Happy Late Father's Day!

Happy "late" Father's Day Dad!! I am horribly late on the post but my week has been super duper busy with the new job and I haven't even been on my computer! But thanks Dad for being the best example of how to have a great family, love God, have fun, build stuff, pack, hike, travel, eat, laugh, dance, sing, and everything else amazing about you!! I am beyond blessed and can't imagine ever having any other Dad! I have been so lucky to have you in my life. I have so much fun spending time with you and look forward to the times when I know we will see each other!! I Love You!! I also want to send a shout out to my wonderful Father-in-law! We got to spend Father's Day with my in-laws and has SO much fun. I was so lucky to marry into such a wonderful/fun family!!

Amazing week!!

We are finally home from an AWESOME week. It all started last Thursday when we headed to Austin to "help Betho decorate" which really meant shop, eat, and watch movies. Saturday morning Betho and I got up bright and early to head to McKinney for our wonderful friend Roxanne's baby shower to celebrate baby #2....Cameron!! It was awesome and SO good to hang with the Bradford family and little Averton for a few hours! After that we began the treck all the way across Dallas for a wedding (who knew how gigantic the metroplex was). It was for one of my really good friends from grad school and it was the last time I will probably get to see some of my friends for a long long time. It was really hard leaving that wedding and I may have possibly started crying on the dance floor right before we left!! :(

So, after the wedding we headed to Valley Ranch (some other Dallas suburb) and an HOUR later met up with the Mexico trip group!!! P.S. Dallas is not my favorite place to drive around. We spent almost 3 hours getting from one destination to the next. That's ok though because by Sunday afternoon we were laying by the pool sipping yummy frozen drinks and eating guacamole!! With the exception of some yoga by the beach & beach volleyball, thats pretty much all we did for 4 days straight! IT.WAS.AMAZING! We had such a good time together. The weather was perfect, no rain and hardly any clouds. I am kinda having vacation withdraw and can't wait for our next trip! Lance and I are currently planning a trip to Peru to hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. It isn't going to be for a year so I am going to have to be patient. However, it may take my post grad school self that long to get into good enough shape for the trip so it's ok!

Ok well that's about all with the trip update. I officially enter the working world Monday and am anxious/excited to see how it is all going to go. My boss never called me back with what I am supposed to wear which is kind of annoying. You hate the be dressed the wrong way on your first day of work. However, I'm not sure wearing the wrong color scrubs one day it too big of a deal! :)

Ok have a good weekend! We are celebrating Father's Day early this weekend with my Dad at my house so I need to go get things ready. We are having our traditional "Father's Day Special", hot dogs, BBQ potato chips, and cherry pie. Can't wait!!! :)

Randon to have pics of a table but I had to show off our new and improved table! My dad stained the top for us and we repainted the chairs and legs. Love it! Thanks for the help Dad!

Here is the "before". Doesn't it look SO much better!?

Betho & I at the wedding. She was my date!

Rox, Ave, and Nonni ( I think that's her g-ma name)

Cute little Rox and Cameron

Us with the beautiful little preggo mamma

The whole group right before leaving :(

Me and L-Oh yeah, it was our 3 year anniversery while we were there!! Love you L!! :)

The pretty beach!

ok the end.

Paradise!

If you need me you can find me here!! I am waiting on Lance to finish packing and we are off to Austin today, Dallas Saturday for little Cameron Bradford's shower & a wedding and then we will spend the next several days here!!

New place.....Austin.....Mexico!

Decorating done.
Unpacking done.
Setting up furniture done.
Painting furniture done"ish".
All we have left to do now is put one more coat of paint on our newly beautified table and chairs and bring them home from my parent's garage and our new little home will be complete!
Next on the agenda.....going to Austin to help Betho decorate her new place and then off to MEXICO for what I am predicting to be a vacation for the books!!! I can't wait! I just need to find a place to get a good spray tan in Austin! :)

Below are a few pics of the living room and kitchen. And, in keeping with the Agan tradition....a fish! We are currently eating on a card table....I will post my pretty blue table soon once we finish painting. I must say I am pretty proud of my new found painting skills. That is a lot of work!! I also have somewhat of an eye sore of a chair in the living room but it is the world's MOST comfortable chair and I can't part with it!! :) I tired to move it out of the picture but it crept in!

I painted some frames to match the fish. I hope he doesn't die :)

We are still alive I promise!

Don't have time to post long, I am at my mom's house finishing about 6 hours of repainting my kitchen table and chairs in their garage. We don't have Internet in the new place yet so that's why I haven't gotten to posting. However, I will post soon with pics of our new place and other things! But here is a quick rundown of life lately & a few graduation pics from there computer.

* I officially graduated and am now Kayla Agan, M.S. CF/SLP
* We moved to Houston last week and were greeted by tons of moving helpers and have everything moved in!
* Apartment is GREAT! I LOVE it....it is huge, has huge tubs and closets and we are the first people to live there. It doesn't have that "apartment" feel at all and I am loving living there!!
* We leave for Mexico in 6 days for a little vacay with some of our closest college friends and Betho & Cody!
* I start work June 14th and am pretty nervous/super pumped to be finally getting a pay check- **On that note, I am working at a skilled nursing home helping people who have had strokes, trauma etc. with their speech, swallowing and overall cognitive abilities. I'm not sure I ever actually posted what I will be doing with my life post grad school. :)
* Lance is still looking for a job, but had a second interview today and we are hopeful something good will come of it! They said we would definitely hear by end of next week. We are praying and keeping our fingers crossed!
* Other than that I have been soaking up every minute of my new found freedom!! I have been really into painting things lately and have become quite crafty with all my free time. I have spent a lot of time driving up an down Westheimer in Houston trying to get a feel for my new "neighborhood". I am a little worried I am going to either go broke or get fat with all the AMAZING restaurants in walking distance from me and Lance.

Ok that's all for now, I need to leave Sugar Land before it gets too dark! I am a chicken and don't really love driving around Houston after dark! :)

The music at the Ice Cream Shop was apparently too good to resist! :) Love them!

Packing up!

Life is pretty good right now. I have been sleeping in, cleaning, hanging out with Lance and just enjoying my newly found freedom post grad school. Lance and I went together yesterday to get haircuts (well I got highlights) and it was really fun. However, I was really nervous about Lance discovering how much the highlighting process costs. After I got my hair washed out I told the girl, "My husband has no idea how much this whole process costs, and I think it may depress him, can you make sure and give me the bill?" She promptly replied, "Oh sorry, he already paid and is waiting for you in the front." Uggh!! So the secret is out. However, Lance took it really well and said he actually thought it would be way worse!! I kept it to myself that when you throw a hair dry and a cut in there it IS way worse! ;)
Today the plan is to work out, lay out, and then pack. I have mixed feelings about packing. I hate having to spend so much time wrapping each little thing up and carefully putting it all in boxes. However, I love the satisfaction of having everything neatly put in boxes and all taped up! I have always been the kind of person that loves change and empty walls and neat little boxes stacked everywhere signals that change is coming and it makes me really excited!
Lance's parents are coming tomorrow for Lance's graduation and I can't wait to see them for a while. We are actually leaving with them Sunday and going to Houston to get an apartment and Lance has a few interviews lined up! I know an interview doesn't necessarily mean a job, but just the fact that he has a few interviews is something to be so thankful for!!
Speaking of getting an apartment. I think I am coming to the point where I am just about done with apartment dwelling! I want to do it for one more year so we will have a better idea of where we are going to settle and everything. However, I think we will sign 1 more 12 month lease and then take the plunge into home ownership! I wanted to buy a house this summer. I made a big plan about what we could use for a down payment, etc. etc. and presented my case to Lance. However, I have a logical husband that convinced me that buying a house is not something you want to rush. It's a good thing I have him, or my impulsiveness could get the best of me! :)
Ok that's all for now. I found this picture of me on an older post, packing to leave Houston to move to Lubbock. I told Lance to take a picture by our Lubbock boxes and I said, "How do you feel about leaving Lubbock?" I think his face answers that pretty clearly! :) I also found my planner from my senior year of college while I was packing! Look and see if you can read what the page says! It made me smile!! :)

Leaving Houston 2008

Leaving Lubbock 2010

Can't wait to see where we are in 2 more years!

Peace out Grad School!!

I am officially D.O.N.E with graduate school forever. I will be starting work on June 14th but for now I literally don't even know what to do with myself!! I cannot believe that this 2 years of, well, misery, is OVER!! I am sooo happy. Unfortunately, I am recovering from an awful stomach bug and am really weak so we can't go out and celebrate tonight. But that doesn't change the fact that I am done whooooo hoooooo!! Happy Monday....it may as well be Saturday for me!!! Oh how I love it!! :)