Us

She was a drama major with a nose-ring.  He was a classics major with a racing green Karmann Ghia.  She complimented him on his car.  He blew her off because she was stupid and obnoxious.  Obviously he was stuck-up and unfunny.  And so it was that for the entirety of freshman year, and the first semester of sophomore year at the University of Dallas, they harbored a mild disdain for one another which sometimes progressed to complete indifference but never improved past basic human civility.

Providentially (as all marriages begin), they both chose the same semester to study abroad at the University's campus in Rome .  At the very beginning of the semester she got sick, slept for 13 hours straight, and fell behind on her school work.  "If I sit at a table with my friends" she thought upon entering the study lounge "I will certainly get wrapped up in some amazingly exciting, totally unimportant conversation and will get no school work done whatsoever" (because in the About Us section, she thinks and speaks in the floweriest manner possible).  So she decided to sit at that table, over there, with the boy who didn't talk much (that's you Damien, if you ever read this) and the boy who didn't like her, because certainly this would result in almost no chatter whatsoever.  But the boy who didn't like her, whose name is Tommy, was working on the same project as she was, and he made a joke.  A joke that was funny.

This blog is the very true story of how they bought a fixer-upper in rural southwest Michigan sight unseen off the internet for $27,000 cash and moved their four (now five!) children out of southern California to embark on an incredible new adventure.

how old is this pic?  very. 2013 will be the year of the updated family photo, I swear!

I did it!  New pic in 2013!

dweej

Likes: running, salsa

Dislikes: laziness, coconut

Does: freelance writing; managing social media accounts; making you laugh

tommy

Likes: brewing beer; classical guitars

Dislikes: getting his thumb stuck in his keychain

Does: some kind of job with a computer and a chair.  and Powerpoint!  Definitely Powerpoint

katie

Katie likes: working; number puzzles

Katie dislikes: sleeping; being fancy

lizzy

Lizzy likes: sleeping; being fancy

Lizzy dislikes: working; number puzzles

paul

Likes: hammering stuff; cars; maps

Dislikes: most other things

cecilia

likes: dancing; screeching; using big words that she doesn't understand

dislikes: sleeping all night; toasted bread

mary

likes: sleeping; bananas; not being surprised
dislikes: rolling over

nicholas

born into heaven July 15, 2013