Social Life

I recently realized that I haven't taken many pictures at all since we've been married. So I've been trying to take a picture at every social thing we're at. :) I'm so glad Daniel likes to socialize and do a lot of stuff as much as I do. Although lately we've had plans every night. It's been fun, but I am getting too old for this kind of thing. :)

I know this isn't a social event... but on a lovely snowy morning, I was headed to work... and ended up in the ditch. The roads weren't even that bad at all, but I came around a curve on our very own lane, and there was a snow plow right there. It was either hit the snow plow head on or go into the ditch. I went into the ditch, and thankfully I barely missed two patches of trees. Whew... it could've been a lot worse. I know it hardly looks like I'm in the ditch in this picture, but I really was! My dad was out of town on business, so my cousin Micah came and saved me! I was only 30 minutes late for work.... but let's just say I go slow around the curves on our lane now. :)

Mom had the family over for dinner a few Sunday nights ago... us kids played Parcheesi, a game we played all the time growing up. A simple game, but it was fun cuz it's just been forever since we've played it. Bridget had fun playing with her own pieces and kept telling us "I'm playing a game too."

 So precious... Bridget's looking at pictures of Heidi when she was young. Mom, all those scrapbooks over the years have paid off! :)

Last week we babysat for Bridget & Carter at our house. We finally can have the kiddos come to our house now that we have room! I went to my mom's before they came to get my Bitty Baby(from the American Girl doll store) stuff from when I was young. Bridget loved it... she played with it almost the entire night.

 She loved wearing this baby carrier.

These two are such pickels, but I love them to death!

This week Daniel was on spring break. So I took advantage of it, and decided to do a whole lot of stuff and have people over that we haven't seen in ages! Monday night Jenna, Adam and Elisabeth came over for dinner(I made some chili. :) I hadn't seen Jenna since Christmas... pathetic!

Us girls. Ignore how I look... this was taken really late and I was really ready to go to bed. :) Oh, and Elisabeth isn't crazy for having a sock on her hand... it was part of the game we were playing, Quelf.. I don't know if you've ever played it, but it's the most random game, and makes no sense whatsoever. It is funny though!

Everyone but Daniel... I love how us girls are so close together and Adam's a little loner on the other couch.

A far away picture, but you can see our living room for now... until our piano comes! Then it will go in that corner! :) We love to have friends over, but we kind of end up kicking them out.... Around 11 Daniel and I kinda drop some hints that we're ready to go to bed. We're so old. :)

Tuesday night Kendra came over... I forgot to take a picture, whoops! We just sat around for quite a while and talked up a storm... and then we dropped some hints that we were ready to go to bed! :) Most conversations these days when Kendra comes over are MEDICAL. With Daniel in nursing and Kendra being a nurse too already, they have a lot to talk about. I just sit and listen. :) Maybe I should do something medical....

Thursday night I failed to take a picture too. We had Fred(Jodi was gone), Seth L, and Joe over for dinner. We grilled kabobs and it was sooo good if I may say so myself... especially for only the 2nd time grilling! They didn't hang out too late... maybe because they're all older than us. :) It was fun though to have some guys over finally! Poor Daniel mostly hangs out with girls. :)

Friday night was the Mennonite Relief Sale. Hannah came with us! It's been way too long since she's hung out with us, so it was great to have her along.

We may have made a scene to take this picture, but we did it! :)

It was great week... but man, I'm struggling with my 4th cold since Christmas and I am exhausted. And it's not about to stop....

Today I got to work my first Saturday in a while. So no sleeping in for me! Gotta love tax season.

Other exciting news... my parents and I went and picked out a freezer today(Daniel was working)! I'm sooo excited to have a big upright freezer in my basement. Can't wait for it to come on Tuesday!

Hope you all are doing well! I am SO ready for some 50 degree weather!

Busy Life

My blog posts have been a little sparse... my apologies. We are very busy people. I know that sounds crazy since we don't even have any kids or anything... but we are constantly going. We don't have much going on that is out of our weekly routine... so if you want to know what we always do, here's a run-down. :) I'm sorry if this bores you, but here it is :)

• Every other Monday night I teach music lessons for the whole evening. I usually teach one other lesson during the week too when I can fit it in (thank goodness for such flexible students/parents while I wait to get a piano in my very own house!)
• We usually have people over at least once a week(lately it's been 2 nights a week...).
• We just started a "Faith" bible study with a random group of people at church. It's on Wednesday nights at 6 before church services. Which means I come home right after work and hop in the car with Daniel. It's been good though, getting know the people in our group better, and I have already learned so much and we've only been there one week.
• Daniel works a 16 hour shift every Friday or Saturday night...it switches back and forth.
• Weekends are always busy... always the house to clean or people to socialize with. :)
• And on top of all that.... we try to go to the gym/work out 3 evenings a week..... and I try to keep the house spic and span, and cook the meals....

I didn't think it would be that hard to work full-time and keep up a house, but it is. Big applause for moms who work full time and still get their house clean, meals cooked, stay fit and exercise, AND take care of your kids. You're supermoms!

Daniel is already on spring break. I can't believe he's already through his first semester of nursing school.... These 2 years are going to fly by! As I mentioned our busy schedule above, we don't have that many evenings just to do nothing and to relax without Daniel having to study. If we have a free night, we usually go to the gym, which means we don't get home until at least around 7:30-7:45 and don't eat dinner until around 8:30. Tomorrow night Daniel and I are going out to eat, and I can't believe how excited I am. Go out to eat, come home, and relax!! Ahh! I am a major quality time person, and especially since we don't get to do that much, I am SO looking forward to it! It would've been fun to go Florida or something over his break, but.... I am in the middle of tax season at work! I don't think they would've liked me to leave them! :)

And I'm so glad it's beginning to be warm again!! I'm tired of these treadmills, I want to run outside! :)

Fun Happenings

Today I was going through my pictures and realized that some of these had never been posted and written about on my blog, when they were totally worthy of that. :) So here are a few pictures that need to be seen by the world wide web. :)

Brittany and Tim were married the first weekend of January... kind of a while ago, but good enough friends that they must be blogged about. :) I love having Brittany in Roanoke....except between the two of us, it seems we're actually hardly there on the same Sunday. :)

 Daniel & I babysat Robert & Mary's boys one evening. We thought we would do something fun with them, so we went and got pizza. It was fun, especially babysiting them together. This picture is soo typical!!

Just last weekend we went up to Belvidere and visted Troy & Ellie and little Cyrus for the weekend. It was SUCH a good weekend. We were only there for about 24 hours, but so worth it. Troy & Daniel got to become friends and thankfully they get along quite well! And of course, you don't have to ask if Ellie and I got along. :) Looking forward to more weekends with this fun young couple that we enjoy being with so much!! Thanks Troy & Ellie! :)