It's March but Feels like May

I can't believe that I got to do my first lunch outside already- it so early in the year. I mean it's MARCH!! I'm totally not complaining, but I'm from Michigan and this is just really weird. I'm taking total advantage of the nice weather, because you never know if it's going to last.

I understand I have a bowl of soup with my lunch which doesn't seem like a warm weather food- and that may be true. However, if you know me, you know one thing- I LOVE SOUP!  I will eat soup in the middle of the summer and you can judge all you want.

After lunch for the past 3 days, I made a point of walking around the outside of the campus to burn off some of those lunch calories. Plus I haven't been good about going to the gym, so a 30 minute walk should help a bit.

While on my walk, I was surprised to see these little guys out and looking beautiful.

If you are lucky enough to be having this great weather- you should take advantage it. For tomorrow the plan is a St. Pat's Day grill out with friends, food, and booze!

Happy Friday! I hope you have great/ safe weekend!

Wedding Registry Wrap Up Party

Considering Sam and I have been married four and half months now, you would think all the wedding stuff would be over. Well, like I said before, this is the wedding that never ends. There is still a few things still left to do-

1. Get our wedding photos and video from the photography company
2. Change my name (which has many steps of it's own)
3. Move into our own home (so we can use all our new stuff we got from our wedding)

Tonight we checked another thing off the post-wedding list- buying the last few things we wanted from our registry.

We had a Bed Bath & Beyond wedding registry, so about twice a year the store invites the newly wed couples back to by any thing that wanted from their registry at 20% off. You don't just have to buy what was left on your registry, you can by anything in the store at 20% off. So I wanted to make sure we took full advantage of this sale.

Also as a part of the "Registry Wrap Up Party" you are entered into a drawing to win prizes, they had refreshments, and different vendors showing off their products. And as luck may have it we won one of the prizes!

The prize was a "Tote-A-Ton" bag with a retail value of $19.99. It should come in handy when we move.

With the 20% off everything- we saved a total of $89. Also, we had a lot of gift cards and in store credit from the wedding, so we only spent $50 of our own money. I have to say- I think we did pretty well at the sale. Here's what we got (minus 2 pieces of wall art not pictured).

After our shopping spree- we went and got some dinner. We haven't really spent much time together lately so it was good to talk about what we got going on in our lives.

Sam didn't want to smile for the camera- so I just took the picture any way.  Oh the fun of being married to a blogger.

Question: How was your weekend?

A Walk Down High School Lane

This morning I was at my mom's house and my sister had this desire to find the movie "Good Burger" that we had taped off TV many many years ago. As she was going through all the VHS tapes, she found a gem that I had almost forgotten about- my "video year book".

I guess I have always had a need to document my life in some type of form. Now I'm using this blog, back then I was using a video camera. Considering I hadn't seen this tape in probably 7 or 8 years, it was time to pop in it and walk down memory lane of my senior year of high school. 

The video consisted of school football games, trips to Michigan, choir & dance shows, class projects, and some good old fun.

I couldn't believed how many people in that video I do still see on a semi-regular basis. In the video there was both of my college roommates, all my bridesmaids, many of Sam's groomsmen, and a handful of other friends we may see once a year a big gatherings. I feel very blessed to have some many great friends. Some people have come and gone from my life since that video was taken, but they will always be a part of the story of my life.


Question: Are you still friends with people from high school?

Growing Up and Buying a House

Hi Everyone! I know it's been a half of month since I last checked in, and I'm sorry to have been gone so long. However, life has just been cruising along and not much has change. Right now I'm at a point in my life where everyday is often the same, and you just start losing a sense of time. I really can't believe it's already March... where did the time go!

There is one big thing that has been going on but I have yet to share with my blog world... we are buying a house! Ok... we have been actively trying to buy a house but so far things keep falling through. Ever since the first time I posted about putting a bid on a house and it didn't end up working out, so I've been keeping our housing hunting adventures on the D.L. - well until now. 

When it comes to house buying, we are hoping the 3rd time is a charm!

 

This is the third house we have put a bid on, but it's the first house where we had our offer ACCEPTED! However- it's a short sale, so having our offer accepted by the home owners is only the first step of this process. Currently we are playing the waiting game with the bank to find out if they have accepted our offer. Like a home owner, the bank can counter our offer or turn our offer down completely. So we'll see what happens.

 

If everything goes through on this house, I'll be very happy. This house is only a 15 minute drive from my work, it is close to parks, and a cute historical downtown area. Also, it would a really good house to some day start our family.

But like I said- we'll see what happens. I'm trying not to get to excited about this house because we have been disappointed in the past on the other houses. But a little excitement is always going to be there because this is an adventure that is life changing and pretty important. You really need to find a place you can love if your going to invest a lot of money into it- and I really could (do) love this home.