Andy's move, bday, and much more!

Ok, I'm pretty horrible at keeping this thing up to date. Lots happened since my last update. The best news is that Andy is finally in Virginia! He accepted a position with Carter Machinery (The Caterpillar dealer in Virginia) and moved 2 Sunday's ago. He got to enjoy a his week off last week before officially starting on Monday. As soon as I get to the house I will upload some new pics of the house. Its looking really good and we're finally getting most everything put away. Andy finished his hunting room, aka the spare bedroom, during his week off. As much as I hate to admit it, it looks awesome. I'm just glad I'll never have to sleep in there because there are 3 deer heads surrounding the bed and staring straight at you!

This past weekend was Andy's birthday, so we did some celebrating. I had bought tickets to see Jason Aldean in Danville Virginia some time ago to suprise him. It was an awesome concert, outdoors in an ampitheatre. We had lawn seats, but were so close, I couldn't believe it. Danville, Virginia was an interesting place. Its about 2 hours south east of Roanoke on the North Carolinia border and is a really small, kind of poor town (at least the side we were on). We did a lot of people watching, and they did not disappoint. Some lady brought her 1 month old triplett girls to the concert and just had them laying out in the grass on a blaket with the rest of the audience. Very strange!

On Sunday we hung around the house. Andy went for a hike in the woods behind our house. I decided to let him go first to check it out since there really wasn't a path! He saw some deer and then at a really thick part he heard a bear. Apparently it was sitting by a steam eating some yellow jackets. He tried to get closer, but the yellow jackets were everywhere, so he had to high tail it out of there. Its really amazing where we live with all the wildlife. Our neighboors said they've seen a bobcat and a bear in their yard. We see deer and turkeys in our yard all the time. Pretty cool! The rest of Sunday we watched a deer hunting video (Andy's bday wish) and then I made tacos for dinner. Its nice settling into a real life married couple routine!

I'm on the road all this week and will finally be back home on Thursday night. I'm actually flying to Peoria today for a quick meeting tomorrow. I wish I could stay longer to see the fam, but its just a 2 day trip! I'm looking forward to being back home on Thursday and then its about time for the weekend.

There is a big hunting/fishing/outdoor show in Salem this weekend that we are going too. I think we are going to try and squeeze in a game of golf too! Sorry its taken me so long to update. I hope everyone is doing well!

Weekend Together!!

Finally the weekend I've been looking forward more than any other in the last 3 weeks. I headed to Springfield, IL to see Andy!!! We had a wedding of one of Andy's fraternity brothers to attend, but most importantly we had some bonding time to make up for after a 3 week seperation. I boarded my flight in Charlotte about an hour late, so I was worried about making my connection to Springfield, but everything worked out great and I was greeted at the gate by my favorite person in the world. We spent every minute of the weekend together and had a blast. It was nice to do normal every day tasks together again. We had a pretty eventful weekend of going to the bank, Target, watching TV and then attending the wedding. The wedding was beautiful and it was nice to see so many college friends again. We had a great time, but mostly because we were together.

Today was not a very happy day as I had to go back to Virginia without Andy. At least this time it will only be 8 days until we see each other again. We're headed to Herscher the weekend of the 4th of the July and it will be a long weekend as we are both taking Thursday off. We just can't wait until the long distance phase is over and we will be together in our new house. Andy is certainly excited also to be done with grad school. Only a few more weeks...I'm so proud of him for working so hard to get done with school in record setting time. Now he just has to find a job in Virigina and we will be set!!