Our Perfect Vacation: Part 1

We recently set sail on our first cruise. We ventured out on H.olland A.merican L.ine's E.urodam to the Eastern Carribean.

It. Was. Perfect.

Let me just cheese for a minute.

I feel even more in love with my husband during our travels.

 It felt as if we were newly dating.

Gag.

Embarkment

At Sea

 Grand Turks, Turks and Caicos

      

here is goes...

no apologies. my first blog attempts this winter failed. i  make no excuses other than the last 8 months looked significantly different than i thought they did-some days our happenings were no so blog worthy. but whatev. 

since my last post...

• we renovated a house in less than a month.
• we moved. ptl.
• we traveled. a lot.
• visited old stomping grounds in Upland and Marion
• Disney World! yay for family vacay!
• Las Vegas, for a work conferences
• Grayson, KY for SITS
• Middle School TEENPOWER Camp at USI
• Murfreesboro, TN to see dear friends
• Joplin, MO for Tornado relief
• 2 very quick trips to Indy
• we re-evaluated our lifestyle. it's a tad-bit lonely. so we are working on that. 
• taught our dog to swim in our pool. it's beautiful
• attended weddings of many dear friends, and missed several due to lack of travel time.

oh. and i'm running the evansville half-marathon with a friend. and decided this TODAY. oops. no better time than the present. so, i'll also be blogging about this new venture here.

see you soon.

hillary

Childhood Dream

This week I got to hear a childhood hero, Dominque Dawes, as the keynote speaker at the Indiana Youth Institute: Kids Count In Indiana Conference. As a 8-year old girl during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Dominique and her teammates were my heroes. I even still have a Magnificent Seven poster hanging on the door of my old room at my parents house. Now that I've gotten to see one of them, I can probably take it down.

I LOVE this conference, but the shopping, dining, and quality time we had as a team is just as valuable. I think we're already strategizing for next year.

Happy Friday!

Moving right along...

Time has been flying by! Fall This is such a crazy time for us. Our normal week looks like this:

7:00-Wake Up
8:00-Leave for work
8:30-5:30-Work
6:00-Home from work
6:03-Stare at the refrigerator to figure out what to eat for dinner
6:05-Walk over to the pantry. Stare.
6:06-Back to the refrigerator. Stare. Then off to or back from...

1.  D-Groups (Monday and Wednesday)
2. Football practice (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday)
3. Our 242/Friend time (Thursday)
4. Football Game (Friday)
5. Axis (Sunday)

10:30-Bed

Football is over. Its bittersweet. 

Pro: We get our weekends back! 

Con: Football season is fun, hate to see the seniors finish their final season

We made an abbreviated trip to Louisville last weekend. It was supposed to be a long weekend... but Castle + Regionals=No long weekend for us. While we were there, we stopped for breakfast (my fav. meal) at Lynn's Paradise Cafe. If you are in the Louisville area IT IS A MUST. They threw down against Bobby Flay... and won! Dustin especially enjoyed the pre-grub entertainment.

Then, we made our way north for a little Colts game action. We got to see the 2007 Superbowl Trophy. Things were a bit tense for Dustin and I as we rehashed the Colts' 29-17 win against the Bears.

It's 9:53PM. Time for bed. National Youth Workers Convention this weekend in Nashville! YAHOO!