Moving Day

A few highlights from yesterday:

Thank you soooo much to everyone who helped us! We appreciated it alot! Today we're settling in and I completely forgot that it's New Years Eve! I guess I should make it kind of a big deal since it's the end of a decade but I think I'll probably just go to bed early :) We have a very long couple of weeks coming up! Well, off to unpacking some more!

Happy New Year everyone!

The Blizzard

I found my camera dock! Yay!

I'm sure if you live in the Midwest, you have a blizzard story from last week's crazy blizzard! We left really early on Tuesday so we beat the storm, however, when we returned home after being gone a week, we came home to this:3 1/2 -4 feet of snow, COVERING our driveway! No joke, no exaggeration..

It covered our steps!

Aaron trying to snowblow...thankfully our neighbor let us use his snowblower!

I love snow but this was a little excessive :) And, it's only December! I wonder what January is going to bring!

No Camera Attachment!

We're here!! We're in Mankato!! It doesn't seem real quite yet but I'm sure it will soon! I was soooo excited to finally blog about 3 things that have happened in the last week (Christmas, the snow, and moving day) but our computer was all packed up! This morning as I sat at our computer, I reached for my camera dock attachment only to find that I had forgotted it in my other car that is still in Cherokee!! Out of all the things to forget, I forgot my camera dock!??!! Where were my priorities at?? :)

Yesterday was a crazy day to move!! I just KNEW that it would snow as it has rained (try downpouring sometimes!) every other time we have moved!! Yesterday was icy, cold, and snowy! At 8:30pm, we finally had all of our things in storage and a few things out to live off of for the next few months! Pictures are to come and I might be playing catch up for the next few days! Adios for now!

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas!!

SNOW! EVERYWHERE!

I love it when it snows on Christmas, but, WOW, did it ever snow! I can enjoy it now that all my family is where they are supposed to be and we're stuck in Mankato with the Willey side! My brother had quite the time getting from St. Paul to Humboldt, IA last night but I'm sooooo glad he and Monica are safe and sound!

Here are a few pics from our Christmas Eve:SNOW!

Christmas Eve Brunch with the Willeys

Merry Christmas Eve!!!!

Christmas!

So, our house was completely packed up by Friday night except for a lonely little Christmas tree still up with presents under it. Aaron and I went to a young couple's party on Friday night and on the way home we both got the idea

Let's just open up our gifts tonight so we can pack up the tree

Usually we make Christmas special, have traditions, blah, blah :) BUT, this year, we got home and opened our gifts as fast as we could! It was actually hilarious and we might try it again! :) The strange part is that it feels like Christmas has already come and gone because everything is already packed away! Oh well...next year maybe we can keep the tree up until Christmas. Here's a few pics from our random Christmas:

The lonely little Christmas tree

Random, unprepared Christmas picture :)

Our Presents

Aaron totally surprised me! I forgot that Season 5 JUST came out! Guess what we watched ALL Sunday afternoon??

Merry Christmas from the Willeys!! Hope your Christmas is wonderful as you celebrate with family and friends!!

Week of Goodbyes :(

This has been a sad week :( Although we're not technically leaving leaving until Jan. 6th, this week has been our goodbye week because of the busyness of the holiday season! Wednesday we said goodbye to our youth group, Friday I said goodbye to my students and coworkers, and then today was our goodbye to our church :( *sigh* I will miss everyone here so much!!! Here's a few pics from our final youth group party:

Christmas Celebrations!

Christmas is in a week.....I can't believe it!!! We've done a few things in the last week to celebrate Christmas.

On Monday, my coworkers and I had a wonderful Christmas party together! Although the weather was a little scary, everyone was able to make it and we had a great time together!

Two weekends ago, my parents came and we decided to really get into the Christmas spirit by seeing the Sioux City Community Theatre production of "White Christmas". It is by far my favorite Christmas movie so it was so fun to see the play!

Sadly this year I'm not into the Christmas spirit as much as I usually am by this time. :( I'm actually sick of Christmas songs already! I'm hoping that I snap out of it and get in the spirit by next week!! Hope you're all enjoying your Christmas parties and family/friend gatherings!!

Step 3: Finding New Jobs

Today I'm going to thank my Education professor, Susan Johnson for her wonderful advice to me a little under 3 years ago. She advised me to get my MN teaching license even though I was moving to Iowa. I questioned her advice at first thinking I wouldn't be moving back to MN to ever use it (and MN licenses are much more expensive than IA) but I took the tests and got my MN license. Now because of it, I can sub the day I move to Mankato! Thank you, Dr. Johnson!

Today we're updating our resumes, filling out applications, calling up schools, etc... Not the most fun thing to do, but it needs to be done!! :) And thankfully, we at least have something we can fall back on: substitute teaching. Oh the joys of substitute teaching...some days are fantastic and some days are CRAZY but in a strange way, I actually enjoy it. Well, I must go and keep filling out my applications....things are working out!!! :)

Better Late Than Never

With our house selling and all, I completely forgot to put up a few pictures of Thanksgiving :) We had an incredible Thanksgiving! One of my favorites!! I LOVE my family....they are so great!To work off all our delicious food, we spent plenty of time playing foosball! However, my sister in law, Monica, was unstoppable! She is like the foosball pro so Aaron and I are practicing up at youth group to beat her at Christmas!

We also connected with my cousins and saw all the new babies!

And, we spent some quality time with the kittens that I've wanted all my life :) haha! I always asked for a cat when I was younger but it never worked out. Finally, when my parents moved to my grandparents farm last year, they got kittens!! So cute :)

Step 1 Accomplished!!

We accomplished Step 1!! WE SOLD OUR HOUSE!!!!!! I still can't quite believe it and I know that things could still fall through until our closing date of January 6th, but tonight we signed all the papers to sell!!! Woo hoo! We are soooo excited! :) Thank you, Lord, for answering our prayers with a yes and for paving the way for us to move!