March Update

So I am a bit behind blogging...I know I sound like a broken record, but you all know how it goes. Anyway, I will update you on our recent events.

1. I went to KS to visit my brother Joel and his family March 13-18. While I was there we celebrated Ollie's 1st birthday. It was a very relaxing trip, and I had a great time catching up with Joel and Kendall and playing with Ollie. Joel claims that Ollie is wild, but I think he is one of the best babies I've ever seen. Happy almost all of the time. Here are some pics from my trip:

I know that is a lot of pictures, but I couldn't choose. They are all so cute!

2. We paid off both of our cars this month!!! Here is a picture of one of our babies. Now we just need to keep them both in good shape and running well.

3. We enjoyed March Madness. After returning from KS, I worked just one night and then drove to IN to see Kris. We spent Thursday night and all day Friday and Saturday watching our brackets fall apart by all the upsets. We always have a great time during this every year!

Kris and I at BW's watching the games. Not really sure what the right picture of Kris is all about.

4. On Easter Sunday, we went to church in New Carlisle with my family. Abi did a puppet show and Roanna sang...both did an excellent job! Kris says that Abi need to join a theater group. Thanks to Roanna for hosting Easter dinner for everyone, and my mom for making most of the food. We had soooo much food, enough to feed 10 times as many people as were there. We had an Easter egg hunt for the kids and then watched some more basketball.

Mark and Jordan enjoying the Easter egg hunt!

5. Kris had his first baseball game this week. Well it was actually a varsity game. His JV game was cancelled due to how wet all the fields still are. I decided to be the devoted wife and head out to the game on Monday night in the cold weather. I froze my legs off. My upper body was just fine, but my legs were so cold. I only made it through the 5th inning and then enjoyed the rest of the game from my warm car! Kris is having a great time coaching, but he is so busy all the time. But I guess that's what comes with the territory.

Hope all is well with everyone else!

The Downfalls of the Single Woman

So I just would like to take a minute to complain about my day yesterday...After spending a few days in IN with Kris I had to return home so that I could go to work. Now usually when I go and see Kris, I leave a day before I have to go back to work so that I don't have to drive for 4-5 hours and then have to go to work all night. Well this time I really couldn't leave on Saturday to be back to work for Sunday night because Columbus was just getting hammered with snow on Saturday. So I decided to leave Sunday morning, even though I did have to work the same night.

Anyway, so I left IN by 10:30 Sunday morning thinking that would leave plenty of time to make it home and then get an hour or two of sleep before having to go into work all night. The drive went smoothly. The roads were great. No delays from traffic. I actually made it home by 2:45pm only to discover that I couldn't even get in my driveway from all the snow we had gotten! Our subdivision had been plowed a little bit...enough for maybe one and a half cars to fit down the road. So needless to say, I had to pull my car over far enough on the road, which meant into the snow, so that other cars could get by and park it. I waded up the driveway in snow up to my knees so that I could get a shovel from the garage. So by this time it is edging on 3:00pm, and I have a whole driveway to shovel before I can even get my car off the road. So I started to shovel and shovel and shovel! 3:30pm rolls around and I am thinking...

"I am going to be out here shoveling up until the time I have to go to work."

"I hate not having my husband around!"

"...So this is what it is like being a single woman without a man around to do CRAPPY jobs like this and this sucks!"


Finally help arrived! The two neighbor boys came over and offered to help me finish shoveling, and they were a lifesaver. I think in the hour that I shoveled on my own I finished maybe quarter of the drive, and once they arrived we finished the rest of the driveway in 30min. Even though they said they didn't want any money, I gave them each $10 (which I thought "hey where else can you make $10 for 30min of work as a kid" but Kris said I was being cheap). What does everyone else think???

So here is my day wrapped up in a timeline...
10:30am -2:45pm - Drive from IN to Columbus
2:45pm - 4:15pm - Shovel the driveway
4:15pm - 5:15pm - Get a little downtime before work
5:15pm - 6:00pm - Get ready for work
6:00pm -7:00pm - Get some dinner and drive to work
7:00pm -7:30am - Work all night long with my sore arms and back from shoveling
7:30am - 11:30am - Meeting after work
11:30am - 12:00pm - Drive home from work
12:00pm - Finally get to bed!!!

Needless to say I was exhausted by the time I got home today. My arms, chest, and back are killing me from shoveling! Hope everyone else's day was better than mine! If I could find our camera I would post some pictures...but the camera is MIA!