New Chapter

 We officially have the keys to our new place.  We spent Memorial Day doing some cleaning and painting with a fantastic team of helpers.  I forgot to take before pictures of the family room, but here is the after.

Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures until it was pitch black outside, so they are not the best quality.

 

Here are the before shots of the kitchen

And the after

Sorry about the moving boxes

Here is the before of the bedroom

Three of the walls were the dark brown color.  SO DARK!  The family room was the same color as the tan in here.

And the after

Even though moving sucks, I am SO EXCITED to get our furniture in here!  We are going back tonight with another load of stuff.  The good news is that I am getting a kick start to my summer workout program.  My legs are SORE!

More photos

More photo updates on this rainy day.

Celebrating Father Dease's reitrement

Graduation gift from our program director

Twins game with Chase while he was in town

Greek food!

Cosmic bowling action

Josh and Andrew

Dog sitting Montana

First Twins game of the year... it was FREEZING!

Let's try this again!

Hello again.  It's been awhile.  Thanks for bearing with me while I finished school!

I am going to try to start writing again, but we will see what happens.  Life always seems to be getting in the way.

Josh is still at General Mills.  He is loving it, but it keeps him really busy.  I think it will be even more noticeable once I am not in class two nights a week.

I just turned in my last individual assignment today.  Capstone complete!  Now I am just waiting for my other group members to edit our paper and for my supervisor to complete an evaluation.  IT FEELS GOOD!

I have started a part-time job at Hamline, and will be interviewing for it to turn full-time next week.  All positive thoughts and vibes are welcome.

Here is an update in pictures of what has been going on since March.

MN Monthly Food and Wine Experience- We will be skipping this next year

Las Vegas! Went to my first national conference.

Big bucks!

Bellagio

Tommie Girls

Bellagio (it was my favorite)

Giant birthday sundae

Birthday flowers from Josh

Birthday cookie (because I gave up cake for lent)

New car! Had to bite the bullet because of my new job.

Celebrating the nice weather with hot fudge and marshmallow.  It immediately snowed again.

Our Easter basket.  Even the Easter Bunny knows how much we like practical things! :)

Our "Spring Break" trip to New Ulm.  Stop at Schell's brewery.

Josh wanted to be in their band