Move-In Disaster

I am overjoyed to announce that we are FINALLY able to move into our own new place!!!  (Cue the confetti and balloon drop).  We slept on the floor the first night, but it was worth it to sleep in our very own place again!  I love my family for letting us stay with them, but nothing is better than our own space.  Even if it's a disaster zone.

Ahhhhhh!!!!  This corner is where our bed will live. Our bedroom is Andy's study space.

Our living area

Dining area and Andy's 6 foot photo (8 with the frame)

My brother Henry and his friend Zach, or Strudel-Cakes as I call him, were champs and helped us load up and unload the U-Haul. We had to feed them $20 worth of McDonald's and a pizza. Teenage boys are bottomless pits!!  Aren't they so cute resting after all that work?

What have we done...

We did it. It was planned. We thought about it ahead of time, prepared, applied, deliberated, and even plotted a bit. But we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into...

Andy wants to be a nurse, and fast. After being accepted into nursing school in Duluth, MN we put in our notices, packed up our boxes and moved away from our jobs, our friends, our support network, and our home of St. Paul.

So here I will attempt to document our journey. This blog will be about a lot of different things: adventure, love, struggle, stress, food, clothes, relationships, books, and I don't know what else. I wanted to create a blog partly because I'm no good at scrap-booking but I want to document our journey here in a fun way, partly because I want a creative outlet, and partly because I am everyone else is starting a blog and I am a sheep. 

Why goldenrod? Andy found out in nursing school that if you are late a bunch of times, or mess up a lot, you end up with a goldenrod on your transcripts and people who are hiring you will see that goldenrod. Apparently it's a really bad thing. But I would think having a goldenrod would be great on your transcripts!  I like goldenrod - I like the color, the paper and the word. So I keep it now.