The Big 1-0-0!!

 

So it's been awhile...but I wanted to wait til I had something BIG for the BIG 100th blog post!! I guess what I have to say isn't really big...but noteworthy at the least. I never really thought I'd keep at it this long, I was pretty sure it would fizzle out after the first month or so...but so far I have been pleasantly surprised!

What a crazy weather day we have had today!! It is sooooo windy! I am surprised we haven't blown away yet. Josh and I both woke up from the loud wind this morning around 7 and as soon as we went to check the weather on tv...we lost power! Boo. It was off for about 2 hours then finally came back on, and surprisingly hasn't gone out anymore since. I figured it would. Our wind advisory here is til 8pm, so I suppose there is still time. It's been kinda fun though to see this wind! The weatherman says it is up to 60-70 mph gusts at times! Craziness.

Last week Friday Josh and I were invited to a pumpkin carving party at my friend Katie's house here in Naperville. It was soo much fun and we both had a blast hanging out with other couples! It is amazing how much the dynamic changes when you are with ALL married couples instead of single friends. It is totally different! It was me and Josh, Katie and her husband Josh, and their friends Eric and Samantha. Katie and Josh were married in July and Eric and Samantha were married in August, so they thought it was funny how different they act toward each other compared to Josh and I after being married for 3 years. So it was just fun. And  we are pretty excited to have friends here!! Haha...sounds lame, but it was really exciting.

And it's so funny because we are all from Michigan! So it was fun to chat with other people who are used to Michigan, how weird things are in Illinois and how crazy people drive here and how it takes a lot to get used to throwing away pop cans. (By the way...none of us throw them out! We all save them and bring them back to Michigan when we visit!)

 

 Our happy pumpkins!!

This was the first weekend in a long time that we weren't packing up to head to Michigan for the weekend...which was really nice! Don't get me wrong, I love the chance to go back to Michigan to see friends and family and enjoy the comforts of 'home'...but we will never adjust to this new life if we are going back and forth all the time. So it was really weird to wake up Saturday morning, in our own bed, and not have anything to do! It was so nice! Saturday was rainy, so we just relaxed and Josh got a lot of organizing done in his office (you can't tell by looking at it though!). 

That night we got a pay-per-view movie (The Losers....it was alright, funny at parts but boring at others!) and enjoyed this newfangled idea from DiGiorno...pizza and breadsticks! All in one box. Pretty nifty...and pretty tasty :) And cheap! I think at Meijer it was regularly $6.49, but I had a coupon for $1 off, so for the same amount you'd pay for that Little Caesar's hot and greasy pizza...we got pizza and breadsticks. Yum. 

Sunday morning we had intended on going to church but forgot to turn the alarm on after we set it...so that didn't happen :( But that afternoon we decided to go for a bike ride. There is a nice path that follows the Fox River over a 40 mile trail, so we rode from Aurora to Oswego (about 8-10 miles we think). We probably would have gone longer, but it was starting to rain on us, so we figured we better turn around before it started pouring. It was beautiful though!! A perfect day for a bike ride. 

Here are some pictures:

From where we started in Aurora. This is just a foot path along the river's edge, the actual path is paved with a center line like a road :)

Cool tree that I want in the backyard that I don't have...haha :)

Looking up into that cool tree.

A bridge at the park we turned around at in Oswego.

 Josh and I :) He hates 'self pictures' as he calls them, so that is why he is being a bit of a turd and not smiling nice!!

Last week I made Josh a coconut cream pie...it was supposed to be for his birthday, but since he was sick on his actual birthday I held off, and then I ended up being gone for EVER it seemed, so I just got around to it last week. It turned out really good and Josh says it's delicious! I tried a bite...but wasn't a big fan...too much coconut for me! Looks pretty though :)

And just for fun...Oscar and Sadie :)

 Really not sure how that is comfortable...but he seems to think it is!

Sadie giving me lip....the neighbors have 4 or 5 cats that they let roam on their balcony, and of course they come over onto ours. Sadie is really not a fan of them (and I'm not either, really) because they are mean, so she growls at them thru the slider. It's kind of funny...but I feel bad for her because she is really mad! So I was telling her to play nice...and she was telling me NO! Haha.

Alright well I should probably figure out what I am making for dinner tonight....stay tuned for a special rant coming :)  Just a little something that ticked me off today!

Bye for now :)