**Joel & I moved into an awesome wonderful huge & lots-of-light-you-don't-need-to-turn-on-the-lights-til-it's-530 & close to Manhattan & dear friends & tree lined streets & cute stores & wonderful brunch places & a FARMERS MARKET! (yay) apartment.
WE
LOVE
IT!
this is the new living room! LOADS of sunlight
(last place was a cave, always had to have lights on)
& the kitchen, where I am inspired to now cook
(DEF a new thing for me)
our awesome bedroom {where the King bed does not feel huge & Joel doesn't have to stub his toe getting out of bed everytime & where we also need curtains (since our current 'curtains' are sheets) & new bedding}
...YAY!
**A week after moving into our apartment, we went to my college reunion (so how did I get old enough & years passed so quickly that I now have had a college reunion?)
we had an AWESOME time.
--SAW SOME DEAR FRIENDS (my 'transfer' buddies)--
we all transfered the same year, thus all becoming friends & starting our own clique
tailgating before the football game:
Joel & Me; Joey (his family couldn't make it); Jill & Andy & their 3 kids
with my old roomies
Joel & Me (with Erin's son); Laura; Shannon; Erin & her daughter
so great to see all of them, haven't seen Erin since she was pregnant with her oldest, Laura in about 8 years, & Shannon since our wedding 2 years ago.
--TOURED THE CAMPUS--
the 'famous' Anchor of Hope
album cover with Shannon
the Anchor & beautiful chapel in the background
--SHOWED JOEL HOLLAND'S DUTCH VILLAGE THEME PARK
(where I worked as an 'actor' the summer after graduation)
& WOODEN SHOE FACTORY--
Joel tries on his first pair of wooden shows, there are SO many shoes to choose from
reliving my days & sporting the wooden shoes
Joel contemplates a pair
Dutch Village Theme Park entrance...where we only got tourists on Sunday's
all other days maybe up to 10 folks stopped by
--WE ALSO WENT TO THE BEACH & HOLLAND'S FAMOUS ICE CREAM STOP--
Tunnel Park
YUM! Captain Sundae's & their famous Tommy the Turtle**a week after visiting Holland...Benjamin (Joel's bro) & Laurie got married in NYC:
Beautiful Bride & Groom.
Joel & I were in the wedding.
all 12 of Joel's siblings were able to make it for the wedding.
All in age order: John, Matthew, Samuel, Paul, Rebecca, Esther, Luke, Stephen, Rachel, Joel, James, Philp, & Benjamin (the groom)
Mom & Pop in front
{& in case you were wondering: there is a 19 year difference btw #1 & #13 & there are no double births)
WHEW!!! & that was just the first 3 weekends since moving into our new digs!
we are happy to be in our new home & LOVE having people over & cooking in our new awesome kitchen (more pics on that later)
Hopefully from here on out I will blog more, I have lots of soapboxes as well to talk about from my 'health hiccups' as I call them.
