New Year's Resolution: February

We didn't make it out to any museums this month however, we did make some big purchases for our house in Indy so we're counting those for my resolutions! We purchased a new washer and dryer (with help from Mama and Dad - Thank You!) and then today we purchased a big, comfy living room chair (with help from Brian and Kristi - Thank You Too!) So, one more month down, and more big city tasks completed.

Birthday and Valentine's Day

Friday I came home (to the house!!!) from work and Mark had made this to suprise me:

I had been compaining about my tiny mixing bowls, and making a giant mess in the kitchen, so Mark bought me shiny, GIANT, new ones and then decorated our new living room around them. And yes, for my 23rd birthday, we had a Hello Kitty theme.

Then on Valentine's Day Mark made us a wonderful homemade pasta dinner. He copied our favorite dish from Bucca's and made it even better!! What a wonderful husband I have!

Moving Right Along...

We successfully closed on the house on Thursday, not long after writing my last post! We were excited to find that Casey and Jessica (the sellers) had made us a "Welcome Home Sign" You can't read it in the picture but that's what the paper above our heads says!

I did some moving and cleaning Thursday night while Mark was working. Then Friday we both did more work and moving at the house and then the big move came Saturday! By 7:00 pm (thanks to all of our wonderful helpers - Brian, Kristi, and Luke, Crockett and Miller, Mason, and Mama and Dad) we were moved in, unpacked and decorated! Here we are in front of the house the next morning.

Closing Day!

We made it! Finally! Today is CLOSING DAY! We close at 4:00 this afternoon and then we're moving a bit tomorrow night with the final big stuff on Saturday!! Our goal is to get everything out of the apartment and into the house by Saturday evening. Then Sunday we'll unpack, share Valentines, and of course make it all about my birthday!!

Movie Project Update: January Recap

Thanks to Mama and Dad's Christmas gift of NetFlix we've been able to watch more Academy Award Winners for FREE!

January's movies were: The Broadway Melody (1929), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), The Great Ziegfield (1936), Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Marty (1955), and In the Heat of the Night (1967).

Our favorite was Best Years of Our Lives. It's the story of three men returning home from WWII. What was so amazing, was that the story is just as true today for our men and women returning home from Iraq. Their stories, their feelings, their readjustment to everyday life unfortunately so little has changed.

As many of the movies are about war, we have made a special point to thank God for the men and women who have served, and are serving, our country. We pray also, sometimes even more, for our enemies and for peace on earth.

New Year's Resolution: January

As I had mentioned before my New Year's Resolution is to do at least one "Indianapolis" thing each month. This month I managed two! :)

Last Thursday, Mark and I went to the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art. I really enjoyed the Plains Indian art and I was thankful for our trip to South Dakota last spring. I think that having been out West a bit made me appreciate it all much more. I was also very excited by the Inuit Art, something that I had never seen before. They carved from whale bones and it was absolutely beautiful!

Last Saturday, Mama, Dad, and Lu were all in town and we made it up to an Indiana Ice game! It was very fun, although the Ice did lose. There were lots of contests between periods and even an on ice marriage proposal! I love few things more than a well planned proposal in the middle of a sporting event!

One month of Indianapolis events down...eleven more adventures to come

We're in Escrow!

From Gilmore Girls:
TJ: "Hey Luke, Your Sis and I, we're in escrow! We're in ESCROW!!"
Luke: "TJ, do you even know what that means?!"

Well, TJ may not have but WE do!! :) Yes, it's true! We've found a place to permanently call home!

You may be wondering, how did it happen?! We have been out driving looking at houses for fun and a few weeks ago we passed one and Mark said, "Stop and let's get the flyer." We did and he fell in love. I wasn't so sure but we looked it up online and I began to fall in love. So, to get some of the emotion out of our system, we waited a few days and then went to look at the property with a realtor. We loved it! We walked in the front door and it just felt: RIGHT. We waited another half a week before we looked again, we wanted to really process it, discuss it with a financial man, with our families, and then Monday evening we went to look again. At that point we knew, it was ours. An offer, a counteroffer, and quite a few signatures later and we're on our way!! An inspection, millions of more signatures, and in about a month it will really be ours! Our goal closing date is February 11!

I would post pictures, however my camera broke this week, today I'm going to buy a new one and then I'll post some after that.