Home Sweet Home

Josh & I are really enjoying turning our house into our home!!

I don't think we've even watched any TV yet (totally fine by me!).

Finding a home for all our wedding gifts

LOVE our dishes!! Josh washed while I dried and put them in the cabinet...

...and discovered that the dinner plates were TOO BIG for our cabinets. The cabinets aren't deep enough!

Are we allowed to have favorite wedding gifts? This personalized embroidered pillow is definitely up there (I'm big on anything personalized!)!!

It goes in the living room AND bedroom!

Welcome Home

Josh & I spent 5 nights away on our honeymoon. We purposely planned our trip so we would have downtime at home before going back to work and re-entering normal life.

It was nice to spend some time at home before going out for our first public appearance at farmer's market Saturday morning.

But when we arrived home Friday night, we were delighted to see this:

decor from our wedding to greet us at the front door

my family's "Welcome Home" sign posted at the top of the stairs

our freshly made bed with our new bedding

bathroom with our new towels just waiting to be used

and ... leftover wedding cake!
(I will admit I made arrangements for this as a surprise for Josh.)

Many thanks to my mom and dad who set this all up while we were gone. They did a TON of wedding related things as well that week, not to mention all their work with clean-up the night of the wedding and ALL the prep-work my mom especially did in the months leading up to the wedding! We are soooooo blessed to have two sets of awesome parents!! Thank you, God!

A New Beginning

Greetings from the Hren's! WOW - it is soooo weird (but so awesome) to hear that now and realize that it's actually true. We are so in love and happy in our newly married state. Yes, we are those giddy, mushy, overly sappy lovebirds who can't stop smiling and talking about how good the other person is, and yes, we know that won't always be the case, but we hope it will be rule rather than the exception. It is so amazing how one day and the pronouncement of one preacher can alter one's reality. For so long it's been just her and me (or him and me, depending on which one of us you are talking to) and that's worked well, but now there's this renewed sense of excitement and anticipation of what God is preparing for us as a married couple. We are so in awe of all that He has done already - it blows our minds! God is SO good to us and we know that He will guide us into His perfect Will.

So....all that to say that this blog is dedicated to sharing thoughts, expressing excitement, and keeping all our dedicated readers informed of what is going on in the "Hren's Nest". We hope that you will enjoy reading it and will maybe join in with our excitement. Looking forward to our next post.

Josh & Jen