Buck, Doe, and Fawns

If finding a house where we live now wasn't stressful enough, we may be moving halfway across the United States. It really all depends on if my in laws move back home. It's like a real life "Love It Or List It" with a little bit of change. (Josh's) Dad wants to "list it" but Mom also doesn't exactly "love it." She's mainly just tired of moving. I couldn't even imagine what moving is like. I've only moved once and it was about thirty minutes away and I moved back into my childhood home about a year after I first moved out.

It's something that we're really going to have to talk about and decipher the pros and the cons. If Josh's parents move back home, he'll be here without family or anyone he grew up with. He's already without people he grew up with, but at least he has his parents here. If we move with them then it will be me that is without family or any of my friends. It would be nice to have a complete change, but there is a handful of people I really wouldn't want to leave behind.

I'm not too sure how we would be able to find jobs and a house without being there. Josh will probably be able to get a job with his brother, but that still leaves finding a place to stay. We might just have to rent until we were able to find a home.

I mean, it's not even a for sure thing that they would be moving at all. We've been contemplating going to Oregon/Washington before we even found out that they were going to put their house on the market. Kinda jokingly saying it with serious thoughts about it.

What do you all think we should do? Have you ever moved super far away from family and friends and everyone that you've known?

photo is mine.

Today my husband and I celebrated our 2 year marriage anniversary. It's really amazing to be where we are now considering how we started out.

This was me two years ago today! We got married in the dining room of my grandmother's house. It was absolutely perfect for a lot of different reasons. We planned for an 'actual' wedding ceremony and everything, but I think deep down we knew that it was never going to happen. Who spends thousands of dollars on things that you only use for one day?! I mean, if that is your intentions, then have at it! That's just not what we wanted. We spent less than $100 and I am A-OK with that. We'll probably have a small, inexpensive wedding re-vow on our fifth or so anniversary or our original idea of whenever our first born is around age 5. 

This picture was taken the same night of our ceremony. We had just got home from going out to eat and I took his phone and took a picture of us. I'm usually not one to take pictures, but this was just a moment that needed to be recorded. There was an awesome group of people at a table close by to us that bought Josh and I drinks and bought desert for the whole table. If they have somehow found my blog and remember that night, I just want to say 'Thank You!' It's definitely not something that I will ever forget.

This is one of my favorite pictures of us. It's almost two years old. As you may have figured out, we hardly have any recent pictures of us besides really badly posed holiday pictures! It's not only that I hate being in front of the camera (I really don't like photos of just myself, like really really don't like it), it's just every opportunity that we have to take photos, it always turns out really badly posed. I like the more natural look of our photos, one where I turn the camera on, snap a picture, and that's that! They turn out pretty cute, in my opinion. ;-*

I've ragged on the "holiday" Valentine's Day because of the "significant-other-only-showing-love-one-day-out-of-the-year" thing and the competition that comes with it. We are 100% on the same page about it and don't celebrate that holiday (if you can even call it a holiday?). Neither one of us are perfect, but I think we do a pretty good job of showing love to one another daily. Whether it's something as small as kissing in the morning, when he gets home from work, and before bed, or sending a random text because we were thinking about one another. Just anything! I mean the list really goes on and on. I'm not trying to say that we're a perfect married couple and that we never fight, because we definitely do and we definitely have. The best advice I ever got from someone when Josh and I got married was "never go to bed mad." I stand by that big time.

At first I was really on the fence about doing something for our anniversary. It's just not my thing to celebrate something like that. It kind of goes hand in hand with Valentine's Day, except it's also completely different. Valentine's Day is the same day for everyone and everyone seems to make it a competition, but our wedding anniversary is our day. There's no one else there to compete with us on that day. I mean, I'm sure that there is someone else in the world that got married on the same day that we did, but how likely is it that they are in the same town as we are?


This is us today. We are more in love than ever and our love keeps growing every day. I don't regret marrying young or rushing into it one bit. I couldn't imagine my life without him. He's saved me from so much and he keeps me sane. He is an amazing dad and husband.

This is to two years and many, many more.

After so long of waiting! 

(Kinda joking, got 2 day shipping but I've been needing an upgrade for a while now.)

I bought a used Canon EOS Rebel 1000D/XS at the end of 2011. They were manufactured in 2008, so I was pretty much due for an upgrade as soon as I got it. But it was my first DSLR and I didn't want to over-do myself since I'm not a photographer and I don't claim to be. It would have been cool to have kept it to keep in my future office of our future house, but that was wishful thinking and the money that I sold it for went towards the price of my Canon EOS Rebel 700D/T5i. 

I got it off of amazon and all of the extra accessories were suppose to be Polaroid, but that's another story for another day. Even with knock-off accessories, it was still a super good price. I'm not mad about it because I knew it was going to happen with all of the customer reviews. Even if I bought just the Canon EOS Rebel T5i 18-55MM IS STM Kit alone, it would have been the same price if not more.  I'll slowly but surely be buying quality products. I'm really wanting a wireless flash, fisheye lens, a remote control that has a delay, and a couple more accessories.

What are some MUST HAVES that I should get?

I have yet to name it/him/her, but it's just going to have grow on me. You can't just give someone a nickname and it's the same way with my camera! I've seen one named Canon O'Brien and I can only hope that I could be as witty as the owner of Mr. O'Brien. I'm not too sure if it's the normal thing to do but who wants to be normal anyways?!
Do you have a name for yours?

I'm hoping to get a little better and figuring out the settings so I can get perfect moments of our little family. It's the biggest reason of why I wanted a new camera. My XS could do a lot, but it couldn't do video and that was one of my biggest factors when picking out a new camera.