Two year anniversary

We celebrated our 2-year anniversary on the 22^nd! Yay! It has been an exciting, busy, fun-filled two years.

Highlights from our 2nd year of marriage:

Buying our first house

Working together to whip that first house into shape, making it our home

Seeing our little brother Luke get married and gaining a sister in Keri

Going over to Keri’s house and sharing many yummy meals that she made

Becoming an Aunt and Uncle to Miss Olive Mae, meeting her for the first time at Christmas

Sitting out by our fire pit with friends or just the two of us

Florida in February with the Edgels

Going to Disney and playing Wii with Mom and Dad Edgel

Spending time at Lake George, Jeff wakeboarding behind the pontoon- ha!

My nine-week sub job in 7^th grade math

Helping coach middle school girls track

Spending the holidays with both of our families

Traveling thousands of miles around the country, California to Massachusetts and lots in between

Never unpacking the holiday decorations because we were too busy working on the house

Moving in January, brrrrr!

‘Work Day’ on little house on the Cherry, so many friends and family came to help

Appreciating all the helping hands throughout the house-fixing process

Van breaks go out on the way down the mountain in California and all the adventures that followed

Going to Vegas for the first and last time

Driving through hurricane Ike on the way to Texas, worried about the gas shortage

Going on a fall and spring tour with band friends

Things learned, realized, and reminded of:

Jeff is my best friend and it is a blessing to do life together.

A recent lesson that I have learned is that God and His Spirit are my constant, my contentment. I’ve been saying, “If I could just….If I could just….. have close friends…..have a house……..have a career…….have a purpose……have more stuff…….have a family……” “If you could just…….If you would just……help me around the house……understand what I’m saying……give me more attention……make me happy…….read my mind……” Well, we have a house, so am I satisfied? Now I need things to fill my house. I’ve acquired more stuff over the last year, is it enough? Sometimes you make me happy, sometimes you don’t. We will always love each other, but you are not my everything. You’re not enough; none of it is enough.

Luckily, I have a Savior who is more than enough

Holiday with the Hollidays =)

WWeeeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeeee

Labor Day '09

On Saturday, we had a show at the Blueberry Festival in Plymouth, IN. I got a blueberry milkshake, so i was happy =) Everywhere we go, it's really all about the food for me.

Jeff and I headed to Columbus to visit our good friends Ryan and Emily Holliday. We went canoeing and ate some good food. Em and Ryan are the coaches of the high school girls Cross Country team, so I went to their practice on Monday morning. They kicked my butt with a "circuit" that they had the girls do. I was sore for the rest of the week!!!! wow. They introduced me to cinnamon cold stone ice cream and i've been craving it ever since......mmmmmmm.

It was great to enjoy each other's company and talk about real stuff. Friends!!!! it was SO good to be reminded of how precious these ones are to us =)

Home for a bit

Sissy is helping Jeff work. Jeff is in her favorite chair.

We've been home now for a few weeks. Jeff has stayed busy with band stuff (as always), leaving me to find creative ways to entertain myself. I 'finished' our bathroom!! After 6 months of living in our new house, I finally got around to it. I textured the walls with texture paint, painted the walls and vanity, spray painted some things and now it looks done instead of like a construction zone =) Thanks to Mom and Dad Andrews for donating the wall cabinet to us!

Before-- ew. we've been living without a mirror for 8 months.

Mirror painted black. Got it off Craig's

We had an unexpected addition to our household with a new FAVorite piece of furniture. This is what happens with late-night Craigslist-ing and a retro-crazed person like myself!! =) =) We are now proud owners of a vintage 1950's Aqua davenport! We chose to call it a 'davenport' instead of a 'couch' in honor of all the grandmothers out there who call their couch a davenport (whatever that is?!).

We've also had the chance to spend some time up at Lake George with Luke and Keri and my parents. Jeff has been sailing with my dad the last two weekends!

They got 5th place. It was really windy, 3 other boats tipped =/