Finally Fulltime

This week marks my first week as a full time worker! I started at 30 hours per week and have made my way to 40 each week. I'm excited to be making a little extra money that we can now put towards my student loans in January. In addition to getting extra money to pay off debt, I will be working on Thursdays now which will prevent me from going shopping and spending money that I dont need to spend! Win win situation either way you look at it.

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend spending time with family first at my aunts house on Thanksgiving and then at Jakes grandpas on Saturday. We did, however, get a chance to run the drumstick dash Thanksgiving morning which was 4.5 miles in Broadripple. It was cold and it drizzled a little to-very undesirable conditions for running, but needless to say we both finished running, Jake just finished 10 minutes before me. Yeah, yeah, he runs a lot faster than me, but we were both really sore until yesterday! It made me realize that I had better get moving if I'm going to be running the mini in May! The dash was fun- we got dry fit long sleeve Brooks t-shirts for running and after wards we were ready for meal time.

Friday, the Monrovia Bulldogs played at Lucas Oil for the state championship and lost...they had a great run, but couldnt come through in the end. But, my HS team didnt get to state so that was a great accomplishment for them. Earlier that morning we finished our Christmas shopping with some great Black Friday deals-it was Jakes first experience, I'm not sure if he'll want to do that again or not but he was a good help to me by standing in line!

This morning we put up the Christmas tree and tomorrow we will be decorating it-we didnt have time since I had to work at 12:30 and Jake was ready for bed. We also began our project of putting plastic on our humongous windows to try to keep the cold air out. I hope it works because its been cold in here lately. Speaking of cold when I got back to the office my car had frost on it!! I wasnt expecting that at all so I had to dig my scraper out. Gotta love 4 seasons :) Happy December tomorrow!

Yay, the weekend

It's Thursday & that means Friday is right around the corner! And, today is my day off-so I get to relax a little bit which is a good thing because I think I'm catching a cold. Two days ago I went to bed with a sore throat, yesterday I woke up with a cough, and today I have all that and a huge headache-it's coming if it isnt already here! I just hope I don't pass it along to Jake.

Tomorrow we are going to watch Monrovia in the Semi-State high school football tournement, then Saturday we are going to tailgate & hopefully go to the Purdue/IU game. I will finally get to meet my brothers new girlfriend who is 4 years older than him! Not that it matters, but everyone else in my family has met her so I kind of feel left out.

My sister found out last week that she's having a girl and is due on Valentines day! I've been working on planning her shower and hunting down some good deals in the baby department-which is fun, but I get carried away! I feel for Jake the day I'm preganant and want to buy EVERYTHING in the store! That is if it would be a girl-the little boy stuff doesnt really appeal to me as much. Speaking of being pregnant, my cousin Matt's wife is in the early weeks of her pregnanacy & she just found out the other day. Exciting, but I feel like that 'itch' is coming on a lot lately especially with lots of people around me pregnant or with little kids. I think that means a visit to my mother-in-laws to see her baby sitting kids-that usually does it 6 kids, screaming, etc its good birth control!

Outside of all that I'm extremely excited for Thanksgiving this year. We are doing it at my moms on Thursday and at Jakes grandpas on Saturday-Two times the fun & we should be seeing most of our families which is also good! I've already made a pumpkin ice cream cake to take somewhere, but being ice cream it can not travel very far and both our travels are at least an hour so we might just be eating it at home!

After Thanksgiving I plan on buying a fresh turkey on sale (if they go on sale) from Sam's to make. I never feel like I get enough turkey with all the other yummy foods there are available so one turkey for two people ought to be enough!

Have a great weekend!

Vera Bradley Sale

Into Vera Bradley...or know someone on your Christmas list who is? There's a sale going on now where you can get the Hannah bag (reg $45) for $10.80 with the coupon code: 10offsale Shipping is as low as $8, but you can get more than one to lower the shipping per item! That makes it a $20 gift that would normally be twice as much! I'm debating on buying one for someone, but if you need one too we can go in together and only pay $4 each for shipping! Now thats more enticing.

Copy & paste the link below for a picture-they are really cute:
http://www.verabradley.com/catalog/search.cmd?form_state=searchForm&keyword=10442023&x=41&y=11

Christmas Shopping

So the last few weeks I've been spending part of my days off Christmas shopping all over the place! Its a lot easier to find a deal if you are looking, although Jake would say its a lot easier to spend money if you're in a store... He has a point, but still. We actually have a lot of people crossed off and done! My latest was a gift at Kohl's that was regularly priced at $49.99, but was on sale a week and a half ago for $19.99-but they were out. So, I got a rain check and in the mail that same week I received a $10 off your entire purchase from Kohls. So my once $49.99 gift was only $10.48. Thats the steal of the season!

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I dont seem to have a problem buying things for anyone other than Jake. He never wants anything, never thinks of things he could use, and never shops unless I ask him to come with me! With that being said, you can see where I would have run out of ideas-especially since his birthday was in September. If we had a house I could go off of that and buy him something for that, but there are somethings that work well in a house and not an apartment! If you have any ideas about what things you think would make a great Christmas gift, I could use the help. I try to look at electronics, his hobbies, etc for ideas but I'm blank and it's sad! After all Christmas is only 40 days away!

On to Semi-state!

The Monrovia Bulldogs are now 13-0 & heading to Semi-state. We went to watch the game tonight at Marion College and it was packed! The game was really intense. I felt like I was in high school again watching my team play for the regional champ trophy. For most of the game we were winning, but at times I thought it was over, but an TD, sack, and interception did it all for the team winning over the Ritter Raiders. It was the most exciting high school football game I'd been to in a while!

Who let the dogs out? haha, sorry I had to!

He Doesn't Wear Red!

These pictures are of Jake playing flag football with the guys we met at church. But, they told him he needed to wear pants/shorts with out pockets or tape them, this, that, and a red shirt or red long sleeve! Jake said, "I dont have a red shirt" to one of the guys. LOL we both looked at each other and said at the same time "He doesnt have red because he never wears red! At Purdue you DON'T wear red-so all he has are black/white/gray athletic shirts". So he borrowed this red shirt from one of them! We both laughed bc it's so true, but most people don't think about that! Red is for Hoosier fans!

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Notes from Church

A successful family life is all about building Biblical relationships. Know that men and women have 5 different basic needs, see below!

Women:

1. Affection

2. Conversation

3. Honesty & openness

4. Financial support

5. Family committment

Men:

1. Sexual fulfillment

2. Recreational companionship

3. Attractive spouse

4. Domestic support

5. Admiration

Words of wisdom:

"A spirit-filled husband will naturally respond to a respectful spirit-filled wife"
(Ephesians 5:21-24)

"A spirit-filled wife will naturally respond to a loving
spirit-filled husband"
(Ephesians 5:25-30)

"Spirit-filled children will naturally respond to nurturing
spirit-filled parents"
(Ephesians 6:1-4)

Great service, the pastor is awesome! This afternoon our new church friends picked us up from our apartment and we headed to Greenwood where the husbands from our newly married Sunday school class play flag football. They invited Jake to play with them, and the wives usually just watch on the sidelines. They did not win their game, but Jake had a great time re-living his football days even though it was flag football! Next week will be their last game unless they win because its tourney time. But, in a couple weeks basketball at the church will start up and I think Jake will enjoy playing in that league with the guys he has met so far. We are so blessed and thankful for the new friends that the Lord has brough into our lives!

Reminiscing our Honeymoon

The pictures from our honeymoon are in the file folder for our screen saver. While Jake and I were talking about our jobs this video popped up! It was our first night in the Dominican Republic. They had a "dance off" and one of the senoritas that ran the anamacion or entertainment for the visitors was in love with Jake. She asked him to compliment her in a dance! You should have seen his face when she pulled him out in front of everyone...like a deer in the headlights..scared! But you can see why by watching this video where she ended up kicking him in the head and torturing him the whole time, but it was all in good fun! We still laugh about it and I'm glad I got our camera to the video function ASAP! Jake and his senorita won the competition and we recieved yet another bottle of rum.

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1 Lady Bug & 2 Lions