Day 3- Your First Love

So today I am suppose to blog about my first love and I'll be honest, the first person I truly loved in every sense of the word and loved me back the same is Kevin! Honestly I love him more every day. He is the funniest, kindest, and most loving man in the world. All my life I figured I would never find a guy that was as great of a man as my dad. He is one of the most patient and loving man out there. He is a wonderful father, but he also a wonderful husband and I saw that everyday. I saw what is was like to have a husband put his wife first in everything and love her unconditionally. I thought my dad was just a "one of a kind guy."  I figured I would kind of have to "settle" with whomever I married. I also thought I would have to marry a guy that maybe wasn't as Godly of a man. Someone that I would have to work on to get to church and to help him love the Lord like I do. Really I seemed ok with that, I just figured that is what I was going to have to do.

Well God had better plans for me! Kevin is such a Godly man. He loves me so much and always looks out for me. He is patient with me and kind. He is soooo much more than I could have ever asked for. I love him so much. I hate when I'm not with him. I love just being with him. I know now what is really means to love someone with all my heart! I thank God every day for him!

Day 2- Meaning Behind Your Blog Name

Well today's blog isn't that interesting! Our blog name is The Harwood House. Obviously Harwood is our last name and the blog is about everyone in our house!! :) Really I was just trying to find an available name with blogspot so I was trying lots of different titles with Harwood in it and finally this one worked!

Speaking of Harwood, I think I'm finally completely use to my last name being Harwood!! Its weird even now if people call me Dugger or if I even think about how my last name use to be Dugger. I guess it just means I'm a Harwood through and through now!!

I'll be honest, it is nice to be blogging everyday, especially tonight because it gets my mind off the fact that Texas just lost to Baylor! BAYLOR?!?! Ugh, I'm very frustrated this season obviously, I don't really remember how to handle having such a bad team; its been tooo long! I still am a Longhorn through thick and thin, but man! Ok enough about that! At least I married an Auburn grad since they are #1 team in the nation right now!! I have someone to cheer for and get excited about this season!! WAR EAGLE!

30 Days of Blogging!! Day 1

So I'm stealing this from my sister in law, Heather!! She's doing a 30 days of blogging challenge and each day is about something different! This seems fun so I think I'm going to see if I can blog every day for 30 days!!  


Here is the list:

Day 1-Introduce, recent picture, 15 interesting facts

Day 2-Meaning behind your blog name

Day 3-Your first love

Day 4-Your parents

Day 5-Your siblings

Day 6-A picture of something that makes you happy

Day 7-Favorite movies

Day 8-A place you've traveled to

Day 9-A picture of your friends

Day 10-Something you're afraid of

Day 11-Favorite tv shows

Day 12-What you believe

Day 13-Goals

Day 14-A picture you love

Day 15-Bible verse

Day 16-Dream house

Day 17-Something you're looking forward to

Day 18-Something you regret

Day 19-Something you miss

Day 20-Nicknames

Day 21-Picture of yourself

Day 22-Favorite city

Day 23-Favorite vacation

Day 24-Something you've learned

Day 25-Put your iPod on shuffle, first 10 songs

Day 26-Picture of your family

Day 27-Pets

Day 28-Something that stresses you out

Day 29-3 Wishes

Day 30-a picture

DAY 1:

Introduce, recent picture, 15 interesting facts

Welll, my name is Alicean Harwood, I am 26 years old! I live in Austin, Texas and work in Real Estate!

15 Interesting Facts:

1. My name comes from my Grandmother (mom's mom) Her name is Alice Ann and when my mom was growing up she thought it sounded like "Alison" when they said her name, so that is where my name comes from!

2. I am a planner!! Sometimes to a fault, I love planning things but I usually plan WAY in advance too just because I'm excited about planning something!

3. I can't stand to be late anywhere. I always want to be on time if not early!

4. I moved once in my life before I left home to go to college, and since then I've moved 7 times! 7 times in 8 years!

5. I love baseball!! I was a Diamond Doll for our HS baseball team, and then a Disch-Falk Diamond for UT. I lived at the ballpark in college and I got to go to Omaha twice when UT reached the Championship Game!

6. If for some reason I ever had to leave Austin, I would love to live in San Diego. It is so gorgeous there!

7. I love baking!! Cookies, cakes, any desserts really!

8. I hate driving at night. Something about all the lights makes me nervous!

9. I am a die hard longhorn (not a secret I know!), but seriously when I was little I thought my blood was orange because my mom told me I had orange blood through and through. So I always told people that my blood was orange not red!

10. I love buying people gifts!! Kevin has to keep telling me not to go overboard!

11. I took piano lessons for almost 10 years. I still love to play when I have the chance!!

12. Singing has always been my number 1 passion! The extent of my singing though these days in just in my car!

13. I have been going to The Austin Stone Church since 2003, not long after it was started and I love that I have a church that challenges me and makes me re-evaluate my life daily to be on mission for God.

14. I am going to Italy next year and am sooo excited I can't contain it!!

15. I love my husband more than anything else in this world. Just being with him makes me happy! He's the best thing thats ever happen to me!

I love this little girl...

I love this precious little girl sooooo MUCH!!!! 

Few things....

1. If you love the Melting Pot, you need to go ASAP!! We went last Thursday when we had a groupon to use and they have a French Big Night Out going on right now. We didn't partake in most of the French stuff, but we did try the chocolate fondue they had for it. It was Creme Brulee, and omg it was one of the most amazing things I've had in a long time!! And I love most of the chocolate fondues at the Melting Pot, but this one is above and beyond all the others. It is a white chocolate with caramelized sugar!! Go check it out!

2. Well Texas pretty much has sucked it up this season in Football. I still love my Horns, but this just isn't our year! Thankfully I married Kevin who loves Auburn, so I have a team to get excited about this year! It is so funny how our teams flip flopped this year! Rankings came out yesterday and Auburn is now ranked #1 in the BCS poll!! WHOOHOO! And they are lead by Heisman front runner, Cameron Newton!

3. Kevin has a NEW JOB!!! He starts on November 15th, but he'll be working full time as a Senior Mobile Developer! So he'll be making apps for the iPhone and Android all day everyday!! I'm soo excited for him as I know this is something he's truly going to enjoy! It was really hard to decide to leave National Instruments where he's at now, but we're excited about this new endeavor!

4. Tonight we're hosting about 16 people at our house for dinner. We're having new people that have started helping out at our church in the AVLC (tech)! Kevin is one of the head producers so we're having people over to thank them and to help everyone get to know each other!! Soo please wish me luck!! I dont know if I've ever cooked a FULL meal for 16, so pray for me!! I'm making chicken parmesan, spaghetti, cheese stuff shells, salad, bread, and a twist on cannoli's for dessert!!

State Fair

Last weekend Kevin and I went up to Dallas and went to the State Fair of Texas!! I love the fair!! I have been going since I was a little kid and we got free tickets at school and got the day off to just go to the Fair!! As I've gotten older, I usually hit up the fair during the TX/OU Game!! Well this year, we didn't go to the game, so Kevin and I decided to come up and go some other time!!

We had a great time checking out the dog trick show, the auto show, etc. But of course our favorite part was the FOOD!!! Where else do you get super excited about the most unhealthy foods??

We tried....

Fried Lemonade!! It was pretty good, tasted like a lemon cake with lemon icing!

Fried Smores!! MY FAVORITE!!! It really is the best thing there!! If you've never had it, TRY IT!

Fried Butter!! Sooo good too! This year they had a new topping for it, cinnamon/sugar with honey. Wow honestly i think that made it even better than last year! I think it kind of tasted like a sopapilla with extra butter.

Fried Cheesecake! It was pretty good too!!

Kevin also had a Fletcher's Corny Dog, I had some nachos, and we topped it off with Ice Cold, Pure Cane Sugar Root Beer!!

Lately...

Nothing too exciting has been going on in our lives lately. We've mostly just been working and spending time at home!! The last two weekends have been nice to just hang around the house and watch football, besides the fact that Texas Football has gone down hill the last two weeks! But Auburn has been going up hill, so its been exciting for Kevin. Auburn is now ranked #8 in the nation!!

Our weeks are usually the same, with random things put in between!! On Sundays of course, we are at church in the morning, at our new St. Johns Campus! Kevin produces both services in the morning, so I serve on the Welcome Team during the 9:15 service, and attend the 11:15 service. This campus is amazing and has amazing things in store, it is an exciting time there!!

Mondays we are trying to go to the gym after work and then spend time with each other at home. On Tuesdays we meet with our Missional Community Group. We have about 7 couples that are in our group. It has been such a blessing to get to know these guys over the last year and spend time with them growing to be more like Christ! Its a great time to challenge each other and see what God is showing us what our life looks like in His plan!

On Wednesdays we try and hit up the gym again, and then our 3rd family member, Sarah, comes over and we eat dinner together and watch SURVIVOR! We have a little draft every year with the players, so we have a fun time watching each season!! Basically Sarah and I are just hoping Kevin loses so ego doesn't continue to grow!! :)

Thursdays we again try to go to the gym. You like how I always say, we TRY to go to the gym!! We really are trying to make it a priority in our lives and get in a routine of being healthy and trying to stay in shape!! Sometimes its hard, but we're trying!! And then the rest of Thursday we usually spend time together with each other at home!!

That is pretty much what are weeks look like unless we have other random things come up!!

This weekend we are planning on going to Dallas to go to the State Fair! Kevin has only been once and that was last year when we went during the TX/OU game. But he wanted to go sometime when the game wasn't going on and it wasn't as crowded! So we're excited to spend the day there on Saturday and trying FRIED FOOD!!