A Whole Year of Marriage

I know its been a while since I've posted. I haven't had too much exciting going on... but I will update you all on our life.
1) We are definitely in escrow... set to close the first week of May. (unless our lender can work really quickly despite the set-backs from the escrow company). If he does work quickly, we might close as soon as this week, but it is not likely. But we're looking to close within the next 2 weeks sometime... which means that packing has officially begun! We have taken nearly everything off our walls, which looks very strange. We have packed pretty much our whole "catch all" room. Just a few misc. things left. I think I will start working some in the kitchen this week. With any luck, in the next 2 weeks, we'll be able to take down all the nice nice wallpaper, paint, and rip out that nice rose pink carpet :)

2) We've had a great time house-sitting for our Pastor and his wife again. They were off to the Carolina's and we always love house sitting for them. We get the luxuries of internet, a comfy bed, big screen TV, and watching/taking care of Toby... their dog. Our little vacation away from our house ends today, and we'll go back to our apartment which now has nothing on the walls.

3) Here's the big news. NO we are NOT pregnant. We celebrated our 1 year anniversary this weekend! We can't believe that a year of marriage has gone by so quickly! Our actual anniversary was on Sunday, but we mostly celebrated on Friday, knowing that Sunday would be busy with church etc. So, let me tell you about a day that will never be forgotten:

• Friday morning we ran all kinds of errands. Eventually our errands left us at Costco getting gas so we could go down to LA. Our final destination was The Grove.
• Before we got to the grove, we planned on going to a few discount flooring stores in LA to do some price checking for doing the floor differently at our new place. We decided not to go to the first place because it was about 90 minutes out of the way. Our first stop was at Tile & More in Paramount. Just a small store, but we did find something we love.
• After leaving Paramount, I was navigating our directions to take us to the next store... H Discount Flooring or something like that. I guess we were feeling brave because this place was in East LA. As we were approaching, Nathan ever so calmly said "let's not stop there" as he kept driving. We were in the heart of East LA...oops. Nathan suggested we just keep driving around which led to a very nice tour of east LA for me. Finally I said, "get me out of here! Can't we go to Beverly Hills or something??" After driving through downtown LA, we finally made it up closer to the Grove and drove around for a while in Beverly Hills.
• While in Beverly Hills, we decided to seek out a few places. 1) the Walsh house from 90210. 2) West Beverly High from 90210. and 3) the Peach Pit from 90210. We've been watching old episodes of the show :) All that to say, we literally went from rags to riches and ended hanging out and having dinner at the Grove.

I have pictures, but of course I didn't have my memory card in my camera while I was taking them so they are on my camera, and of course my USB cable is packed so I can't share them right now. But sometime... who knows when... I'll upload a few pictures from our extravaganza.