Lot's Going On!

Lots and lots going on, once again..or maybe it’s just that things have not slowed down! The most exciting news of the weekend was that our friends Cassidi and Chad got engaged!! Cassidi is one of my roommates from Montana and she is just wonderful.  She had been so patient in waiting for this special time and it finally came! Yay!!! We cannot wait for this awesome wedding, whenever it happens to be! Congrats you two!

Erik still has not heard for sure about Peru. He will not be going in May but there is still a chance he will be going the end of July through mid August.  Last week he was presented with a couple of opportunities for some different things including an internship and research opportunity that he will be discussing in some meetings later this week.  For 6 months it seemed like there were limited opportunities out there and in a matter of just a few hours he was presented with 3 possible leads outside of Peru.  He is excited to say the least and it finally is starting to feel like some doors are opening in his favor!

Over the weekend we celebrated Erik’s 24^th birthday! It was quite the weekend including finishing the design of our kitchen, a visit to the natural history museum to see the Body Worlds exhibit, an IMAX about the Hubble Telescope, a day of skiing at WinterPark, and dinner over at Erik’s dads’ house with my parents! Going to the museum was something neither of us has done since elementary school, maybe middle school at best. We had a blast, and the Body World’s exhibit was amazing.  If you have the chance to see it, we highly recommend that you take the time to go. The Hubble IMAX was incredible too.  The technology aboard the telescope today is incredible allowing us to see pictures of a galaxy 10 billion light years away…incredible!

We are getting more and more excited about the house! We are scheduled to close on Thursday of this week….just 3 more short days away. It has been quite the process with the lenders and agents making sure we are crossing all of our T’s and dotting all of our I’s.  We are thankful that we are even in this process, but wish in some regards that it could have been a little easier or at least a more smooth process. As I mentioned above, we re-designed our kitchen this weekend! The first thing we are going to do is tear out the old kitchen, and replace just about everything in there. We are going to knock down a wall that currently separates our dining room from kitchen and make it one big open space, complete with an island.  It feels so grown up to be doing all of this, but it’s so fun knowing that this is the house we are going to begin our marriage in!