Friday, February 19, 2010

House?

So after looking at what seems like 800 houses, we finally put an offer in on one, and after much frustration from the sellers countering for a mere $1800 more than what we offered, we are finally under contract with them!

Holy moley, we'll have a house of our own!! It's really cute: 3 bedrooms, 2 bath, and a garage. Plus, the family room is big enough to have birthday parties, etc, at our house.

So exciting!!!

We'll keep you updated on it as we get there.

P.S. Joshua's sister, Tanesha, is doing well and will probably have surgery sometime in June.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Surgery

For those who didn't know, I had a fibroadenoma removed from my right breast yesterday. Doc's aren't worried about it too much, pretty sure it is benign, but are sending it for a biopsy just to be sure. Surgery went well, only lasted 40-45 minutes I guess, and I was up and ready to leave about an hour and a half after they took me back.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Machu Picchu

The view from out hotel room in Aquas Calientes, the town right below Machu Picchu.

The view from what Joshua and I decided was "our house" in Machu Picchu.


The sun, water, and earth temples all stacked on each other cut right out of the earth.


Yay, llamas!! (They pronounce it "yama")



This is the glorious view of Machu Picchu!!
Joshua and I had such a wonderful time in Peru and Machu Picchu. It was definitely the adventure that we had called forth. It was perfect!! We spent 5 days in just outside of Lima in the little town called Cieneguella. It was very beautiful, but very, very poor. There was a village set up on the land fill. After that, we went to Cuzco and Machu Picchu for 5 days. The feeling that we got in Machu Picchu can't even be put into words well. It was very peaceful and very surreal. In Cuzco, we even got to see a "waca" which is one of the sacred stones of the Incas. It was amazing. They still only have theories for how the Incas were able to move such large stones around, especially on the tops of mountains! The amazing thing is that there is no mortar between the rocks, they simply fit together like puzzle pieces. After spending our time in Cuzco, we flew back to Lima, thinking we would be heading home in a few hours...anyone who has flown stand by knows that isn't always the case. We ended up staying in Lima for an extra 3 days! But we met this really nice American, whom we call Tio Lou, who graciously let us stay with him while we waited to make a flight back home.

Joshua and I had a very fun time. It really strengthened our relationship to be in a country where we only had each other to talk to as neither of us really spoke Spanish!!


Lima

I finally uploaded our pictures from our "luna de miel" in Peru, so I thought I would share a few!



This was our first view of Lima outside our hotel room. It was very poor and very dirty.

Lili trying to make the same face as the statue.

Joshua and the "killer" geese. They would scream at all hours of the night!!


This is "cuy" which is the traditional Peruvian celebration dish.

(It is deep fried guinea pig!)



Sunday, October 18, 2009

Pictures!!

Some of the very cute cousins!

Yay cake!!

The boys getting amped up and excited before the wedding!

The girls being silly waiting for the boys!

The Stucki family that was there! What a great looking bunch!!


First kiss and Mr & Mrs Brady!


Just wanted to show a few of the pictures from the wedding!!

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Yay blog!!

So I decided to start a blog for Joshua and I to keep everyone updated on all of our adventures and as a place to put up pictures as we upload them to share with all of you!!