Obviously it has been too long since we've added a post to our blog. To quickly catch up, here is a quick recap of our winter season:
November: Overall, November was fairly uneventful, which I suppose is a good thing. We spent Thanksgiving doing the tradition house-hopping. We spent early afternoon at my uncle's house in Rosemount with my gazillion cousins and aunts and uncles. After eating way too much food we headed over to Alan's parents' house in Eagan to have a more formal, sit-down meal with his parents and sisters.
December: We had a wonderful time decorating for our first Christmas as husband and wife. This is Sara's favorite season and we spent many evenings at the mall shopping for gifts. We also saw our first big snowfall and realized how much we hate this townhouse in winter. We also had a great weekend with Alan's sisters and their boyfriends- you should ask Alan about this weekend. :) Winter break from school was greatly needed although we were insanely busy.
Alan decided that he no longer wanted to be employed by Wolf Securities, and began job searching once again. In a short amount of time he was able to find a job with a security company in Bloomington, which is a little closer to home.
Once again, we house-hopped on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and managed to celebrate with my parents/Candice/Evan, Alan's parents and siblings, and my uncles/aunts/cousins. Two days after Christmas we went up to Duluth for a belated honeymoon. We spent three beautiful but freezing days at a bed and breakfast and had a wonderful time.
January: We had a New Year's party at our townhouse with a small group of close friends- complete with the dog spraying champagne all over because she's afraid of noisemakers. January 3rd we headed out of town to Black River Falls, WI, for Saras cousin's wedding. The wedding was beautiful and we had a blast dancing with my cousins all night- until the ice storm hit mid-wedding! It was a slow drive home the next day but after 6 hours we made it home safely. School picked up as if we never had a break, and was a little hectic as the end of first semester was two weeks into the month.
Alan changed his mind once again and decided that his true calling is car mechanics. Let's face it- nobody was surprised to hear this. He switched jobs again and is currently working for Valvoline in south Minneapolis. This fall he is going to start a GMC mechanics program at Dakota County Technical College. YAY!
February: We have feverishly been house hunting all over the southern Twin Cities with our agent, AKA Sara's friend Jon. We've learned that there are many ups and downs in this business and it sucks to get attached to a house when it isn't actually yours.
Valentine's Day was pretty low key- Sara ended up babysitting and Alan spent the night home along (which he probably enjoyed). We decided that we should be putting all of our resources towards the house, which we would enjoy more than Valentine's Day gifts.
Well, we are now up-to-date! At this moment we are still house hunting, and Sara is entering the busiest three weeks of the school year. However, spring break is three long weeks away and we are very much looking forward to it!
