Moving on UP!

It has been an exciting few months! Nick just got a new job where he can actually use the degree he worked five long years on! Nick got a job as a Tech Writer at LSS Data Systems. I will make him blog about what he does in his job since he hasn't updated our blog in a while! He loves his new job and I am so proud of him! He gets to wear a suit sometimes and not get all dirty and dusty like in his old job!

We also have speech starting up so we are going to be busy, busy, busy for the rest of the winter. Hopefully the winter will go by fast because come spring we will be nearing the final countdown of our big day!

The Westside

After a year of living at Winifred Manor we have started to venture outside our weekend projects and constant yard work and into the neighborhood! We attended a block club party at our neighbor's house earlier in the month and attended one of our first neighborhood meetings! Going to the block meeting really affirmed our decision to move to the west side. Our neighbors are all so great! They really love the neighborhood and want it to be a great place to live. Some of our neighbors have had families living here for over one hundred years so it is really neat to hear the history of the neighborhood and try to imagine what it was like a century ago! Apparently there used a be a street car that came up from the Mississippi River into our neighborhood a long time ago, and the intersection closest to us was where they had to turn it around to help it up the hill. I really want to find old pictures now! I am such a geek. I love history!

We couldn't have picked a better neighborhood or moved here at a better time! Now that we aren't always working on the house it is nice to go for walks around the neighborhood and say hi to the neighbors!