Many congratulations!

I have been a terrible blogger and have forgotten to blog about all the great things happening around us!


I'll go in order...


1. Congrats to mom and Andrew-they will be getting married on their anniversary May 4th!

(I need to find a good picture of them, when I do I'll post it!)


2. Congrats to Brit and Chad...she's eating for two now :)







Sorry for the junky pic...I must stink at taking couple pictures!










3. And finally, congrats to Dad and Kyra! They will be getting married soon (no date yet, they're newly engaged)




Teeny tiny picture of them, josh and I, and tony.









This is going to be an exciting year!




In other news, we broke down and bought a new mattress. Josh wanted me to blog about this because it makes us feel super old. I cannot explain how excited we are about this. And I have never slept better. Could we be any more pathetic that this is breaking news in our household?

The winter that never ends

So, having lived in Indiana for almost 25 years, I have come to understand that weather here is crazy. However, I really hoped the snow was gone for good. I took a picture on Friday thinking I could take a picture once a week and watch the seasons change.










Friday Morning










Saturday Morning

From the pictures above, you can see the "changing of the seasons". Not quite what I expected, kind of went the wrong way! These pictures are from our balcony outside of our apartment. When I say balcony, I mean fire escape. Close enough, right?

Josh's B-day and Trip

So, I have been terrible about updating lately. Sorry if you've been checking and I haven't been updating. Tsk tsk to me. By the way, the pictures above are of the afghan I finished that grandma had started for one of my relatives. He's being deployed to Iraq, or maybe already has, hence hte camo.

Anyway, this last weekend we took a day trip to Mishawaka, which is right by Notre Dame. So, we stayed at the Beiger Mansion (which was a giant place, incredibly decorated, and had awesome food!) and then toured the South Bend Chocolate Factory and Notre Dame.

Notre Dame was really cool...we saw Touchdown Jesus (why did I think this was a statue?)

And we checked out the rest of campus--this is my artsy picture of the chapel

This is me at the chocolate factory. It was a pretty corny tour, but worth it because they give you a piece of free chocolate! We also got to wear hair nets. Nice.

Here's a link to the bed and breakfast. I highly recommend it. http://www.beigermansion.com/

In other news, we finally sold the house for good, check is in the bank. Yessss. We're settling into the new place, almost everything is unpacked. I'll take pictures of our new digs here soon. I need to clean first!

Also, (jeez this post is long) Josh and I had an exciting morning today. Two of our guys decided to run. Well, they didn't get too far before we realized they were missing (about 5 minutes) so with help from the police, White's was able to track them down. The sad thing is that one of them has been here for a while, so he is likely to be terminated. I know we will see lots of guys leave while we are here, but it's hard to see one go!