Long time, No blog!

HAPPY FALL YA'LL!

Hello all! We haven't updated in close to 5 months! We've been married now close to 5 months!!! Can you beleive it!?!?
Not a whole lot has happened, but first to report: Aaron's job situation.
He took a job for a short while as a sales agent selling life insurance to senior citizens. He realized quickly this wasn't for him, and the money was not great. He stuck it out for a while and then decided to switch gears. He was recently hired through Manpower (go figure) as a temporary Trade Specialist within operations. Sound familiar? Maybe not, but it should! It's very similar, almost the exact same actually, position that he was working at Aviva when he was laid off before our wedding. It is a temporary fill-in for a maternity leave but he was able to hit the ground running with his experience. And we are very excited the position is at Principal Financial Group here in Des Moines. We have to be thankful for whatever we can get in this economy, and it's good experience as well. Definitely some great references and relationships to build here!

I started the nanny position for the twin girls in the end of July! They were born May 8 so they are just about 6 months! They are so much fun and I really enjoy it!

Since the honeymoon, I guess things have been pretty un-eventful. We enjoyed our summer with our usual activities; Iowa Cubs baseball, outdoor music festivals and concerts, and some grilling and camping!
80/35 2nd Annual Outdoor Music Festival in Des Moines!
Our new found favorite band to see live, Umphrey's McGee at Simon Estes in Des Moines! We've seen them 6 times now, 4 of them in 2009! We're hoping to go to a New Years Eve show in their home town, Chicago!

Now it's our favorite time of year- football season! And our UNI Panthers aren't doing so hot. They were ranked 2 in the nation before our first loss at home in 3 years! And on Homecoming weekend! Another loss followed the week after.
On a brighter note- our friends, Laura and Lee, gave us their season ticket seats to the first game of the season; UNI at Iowa! It was an AWESOME game!
Our excellent seats for the Iowa v UNI football game Labor Day weekend!

We are going back for a UNI game this weekend. Some people are still holding on to hopes that we will make the play-offs, but with 3 losses-2 of them conference losses- Aaron and I are not holding out any hope! We are pretty excited about the Iowa Hawkeyes though! And we can say we were at their first game of this awesome season!

This has also been the year for weddings! Aside from ours, Aaron was the best man in a wedding in August for our good friends- Courtney and Tara.
Courtney and Tara Driscol!
Scott, Courtney, and Aaron

Aaron's oldest sister Hannah also got married in October! Hannah and Jeremy were lucky enough to pick the day of the first snowfall in Iowa! Although it cramped the plans for the outdoor ceremony a bit, it was absolutely gorgeous and a great time!
Mr. and Mrs. Meyers' first dance! Beautiful!
The kids at Hannah and Jeremy's wedding reception. Colin, Kayla, Jeremy, Aaron, Hannah, myself

So, as I said, not too much new to report! I'm still working on Aaron to get a dog. We've talked about possibly getting one in the spring!

The holidays are almost here! I am more than excited to put up a tree for the first time in our house! We've only had tiny Charlie Brown trees before. I'm sure our cats will destroy it but it will be fun while it lasts I guess! :)

Hope everyone is having a wonderful fall and looking forward to seeing a lot of you for the holidays!


Our poor cats dressed up for a photo contest! We were hoping to win $500 in cat food, but the photo didn't win. Can you beleive it?! At least the costumes were only $1!