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!! :)

Indy...

We had a lovely day in Indianapolis on Saturday with Aunt Liz. Jeremy wanted to go there for a tournament for his card game, so I spent the day with Liz. We had a great time! First, we looked at all the wedding pictures.......and the honeymoon pictures. I might have bored her, but she acted like a good sport about it!! Those of you who have seen them all, know how many there are and how long it takes. So by the time we were done with that, we wanted to go and get something to eat. She kept joking around about how she was going to take me to this nice "tea room." I could tell that there was something not right about this. But I was along for the ride! The place we went is pictured below. Notice the nice sale going on outside the restraunt. It was REALLY classy ;). I think you have to have a body full of tattoos, ride a motorcycle, and a tanktop on to go there. I felt a little overdressed and all I had on was a shirt and jeans. Anyways, it is called Mann's Grill. It might not be the classiest place, but they give you HUGE portions of food!! Liz got a BLT with about 3/4 pound of bacon and I had a breakfast meal, with 3/4 pound of bacon, 3-4 scrambled eggs, a plate of hashbrowns, 2 pieces of toast and a big plate of biscuits and gravy (which was supposed to be a half order). Needless to say I loved it! The food was amazing and really cheap! So we will probably go back there, and we will look out of place, but Jeremy will want to go. :)Well after our lovely visit to Mann's Grill, we ran a couple more errands and then went back to Liz's house to wait for Jeremy to get done at his tournament. Once Jeremy got back we went over to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and got to go to the museum and we also got to ride around the track!!! That was really neat. The museum was amazing. They have all the really old cars and then the new ones. All of the racing trophys and other things. Here are some pictures of us at the Speedway!




This is the front of the Speedway
as you are driving in.










Jeremy and I waiting on our bus
to go around the track!













On the track! Going around a turn.










This is the original brick starting line.
The whole track used to be made out of
this, but now they have just kept the strip
of brick at the start of the race.






This is another turn on the track.
The track is 2.5 miles long. It took us
10 minutes to go around, the driver
said that in a race they would have lapped
us 15-16 times!







This is Jeremy and I in front of the
winning car for the 2005, Brickyard
400.










This is a line up of some of the old cars
that drove in the Indy 500.









And lastly, they had a car that people
(I think it was probably for children),
could get in and have their picture taken!
So I did :).




Well we had a great time. We ended our day at this amazing restaraunt called "The Iron Skillet". They serve everything family style on silver platters! It was really nice. It was a good weekend before all the madness here starts! Jeremy just left for school today, and my first day of work was yesterday. My first day went well, it was busy for them. All of their whopping SIX rooms were full!! :) But the lady I am orienting with is very nice and we are getting along well, so that makes everything easier. When you like the person you are orienting with. Anways.......I think thats all for now! Chau.

Pictures!

Ok, well here are the pictures I promised. All 24 of them! :) I did narrow them down. Hopefully this will give you a good idea of where we live. Enjoy!
This is the morning we left. As you can tell Jeremy and I look totally thrilled to be leaving at 7am :). And that trailor was full! I can't believe how much stuff we had!
Fast forward a total of 15 hours and here we are at the gorgeous reservoir as you are driving into Huntington, IN!
Here is Rosann helping us unpack the kitchen. This was a two day task, between the two of us!
Jeremy and I had mail when we arrived!! Our first two pieces of mail were from Uncle Gail!
Don't let this picture fool you, I worked very hard also. They were taking a little break :)
Jeremy is sad that there is nothing else that weighs 300lb's to haul up the stairs :)
Our bedding all put together! Jeremy worked very hard putting together those nightstands.
This is our new kitchen table! With our very practical espresso cups :)
Our kitchen is all un-packed. I am starting to really like this room :)
Jeremy and I with our first load of groceries! (That Rosann and I went and bought, I really think she should be in the picture instead ;) ) Jeremy thought that going to wal-mart earlier that day was stressful enough. He didn't think he could handle grocery shopping :).
This is our new microwave! This took a total of 3 trips to wal-mart and 1 to Best Buy to decide on.
Wall hangings...
Here is our guestroom! It is ready for people to stay with us!
Another view of our guest room.
One more...
One wall of the living room.
Don't let the picture fool you. The box's were pushed out the way to make it look clean :).
Our couch and coffee table (which Jerry did a great job of putting together :)).
One last view of the living room.
Our bathroom.
The bathroom again...
The dining area a litte more put together :)
Me cooking our first meal in our apartment!
A picture of our first meal. Shells & Cheese. I have progressed to things a little more difficult since then :).

Well hope you enjoyed the pictures!! So far Indiana is ok. It would be even better if all of our family was here, but you can always come and visit!! This friday, I think we are going to Goshen to see Jodi and then Saturday we will be in Indianapolis seeing Aunt Liz. So we are staying busy. Then Labor Day weekend mom and dad are coming up!! Yeah!! We are very excited about that. Jeremy starts school this Monday and I start work this Sunday. Just a few more days and things will start getting busy :). I called Annette last night to get the recipe for her stirfry, so I think thats what we are having for dinner tonight! I am kind of enjoying cooking. Jeremy and I have gone through a couple cook books and marked which recipe's we like. So if you come visit us, I will cook for you!! (I'm not sure if that is a good selling point or not). We have the internet now, so we should start posting more frequently. They won't all be this horribly long. :)

Indiana!

Well this is just a quick post to let everyone know we are here. We arrived Friday around 11:00. Jeremy and I do not have internet at our place yet, they are supposed to be coming to install in on Wednesday, so then I will post more and have a lot of pictures!! Right now we are on campus using their wirelesss internet. It is kind of nice, we are sitting right by a lake and the tempurature is probably in the 60's. That is an approximation, but it is cool enough for me to wear a sweatshirt!! That is really exciting. It won't be warm here for to much longer.

Just wanted to let everyone know that we are doing well. We have everything moved in, and actually most everything unpacked. Jeremy's parents were a HUGE help!! We would not have been able to get near as much done without them! Thank you!! (Jerry would tell you I did not notify him of how heavy some of my stuff was that I wanted him to carry up the stairs, but do not believe him :) ).

Here is a picture to hold you all over until the mass of pictures on Wednesday!! :)

Goodbyes are dumb

Well, I had my last day at work which was somewhat bittersweet. I am glad to have a break from that place but I am really going to miss all my colleagues I worked with. I will also miss the job and the high-paced atmosphere. I have a feeling the hospital I am soon to be at, isn't quite to high paced :). Here is a picture of me on my last day. They threw me a little party and made me a cake!!Unfortunately this week is a lot of packing and saying goodbye to people. Two things that are absolutely horrible. We have spent the last couple evenings with our best of friends Josh and Tessia Cary. We have been on a watching "Friends" kick. We have decided that Chandler's sense of humor reminds us of Jeremy's (or at least I decided that). That is a dry one, for those of you who don't know Jeremy very well :). And Tessia and I decided that we remind ourselves of Monica and Rachel at some times. Unfortunately I'm not sure if that is a good thing or not ;). Anyways, it has been a great time getting to spend time with them the last couple nights. We are really going to miss them. We got some fun pictures---

And yet, the hardest person to say goodbye to, was today. Jeremy and I drove up to Sterling to see Erin, since she can't come home because of some dumb RA rule. It was good to go up there and see her room totally put together and everything. Jeremy liked meeting her friends he hear's her talk about. He hadn't ever met any of them before.
We went up to Sterling after our "going away" dinner at grandma's....which was wonderful!! So, we left grandma's with dad's truck because we were hauling a couch up there for Erin. Well about the time we hit Hutch, we realize, gosh those clouds are kind of dark. Nothing was covering the couch. And it stormed........hard. Really, really hard. The couch was soaked. So, Erin and Jeremy took the couch into their lounge area in the girls' dorms and it is hopefully drying out right now. I think it will need some Febreeze. After that we went to Lyons and ate at Sonic (that is really one of the better choices there). It was good to spend time with her. We then went back to Sterling and Erin had a movie thing with the RA's, and we needed to get going to we left. Jeremy told Erin bye, and then I did. I told Jeremy I was not going to cry. I lied. It was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. I am really going to miss you Erin!!! I LOVE YOU!!

My Project!

Well, nothing to exciting has been going on around here. What IS exciting is that I only have 3 more days of work left!!! Today, Wednesday and Thursday! Then I am done. Which would normally make me sad, since I have loved working there, but lately I am ready to have a bit of a break from that place. We have been extremely busy and the nurses are getting a little burnt out. So I am going to love every minute of only having 30-40 deliveries a month in Indiana. Versus our almost 600 a month here in Wichita. Crazy!!
Jeremy is done with work this Friday. He is glad for that. This job he has been able to have this summer has been a HUGE blessing for us financially. We have been able to get everything paid off except the car! So that is wonderful. But he is going to be happy to not have to wake up at 6 every morning for a while at least :).
Well these are some pictures of my latest project. I really don't ever do projects so I guess this isn't my latest project. It is just my one and only project. Jeremy and I didn't have a dresser to take with us the Indiana so we are using this one of my parents. It was my grandparents', then my parents' and now ours. It didn't look this good before I started on it! :) It had these lovely brassy gold handles. So I fixed that, and after three trips to Lowes yesterday the new ones are now all on. Then all I really did was use this amazing stuff called Liquid Gold. That took care of a lot of the minor scratches and then I used my new touch up pen for dark wood and fixed (more or less, covered up) the bigger dents and scratches. Now it is done! I would highly suggest Liquid Gold to anybody wanting to make old furniture look nice again. That is some amazing stuff! Anyways, thats my schpeel.

Enlightening

Isn't it just amazing when we are being faithful to God that He is faithful back to us and continues to put things in our way that bless us?? I know this seems like such an elementary thought, but I was just once again amazed by God last night as Jeremy and I were doing devotions.

I have been struggling with moving to Indiana and not really wanting to go. Only because I know how much I am going to miss all of our friends and family here in Kansas. The last couple days have kind of been depressing because the realization of moving is really sinking in. Then as we opened up our book last night the verse we were on, was Phillipians 4:11. "I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am in." That just hit me. Like ok, I am taken care of, I really don't have anything to worry about. Then later in the chapter, verse 19 says " And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus." I guess it was just further affirmation that even though I am going to something out of my comfort zone I know I will be taken care of. It just proved again how faithful our Father is. I LOVE IT!!!
Anyways..........I just wanted to share that. I was so excited when we read that because it just fit so well!!!
By the way, sorry for anybody who has wanted to leave comments and hasn't been able to. I didn't realize our settings on here were for only registered users to leave comments. So I changed it and now you can click under anonymous and leave a comment if you want! (These are just some pretty pictures of flowers at Butchart Gardens in Victoria, BC on our honeymoon.)