Internship Update

I emailed the director of the Internship program at Purdue to find out when we would be contacted if we were accepted in the program and she replied back and said, "thank you for being patient, unfortunately we will not be able to inform you of our decision until July 23-29. And if you are accepted, then we wouldnt be able to give you details until after the 29th." HELLO< the internship would start mid-August! Talk about leaving someone hanging the whole entire summer.

Anyways, I chickened out on getting my hair cut and have decided to wait a while and re-think my decision! It just takes so darn long to grow out!

As for this weekend, we are heading to Indy on Friday after I get off work to visit Jakes family! Yeah-babies! :) Ok, Ok, the real reason is Jakes cousin, Leslie, is getting married on Saturday and we are going to that, but we will have plenty of time with the whole Standeford family-which I'm really excited about. Tabatha and Jason will be down this weekend-I'm excited to see how much her belly has grown and if shes ready to have the baby already. Meanwhile, Nellie & Ann will be stealing the attention and we might have to have a mini-brawl to determine who holds who. Jake and I will have an advantage because I think we are staying all day Sunday. Since gas is so expensive, we have to make the trip worth while! This will be our last time to visit with the family for a while. Maybe it will be nice enough to swim in Paps pool?!

Well, I'm off to Sam's Club to check out our new insurance plan my husband set up this week! Yippee for being adults!

DIY-Dresser Make-over!

We finally finished Jakes dresser makeover project we started over the weekend. Knowing it would take a couple coats of stain to match my dresser- we thought it would take longer, but its finally done and it looks GREAT! I love projects like this especially when they turn out so nice!

The dresser before...a nice and ugly whitish/pale oak color with no depth at all.

The process of sanding and staining outside our apartment! One more coat....Perfect! That nice rich, dark wood with silver accents. Looks great and matches mine almost perfectly! As design on a dime would say "All that for under $1.00"! We had the stain, sand paper, and polyurathaine left over from the last project and all we had to buy was a cheap paint brush to paint on the polyurathaine!

We bought a new TV stand for our living room in preparation for our new TV and heres what it looks like-You can also see our rug we just purchased from Target to give a contemporary look! I love the green and will be pulling it out with throw pillows for our couch. I'll show you pictures whne we move into our new place at the end of July!

New TV! Even better that it was on sale. Dont look to hard, the commercial is Taco Bell, and made me want it when I realized thats what it was!

Its raining right now and its cutting into my jogging plans for the night-Grr...I hate it when I really feel like running and the weather doesnt cooperate with me! As for tomorrow, I think I'm officially getting my hair chopped off. I feel like all I do is pull it back in a bun or pony tail and it looks blah!

4th of July Weekend

Friday was the 4th of July which is the day Jake and I got engaged 2 years ago-Its hard to believe its been that long and that we are already married! This 4th we decided to save gas money from driving to Indy and just hang out with friends in Lafayette. So, we had a cookout at Josh and Krystals and then headed to Purdue for fireworks. I hadnt been to their fireworks for 3 years so I was hoping they would compare a little to Indys firework show....but, they were just OK. The Indianapolis fireworks are about 25 minutes-35 minutes long and are shot off to a radio station that you can listen to while watching the fireworks and the fireworks go to the rhythm of the booms! If that makes sense, if not they are pretty cool anyways! We had a great time, but for the traffic and bugs I think we couldve watched them from our apartment! Next year we might splurge and head to Indy even if gas is high.

On Saturday, Jake and I walked around the Farmers Market and downtown to the little shops. It was such a nice day with a great breeze that you couldnt not enjoy the outdoors. After that we did some house shopping and returned home to stain his dresser. This is a project we worked on and off all day Saturday-I'll post pictures when its finished. This idea was inspired by my dresser which we stained a couple years ago from its ugly oak looking color to a darker wood that matches our bedroom much better! Saturday evening we went to see my mom and Alan for a while then came back to watch Vantage Point.

Today, We went to church and had lunch and Jake was headed off to work at noon. I stayed home and cleaned the apartment from its dusty headquarters and got rid of a bunch of old clothes that I havent worn in a few years. I guess I thought they were too good to throw away, but they are gone now and we have a lot more space because of it!

We purchased our new living room sectional today from Furniture Row! We are very excited for it to come in since we've had some serious "hand me down" furniture for 2 years now. Its going to look great in our new apartment. We move in in 2.5 weeks on July 25th!

Outside of this weekend we got car and renters insurance and are working on other post-marrital paperwork-where does the fun end with all that?! Until next time...Have a great Sunday! :)

Half Marathon!

Jake and I plan on running the half marathon together in Indy this October. Originally we were thinking of running the 500 mini, but when we heard about this one that was closer in time we decided to do it instead. We still may do the one in May, but I think it will be a lot easier to train in the fall and not the cold springs weve been having in the past few years. I'm hoping that this will lead to a hobby like marathon running all over the U.S. I've heard of some great experiences in North Dakota from a seamstress at work! Who would have known fitness + companionship would seem like so much fun!

One thing I forgot to mention...we havent started training for it and have been dragging our feet since the beginning of the week to get started. Before the wedding we had a good record of working out and running, but since then we've been very busy with post wedding duties, moving, and work-that things just arent falling in place for our training like I had originally thought. I'm just glad its not a marathon yet! We'll be able to do it, but it might take some early wake up calls to get things rolling!