Busy Busy Busy

It's been awhile since I've last posted. Here is what's been going on:

Moving- This has been on my mind and the top priority recently. Erin and I had to be out of our apartment by Aug. 31st, but I am not able to move into my new apartment until Sept. 7th (my birthday). So consequently...I would be homeless for a week. And a big problem was, where I would store all of my furniture and clothes and shoes for a week? I certainly didn't want to load everything up and drop it off some place, only to turn around and load it all up again in a week. So to avoid all that, I found a place that was able to store my furniture in one trailer, parked, and locked in a garage for a week...for free! Not a bad deal.

Mom and Dad are in Indiana for several weeks (which I will explain further) so they offered their house for me to stay in and to store all my stuff until I have to move. Very thankful for that. My clothes however are all draped over the seats of my mom's minivan, still on the hangers. I'm getting a little tired of trekking out to the van every morning in my PJ's and slippers, standing outside the van trying to decide what to wear to work. What a sight I must be.

I will be moving my bed and clothes into the new apartment on Friday and start early Saturday morning moving everything else. I have lots of people helping me so it should go by quickly I'm hoping.

Wedding- Plans are moving along well. We recently decided on a photographer who is able to do both engagement and wedding in a package deal for an amazing price. Huge answer to prayer. I was getting pretty nervous that we weren't having any luck with photographers. We are very excited to meet with her. Ben's brother was the one who suggested checking out her website and wedding photo albums. So thank you Andy!

I'm waiting for my Mom to get back from Indiana to do anymore cake shopping. Mom really wanted to be apart of that. We did get a chance to visit a couple places and taste several yummy cakes before she left though, which was pretty fun because Tara and baby Jake were able to come with us. Jake had quite a sugar high that day and was very entertaining. :)

Ben and I just met with our premarital counselor this past Sunday for the first time. It was a very short meeting. Just answered a few questions, then we were handed "The Test". It's basically the Marital SATs. Fill in the bubbles with #2 pencils. Our counselor will get the results of the tests that Ben and I both took separately. Then the 3 of us will come together, discuss everything, and the fun begins.

Registering and Invitations are the next things on the list that need to be done soon.

Family- Most of my family members are from Indiana and we usually visit at least once every 1 or 2 years. My parents had been planning a trip to up-state New York for several months now. They wanted to travel all up in the scenic areas and possibly cross over to Canada. They got their passports updated and everything. They decided to stop in Indiana on their way to check in on the family. They left for Indiana on Aug. 22. They were going to stay there for about 8 days before heading to New York, and return home on Sept. 17.

My Grandma (Mom's mom) has been in bad health for quite some time now and getting a lot worse. She has been hallucinating constantly and her pace maker is due for replacement but at 91 years old, most of us don't think it's a wise idea to go through with a surgery like that. The doctors examined her and decided to try with the surgery which was scheduled for Sept. 4th. The medication they put her on was making her hallucinate even more than she normally does and she kept trying to pull out all her IVs. The doctors decided to wait and try again in a few days. But they will have to sedate her and there is a possibility of cardiac arrest. Poor mom is a wreck right now trying to deal with the whole situation and Grandma's weird mood swings and hallucinations. Mom and Dad had to cancel their whole New York trip and now they don't know when they will be home.

Fun- This past weekend Ben and I along with Erin, Lindsay, and Benny (with his puppy) went geocaching. So much fun! I had never done it before and I can't wait to do it again. Ben and I enjoyed it so much that we decided a GPS MUST be an item we register for. :) Ben has a good post on his blog about our geocaching experience, so you can check it out.

Ben and I also enjoyed some time with the family at Katy & Renjy's place. We had a BBQ and played the game Sequence. If you haven't played the game before (this weekend was my first time) here is the object of the game courtesy of Wikipedia: Sequence is a board-and-card game distributed by Jax Ltd., Inc.. It involves an average-sized playing board, on which are depicted two packs' worth of cards (minus the Jokers), two full standard decks, red, blue and green playing chips which total 135.
Players are dealt a certain number of cards (3-7 depending on the number of players), and then take turns to play these cards, placing a chip of their color on the corresponding card image on the board. The object of the game is to form a row of 5 chips (be it horizontally, vertically or diagonally) before the other players. If there are only two players, 2 sequences must be formed to win the game.
The Jacks fulfill a special role. If a player plays a two-eyed Jack, he or she may place a chip anywhere on the board (except of course on the wilds). If a one-eyed Jack is played, the player may remove an opposing player's token from anywhere.

Ben and I need to work on our silent communication a little bit more because we kept losing. :) But we pulled through and won the last game of the night.

Ben's been on a murder mystery kick, so we have been watching movies like: Clue, Murder by Death, Private Eyes, Pink Panther, and The Thin Man. They are all comedies so it is fun to watch them. I'm sure there will be many more movies on the list because Ben's been doing some research for more.

So that pretty much sums up everything that has been going on.