Bucket List

We have created an Ohio Bucket List! We have been here a few weeks short of a year! Time flies! There is still so much we want to experience while in Ohio. Click on the tab right under our main picture at the top to see our bucket list. Or just click here.  And comment on that page if you have any ideas of things we should add to our list!

Oh, What Songs of the Heart!

The best thing in the world happened to me yesterday! I GOT A PIANO!!!!!!

Our friends, the Allen’s, are moving and they didn’t want to haul their piano with them. They were giving it away for free, so we jumped on the opportunity. We had to pay the piano movers to get it to our house, but it was otherwise free. I am so excited. It has been years since I have been able to just play and play and play all I want.

Now, I can play alright, but I am not amazing. I am hoping to teach myself some new songs and really learn the hymns well. Right now I can play a handful well enough to play at church (maybe 3 or 4) and I can struggle through most of them. But I really want to learn them all really well. Yesterday I played for an hour and a half straight. And then, I was feeling so musical that I pulled out my French horn and played some of my old solos for a while too! I am so out of practice, but it felt so good!

Just wanted to share the good news!

Spring has Sprung!!!

This post is kind of old. March was the month of the blossoming trees. Now everything has turned completely green and summery. I got mono and blogging got pushed aside for a couple weeks. I’m doing much better now!

Benjamin and I have been going running at this really pretty little park (Lane Rd. Library Park) close to our house. So many trees have started bursting with blossoms through the month of March! It was really beautiful. We decided to just walk (instead of run) around the park this day so we could take some pictures and enjoy the flowers. And just to warn you, Benjamin LOVE LOVE LOVES to take pictures of nature, so there will be many pictures of plants and such.

 

 

I really need to get a tan! I look so pasty white!

Don’t these tree’s have beautiful, huge, lovely blossoms!?!

Benj made me pose like this. I was mostly just being silly.

Thanks for joining us on our walk through the park!

Our First Tornado Warning!

Being from Idaho, I have never experienced a tornado. I used to be really scared of them when I was a kid. I was always ready to grab a radio, blankets, and some food to take down to the crawlspace when ever there was stormy weather. I also would have tornado nightmare’s all the time.

I knew this day was coming. And I didn’t know how I was going to react. I imagined that my fears from childhood would carry over and that I would be terrified when the sirens went off.

Benj was talking on the phone while shooting this. Hence, the random words that don’t make sense.

It was a Sunday and I was trying to make dinner. I sat down at the table with Benj  for just a couple minutes and the sirens started wailing! I grabbed the dinner rolls, our fancy expensive camera, and my purse and ran down to he basement. Benj followed with the lap top and his guitar. It really startled us! After about 30 seconds of sitting in the basement, we couldn’t stand not seeing anything. So we ran back up stairs and got pictures of the storm. We never saw a tornado and I don’t even think one ever touched down. But it was still a pretty awesome storm.

The pictures and videos don’t quite capture the grandeur of the storm. This video doesn’t quite show how huge the hail was.

But this picture does:

The storm was followed by beautiful rainbows! It was a pretty exciting day, and not nearly as scary as I thought it would be.

A Walk By The River

About two weeks ago Benj and I went on a walk along side the Scioto River. It was still fairly chilly out, but it was pleasant to be near the water and observe the first signs of spring while the sun set.

Benj loves to take nature shots. I think they are neat!

 

Ducks!

Soaking in the rays.

Happy Birthday to Me!

I recently turned 24! Yay! I had a great birthday! We went to Cheesecake Factory to celebrate. They brought me my cheesecake with a candle and “Happy Birthday!” written in chocolate sauce on the plate.

On the morning of my birthday Benj made me a yummy (huge) breakfast in bed!

And my wonderful visiting teacher decorated my door in the night!

I got my own box of fancy chocolate’s, too! Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always wanted to be given a big box of chocolates! Yay!

Thanks everyone for making it a special day!

Ohio is Romney Country!

Last week Benj and I got to met Ann Romney, Mitt Romney’s wife. Benj got an email about an event with Ann Romney and we decided to go check it out. We had no idea what it was going to be like. We went into the building and a young man singled us out quickly and asked us to go in the back room and make phone calls telling people how to vote using an absentee ballot and to poll which Republican candidate they would vote for. Then Ann Romney came in and met the volunteer’s briefly. She finished with a quick speech to rest of the people there.

She was a very nice, beautiful lady and her presence filled the room.

Of course we were excited to see our last name plastered all over the room!

It’s hard for us to be secretive about who we are voting for. Cousin Mitt all the way! If he does become president, he just better not drag our name through the dirt!