leaves changing colors!

( I actually have already checked some off my fall list and i will post pictures soon! )

Getting to know the Bream Team

I thought i would write alittle bit about us, the Bream Team and how we came to be. I would love to tell you our full story, but i think i will save that for another post. So, here is the shortened version...We met our freshman year at Liberty University but didn't actually start dating until our Junior year. On our one year anniversary of dating, October 18th, 2007, Mike got down on one knee, told me he loved me for the first time and asked me to spend the rest of his life with him.

Here is our story in pictures....

These two pictures are us while we were dating

us on graduation from Liberty ... this was after we were engaged. Sorry the pictures are out of order

i loved my cap!

The Big Night! After a wonderful dinner at the 202 Market in Roanoke we headed back to Lynchburg to my suprise get engaged!

posing with my beautiful ring and all my decorations...

Nine months later we said I do in Lancaster PA.

July 26th 2008

Our wedding party

yes, this is a corn field behind us... only in Lancaster

one of my favorites...

we danced our first dance to "Hold Me,Thrill Me, kiss Me".

our cake was AMAZING!

A beautiful ending to a perfect day

Like i said earlier i would love to tell you our whole story and the many details of our wedding but i will save that for another blogging day.

A Special Thanks!

Notice anything new about my blog? Isn't it beautiful? My friend, Danielle over at Girls Night Out Custom Blog Design created the perfect design for me. Within a few days of first contacting her she had it all completed! So thank you Danielle for helping me feel welcomed to the world of blogging.