Weekend Update

This was a busy weekend, but a fun one!
 

Friday night, Jonathon and I met up with Dony and Karen at the Moose Preserve. It was a nice time and the food was as delicious this time as it was before. Dony and Karen also recommended some other restaurants that we are both looking forward to trying out very soon. I also feel the need to mention that the next time we see Dony and Karen they will have a little baby in tow! Karen is due at the end of the month and she looks great!
 

Saturday we drove around looking at homes built by our builder to get ideas on brick colors, shingles, siding, etc. for the new house. When we were done with that we drove to East Lansingfor the Michigan Statevs. Nebraskagame. It was so cold outside and the game didn’t start until 330pm, so as the game went on it continued to get more and more cold. My legs, feet, and fingertips were frozen and numb by the end game. Sadly, Michigan Statelost during the last few seconds.
 

After the game, we met up with Nate, a friend of Jonathon’s from college and Nate’s dad for dinner at the Pizza House. The pizza was pretty awesome! It’s a Chicago style pizza which was a fabulous treat after sitting out in the cold for 4 hours! Nate’s dad has to be the sweetest man I have ever met. He’s such a kind-hearted person and is always encouraging. Jonathon hasn’t seen Nate since we got married, so I think he enjoyed being able to catch up with him as well.
 

On Sunday, we had a meeting with Elaine to start selecting things for our new house. It was far less difficult than we had anticipated, but perhaps if we thought it was going to be easy it would have turned out to be harder? Who knows! For weeks we have mulling over what color cabinets to get in the kitchen and we finally figured it out on Sunday. That was a huge relief and we will be meeting with the cabinet guy soon to discuss our layout design and appliances. J Elaine was very helpful despite having a cold. It’s so nice being able to work with someone like her. She is super easy-going, but is also helpful at the right times when we need it.
 

I think I will wait until we’ve definitively made our decisions before I start sharing the things we’ve picked.
 

After our meeting, we decided to drive by our lot and we were so excited to see that they’ve actually broke ground! Yipee! I wish I would have taken a picture! We also saw that a house with the same layout as our as new house was currently being built. Fortunately, we were able to walk through the framed house to see the actual layout of our home since we have never really been able to walk through it. Walking through it made us really excited.

 
 

This is what Jonathon emailed me today:

I think walking through the Cheshire yesterday got me really excited. I'm more excited now than I was before. I think it really hit me just how beautiful the house is going to be and how much space we're really going to have. Our master bedroom and bathroom is going to feel like an award. I feel like all of our stress and hard work are going to have a big payoff.
 

J His email made me smile.
 

What did you do this weekend?