Wedding Weekend

This weekend was Rusty's little sisiter, Kelly's, wedding. We left early Saturday morning to head to southern KY. It is a LONG drive! Luckily I brought our portable DVD player and ending up watching lots of Friends :) We met up with his Dad, sister Melissa, grandma, sister Lori, and nephew and niece Matt and Jordan! We were quite the caravan! I hadn't seen Jordan (4 yrs old) since Christmas, but she somehow remembered me and wanted to sit with her "Aunt Babitha" the whole time. She is a cutie! There is a cute pic of her and me attached. We arrived in Scottsville, KY around 2 and got to the hotel to change. Around 3, the sky got very dark and it started to rain, then rain some more, then rain some more! It turned into one of the worst storms I have ever seen! The rain was actually horizontal! So, needless to say, the wedding (which was outdoors) got postponed until the rain stopped. We finally got on the road to get to the wedding (which we were assured was a 20 minute drive). About 45 minutes later, we ended up in TN and had to sit in a church parking lot for 20 minutes until someone could come meet us there and take us to the wedding!! Unfortunately, that was not the end of the adventure as most of the roads were blocked by fallen trees! We finally ended up at the wedding, just a few hours later :) Luckily, Kelly wasn't too upset and the rest of the evening went without further complications. We spent the night in a hotel, and Rusty and I got home today (sunday) around 6. I can't believe tomorrow is Monday already. And next weekend...we get to go to another wedding! Luckily this one is in IN.

Here are a few pics from the wedding! I also have a pic of the patio with the new furniture set we got. Enjoy!

And....we're back

Yes, after another long absence, we have returned to posting! Sorry for the long pause since our last post :)

Some highlights for us over the past month or so is having my sisters home for the summer, getting to visit with my friend Michelle who lives in Virginia, and building our new patio!

I have lots of pics of the patio, from the beginning to end. I have to give credit to Rusty for pulling it all together. He did a great job! My advice to anyone who decides to do this themselves is get lots of help! It's been a week since we started and its still not completely finished.

I also have some cute pictures of our time with Michelle. Rusty and I took Michelle, John, and Nathan to the Indy Zoo. We saw lots of exciting things, including a man getting arrested for jumping in the elephant exhibit! Sorry, I didn't get any pictures of that :)



Have fun looking at the pictures! I put some in of our house too just because I planted a ton of flowers and I wanted to show them off!! There's also one from last week when I babysat Sasha.

OK-I just uploaded my pics and they are all in the wrong order and I don't really know how to label them so you'll just have to figure out which one is which.

Babysittiing Fun

Well, I meant to post over a month ago with pics of the big snow storm we had! But, since its practically spring and I really don't want to think about snow anymore, I'll just have to wait for next year's snow!

Just thought I'd share some cute pics with you of our fun babysitting night. You can ask Rusty for his description of the evening, but deep down I bet he would admit that he had fun watching our friend's baby Sasha. Thanks Brandon and Anya for trusting us to watch your baby!

This weekend we're headed to Lafayette to celebrate my best friend Lissa's daughter Emma's brithday. Hard to believe she is 1 year old!! Rusty and I thought it would be fun to hang out in Lafayette for awhile since I grew up there and he spent 4 years there at Purdue! We thought it would be great to go to some of our hold Hang-Outs. But then when we tried to think of where we used to hang out, we drew a blank! The only place I could think of that we used to go to a lot was Applebees....woo hoo! So I'm not sure what we'll do.

Sunday we head to celebrate my cousin Noah's 8th birthday! We're looking forward to spending time with family.

Ok, here are some pics of our babysitting night. And also one pic of my amarillus plant because I am so proud that it bloomed!

Your eyes do not deceive you...its a new post!!

SO SORRY!! I know it has been way too long since my last post. I really have no good excuse so I won't bother making one up :)





Since our last post...we had a great Christmas (see the attached pics), and great New Year. Rusty and I both made a commitment to read our bibles more and spend more time in the Word and in prayer as a couple. In January, Rusty attended a men's retreat on leadership. It was an awesome time for him and he came back very much on fire. He's been doing a really good job in leading our home and I look forward to him someday (hopefully soon) leading our family.

Our most exciting news to date is our Florida trip! We went the week of Jan 20-28th. We went to Disney World (first time for both of us), but only had time for one day. We got a chance to see Eric, who was practically like my little brother growing up. He hooked us up with some free tickets so we were pretty excited about that too. After our day in Orlando, we headed south to the Miami area where Rusty had a convention for work, and I had a "convention" at the beach :) We enjoyed awesome weather in the upper 80s and were very sad to come home to the bitterly cold Indiana weather!

This past weekend we had a lot of fun--first spending time with my little sis Sarah to celebrate her 21st bday!!, and watching our Indianapolis Colts win the superbowl! We had a great time hosting a small superbowl party. Monday they held a pep rally and parade for the Colts. Since I work downtown I was really hoping to see at least the parade, but unfortunately the Colts were delayed so I didn't get a chance to see the team. There's always next year :)

OH, also, since my last post, two of my best friends have had babies! Anya and Michelle both gave birth to adorable baby boys.

Ok, hopefully I won't overload blogger with my attempt to post all my pictures since Christmas. I promise...my next post will be much sooner than this one was!

Happy Halloween

Friday night was our super fun Halloween Party! I think the fact that I was never allowed to celebrate Halloween growing up has made me love to celebrate it as an adult! We had a costume party for some of our friends. Everybody got really into and put a lot of thoughts into their costumes. Thanks to Amber, Nathan, Jill, Andrew, Jenny J., Rob, Anya, Brandon, Jenny M., Steve, Liz, Kyle, Jenny H. and Jace for all coming!! I've attached some fun pictures from the party :)

On a totally different subject, I just have to share a movie with you that I hope that NO ONE else will have to see! Marie Antoinette! If you are thinking of going....DON'T DO IT! It was the most boring movie I've ever seen. And anyone who knows me at all knows that I like almost every movie. My movie standards are really not that high! I have a review on yahoo under their movie review section if you are dying to read it. I went with Sarah and Rachel and we were both SO bored. The best part of the movie was when it was finally over! Ok, I could go on and on but I am getting all worked up again so I better stop now!

And now, enjoy some pics :)

Pictures!

A Story

Sorry to all my loyal readers for how long its taken for this post. I promise I will try to do better! WELL, gosh, so much has happened since my last post. :) Ok, not really. Rusty and I have been a little under the weather. I thought the up-side to that would be tons of quality time together. I was wrong. We spent our sick-day home together with Rusty watching about 8 hours of football (or something else on ESPN), and me, watching 8 hours of Law and Order, SVU on the other TV. That show is so addicting! I blame the USA network for showing THAT many episodes in a row!

I've been asked to share some fun trip stories from our European Vacation! Several come to mind, but I will start out with a foreign eating experience. Almost the entire time in Paris, we ate at little cafe's, mainly because it is much easier to just point at something in a display case and order it rather than trying to communicate in french with the locals at a restaurant! So, we finally conjured up the nerve to go to a fancy (and totally overpriced) restaurant which overlooked the Louvre! We thought it would be a great first place to try our highschool (and some college) francais. So we get a menu and pull our our trusty french/english menu translater book. NOTE: do NOT waste money on these books...it is guaranteed that nothing you actually want to find will be in one of these books. So, anyways, we try to get our waiter to speak english. I'm sure he spoke perfect english, but he pretended like he didn't. So finally he tried to help us make out a few things. One thing he said was noodles with sauce-sounded safe. And another dish he said was a very delicious risotto dish. Both seemed pretty normal so we went with it. About 20 minutes later I see our waiter walking towards us carrying something with whiskers and eyeballs. I think "surely this isn't OUR food". But, alas, he stops at our table and sets the food with eyes in front of me. ( I should mentioned that technically, RUSTY ordered the thing with eyes. But I let that slide.) So Rusty starts in on his noodles with what we decided was Ragu sauce, no meat, and I attempted to eat my eyeball dish. I took a few bites but just couldn't do it. I did, however, eat the risotta which was UNDERNEATH the eyeball thing and that, was delicious.

So, there is the first trip story for any of you who were waiting to hear one! Sorry....we realized later that we should have taken a picture of it but we were so grossed out that we totally forgot! Oh, and the worst part was that my dish alone cost more than a good old American meal for 2 at Applebees!

Ok-I have been trying to get some pictures up but for some reason blogger isn't putting them on my post! Sorry...I'll have to try again later. Pic to come soon!

The Office

I think the title of this post clearly reflects what we are excited about this week. The season premier of THE OFFICE! We are so excited. We are having a little "Office watching party" this Thursday night for anyone who is a fan of The Office and would like to come! Give me a call if you're interested in coming! So far Jenny and Robby, Anya and Laura are coming! We'd love for Amber and Nathan to come if they can make it!

We had a pretty good weekend. The most exciting part of our weekend was that we got a new car! Its a Nissan Pathfinder SUV. Its really Rusty's car but I am excited too. Now we have a vehicle to take all our camping gear in! Rusty is the most excited I've ever seen him. Sarah came home for the weekend, it was great to see her!! We're really looking forward to The Covered Bridge Festival coming up in about a month!

Here are a few more Europe pics for your viewing pleasure!

Finally...some pictures!!

Sorry it took so long to get pictures on here! We've had a hectic last few days. We decided to take on a big home improvement project...painting 2 rooms plus the foyer and adding a chair rail with wainscoting. Of course, I thought we'd have the project done in 1 day. I must have been delusional because we still (3 days later) only have one of the rooms painted. And it still needs touched up. I always underestimate how long it will take to do things!

Rusty's going to try to put together a website with all the Europe pics so that they can be viewed easier than trying to post on here. But I'll try to post a few different pics at each posting. All of these were taken in Paris! The first ones are all at the Musee d'Orsey which had all impressionalist paintings...really awesome!!

First One!

Well...I finally broke down and started a blog! Not that our life is currently that interesting that anyone would want to read about it, but just in case...now you will be able to! Hopefully soon I will post some pics from our recent trip to Europe. Stay tuned for some exciting stuff to come...