Our Apartment

Well I did it! I cleaned our apartment. I have pictures to prove it. Now you can all see what our apartment looks like, if you haven't already seen it in person. Normally we don't have our golf clubs in the apartment, but we had to take them out of the trunk.

Our washer and dryer are in the doors there.

Our living room

Living room

Hallway to the bedroom and bathroom

Bathroom

This is what you see when you come in the door.



Kitchen



Bedroom, looking in from the door.

Bedroom again

Cleaning

Well Peter and I will be apart for a few days... Second time in our marriage. He is at an MENC conference. MENC is the National Association for Music Educators. (I'm not really sure why their acronym doesn't match up to their name.) They have a conference each year so Peter and his music director at the high school went. On Saturday there is a concert performed by high school kids who tried out for the band/choir. I hope I am getting all this information correct...

My plan is to have the apartment thoroughly cleaned by the time he gets back. Our apartment is pretty messy right now. But it is that way quite a bit. You may or may not know this about me, but I am a pretty messy person. Peter is quite the opposite. He likes the place to be clean. But he must not care that much though considering our apartment is usually messy. :)

Married life has been going well, but that was one thing that has been an "argument". I put it in quotes because we don't really argue. You might not believe that, but it's true. Peter doesn't like that I leave stuff laying around. For example, when I get home I take off my shoes and leave them wherever I took them off. (Mom, I'm sure you're smiling) I also leave the mail sitting around in various piles. And then there's the clothes that I leave on the floor in the bedroom by my dresser... I know, these all sound like annoying things that a person shouldn't do, but I'm so use to doing it! I'm trying...

This was the biggest thing in adjusting to married life. Well, I didn't really have to adjust, he did. Surprisingly he doesn't do anything that annoys me. :) I think we're both pretty easy people to live with. (Besides me being a little messy) It's so nice to be able to see each other every night. The last year we were long distance since I was still at school and that was hard never seeing each other. We still don't really know how to cook that well, so we're eating a lot of easy food. Or going out to eat, which we shouldn't do. Oh well...

Peter's first post

Hello all… the busier season of my school year is just about to begin. Monday starts the basketball season so I’ll have another batch of young chaps to get to know on a better level for the next few months. The high school and jr. high choir are in concentrated preparation for their Christmas concert on December 17th, and this coming weekend is the Music Educators of Nebraska Conference. This all means that Charista and I will be seeing even less of each other.

On other news fronts, Charista and I joined a gym here in Omaha. Urban Active will be yet another home for us over the next couple years. Why would two beautiful and in-shape people join a gym? I asked myself the same question. I believe that Charista wants to get in even better shape so that she can finally beat me in a race, and I do have good reasons to be working hard. One, to continue to beat my lovely wife in each approaching foot race, and two, to win the “Biggest Loser” competition in which I have entered myself. I need to lose 8% of my weight by Feb. 14… which is 19 pounds. That is the highest number of pounds anyone in the competition needs to lose making me the fattest out of everyone… for now. My goal for Feb. 14th, 150 pounds… well if I can find a way to rig the scales.

Lastly, Omaha had its first snow storm yesterday… feeling like home, threw 8 snow balls.

Wedding Pictures!

We got the link to our wedding pictures and we want to share them with you. We were really happy with Selah Photography for their work on our special day. Jackie and Whitney both did a great job! They both actually went to Concordia with Peter and I, and graduated a year before Peter. It was great to have people we knew taking our pictures! It was much more personal and fun.

Here is the link to the pictures...
http://www.pictage.com/client/event.do?event=859035

If you would like any 4x6 prints we can print them out for you. If you want anything larger you'll have to order from the website.