Couple's Shower

Saturday night our Sunday School class threw us a couples shower-unfortunately & fortunately we had planned it for 7pm. Well, after the Colts were scheduled to play at 8pm-we figured it would turn into a Colts party quickly after the "showery type" of events. We were excited for the people who were able to make it and missed the ones who couldn't because of vacation, going to the colts game, a bachelor party, and family day.

They ended up going in all together on the gifts and we got our baby monitors (needed really bad), first aid kit (paranoid mom-needs first aid kit really bad), and bouncy chair-bed (which I'm sure Nora will love).

We played a few games & then watched the Colts lose in a horrible ending to the Jets....Overall a good time until the last minute of the game.

Baby food guessing & tasting...and toilet paper length games. P.S. baby food carrots are horrible!

We are grateful for the wonderful people we have been able to meet and get to know from Bethesda. They have all been huge blessings in our lives. Thanks for everything you guys have done for us!

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!

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!