All nestled in....almost.

Well the hardest part of moving is over! We loaded the trailer Friday evening after I got done with my last day at the bank and we stayed with Caleb's parents Friday and Saturday night.  We went and cleaned up the apartment on Saturday, went to church on Sunday and they had a delicious dessert fellowship for us, and headed to St Louis that night to stay with my parents.  We left around 7:30 yesterday morning and made it to New Albany, IN around noon after what seemed like a long drive to me because I've never driven that long before.  Caleb's parents arrived with the trailer a couple of hours later (they got delayed because of the nasty storms that hit Northeast MO) and we started unloading.  We got almost all of our things unloaded into one bedroom and then we started moving caleb's sister and her husband's things out.  Once we got everything finished, we were talking about just getting our mattresses and sleeping on them on the floor....except that I was not a genius when I brought the tub of sheets off of the truck and put them towards the back of the room.  We were able to pull out a few things and get to them without many problems though.

Caleb's family was telling us about this really good bakery at the end of the block that they've gone to a few times.  His dad mentioned how he would sometimes go get some long johns....and that right there made me in the mood for a long john.  So this morning, when we got up, Caleb started going through the tubs of food and found some pop tarts and asked me if I wanted one.  Who wants a pop tart when theres a bakery 3 doors down?  His reasoning was that we would have to walk there and he's sore from yesterday, which is understandable....but its for a long john!!   We ended up going and on the way back he said that he wished it would have cost more.  Why?  Because now I'm going to want to go there all the time.  :-)  We've only been married 6 months, but he knows me all too well.

A Hodge-Podge of Happenings

This weekend has been very relaxing, yet busy at the same time.  Last night after we got home from work, we headed out to Quincy and went to the car dealership because we had a flyer where you might win free cars, an ipad, wii, gas cards, etc.  We won a single gold dollar and we forfeited it for the chance of a $200 drawing....which we did not win.  Oh well, at least I can sleep at night knowing that we didnt throw away a flyer that could have won us free cars and a trip to the Bahamas :-)

We also went to Hobby Lobby last night and I got a few things to satisfy my pinterst-inspired creative bug.   First of all, I've been getting more into the more costume-type jewelry, which doesnt fit well in a jewelry box because it can take up so much space. Also, when I have so many necklaces stuffed in my jewelry box, I tend to forget about some of them. Since I dont really use a bulletin board for school things anymore, I decided to put it to a better use.  I got some fabric on clearance and stapled it to the bulletin board.

It's not the fanciest, but its not too bad for a $4 piece of material that I used half of.

I also bought some Mod Podge while at Hobby Lobby.  I've not used the stuff much before, but I decided to try it out.  I took a picture frame that I had and mod podged the map from Rocky Mountain National Park on it.  There are definitely some goofs on it, but I'm sure I'll get better once I use the stuff more often.  Most of the mess ups are bumps from air bubbles and so I figured maybe it will maybe just add effect to the mountainous map? I'm planning on putting a picture from us on our trip in it and actually hanging it on the wall in our new apartment (most of our pictures frames now are either not hung up or hung up but dont have pictures in them.)

I made sure that you can see Bear Lake....which is where we hiked to on that snowy trail.

While looking for a picture frame that I could use to make this, I was going through my drawer of frames from my dorm room that I never unpacked, and I found a picture of Caleb and me at his graduation.  For some reason, I had thought I put this frame on my bookshelf and it went mysteriously missing. This disappearance has bothered me ever since we got married.  I guess I just had good intentions and never actually set the frame out.  Maybe we'll find the rest of our missing things as we begin to start packing and realize where we put things so we wouldn't lose them and in the process lost them.

I thought about getting real homemaker-like and make use of that frozen pie crust we have in our freezer by making a pumpkin pie today, but sadly I don't have any evaporated milk.  Caleb said he would go set the milk out and let it evaporate.  Silly boy.  He'll just have to wait.

The Next Phase

Well, Caleb decided to go on to seminary in Louisville, KY, so we are packing up and moving on.  We are going to be living in New Albany, IN, which is right across the river from Louisville.  We have never seen the apartment we are going to, but my sister-in-law and her husband currently live there now and they say it's nice.  The best part is....no neighbors!  It's an apartment right above a hair salon, so the only neighbors are in a completely separate building.

We will be moving out there at the end of June.  Caleb's last day at Wal-mart is a week from tomorrow, and mine is two weeks from tomorrow.  I'm pretty sure Caleb is more excited about quitting than I am, especially in these 90+ degree days!

So, I wear a lot of flats to work.  Whenever I get home, I usually sit down on the couch and kick my shoes off.  A lot of my shoes end up underneath the coffee table, but at least I always know where to find them, right?

So the other day I walk into the living room....there's a big pile of my shoes in the middle of the floor.

Me: What are my shoes doing there?
Caleb:  They were all under the coffee table.
Me: Did you throw my shoes?????
Caleb:  No, I strategically placed them into that pile.

The Pillsbury Doughboy

As some of you may know, my mom used to be a very avid Pillsbury Doughboy collector.  Now that the enrire house is filled with the paraphenalia, she's toned down her collecting habits.  My mom had 2 4-ft tall doughboys.  One was plush, the other was styrofoam.  My parents tried selling them in a garage sale and craigslist, but what do you do with a 4-ft tall doughboy??  Since they didnt sell, Caleb and I adopted the styrofoam one.  The first thing we did with it was put it in one of our friend's bed whenever he was out one night.  However, things didnt go so well at that apartment, so we rescued him. 

After this hanging, he also got jabbed with knives several times. 

This doughboy lived at our apartment for awhile, then he lived in the back of Caleb's dad's truck, then lived in Caleb's parents' living room.  However, today was the day that he had to say goodbye. 

Caleb saying goodbye.

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