February in Texas

It has been a busy month for us here in Texas. Zac has been extremely busy at work this month. The new office here in Texas is growing rapidly and I don’t think anyone was expecting Houston to welcome CMTA so quickly. CMTA Houston has officially hired their first employee. They hired Sherry, she is a mechanical engineer and will be a big help to Mark! They are also currently searching for an additional mechanical and an electrical to help Zac. Being the only contact for electrical he is swamped daily by phone calls and emails on top of his busy week filled with meetings and drawings to be done in the office. He spent the whole weekend at the office and it seems like work won’t be slowing anytime soon. On top of work, Zac is also taking a PE Exam Course that is in Phoenix, Arizona. Zac has to pass the PE Exam to be able to receive his Professional Engineering License. You are not eligible to take this exam until you have been graduated from engineering school for 5 years, so this is the first (and hopefully last) time he will be taking the exam. He will be spending many different weekends flying to Phoenix to attend the class to help prepare him for the PE exam, which he will be taking in April.

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Valentine’s Day Weekend!! I was very happy to have my friend Emily in town visiting during that weekend. We spent most of our time shopping and talking, I miss spending time with her so much! Emily, Zac, and I had an awesome Valentine’s Day dinner. We went to the grocery store and came home with Lobster tails and vegetables to grill. I was also happy that the weather warmed up and Emily was able to enjoy the warmer temperatures while she was here, especially since she went home to a snow storm! We were having so much fun we forgot to take any pictures of our weekend together = ( Fortunately she and her husband Jeff are already planning a summer vacation here in July for a whole week, so I’m sure we’ll take plenty of pictures then.

HAPPY BIRTDAY AUNT JANE!! We hope you had an awesome birthday yesterday!! We love and miss you!

This Wednesday, February 24th is my brother David and Christa’s 3rd Wedding Anniversary! Happy Anniversary to you both! We love you both and hope you have a wonderful day!

And as promised in my last blog…The dreaded bathroom project…… After many different hiccups it was finally complete just in time for Emily’s visit with us. This was also supposed to be another one of “my” projects, but it quickly became an “our” project, which I’m sure Zac was so pleased by that!!

Here is a before picture again:

We then began the process of taking off the wallpaper:

And the bathroom is finally complete:

This project was extremely tough but we are extremely happy with the way it turned out. Zac even stained the cabinets and they look great! There are still 2 rooms in the house that need remodeled but this is the last one we are going to do for a while!

I hope that everyone back home in Kentuckiana will be thawing out very soon! Our spring seems to be on its way here in Houston and we got to enjoy a weekend with temperatures in the upper 70’s! The next several months will be very busy for us. My sister is coming to visit here in just a little over a week and then I will be back home in Indiana for 10 days in March. Hopefully I will be able to visit as many of you as I can! I hope everyone has a wonderful end of February and beginning to March!