I'm 25!!!

Last weekend Nate took me out to a very nice restaurant to celebrate my 25th year of birth.
We had so much fun! The food was by far the best I've had in years...perhaps ever! If you come to visit, the name is Strawberry Hill. And it's located in a shaddy part of town, but you wouldn't know it from the inside!

Thanks Naters!
and thank you friends and family who made it a very enjoyable birthday! I felt loved!

Food born illnesses....our friend

Last weekend Nate and I drove up to NYC to hang out with Carmen and Leo. We had won 2 tickets for SNL and got to see Justin Timberlake bust a move on stage. His girlfriend was there too, Cameron Diaz.
But the real reason for going up was that Carmen had been hit with Salmonella! She wasn't able to get enough fluids in her body to keep up with how much she was losing. After about 60 hours of this, we admitted her into the hospital. The IV really seemed to help her as she was finally able to get the fluids she needed.
And her hospital room had a magnificent view of NYC!! Leo took really good care of her while she was there.

This weekend we are headed back up to NYC with my parents for the holidays. This time by train, praise the LORD! Poor Nate is going to have a heart attack from all my gasps and shreeks in the NY traffic! I think he's more excited about taking the train than I am.

Needless to say, this morning I woke up violently throwing up. I'm not sure if it relates to Carmen's salmonella or not, but good thing I work at a doctor's office. Nothing like a car breaking down in an autobody shop!

So we'll see what happens. Please pray for health and safe travels this weekend. I hope you all enjoy your times with family and friends!
We miss you and love you

Our first Christmas!

Making up for lost time...

Today was a monumental day!!! Internet was just installed in our apartment!!!! Praise the LORD!!
Nate and I decided when we got married that we wanted our first year of marriage to be t.v. free. Our hope in doing this was to spend more time together and build a good foundation for our lives together. However, we also slipped the internet into the category of t.v. mostly because it has in the past sucked many hours of our time away from each other. Recently we discovered the internet is our main source of communication to family and friends. Being that we are hours and even days from family and friends we thought it was important to give the internet a try again.
Although it tends to take some of our time from each other, it also connects us with very important people in our lives. We are looking forward to staying in better touch with everyone. And having lived without the internet for 3 months, we have learned to not lean on the internet as much as in the past.
Thus, today marks the day of being back "in-touch" with the rest of the world.
Now our blogs should be more updated and we can check out your blogs as well!!
Thank you to all who have made good use of the telephone. We still have those too.

As you can see the last three posts where from today, however the stories and pictures are from these past couple of months. We are making up for lost time.

These are our "ACTION" fall pictures. We have a delay on our camera, so you can't quite get the full action feel with the leaves, but imagine if you will leaves falling from the sky or being thrown at you.

The fall here has been really nice! We love taking drives down country roads to see more of the trees with unique coloring!
I've been burning fall scented candles, baking cookies, and wearing mittens as often as possible. It's hard to do all three at the same time though.

Enjoy your fall!

Lititz is 250!!

We live in Lititz. Population...small town. But it sure feels like we live in a big city sometimes!
Check out this this parade!!! My favorite float was the one of "MEALS ON WHEELS"!!! Those are some big mashpotatos!!
The parade was in celebration of the 250th birthday of Lititz. There were close to 100 floats much like these ones. Nate and I walked over to Jim and Kelly's house (2 blocks from us) for a birds eye view of this production. They live in a balcony apartment on the main corner of town.
We like have them so close by!

Pet smart

Many people have asked us if we have a pet. And the answer is: yes, we had a butterfly, but it flew away.
Here is the picture of our pet Monarch. Our neighbors Jim and Kelly Graser gave us this little fella when he was just a little larva and we took care of him until he was like this. I think we saw him fly by our window once. Ever since the weather has changed, we have not seen the little guy.
I think if we ever have kids and they ask for a pet, we'll get them a little larva instead of a dog. They're much easier to take care of. But then they would probably be sad when it flys away. They might even post "LOST BUTTERFLY" signs around the neighborhood. And then we would end up with a whole butterfly farm from all our nice neighbors.

A stuffed dog might be nice.