Okay So I Am Not Good At Blogging.....

So I figured I will just do one blog for May and June summer....

Summer started off with Nick and I joining my boss who is a neonatologist in the march for dimes. We had a perfect day of weather and I loved seeing all of the success stories of the babies and their families along the path! It was even more fun to walk with some of the babies that my boss had worked with! One family had triplets!!

Next big event I went home to Michigan for a whole week! I had such a sweet time and was so pleased that so many big events happened in one week I was able to make them all! It started out with my Aunt Cindy's surprise birthday party, my nieces and nephews combined birthday party, then my mom putting on Clarkston High schools graduation, where one of my favorite people, my little cousin Chelsea graduated high school! Then Nick made it up Thursday to come join some festivities and pick up his lady!(I know I am one lucky girl to have him)! Finished the week with Chelseas graduation party and Claires first dance recital (I cried quite a bit this week)! On our journey home my Aunt Sharon made Nick and I a huge breakfast to send us off! All in all one amazing week!!

Lastly we found out that our family in Oakridge was moving to Lincoln Nebraska, my heart broke!
Weird I felt like my children were getting taken away from me. Kids we invested so much time in and kids our hearts really loved. Their mom Mary raises all seven by her self and now is pregnant with baby girl number eight! Their Dad went back to Sudan and so their mom wanted to move closer to family, she also is a singer and wanted to be where she can sing. They have been staying in a homeless shelter for a month and a half now, waiting to see if they can get housing and mom a job. The seven kids are all beautiful, driven, selfless, wonderful individuals. I have never met such well behaved kids! So the day before they left Nick and I went and picked up the girls, (the others wanted to be with their friends their last night). Nick took all us girls on a date, it started off with the light up bridge at Grey's Lake, caught the last two innings of the cubs game, watched fireworks and then home to watch "Tangled"! It was even more special because Saturday was Nicks birthday and the girls were there for that! We woke up and made Nick a big breakfast and let him open his presents! Such a wonderful good bye weekend! My prayer for them is they find a home, mom finds a job, the kids get into a school with good teachers, baby number 8 is healthy and the kids continue to call and text us all the time!!;-)

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer as much as we are being newlyweds, I hope the fun never ends!

Elyse

I have so many things to blog about I dont even know where to begin! Nick and I have finally put everything away at our house and are finally able to enjoy it..FINALLY! Having Nick move in and bring everything from his apartment and then me moving in after we got married and bringing everything of mine from Iowa and then my stuff that was still in Michigan and finding a place for it was a big task! On top of that our wedding gifts, we were so blessed by our family and friends there wasnt much we needed to get after the wedding! Here are a few pictures from our house, now we havent got to the decorating stage yet so bare with us!! Next few post I will be sharing my sweet time in Michigan in June and then New York and another great time in Michigan when I was able to welcome a new neice into our family!

Happy Easter

My family all lives in Michigan and Nick only has a Mom and Step Dad that live here in Des Moines. So we had our extended family over, Chadare, Nylat and Nywiech and Nydwell. We started of on Sat with a visit to the Easter bunny, then to dinner at Macaroni Grill and then to church! We made a quick stop at a friends house and then went home at eleven at night and decorated Easter eggs with Disney Princess stickers. The Easter bunny visited our house that night because we had four great little girls stay the night! He hid their Easter eggs and their Easter baskets were waiting on the kitchen table for them. They woke up and were so excited to see that the Easter bunny stopped their. They had asked me the night before if the Easter bunny comes to my house because he doesn’t stop at their house.
We had a wonderful Breakfast together and then while I cleaned up Nick and the girls colored our driveway with the Easter Egg sidewalk chalk!! My driveway looks so beautiful with all of the artwork! (When I was young I was never able to color our driveway because my dad didn’t like it….I think that is a form of child abuse…ha) We finished out our time with them by watching Shrek four, Nick and my favorite movie!
We hope you had a wonderful Easter as well! We miss all of our family and friends in Michigan, Tennessee, Florida and Greece!!

Wedding Pictures

Here are a few of my favorite wedding photos. I am having to decide which ones to hang up in my house which has not been an easy task!!

First Post

I started a technology in education class a few months ago and was required to blog. I had attempted to blog before when I was in Africa but was just too busy, (and I didn’t keep up with it) but I really enjoyed blogging for my class. A few girls from my church are die hard bloggers so I thought I would join in! I also thought that this could be useful for our families to keep tabs on us, considering all of mine is in Michigan and much of Nicks in Greece. So here I am attempting to blog, I may not be as good as Jill Trost but I am going to try real hard to keep up with her! A few thing I have been trying to do now that I am a married woman, is learning through the bible and other woman how to be a good wife. I am also learning how to be frugal with what we are given and so I am going to attempt couponing and sales! So this blog will be used for both updating family and friends about Nick and my life and sharing my journey of becoming a frugal woman!
Enjoy!

I am switching to Blogger

I am putting all of my posts from the tumblr blog I had and putting it on here!

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