Ending Our Personal Family Blog

Hello Everyone...

This is notice that we will be stopping our Burgess Family Blog. There will no longer be any updates posted to this blog. Due to recent events we feel like it is in our best interest to no longer post updates on this blog for the public viewing.

To keep up with us our e-mail address is: Kimberlykarlwedding@yahoo.com

Thank you for all of your comments and views.

Kimberly & Karl Burgess

Define Family

Hello Everyone!

Well we had a semi-eventful week. I mean nothing out of the ordinary happened really. I bought some new running shoes and Karl and I went running Saturday morning. The run went well...it was the heat that kicked my butt. Then we went to the beach for the 4th and it was so crowded. On Saturday night we rode our bikes down to the pier to watch the fireworks. They were beautiful....our idea to ride our bikes paid off. We made it home in 15 mins...the other poor folks who drove ended up in a traffic jam.

Today we went to breakfast just like we always do and then off to the beach we went again. Today's beach visit was much better than yesterday's .... a lot less people. So what's next for the Burgess family...well this week, I will be meeting Karl's dad's mom, Rosemary. She is flying in on Monday. We will be having dinner with her on Wednesday night...we are also preparing to see the Dubose family in a few weeks. David, Thea, Walker, and Pairlon will be coming down for the weekend at the end of this month. We are so excited.

The Dubose family are very important to us. They are our best friends. We hope they enjoy their time at the beach....

Till later...

~Mrs. B~

So We Are Called Planners

So people call Karl and I PLANNERS...some say it in such a way that it comes across as a bad thing....well if that is true then our next thought and that is all it is at the moment a "thought" is going to throw people for a loop. Karl and I have been together for over two years...we have been trough a lot that has made our relationship VERY strong...I mean we dated long distance for 4 months...we were engaged for over a year before we married...and now we are raising our puppy Allie and preparing to buy a house.

With all of that going on in our lives, we are talking about having a child and of course we are planning that as well...but this week an idea was given to me by a faculty member at TROY...where I work...I have always wanted to pursue my doctorate degree and I was asked if I had ever considered going to VSU-Valdosta State University...well truthfully, I had never thought of the idea, but after doing some research I really believe that it could be a program I could complete.

So with that said, I came home last night and pitched the idea to Karl, my wonderful husband and he is totally supportive. I am going to work over the next few months to get my admissions paperwork prepared and I am going to apply for the August 2010 semester. Karl on the other hand is going to start on his masters degree in the spring 2009. I know his is really excited about it.

So as the story of the planners go...change happens...you might as well be prepared.

~The Burgess Family~

E-V-E-N-T-F-U-L

So you know how sometimes you have to step out of your routine...have your habits shaken up a bit...or even been at a point where you look at yourself in the mirror blink a few times and say to yourself..."Did that really happen?" Well to put it mildly I had one of those weeks. I started out the week working a 12 hour + day at work...just to wake the next morning with a VERY bad headache...then Wednesday it was office meetings and then off to a work conference at my regional office in Columbus, GA.

The conference went well and Angela and I arrived back on the island on Friday around 5pm. Karl took me out on a date night and then we geared up for our big day on Saturday. We started out at noon on Saturday and by six pm we had traveled all over Brunswick looking at houses. We narrowed our list down from 18 to 6 and we truly believe that we looked at our house on Saturday, but don't know exactly which one it is.....

On Sunday we went to Church and heard an awesome sermon about trying times and I left feeling refreshed....all in all it was a HUGE and FULL week...I hope the week of the 4th is much better.

Love you all!!!

Mrs. Burgess

When it Rains...It Pours...Burgess Family Week In Review

Hello Everyone:

This week was quite a trying week for the Burgess family. We started the week off feeling so confident...we even found our dream house and could see the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and well then our luck ran out.

Well on Tuesday, I took Karl's car to Tire's Plus in Brunswick (yes I am throwing their name out there because they suck) to get a routine oil change, brake check, and fuel line flush....well Karl came to see me and take me to lunch as he normally does at least once a week and he gave me the bad news. He was contacted by tires plus and told that he needed new tires and tons of other stuff and $1000 later I went to pick up his jeep. Well, as I was driving home, I noticed a very weird noise-one that the car was not making when we took the jeep in for servicing...to make a long story short Karl took the car back to Karl's plus just to find out that there was a $400 bigger problem....so as the story goes...this problem caused a large chunk of our saving being used up.

So that puts us two months back from starting the paperwork for our house....we still hope to be in a new house by December...our goal is to celebrate Christmas in our new home around the fireplace...I think it is possible, but we will have to see.

More to come soon....

~The Burgess Family~

It's All About Making Time

-So we have had an event full weekend...Karl and I pride ourselves on making time for each other....we have a date night as least once a week and then we make sure we spend a day entertaining our child/puppy Allie (pictured above). Well this week was my turn to plan our date night...I planned a somewhat cool night...took Karl out to eat and then we went to see Star Trek (a movie Karl has been wanting to see for awhile). It was pretty good.

The next day I had TROY UNIVERSITY graduation which went well...then Karl and I met Summer D for lunch at gnats landing on the island and then took Allie to see the Frisbee Dogs...she was not impressed...then we took her to beach and let her run around w/o a leash...it was her first time and she did well.

Today we went to lunch with Eric & Lauren Bluestein which was a treat. We are looking forward to tonight game five of the NBA finals...GO MAGIC!

~Mrs. Burgess

House Hunting....Burgess Style

Karl and I are working toward taking the next step in our life as a family and that is in the form of buying our own house. We are looking to move off of Saint Simons Island and to the mainland, Brunswick. The two photos above are of two homes we are highly considering...both are in excellent school districts and our very affordable. We are looking to move in September of this year which is so exciting...then the next step is having a BABY...

~Mrs. Burgess