SOLD!

Today was a big day for us - we bought a house. Yes, on Schuetter Road in Jasper we own a little peace of the world. It has a whole acre of yard behind it perfect for a dog - I can't wait to get one.

Here's Joe signing the papers!

And here I am. We signed our names 34 times.

And then we drove past the house after we signed for it just to take a picture. Here is is.

And then we saw this. I actually yelled 'SOLD, SOLD,' Joe didn't even know the sign was there, I was just yelling. And then he saw it too. The realtor must have just run right over and changed it. It was so exciting!!

And now in 22 days we will be able to move in and make it our own home. I can't wait to show you pictures of the inside.

The Garden!

Our garden is booming! Everything seems to be coming up at once. Sometimes its overwhelming how God has blessed us with this bounty. But we are passing it around to our friends and family and hoping they all enjoy!

I got a new camera - takes nice pics right?

We put hay between the plants to keep the weeds away. I have some experience with shaking up some hay - I just hate doing it in the summer. But anything for my tomatoes!

We are getting a ton of watermelon!


The cherry tomatoes are are earliest and delicious!
Cute tomatoes on the windowsill

Kohlrabi - tastes kinda like cabbage with a hint of radish.

That's a good looking radish!

A Cucumber! We have hundreds!

Even our Cucumbers are happy!

Then we grilled them with bar-b-q sauce

The beans just started coming up - I had one today and they were good! I can't wait to make pot licker :)

New Camera, New Road Rash

My new camera came Wednesday. I bought it a cute little case and have been carrying it everywhere with me for the past couple of days. Including the emergency room.

Joe has been training for a triathlon - his brother talked him into it. And his friend M is doing it too. Yesterday Joe and Michael go for a bike ride. Everything was going fine until Joe saw a spot in the path that kinda "ramped up" He yelled 'RAMP' so that there would be no doubt that he was going to go flying off of it. And fly he did. He has actually been describing this moment as "flying like ET." So he didn't land as well as ET did.

He has a hole in his arm. The ER doc says he will be fine. I wish we could say the same for his wife.

Here is a picture of the hole in his arm. If you don't like gross stuff, don't look.

What do you think of my new cameras skills?

1 Year!

Its our anniversary. And it is true that marriage was only the beginning. So much has happened in the last 365 days. We've moved to Chicago and set up a home, moved from Chicago and set up camp at Joe's Moms, bought a car, a house, changed jobs twice.

Here is a quick reminder of how much fun we were having last year at this time.