Moving Days!!!

Well we closed on our first house last Friday! It was actually a huge weight lifted to finally have all of it coming to a close, but now the work begins. Thanks to our wonderful parents we had a lot of help the first weekend, we got a lot of little things moved, my mom and I cleaned and disinfected, and Luke and his dad put together a piece of furniture... very productive! This weekend we are going to get all 3 bedrooms painted, and Saturday our subdivision is having its annual block party, we are going to go meet all our neighbors, we have already met the 5 by us, and they all seem really nice!
We've had a few visitors so far but are looking forward to seeing everyone... stop by soon!!
So to answer your question about the poll.... The 29th we have movers coming and we will be all in, thank goodness for that!
Here are some pictures from our first weekend we look forward to many great memories here!


Luke hugging his new home


Carrying me over the threshold

Cheers by the fireplace

Champagne toast outside

Momma approves... whew!

Weekend Getaway

A few weeks ago, Luke and I both took off on a Friday and set out to get away, we stopped in Effingham to see his sister and her four fabulous children, They have a great house with a ton of land for the kids, Angie made us these great sandwiches for lunch and we all hung out, then we set out to my grandparents, I haven't been there in SO long, I will a little rough on those country road directions but I got us there, It was fun seeing the farm and seeing them, we got to go to dinner with some other aunts, uncles, and cousins that it was really good to see too, and then we stayed up late playing domino's with my grandparents, I think grandma Ad was the Champion. In the morning we set out to go to Chicago, Luke had never been there and I love Chicago, we also got to visit some friends from college. We ate, shopped, and enjoyed the city, all in all it was a great weekend and we look forward to doing it again soon!

Luke's Luggage

To Answer an ongoing question that we get faced I thought I would post about this...

NO... Luke never got his luggage back! Yes we were compensated $300, thanks a lot Royal Caribbean No we have no idea where it is or if we will ever see it again, we are hoping we didn't have anything too valuable in there, but at this point cant remember. Yes we are very glad it was his and not mine!!! The last question we get about this is what did Luke do for those 7 days with nothing? Well... it was our honeymoon ;) Okay, Just kidding, he did what any of us would of done, bought clothes, used girl deodorant and razors, and made do with what we had. With that said I have to hand it to him, I don't know how he does it but somehow he manages to put on a happy face no matter what and make the best out of things. We found that I was the one angry at the front desk while he was at the pool with a drink, I guess opposites attract but that is one of my favorite qualities about him... His amazing patience.

Our honeymoon was not ruined, just a little delayed (the first 3 days we thought it was lost ON the ship so we were searching on a HUGE ship!) We met some great friends, and even made our own pub crawl to the 20 + bars on the ship, the reason for the fingers being held up in some pictures.

The BLOG!!!!

So I had to jump on the bandwagon... my sister has been doing a blog for a while now, it is fun reading hers and catching up on her and my brother in laws lives, and I am excited to say that I have started mine. Luke would never do something like this so I will make this "our" blog and post for him from time to time too :)

As my brother in law says, sorry if this blog bores you or offends you in any way.... I hope it entertains you when you want to step away from your work for a minute.

I also believe everything is more fun with pictures, so I will try and add them when I can.