more birkey time!

The last few days have been pretty busy. Saturday we went up to Goshen to see the Birkeys! Lowell and Dianne were up there seeing Jodi and going to the MCC Relief sale. Melisa was there too! So we spent the day at the MCC Relief sale and we had the most wonderful food!! Kansas has to get this Nelson's Chicken. It is the best chicken I have ever had in my life. We all ate a half a chicken. It was amazing! Then we got apple fritters, also a new amazing find. And lastly elephant ears. Those were very good also. And by the time we got to the egg rolls that are supposed to be very good, they were sold out! But needless to say we had some great food. Then Jodi, Melisa, Jeremy and I went to Jodi's house so that we could see where she lives. After that we went to their aunt and uncles house for the rest of the evening. It was great to spend time with them! We really miss them!

Then Sunday was my first night of work. I have been orienting on day shift, and now I am going to night shift, which is the shift I got hired on for. I have been really nervous about going to nights, but my first night really went off well! It was a pretty slow night, but I managed to stay awake the whole night and really never got tired! So I think I am going to adjust ok to working nights again. Its not the best shift, but it will be fine. This is a picture of me leaving for my first night.

After sleeping a little on Monday, Jeremy and I went back to Goshen for a little more Birkey time before they left. Jodi had a game so we all went to that. That was a lot of fun. She had 2 goals!! Lets just say, by the end of the game we were feeling really sorry for the other team. The score would have been 13-0. But the reset the score at half time to make it not look quite as awful. At half it was 9-0, and the end of the game was 4-0. It was pretty amusing. So these are some pictures of us at the game. We went to Dairy Queen for ice cream after the game and then Jeremy and I had to come back to real life. Now I have to go back to work and Jeremy back to school. Reality is wonderful!! :) Look at that sexy number 4!

Thankful

Well today has been a marvelous day! God has answered so many prayers all in a matter of like 6 hours. I have been trying to get my work schedule switched around so that Jeremy and I can come home over his fall break. Well I had gotten one lady to switch with me one day that weekend, but no one else was willing to do the other day. Things just seemed like they kept going wrong, and that I wasn't going to get that day off, and I really really wanted to come home. And this morning my boss called me and asked about the day I had asked for PTO. And I told her that no one was able to switch with me, so she said well we could move this day here and this day here. Would that work? I was like, yes!! That would work wonderfully! So after that, that left me with 7 days off in a row!! And now we can for sure come home :). (This is going to be the weekend of October 13th, so everybody better be available for us to see them!!! :) ).

NEXT, I was going to get our plane tickets right away, because we had our eye on a couple tickets and the prices were really good, so I went to the airlines website and the ones we were looking at were still there. So that was good. And I still had my ticket from last February when I was planning to come up and see Jeremy and then got sick and couldn't. So I called American Airlines to get that ticket credited to our purchase today. And it actually went over really smoothly, so at the end we only had a little over $100 to pay on both of our tickets. Which is wonderful. It went on the credit card, because, we haven't gotten a full pay check yet, and the one coming up is not going to be a full pay check either. So I thought we will pay that as the money starts coming in :). But it doesn't really matter because I am going home! :) YEA! Anyways, so I go to get the mail, and there are 3 bills. Not yea. Two from State Farm and one from our energy company. Ok, so the one from state farm said that we had no balance, and the other envelope from state farm was a check for a little over $100!! And the energy bill was a whopping $16. So then I realized how I have had no faith lately, and that God really is taking care of us. We had been praying about these things, but today just made me realize, stop worrying, and just have faith. So I am going to be working on that.

Anyways.......I just had to post how exciting my day was today. AND I got gas for $2.15/gallon (only because of my awesome Kroger discount). So thats exciting too. One last thing----we had a dinner last night with Jeremy's friends. That was really funy. I had met them once before but I really kind of got to know them last night. I didn't take my camera otherwise I would have pictures for everyone. I didn't want them to think I was a crazy camera woman yet :). So the three girls I met are awesome and really fun. I think we are all going to get along really well. And it was fun to see Jeremy with his friends. So anyways, that is also an answer to prayer because now I actually have friends here, which is kind of exciting. Me and the girls are having a Grey's Anatomy party this Thursday for the first episode of Grey's!! So that will be a good time. Well I think that is all. OH and I got to talk to on of my best friends Tessia today!! I hadn't talked to her in way to long! So that made the day even better :).

nothing new here

Well not a whole lot new is going on here. Jeremy has been staying busy with school and my horribly boring orientation has been keeping me busy! But that is finally over! This hospital I am working for WAY over does their orientation process. Since that is over, I can finally start working on my floor again. I am off for a couple of days and then I work this weekend on Saturday and Sunday. Starting this weekend I work days for one week and then I go to nights! Again, I have to work nights. I am starting to wonder how I can do this since I have been going to bed about 9:30 every night. So my goal is to start staying up later, so that it is not a huge shock to my system when I have to work from 7pm-7am.

We did go and visit on church on Sunday. It is called Blackhawk Ministries. I believe it is a Baptist church. A girl I met in orientation suggested we try it out, when I told her what we were looking for she thought we might like it. It is in Ft Wayne, and all the way on the north end, so it was about a 45 minute drive :(. But it wasn't to bad. I don't know if we will go back there just because we don't want to drive that far, but the worship was pretty decent. We weren't to impressed with the message. Half way into the message I was wondering if he was going to keep giving us his opinion or if he was going to tie any scripture in with it. So I think we will keep looking, and hopefully a little closer to where we live. So anyways, keep us in your prayers for that. It would be nice to find a church where we can meet some more people.

Tonight Jeremy and I went to Ft. Wayne, when he was done with class to do some shopping. During orientation this past week I was supposed to dress business casual. But I didn't, because I realized I really don't have anything to dress business casual, in. So the goal was to find some khakis or nice dress pants. So we went to this shopping place called Jefferson Point. It is really really nice. This place is what they should have done with New Market Square in Wichita. It is a gorgeous place. It is kind of all built in a circle and it is like one big courtyard with all the stores on the outside. I actually probably should not have figured out this place was there because it is the closest shopping to us, and it has GAP, American Eagle, Old Navy, Barnes and Noble, The Buckle, Victorias Secret.......and I could go on and on :). They have a really nice food court that we ate at. So anyways, I found my khakis at The Gap and then Jeremy finally used his Barnes and Noble gift cards from last Christmas. I also got a new planner, a journal and a new Karen Kingsbury book (to hold me over until the new Harry Potter book comes out) :). Anyways.........

So that is pretty much the extent of our lives here right now. Sorry there was nothing more interesting to update with! By the way, hopefully Jeremy and I are going to come home over his fall break. That is the weekend of October 13th. Right now, I am scheduled to work that weekend, but I have found someone to work for me on Saturday and I just need someone on Friday. So if everyone could say a little prayer that would be great! I am really looking forward to coming home for a little while. We really miss everyone.

O-H-I-O

Well, I have now been as far east as Ohio!! I am really excited about this. I used to only be able to say I had been as far east as Indiana, but now I have been as far east as Ohio! :)

Jeremy and I decided to finally get out of the house today and go to Jodi's soccer game! (All we do is really sit around in the house, so it was nice to get out for a while.) As I was writing Jodi's soccer schedule down in my planner, I saw that there was a game in Bluffton. And I thought, well that is really close to us! Bluffton, IN is only like 20 minutes away! Well I was mistaken. Her game was in Bluffton, OH, and luckily we figured this out before we left :). But we wanted to go anyway so it was about a 2 hour drive but it was well worth it! So we got to her game and it had just started. She didn't know we were coming so we were really excited to surprise her. The look on her face when she saw us was priceless! Her eyes got huge and her mouth dropped open. So we got to see her at half-time for a bit and then for a while after the game. Needless to say she was totally excited to see us, as we were to see her!! I have really missed her! She IS one of my favorite sisters :). So anyways.....we all got to chat for a while after the game and catch up.

Well nothing else too exciting has been going on here. I have had orientation all week which made the week drag by, and Jeremy continued with his classes. Those are going well for him. Last night Jeremy and I went out to eat, and then when we got home we figured out we can hear the high school marching band and the announcers at the football games on friday nights! But that about is the extent of the excitement here!

Here is a picture of the Jodi and I the day of Jeremy and I's wedding, and then a picture of her today cheering on her team! (It was bright outside) :)

Good Times With The Parents

Jeremy and I are now alone again :(. Mom and Dad have left. We are ready for someone else to come and see us now!! (hint, hint). We had a great time this weekend with mom and dad. They were only here for a really short time, but we made the best of it! They got here Saturday around noon, so we went to Indy to pick them up and then came back to Huntington. Dad had heard that I had been cooking, so we stayed at the apartment for dinner. Mom and I made oven baked chicken, greenbean casserole and rice. We had to make the rice because we knew dad wouldn't eat the greenbeans. Anyways, it was really fun getting to cook with mom.

So....after we cleaned up, we went to Ft. Wayne to start on my hunt for Target again. (I have been hunting for 3 weeks now) I will try to not go on and on about this, but it really is ridiculous how hard it is to find a target in that city. So as lots of you know, Target is by far my favorite place to shop. And since they don't have one in Huntington, you would think I could find one in Ft Wayne. Just so everybody knows, if you put in Target+Ft Wayne, Indiana on the internet, it brings up three Targets, two of which ARE CLOSED!! Well anyways, the first target we arrived at looked as if it has been closed for years. Dad thought we should stop and ask someone for directions to a different one. And that woman proceeded to give us directions to a target that is being remodeled and is not open either. So we went to JC Penney's and bought curtains that block out the light (the whole reason we were looking for a target in the first place). My loving father said we were not going back until he found me a target, so the woman at Penney's gave jeremy and dad directions to the only target left. This one was open. I did not get anything, but it was nice to finally step into a target again. Well so much for not going on and on and on about that, but it was quite stressful. Between dad not having his glasses yet, therefore not being able to read the map, and Jeremy driving and deciding he can go through red lights whenever he wants, mom and I are lucky we even made it back home. But it was quite an adventure, and we really did have a good time. Lots of laughs. (Sorry mom, we didn't make it to the Johnny Appleseed Park).

So anyways, Sunday we played a really intense game of SORRY!, and Jeremy unfortunately won. Although, I see where I get my competitiveness and lack of remorse from when I play games (my mom). After that we headed back to Indy to stay with Liz for the night, since mom and dad's plane left early, early this morning. We were really sad to have them leave, but we were glad they could come for a little bit. We had a great time!! So, if anyone else wants to come and see us, I promise I won't put you through looking for a Target!! :)