Russell was nice and postponed Russellpalooza for one night!

This week we went out with our good friends Lyle and Melissa and Warner and Hannah for Hannah's birthday. It was a lot of fun as you can tell. We went to the Olive Garden and had some good times. Russell usually celebrates his birthday all month long in September, but was nice enough to share a night of celebration with someone else!

Some of you have been worried about us connecting and surviving way out by ourselves. Hopefully these pictures will give you an understanding that we are making it. We have had an interesting time starting the Stanphill family. We are just glad that in West Tennessee there are two couples that will be seen on the town with us!

In all honesty it is going really well for both of us and we are enjoying life in West Tennessee. We thought we would put just a few pictures up to show how we are enjoying life. Hopefully you are having as much fun as we are where ever you are!!!

Here Comes the Bride

Yesterday we received the first of 600 (yikes!) wedding pictures from our photographer. Here are a few that he emailed directly to us. The rest will be posted online for viewing shortly. Enjoy!

Russ and the groomsmen...don't they look handsome?

All my beautiful bridesmaids!! Thank you all for making our day so special!

It was such a joy to be married at Cottonwood Creek. We both made so many friends and memories during our four years at the church.

The first visitors to our home!

Susan's family came to see us this weekend for Labor Day. They came in late last night, and we have had a wonderful time seeing the nieces, and everyone else! Today we drove around Humboldt and just relaxed around our home. Olivia (the oldest), Susan, and I played in the water sprinkler. That was a blast!

The other highlight was walking around with Susan's younger sister in walmart. Some of our students walked half way across wal-mart to say hello to Susan and I and Susan wasn't there! I find that funny. It is amazing how much the three of them really look like! Check it out!

Welcome to Our Humboldt Home!!!

As promised, and early, our Humboldt home! We are taking registration for people to come and visit. Sign up fast!! It has been about a month since we have been here, and things are coming together! We have planted a crape myrtle, given to us by my momz.

Come up the steps into our home, and check out the myrtle to the right. Our yard is taking hold, and growing. We are enjoying mowing it twice a week, and if you come we will let you join in that fun too! We will feed you a good meal, and make you drink lots of good Humboldt water.

We have lots of room and lots of smiles in our home. Enough of the bed and breakfast talk. Our house is awesome and we are loving being in it. We miss our Texas people, but are loving Tennessee. Come see us for real, we enjoy the visits! Here is our porch where we hang out! If you would like to see more pictures of our Honeymoon you can see them here.

A major update!

I am currently in my office working (thinking about the football game I am going to tonight), on a friday, and Susan is filling out insurance papers (health, life, and dental, YIPPEY)! It is weird being an adult, but we are both long overdue! I think that is the biggest shock of marriage and moving. We are no longer in the young culture of the Dallas area.

Humboldt has been good to us, and we are beginning to get our house in order. Susan's mother and sisters are coming labor day, and you can bet it will be fixed up then. When they are here we plan to take better pictures of the house and will post them, and we have not recieved our wedding pictures.

Susan and I were fortunate enough to be able to go to Oahu, Hawaii, and it was incredible! We stayed in the Makaha Valley. on the northwest side of the island. We did as much as we possibly could on the island, drove around the thing, surfed, hiked up two mountains, eat a lot of fish tacos, enjoy the beach, went to pearl harbor, and many more. We had a great start to our marriage!