02 May 2006

A busy month and a half...

Goodness, but it's been a while. My apologies to all those who may have checked back regularly in anticipation of a new post. The craziness of the past month and a half has pushed the Blog off the radar, but hopefully we'll be better about keeping everyone up to date on what's happening. So let's see what needs to be said in this post.

1. School: well it's almost done for the year. I have two more finals, a Constructive Theology 2 final that is NOT going to be fun and a Beginning Greek 2 final tomorrow (May 3rd) morning that hopefully will not be too bad. I have had good luck in Greek thus far and am looking forward to taking 2nd year Greek next fall, but I will most CERTAINLY enjoy a break from the rigors of academia.

2. Mr. Kitty: If you're hoping for a Mr. Kitty update, here it is....he's still crazy. Not much has changed, but he has become INCREASINGLY interested in the fishes (who are huge now). Whenever I feed them, he has to come and watch and he'll sit for like 20 minutes either on top of the aquarium on in front of it on the floor. It's quite humorous because it looks like he's watching TV.

3. April 26, 2006 came and went and I am another year older. Gwynne gave me the Wallace and Grommit movie which we are planning on watching Wednesday evening and I got some sweet cash money and gift cards from both sets of parents! Overall it was a good birthday, although I missed the usual crew with which I celebrate by eating lots of grilled meat.

4. April 30, 2006 came and went and we've now been married for an entire year. It's amazing to think that it's already been a year. It's also amazing to think that this time last year we were landing in Jamaica. Somehow I find myself wishing I was there again. Indiana isn't QUITE the same as that wonderful little island. Oh well. We've received lots of wonderful cards wishing us a happy anniversary (which it was) and we're excited to start year 2! But the biggest news to date comes with pictures...

5. WE'VE BOUGHT A HOUSE! This isn't new news for most of the people who check in on us regularly, BUT you also have not seen pictures so I'm posting some now. Yesterday was our inspection, where we found out that we have a very good house. The inspector seemed quite impressed and commented over and over about the good condition all the really important things like foundation, "the bones," pluming etc are in. While I was there I had a chance to take a bunch of pictures and we've gotten excited to plan moving in. We close June 8th!!! Here's some pictures, there are still people living there so it's their stuff you'll see, but it should give you some idea about our pending home!!! yippee!




So you can click on the photos to see bigger versions of each. We're very excited and as the process continues and we get everything finalized we'll post more stuff I'm sure. We'll also post some photos of the new place with our stuff in it, which will be very exciting. So that's all for now. Never forget the hope we have in Christ Jesus and God Bless! Love, Joe and Gwynne