Moving Days...

It should tell me something when I have to write two seperate blogs in one day just to catch up on what I haven't blogged about. Yeeesh! Well, WE'RE HERE! Our new home in Wheaton, IL. Scott started his job yesterday and it looks like he's working about 9-3pm this week. We just love all the people he's working with. Lots of couples right around our age several little bitty kiddos running around. We've had several dinners together now with a lot of his co-workers. I'm actually about to go babysit for his boss who has a 5 month old daughter. :) Everyone has been super friendly and helpful. I absolutely love it so far! Wheaton is a west suburb of Chicago and we are surrounded by probably at least 4 or 5 more little suburbs around us. So many different stores, fun places to eat & shop, lots of parks and great places to walk! It's a total bonus that we're only about 25 minutes outside of the big city and there's a Metra stop literally right across the street from us. We haven't made it that far yet...we took last week to make a big moving day up with our Mom's and Kellie (WHO WERE HUGE HELPS!) and then we came home for the weekend and trucked it back up here with another car load. So, here are some pics of the outside of our apartment so you can see where we're living:

We're actually on the top right corner of this building, you can't see our windows from this picture.

These stores are directly across the strees from us. (A retail shop, travel agency, furniture boutique, and a SUPER expensive restaurant...probably won't be visiting there soon! ;) )

This is the Metra stop right across from us, there's an actual station behind all of these stores.

So this fun name plate is on the wall beside our front door. :)

And this sign welcomed us into our new apartment! :)

The five us spent the rest of the evening unloading boxes from the truck...wait, I take that back. About 5 or 6 guys (other GRAs and both of Scott's bosses) unloaded and carried everything up the stairs for us in a matter of minutes! What great guys! AFTER that we spent the rest of the night unpacking boxes and made a pizza run to Geno's East for some Chicago style pizza (which Scott and I ate on for two days after!). So, we got most of the stuff unpacked and the next morning...what we'd been waiting for...

YAY FOR IKEA!!! :) We shopped until our stomachs started growling so then what did we do...well what else!? We stopped for lunch at the IKEA cafeteria. Scott and I had some pretty bangin' Swedish meatballs with Lingonberry sauce! Which you can also purchase at IKEA. Yummm-o!

The next couple of days we spent trying to make our apartment look a bit more like home. Here's what we've come up with so far...some of the rooms still need a lot of work in the decor department.

Our kitchen :)

And this is one side of our living room...it's a pretty big space, and we're not quite sure what to do with it yet.

This is our guest room (those clothes are actually hanging up in a closet now and we bought a comforter for the bed). Those are the desks that the school supplied us with and the desktop computer they've supplied us with as well!

This is our bedroom. :)

And last but not least, this is our little bitty bathroom...okay it's not unbearably small, but those of you who knew that bathroom we had at my Mom & Dad's...this seems tiny. It just needed a little color though. :)

So there you have it...a tour of our new apartment! Once we finish the decorating I'll post some more pics. I'll try to take some pics around campus this week too. :)

If you haven't see my post about GREASE make sure you click on the web album in the next post! :)

GREASE is the word...is the word...is the word...

Hey guys! So, FINALLY for all of you who didn't get to come to our grand production of GREASE you can see loads of pictures of the performance and some behind the scenes pics. I have never had so much fun! I may be addicted to performing in musicals now. :) I do know that Wheaton Drama will be doing Oliver! and Chicago this year....yay!! I just might have to go audition. Anyway, Kellie and I had SUCH a blast doing GREASE this summer...though there were a couple of rough patches it was so worth it. It was so much fun to make so many new friends and let me tell you...thesbians are a hoot to hang out with! Those crazy kids...we loved them!
CLICK HERE FOR MY GREASE WEB ALBUM!!

GREASE

Here are even a couple of videos for your viewing pleasure! ;)

Busy Week!

So, the past couple weeks have been kinda busy. We had a wonderful visit with our precious Lauren. For those of you who don't know, Lauren lived very close to us for a year in Poland. She lived in the city of Olawa, which was about a 20 minute train ride from our place. This beautiful lady became part of our family last year. It's amazing how close living in a foreign country can bring strangers. And the funny thing is, Lauren is from Owensboro and went to school with Scott and we only came to know her from living in Poland with her. She is a precious part of our lives now...her and her wonderful new husband Aaron.
I've also been super super busy with my GREASE rehearsals. I'm not real sure how I'm feeling about it. The cast is a hoot to hang out with, but I'm a little nervous about the performance. It just doesn't seem like it's coming together real well. YIKES! Here's a pic of us hanging around during rehearsal - my sister Kellie and Vance (playing the part of Teen Angel).



So, the MAJOR part of this week - Scott and I taught the missions class at VBS this past week. It was a good time, but WHEW was it tiring! Scott and I also brought a friend, Jaci, with us each day and she LOVED it! Jaci also became a Christian at VBS this week too...so that was pretty precious to be a part of. :)

I would love to write more...but I'm feeling pretty crappy today. Sinuses and whatnot - blech! Have a wonderful week guys!

More to come soon! Can you believe we move in TWO WEEKS!!!! HOLY COW!