So week 6 was August 17-23:
I only worked Tuesday and Thursday, but we had a few things going on the other days. I had a doctor's appointment, grocery shopping, game night, we spent some time together on a date night. Our date nights are becoming more "parent" like...so that's one thing we won't have to adjust to later! Now our date nights look a lot like going out to dinner, grocery shopping, then coming home and watching a movie. It is a lot like dinner and a movie...except the movie theaters are closed and it is much cheaper just to get a movie from the library and watch it at home! This week we watched the new "Aladdin" and we both enjoyed it. Highly recommend...though we know we are absolutely behind the rest of society with this thought. Saturday evening we went to visit the Henman family, had dinner and enjoyed good conversation after we worked on our registry all day. We wrapped up the weekend with leftovers, a game and ice cream - doesn't get much better than that!
Week 7 was August 24-30:
We both had long days on Monday and Tuesday, Jonathan was out in Celina. So he went on a run with Dillon, then they grabbed supper and ice cream with Graham afterwards. It had been awhile since he had seen Graham, so he finally got to tell him about the baby! On his way home he stopped to see his parents and also stopped at the farm to see Grandma and Grandpa Landis! Wednesday I did a lot of planning for September, was at my parent's for a little bit getting potatoes, went on a walk, and had meatloaf and scalloped potatoes for dinner. I worked again on Thursday since that is my new schedule. Tuesdays and Thursdays are both days that I work - Tuesdays are long days, Thursdays are short! It stormed Thursday, but Jonathan grilled us dinner anyway! It was delicious too! On Friday we went to Carrabas, went shopping, then went to my parent's to catch up since we hadn't done that in awhile. I was off the weekend, so we watched a movie and worked on our registry. We watched "Spotlight" which is a really good movie based off of a true story! Sunday night we had a youth group event, so it was great to see everyone again!
Week 8 was August 31-September 6:
We had game night on Monday, I worked Tuesday and Jonathan worked on the chair. Wednesday we had my ultrasound, which was super fun! We got to see Baby moving around in there and got tons of really good photos. We are not finding out what the baby's gender is, but we are so excited to meet him or her! Jonathan went to Men's Wearhouse to see if they had his suit for Sara's wedding. On his way in, he saw Sara and Pam, so that was cool! Of course, he ordered his suit, about a day after he found out what the information was....AND they didn't have it yet, so we didn't get to get his suit that day, we had to get it Friday on our way to the rehearsal instead. There were some rough patches getting there, but it was okay! We got there safe and sound, though late. The rehearsal was rough, but the wedding was beautiful. Sara and Dustin's day was beautiful and it went off flawlessly! We so enjoyed it and are so excited to have Dustin as a brother-in-law. I have never had a brother-in-law before and I couldn't ask for a better first one! I think we can both agree that the reception was the best part after all the music was over! Jonathan did a great job playing and singing with Michaela and the piano part went off pretty well too. We love playing music...but we both felt a lot less stressed when it was over! Sunday was an early morning after an already long (though beautiful) weekend, but it was a lot of fun! We left early to make it to the Landis' for breakfast with the Hochstedler side of the family, when they headed for home, we went over to the farm for lunch with the Landis side of the family! It was so wonderful to catch up with everyone. Jonathan's aunts, uncles and cousins are all so sweet and it is such a blessing to be so welcomed into the family by them. We were both encouraged by our time with them, just wish there was more time we got to spend with them! On our way home I took a nap while we went to drop the suits off at Men's Wearhouse. We came home, put a few things away, relaxed, then went to the KDB for dinner on our way to church family night! Although my gut reaction was to not go to family night, I am so glad we did. It was great to see everyone since we don't get to see them a lot and we enjoyed reconnecting.
Week 9 was September 7-13:
Monday was Labor Day, so we ended up spending a lot of the day with the Haas family. We had french toast for breakfast, then we went over so we could go pick up the saw Jonathan ended up getting! We are all ready for the house....whenever it ends up being ours! In the afternoon we watched a movie, had some dinner and started doing some packing. I worked Tuesday and Jonathan went to pick a few things up, mowed the lawn, cleaned up the house and went to get fans when our air conditioning went out! Wednesday we got some news on the house, but it wasn't that exciting, so I won't bore you - basically, it is looking up, they just need more stuff about the house until it's really good news. We took the fans back to Mom and Dad's, then had cajun pork chops for dinner and packed a little bit more. Thursday we had steaks, potatoes and corn after I got back from work, then got clothes ready for the wedding on Saturday (yes, two in a row!). I worked a short day Friday, we had spaghetti, then went for brownies and ice cream at my parent's house with Hope and Grandpa...it was all delicious! On Saturday we had Tim's wedding, it was another beautiful day and a beautiful wedding! It was also another long day, but we enjoyed seeing friends and catching up. Sunday Jonathan had videoing for church, we had leftovers for lunch, then Jonathan watched the game while I took a nap. After I woke up I did dishes, then we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner and got groceries!
It has been a good month, but we didn't have much time between practicing and recovering from everything! I hope all of you are doing well and enjoying the awesome fall weather! Unfortunately we haven't taken a lot of photos, so here is the one that I have from the last 4 weeks!
Talk soon! Hopefully our next one will be posted from our new house!!!
Love,
Alli and Jonathan
