BEST 10 DAYS EVER!!!

BEST TEN DAYS EVER (Well actually it was 10 days and an extra 4 hours!)

Saturday night ( this is where the extra four hours came in)
Dane's parents, Nicole, and I drove to the airport and anxiously awaited Dane's arrival. I ran up to him (a smaller more muscular version of him since I had seen him last) and hugged him. This was the best feeling in the world!
Sunday we spent the day at the Mall of America and ate some great food and drove by some prospective houses with his parents. Dane's parents tried sushi for the first time, we walked lots and ate some more!
Monday I went to work and Dane went to the dentist. (maybe this day wasn't the best ever)
Tuesday I worked and Dane spent the day with his parents. That night we met with our relator and made a house hunting plan.
Wednesday we shopped for houses ALL day long and ended up putting an offer on an house and.......THEY ACCEPTED!!!! I will blog more about this later but we are SO excited to move into our house! :)
Thursday we got our engagment pics done (see above)! It was a blast!! That afternoon we went to the meat raffle and WON! A lot of Dane's co-workers came out and we had so much fun visiting with them all.
Friday was DATE DAY. We went browsing for house stuff and started to chat about paint colors and deck options and flooring ideas...the list goes on. We enjoyed our favorite Mexican food at this awesome resturant near our new house (major bonus that is is close to our house!) Friday night we went swimming with Dane's sister's family. It was so fun to swim with the kiddos and catch up with Dane's sister and her husband!
Saturday we went swimming again and spent some time with my parents. Saturday night was a night out on the town with some great friends
Sunday we went to the Como Zoo with Nicole and took a much needed nap!
Monday and Tuesday were more days filled with house stuff and soaking up some time together!
Today I dropped Dane off at the airport. This goodbye sucked (for lack of a better word) but we have 4 months until he comes back home to our new house!
We will push ahead and keep looking forward.
Hoppy Easter everyone!

Traveling Soldier

I miss my traveling soldier.....his leave can't come fast enough. 17 more sleeps until he lands in Minneapolis!

I have been keeping busy with wedding stuff and spending time with my friends. Last weekend I went to Fargo and we had our annual PTT (Post Thanksgiving Thanksgiving) It is a tradition we started about 7 years ago. I love Thanksgiving (I think I have spoke of this ALOT) and love my friends like family so I thought we needed to celebrate together. I made a turkey and all that goes with Thanksgiving that first year and now every year we get together, cook a turkey, play games and catch up. This year we had two babies attend our party...what a great addition to our party! :)

These girls below are the Fab Four. We have been friends since the first day of college and have remained just as close over the years. We have gotten to share so many memories together from weddings to engagements to babies!

Everyone enjoying the food and good cheers!

My traveling soldier....

Dane has been keeping busy going on missions, working out, looking for houses, and working on some wedding stuff! He has been going on more missions than at the beginning because they have made some changes as to which companies are doing what assignments. The weather has been warmer than here and it sounds like Dane had some allergies or a cold from the rain they got.

He and I are really looking forward to his leave! Just to be together after 7 months is going to be the best feeling in the world (but obviously an even better feeling when he is officially home!)

We have his leave already planned out which is going to make it go too fast.

He gets here later Saturday night. His parents will be here to greet him at the airport too. We will spend some time with them. I have to work on the Monday and Tuesday of the first few days he is home but then after that we are going to be two busy people. We are going to be looking at houses all day and Wednesday. On Thursday we are going to the meat raffle (a weekly raffle at a rinky dinky bar...its fun!). Friday we are taking engagement pics (better late than never!) Saturday we are going to Dane's favorite club in Minneapolis and spending some time with his sister, her husband, and their kiddos! Sunday we may need a nap! Monday and Tuesday are probably going to be lazy days. Then that brings Wednesday....I don't want to talk about that day. After Wednesday we will have about 4 more months and then HOMECOMING!

My next post will be about Dane's leave so until then I will wait patiently for my traveling soldier!