This and That!

Jake and Ireceived our wedding photo album from our photographers and were so excited to see it-It came a day before Christmas, but we were down in Monrovia so we didnt actually get it until this past weekend-but I love it!

Christmas is over and we have already taken our first tree down along with all the decorations, and we rearranged the living room so we would have more room for our guests at our New Years Party. Ellen & Ryan, Jackie & Alex, maybe Fife & Jay and a few others may come over for some Apples to apples, Ticket to Ride, and Euchre. We were at Meijer today buying some wine and came across a brand labeled "Jacobs Creek" and thought it would be neat to try it, but sorry Jacobs Creek-Sutter Homes was cheaper!

Tonight Jake and I are going to one of his co-workers house for a dinner party! Apparently Steve has some left over wine from his wine party he had a few weeks ago-Lets just say thats exciting along with his great cooking skills :)

I start back at the internship on January 12th for a week of orientation into the Medical Nutrition Therapy rotation then starting January 19th I will begin my 16 week commute to St Vincent in Caramel for the rest of the rotation. I'm looking forward to the rotation, but not the drive-I'm hoping Ginny and I will be able to carpool most of the time. Ginny works down at Westfield High School so the hospital is pretty close to where she works.

Because the next semester will be long for both of us we planned a mini-vaca to Pheonix, Az to catch some rays and see Jakes Aunt Donna. She is always telling us we should come out and stay with her, but this is the first time we've actually taken her up on the idea.I think we are planning to take a trip to the Grand Canyon one day we are there. The rest of the time we will probably just enjoy their company and the nice, sunny, dry weather that comes with living in the Southwest!

Maybe this trip will inspire us to move to a warm place?! Indiana is OK in the summer, but the winters, especially January and February are killer cold-you all know what I'm talking about!

Until next time.....Happy 2009 from the Standefords!

Secret Santa

At work we have a secret santa which was decided by drawing names from a hat. The rules were 5 $1 gifts and 1 $5 gift, but I couldnt see spending a dollar on 5 gifts so I changed it to 2 $2.50 gifts and 1 $5 gift so that I could give my person a few nice gifts! This has been going on for about 2 weeks now and I still havent received a gift from my secret santa. I dont know who it is but I havent been the happiest person when I go looking in the sleigh for my gifts! Needless to say, I think I have figured out who my secret santa is and everyone elses for that matter. I enjoy the mystery and figuring out who has who more than anyone else I work with. I've been looking for clues and checking the hand writting out on each of the presents. Along with that I've been taking mental notes of when the presents arrive in the sleigh! I might be taking it to extreme, but I've got to keep myself sane for my last couple days! Speaking of last day...its tomorrow :) It's been fun here in the ADR, but there comes a time when you must move on...move on out of a position you didnt really enjoy too much.

I love this time of year and I'm so excited to see friends and family we havent seen in a while. This time it is well overdue for many of them! I hope to see you all soon!

Jake always wins!

I just want everyone to know that I never win and Jake always wins. I cant win against him at "HORSE" or "PIG" (we played back in Monrovia 3 weeks ago) , any board games-my most recent attempts was Ticket to Ride (A game Mike and Kate got for us for the wedding), or any other game we have tried to play together. This is sort of a big deal to me because I like to win and you could say I'm a sore loser, but I would just like to win a legitimate game against him one of these days.

The week in recap!

This week flew by! I'm not so sure what made it go so quickly, but I know I'm not getting older that fast. The first 3 days were gone like that. Sunday, Jake and I went to Edinburgh Outlet Mall and did a little finishing up on Christmas shopping, Monday and Tuesday we both worked, worked out, and watched our favorite TV shows together. Wednesday-work..., Thursday we had my Holiday Dinner at work where I presented my dessert buffet as my special function for my internship. Needless to say, after doing a little quality control and dessert eating, I was stuffed and sort of felt sick from all the sugar! Jake left the dinner and went quickly to a wine tasting at one of his Co-worker's house. I was pretty jealous that he was able to do it and I had to stay at work :( Then, after wine tasting and purchasing a bottle of our favorite Riesling he had a basketball game at Faith. When I was off work he told me the team named him MVP of the game because of all of the points (24) he contributed to the game. They won by 2 and he was very excited because last week they lost to a bunch of older guys (about 30-45 yo) because some of their players were lacking in the defense area! I sorta felt bad, but I saw how those old guys drove right in on them and made the lay up everytime. I do have to defend Jake and say that never did the old men drive on him, he was out guarding their number 1 player. As for today, I got caught up on all assignments that are due on Monday! One more week and foodservice is over!

Tomorrow, I plan on baking up as much banana bread as I have bananas for, freezing it and taking it to grandmas for Christmas along with a few other goodies! Tomorrow at 5 we are headed down to see Jakes dad in the hospital, then staying at John & Rachels Saturday night, going to the Colts vs. Lions game (yeah Lucas Oil Stadium) and then one last time to check in on Jakes dad, then we are headed home on Sunday night. Its going to be an eventful weekend :)

Yeah for Thanksgiving, even though we already have our Christmas tree up!

Did I mention we have had our Christmas tree up for over a week now? We got really excited one night and decided to play Christmas music and set our first Christmas tree up together. We still need more decorations, but I'll be out on the hunt after Christmas for more. Last year we picked up our tree for 75% off as well as stockings, ornaments, and a few other things. It looks awesome and cozy in our small, very small now, living room!

I'm so glad Thanksgiving is finally here! I really needed a break from the internship and it couldn't have come at a better time. I'm excited to see family we havent seen in a while, eat turkey, take a nap, and watch football :) Not to mention rise early on Friday for the sales! I hear Sam's Club has some pretty hard to pass up sales this year on Black Friday. I hope everyone else does too since we havent really done much Christmas shopping yet this year. Jake really likes to just buy everything all at once instead of doing it like I really like doing it and that is a little here and a little there. It seems logical if you see a gift you like for someone to pick it up, and that way you arent spending too much all at the same time. It will all work out-it always does.

Nothing too exciting here at the Standefords, our work schedules havent been cooperated with us to be able to see each other much lately-but I know we arent the only ones. Working 12-9pm for me isnt fun since I like to sleep in until 10, but only beacause after work I cant wind down enough to fall right asleep. So my days are usually from 10am-1am with a few early shifts squished right between to really make me grumpy. 3 weeks left of this rotation, much of my work is already finished and I'm just counting the days down til January!

Have a Happy Thanksgiving and remember not to eat too much-this time of year people usually gain 5-10 pounds...or better yet, eat it all and a whole cheesecake I need a job next year! :)

Fiesta Fish

Today I tested my fish recipe with a few production chefs at one of Purdues Dining Court. Everything went extremely well-with a few minor things that I would change if I had to do it all over again! I'm glad thats over with and on to the next project...does this process ever end?

Jake made chicken cordon bleu tonight for dinner and I must say that he is a really good cook! He even breaded the chicken-with cracker crumbs-which I thought was funny since we had some shake and bake crumbs in the cabinet! I think hes over his cold for good now and feeling much better :)

Biggest Loser is on tonight, so I've got to get some work done before then & Ellens calling me!

VOTE 2008!

Today is a great day...its ELECTION DAY :)

To be completely honest this was the second time I was able to vote, but was the first time I actually voted. I didnt even think about voting early, but it just so happens that the there wasnt a line where I voted! Amazing since all I've heard about are 3-5 hour lines all day in other cities-that may be one reason to truly love Lafayette. I've been trying to keep up with the candidates, but its very hard for me to decipher whos telling the truth even after watching countless TV shows following the campaigns. I'm very excited to see who will become the next US President, but unlike millions I wont be tuning in tonight to see who actually won. Tomorrow morning is good enough for me! I'm kinda sick and tired of all the bash smash going on lately.

Tomorrow I will be testing my "Fiesta Fish" recipe at my foodservice facility. One of our projects is to develop a recipe and make it useful in the dining courts at Purdue all while fitting in the budget and being 'maker friendly'...in other words not hard on the chefs and other workers. My fiesta fish is a lime butter bread crumbed topped tilapia filet with a piqo de gallo topping that is WONDERFUL! I love it, but I cant really take all the credit because one of my friends kinda-sorta gave me the idea, but I implemented it. I guess I will see how that Purdue football/basketball/volleyball players like my fish tomorrow night. For the record, they actually eat more fish/seafood than I thought so I'm pretty excited.

As for the rest of the week, more of the same thing, but Jake and I are headed to Indy on Friday night to see Scott (Jakes Dad) and his new band perform as the opening band at the Neil McCoy concert. Just so happens we got free tickets to the concert so I'm excited about that.

Sam's Club is becoming busier and Jakes hours for the holidays arent looking too good...I forgot how awful retail can be during those times of the year. Thankfully he has Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter off, but I'm hoping it extends to maybe one or two days before or after each of them since I will be out of school. We will see....

Happy Belated Halloween & Daylight Savings Day!

I know it was fall about 3 weeks ago, but now the leaves are really turning colors and falling. It smells so good outside-which may be wierd to most people, but I'm sure some of you know what I'm talking about! This month, as well as every other month, has been extremely busy. I cant remember the last time I was able to sit at the computer and browse for nothing on end. Two weeks ago I was hit with a mild cold that left me breathing through my mouth and coughing all night for several nights. It was horrible as any cold is, but it seemed to be so dry in the air-we solved that problem by purchasing a humidifier. Its been working really well in our bedroom since the only real problem happens when I'm sleeping.

Last weekend I was up in Chicago for the Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo from Saturday-Tuesday! It was awesome and so much fun to be in Chicago walking around everywhere...etc. I know you get the point. I would absolutely love to live in/around/near Chicago because there's so much going on all the time. Sometimes I describe myself as attention deficit or more commonly 'easily bored'. If we had the chance to live in Chicago-then I dont think I would get bored for a while! :) Despite the chilly weather, it would really be a cool place to live.

On Halloween, Jake and I dressed up as 'Grandma & Grandpa"! I was a good time and we only spent $15 between the two of us on our costumes from Goodwill. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture, but we were hilarious with our white spray-painted hair and my knee highs and Jake with his too short/too tight sweater! YOU Just had to be there!

News about Jake (since I rarely update on him) He joined a basketball league at our church and is playing on the same team as a few of our friends. He claims they are the best team in the league with 2 college bball players and the rest college athletes. I cant say I've seen them or that I dont believe that that amount of talent wouldnt be the best, but goodness hes only played one game so far! I guess thats just his competitive edge. I'm glad he joined because he needs something to win at and this is going to be a good thing for him to win at for a while... I think in the spring they have different leagues too-but I'm not sure!

Yesterday we went to the Purdue game to see the boilers in action and were so glad to see them walk away with a win-it was getting pretty bad in West Lafayette...Its about time to whip out those nicely done plays that we've never seen actually work and see them work against a Big Ten team (even though Michigan isnt doing so well). We'll always be Boilers at heart.

Today, after sleeping in an extra hour and going to church we watched the Lions vs. Bears game today to root for John in his first regular season game as a Lion! Needless to say they should have won, but some how the Bears came back again-they always seem to do that. Next game we'd like to see a little more action to #16's way! Back to more homework more later on!

Time Is Flying By!

Hi Aunt Donna & Uncle Jim!

Where has all the time gone...its already the middle of October! I love it when the leaves on the trees start to change. Jake and I tried to take a few pictures of them on our way home from Indy this weekend, but they didnt turn out as good as the leaves actually look. Today I went on a hunt looking for a Christmas wreath. I dont know why in the middle of October I got this urge, but it was something that I really wanted to do today. Well, I didnt find one! So the search will continue on :) Jake and I had McAllisters tonight, which reminds me of all the times I've eaten there with friends who have moved away-it was a sad moment, but my chicken spud hasnt changed!

On Thursday we went to Monrovia to visit Jakes family. It was senior night for Jessica-so we decided to try to make it to her last regular season match. Monrovia won and Jessica threw a few spikes down on the other team!

Jessica in Action #3

On Friday night, it was Jordan & Joes senior night for football and band, so we went to that to watch Jordan play his last regular season game and to watch Joe perform at halftime in the band. Friday was also Jasons birthday, so Jason, Tab and Isabella were down for the weekend. We were able to see most of the family with a few exceptions. Rachel is hanging in there with the girls while John found his way back up to Detroit last week. Needless to say I got my "baby fix" for a while. For some reason these little fixes arent lasting as long as they need too! We are planning to wait a few years until we are settled and have had a few years for us, but since we arent planning on kids-I've been discussing a dog with Jake lately. Unfortunately, we are too busy to get a dog at the moment, but maybe in August!

Jordan, Scott, Jessica, Darlene, Joe-Can you believe they are seniors?!

Joe & his tuba!Performing at halftime!Jordan at half time

Jordan #4 in action on the field!

Me & Jess in the stands :)

Jake & Jason-Happy 28th Birthday!

Foodservice Land!

Things are going well in foodservice land. I've completed the first week of the remaining 10-I'm hoping Christmas comes faster than ever! It doesnt take me 11 weeks to figure out that I never ever want to work in foodservice again-its like smelling like food and thinking you've eaten 30 times each day. Not to mention mass production of food, I can barely cook at home :) I'll survive..no time for complaining.

Just a side note for those Big Brother 10 enthusiasts: Dan the man won and we all (Jack, Al, Jake & I) predicted it a long time ago! Looks like Big Brother needs to get a check on the production or something.

Underway are new shows I like to watch like Survivor, Greys, Desperate Housewives, Amazing Race, etc. Too much to watch-I just get so sucked in to everything on TV. I'm trying not to sit down in front of it much more but to get the details on the election. I've decided I'm gonna vote for the first time, but I need some serious update on the candidates.

Jake is wonderful- we bought a new car on Saturday and traded his in. Needless to say hes not sad about the trade in, He likes the new car better :)

Isabella, Jason, and Tab dropped by on Friday night and spent some time with us so we could see our growing neice. I cant believe how big shes getting, they say they grow up fast! Better watch out Tab- before you know it she'll be walking all over the place. We are trying to make a plan to visit all 3 of the girls often just because we know they are gonna change so much and it keeps us busy so we arent thinking about having our own yet! Maybe in a couple years, but my grandma keeps saying she isnt getting any younger!

Visiting John and Rach!

We are visiting with John, Rach, and the girls this weekend-while hoping to see the rest of the busy family! Lately we've been really busy with work and school/internship, but we've been finding time for our almost ridiculous reality show addiction.  Since we have had DVR its been worse too! More later when there is more time...

Weekend in Chicago!

We are headed up to Chicago this weekend to stay with Jackie & Alex! This will be Jake's first weekend off in a while so we thought we would make the trip :) We are excited and have lots of things planned to do while we are there for a short time. I'm glad to have a break from the computer- I dont think my hands would last in an office setting. See you later next week! Monday-Thursday wraps up the community rotation for me, but I still have lots to do. Who would've thought bulletin boards would have been so hard to create?

Things are good when you have a good preceptor!

Everything is grand when you have a good preceptor-It just so happens mine might be the best one of the bunch! For starters, she is a Purdue graduate and participant of the CPD program. She understands the workload and all the stuff that goes along with the internship. Today we chatted for a while-it seems we have the same personality and know a lot of the same people, have been to the same diabetes camp, worked at camp calcium, etc. Bottom line=Great connection! I learned that I will have to give presentations to the 4 & 5 grade classes, the Consumer and Family Sciences in middle school and high school, and give a presentation to the lifelong fitness class of mainly girls. Along with the presenting, I will have to develope educational materials for the bulletin boards for the year for all the cafeterias in the schools. Even though I had to wake up at the crack of dawn to get there by 7:30, I got off at 3:30 and was happily home by 4:30. Thats my life for the next 3 weeks-busy! Did I mention we have Labor Day off and she doesnt work Fridays, which means I can stay at Purdue and do work instead of traveling. Cha Ching...I love to save that gas money!

First Day of Internship Fun!

Today I started the CPD program at Purdue with a full day of orientation type stuff. Sitting in a class room for 6 hours wasnt too much fun, but at least I know more of what is expected during the rotation sites. Speaking of the rotation sites-I start tomorrow at Crawfordsville. Most likely this will consist of developing/implementing/teaching nutrition education to people K-12. I'm really excited to get started, but I'm always really nervous before presenting. Jake says I just need "FTK" which at Sam's Club means Finger Tip Knowledge! I informed him that it might be a little more than that! :) Off subject, but note to self: don't go to the Co-Rec at 4:30pm on the first day of class-every one is there and mostly people standing around trying to figure out what they should be doing.

Friday, we drove to Greencastle to see Jordan (One of Jakes younger brothers) play football down there. Monrovia came out with the big W and they move on to face Cascade this weekend...Jake and I couldnt help laughing at how small the #88 was on the football team. Granted-he was a freshman, but he looked like a 2nd grader! Also on Friday, Ellen & Ryan got engaged down in Bloomington and they are planning a wedding in August 2009! She is really excited and has already started looking for reception sites, etc. I just love weddings and its good to know that we will at least have one in 2009 and 2010 thanks to Jackie & Ellen! :)

All is well at the apartment, we may have some visitors this weekend-depending on if Jackie & Alex want to stay with us when they come back for the weekend, but we will be traveling up to Chicago to visit them in a few weeks and to explore Chicago with a couple city slickers!

We started our class at Faith Baptist last Wednesday and its everything we need to get a quick over view of the Bible and give us a good foundation for the future. It feels good when you see the big picture and suddenly everything seems to fall into place-the only question I ask myself is "why didn't I take that class a long time ago?" So basically I'm excited about it!

P.S. we dont know what to do with ourselves now that the Olympics are over-I guess we will just have to go to bed before midnight!

Video from Sunday!

This is a short clip of Ann & Nellie-They are becoming more active!

Busy Week

First off, I finally got my hair cut last Tuesday! Since then I havent worn a pony tail yet-which is what I was going for. Its really easy to do, but wasnt as short as I thought it would be.

This past week has been a week full of events. We went golfing with Ellen and had a blast trying to improve our golf game.

We picked blackberries and got peaches from the Butera Family Orchard-everything is so good, especially Rose's specialty desserts! Worked, watched the Olympics every night until midnight-which by the way is killing my morning rise! Even with DVR we still have to watch it because so many people are talking about it if we dont watch it we will hear the news before we get a chance to see it! Speaking of DVR-it might be the best thing since automatic lawn mowers! We have been using it so much since a lot of our shows are on around 7-9 pm-the time we like to be outside or doing something, so we just watch the shows later with no commercials!

Here are the pictures of our aparment like I promised! This is the Master Bedroom:

Kitchen:

Bathroom #1:

Bathroom #2:

Living Room: Second Bedroom:

Finishing the week-Friday, we hung out with Ryan, Ellen, Dustin & Jenny-we ate at the Endzone and then headed back to Jenny & Dustins house to sit outside and enjoy the weather. Saturday-we relaxed and spend time together. And Sunday we went back to Faith Baptist for the early service and then went up to see Jason & Tabatha. Much to our surprise, Saturday we found out Darlene, Rachel, Nellie & Ann were going to be up there too! So, we got to see all the new babies :) I cant believe how much they have grown-Since we have seen them they look more and more identical! With 3 babies it wasnt hard finding one to hold all day.

Isabella: Nellie & Ann:

The girls had their first sleep over on Saturday before we were able to see them. Looks like they are gonna get along just fine! We are excited to see them grow :)

Welcome Isabella Amber!

We welcome Isabella Amber to the family today at 5:56 pm. We are once again proud to be aunt Rox and uncle Jake! She was 8 lbs. 12 oz. and 22 inches long-what a big girl! Tabatha was induced "slowly" on Sunday and after a couple days gave birth. We will be posting pictures after our visit to Jason and Tabathas this coming Sunday- we are very excited to see her!

Plenty of Good News, Updates, & Pictures!

First off, we got noticed our wedding pictures were up on the monahans website: http://www.kevinmonahanphotography.com/ under the slideshows, but I wanted to include some of my favorites from the day. So, here they are! They turned out soo good-I'm glad they were there to capture one of my favorite days of our lives, I know its corny but true & try not to laugh at the only attempt I made at making a 'serious' face all day! I really tried hard and I dont think it turned out that bad! And girls, I'd have to say that our 'JUMP' picture looked way better than the guys-hince the reason theirs isnt up here! We were all in the air at the same time, but in the guys picture it was up down, on the ground, everywhere but together! So thank you for your excellence in staging photography!

Second off, I received news that I was accepted into Purdues Internship program for this year!! Hoorayyy! :) I start August 25th with my community nutrition rotation at Crawfordsville for 3 weeks, then move directly to my foodservice management rotation at Purdue for 11 weeks and after Christmas break start, my favorite, clinical nutrition rotation at St. Francis or St. Vincent in Caramel, IN for 16 weeks. I know, an hour to and from for 16 weeks will be a lot, but I'm hoping to get a foot in somewhere to prepare for job searching next July 11th when I pass the RD exam and become a registered dietitian! :) Finally, a little direction in my life- God is great!

Third off, We may have another niece come into the world tonight or tomorrow morning! Tabatha is in the hospital, as I type, and ready to give birth to our 3rd niece this summer Isabella Amber. They should be calling us ASAP if she has her tonight! Very excited for another baby! Pictures to come soon! :)

Fourth off, We are all moved in and settled and have finally cleared every box from the move yesterday! We were very good about getting most of the boxes out the first and second days, but had 4 from our bookshelf that we thought we would paint to match some of our furniture. We later decided that it was too much work/stress to deal with. We love our new place-it feels so much like home to us all decorated, much more than our 1/2 decorated apartment last year with no comfort factor. I've been watching HGTV and TLC for a lot of decorating tips and I think it paid off-along with a lot of discounted and sales items! I will post pictures as soon as I get them to the computer from our camera!

Last, but not least-we ventured out to another church yesterday with hopes to find more young married/newlywed classes or bible studies offered. I think we found a lot of good things at Faith Baptist Church near Meijer. We went to Kossuth Street Baptist a few times, but stopped going because the pastor we liked didnt get picked for the senior pastor position, but we really liked the contemporary feel and worship service. So, we knew Faith was a spin off or vice versa and the worship was equally as good-gave me goosebumps, but it was nice to know 80% of the songs without looking at a hymnal. Jake and I are signed up for a classed called "Overview of the Bible" it meets every Wednesday from 630-800pm from August-October. We hoped to gain more knowledge and fill in the blank spaces- I'm really excited for the class to start next Wednesday. I also signed up for a class titled "Handling Stress Biblically" its for women only, but I think it will help me out a lot! Any one who knows me knows I stress over a lot of things-some being little things!

Thats all for now and a condensed update on our lives from the past few weeks! We miss all of our friends who have moved from us-you know who you are....

The Internship Front

Still no news on the internship front. The waiting has been absolute torture, but I'm currently looking for a position that pays more than the one I'm in now! If any one has any knowledge of a position that I might be interested in-please let me know!

Beginning to Pack!

We are beginning to pack up all our things and head to the east side of Lafayette! Just so you know packing might be my least favorite thing besides un-packing, but we've had to do it every year for 3 years now! I'm sad to say that this isn't even remotely close to our last move for a while. Everytime we move we realize how much stuff we have collected over the past year and all the stuff we shouldve thrown out last year that we havent touched since we packed and unpacked it from the last move! Monday will be the day we pick up our Budget truck and actually move-this is also the day our new living room furniture is in!

Friday I went to the Cove by myself to lay out, relax, and get a few rays! It was crowded with little kids and their parents, but I was fine by myself and my ipod. I stayed cool by hopping in the lazy river every now and then to change it up a bit, I'm hoping to go this week too-its just a nice change of pace!

This past weekend Ellen and I went to the fair queen contest-a yearly event for us, it was hot as usual, you couldnt hear what the contestants were saying, and we stopped to talk to someone about every five feet but thats what the fair is all about and we love it (well I love it, I dont know about El)! Saturday night we visited Ginny and Dustin at their house and just hung out on their patio.

Sunday, Jake and I had brunch at the Trails and it was soo good. We stuffed ourselves full of the amazing food and then wondered why we didnt stop eating earlier. After that we ran a few errands and then later that night we went to the Sam's Club annual cookout at Columbian Park, the food was catered by Sgt. Prestons and, too, was delicious! We didnt pay or make anything to eat all day and were completely stuffed so we went on a walk around 9th street park for a while.

Monday, we went back to the park-this time together-to eat fair food! We met up with Josh and Krystal and Tiffany and Ryan at the fair to eat with them. We each had corn on the cob, pork sandwiches, elephant ear, and a lemon shake-up :) It was all soo good, but its about time we start eating like we usually do or it will start to have a huge effect on our appearance!

Today, Jake went golfing with Joey Elliot while I was working. Hes been making it a 2x/week thing now-a-days and wants to buy new clubs. I told him he was doing just fine with the ones he had and that if next year he starts off bad, then he could get new ones ;) Last week was my first time out this summer and I sort of played like it too! For the first 4 holes I wasnt doing so bad, but after that it was down hill from there. Good thing we were only playing 9! I intend on getting better and better in the years to come, but it might take longer than I expect.

As for our half marathon, we havent been doing so well, but we both feel that once we are settled in our new apartment and have access to treadmills, inside, in air conditioning-that we will be more successful in our daily running tasks!

Have a good week-I know we will, plans for the Brickyard are underway! :)

Weekend Fun!

Here are some pictures for Leslie & Hans Wedding on Saturday. Leslie is Jakes cousin:The Bride and Groom! They ballroom danced for their first dance! The focus was on :)Jake & LesJoe, Jess, Me, & Jord!
Jake & Papa Stans
Brotherly Love!
Jessica being Jessica!
Jake & Les break out the "Super-man"! Jason & Tab-who are expecting on August 10th!
KK & Sarah (Jakes cousins) and Jackie (Sarahs Girlfriend)
My handsome husband!
We must pose for a picture togetherAnn at 1 month! They are so adorable ;)

Always matching & very cute!
On Sunday, we went to church and then headed over to Paps house to catch some rays! We had a little cookout and layed out with John and Rach, Jordan, Darlene, and Lisa and her daugther. We had a blast this weekend and look forward to the next family function!

We havent received our professional wedding pictures yet, but are very excited to see them. We will post a few as soon as we get them. I dont expect them until the beginning of August, but if its earlier thats a plus!