Catching up!

I guess I kind of forgot about this blog over the last few months and never found my way back until now. We have been very busy in my defense and with a big move, 2 big snow storms and work I just haven't had much time to blog or much to blog about. I'll try and recap by month if I can remember everything.

January: We closed on the house, started renovations, and packed a 3 bedroom apartment and a 10 by 10 storage locker. We moved, had 2 deliveries, one service call and got snowed in all in the same day! At the end of our last service call (Time Warner) on January 29th it began snowing 10 minutes after the technician left and didn't stop snowing for 2 days. This is what it looked like outside when we woke up on Saturday morning.

We spent the next several days indoors unpacking, finishing some renovations and settling in. This is what my kitchen looked like before I unpacked everything.

This doesn't even begin to convey how many boxes were in this room. It took me 10 minutes to find spoons for breakfast.

Oh, I also turned 27. Yikes!

February: A lot of school delays and cancellations due to bad weather, AAA wrecked the back end of my car, my sister, aunt and grandfather all had birthdays and more settling in at the house. We grilled steaks for the first time on Valentine's day and I made these super delicious molten lava cakes. Yum!

March: Spring Break! (although we both had to work some of it due to snow make up days), Josh turned 27, we started Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University at church, and I worked a ton. Oh, we also planned a trip to Philadelphia and the Amish country with these fun people for June.

Can't hardly stand it I am so stinking excited about a week long vacation with the Reeves! There is much laughter and good food to be had.

April: Lots of changes going on with us. Nothing really special to report but we are learning and growing as a couple and continually being challenged to keep God first and center in our marriage and then ourselves second. I went to the doctor and he told me to lose about 30 pounds so I am slowly and steadily working on it. We are still in FPU classes and on the second month of our budget and it is going well so far. The first month was a bit hectic because we were still learning how to keep up with everything. Hopefully this month will go more smoothly. We did just finish this month's budget and I am happy to report that we paid an extra 5K on Josh's car and put money away for a new laptop and money into our emergency fund. I am telling you now, this stuff works! My mom had a birthday this month as well and I went to the state convention in RTP for speech language pathologists. It was good to spend some extra time with my parents and catch up at conference with lots of other great SLPs.

May: Mothers day is this month and so far I have a little something for the special women who need to be celebrated but nothing amazing. I am still thinking on it. EOGs are coming up and this time of year in the public school system will make you want to gouge your eyes out. We are both buckling down hard with our students and pushing as hard as they can go.

I guess that is about it for now. I hope everyone is well!

Here is some cuteness for you to look at!

I was dangling a french fry to get them to both look at me. =)