How do you make friends with your neighbors? I have never really lived in a neighborhood in my adult life – always apartments or very temporary situations in which I didn’t care to meet those around me. But now we find ourselves in this adorable little neighborhood with adorable people, and I don’t know how [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Won’t you meet me, neighbor?
Posted in By Shan on November 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Art and such
Posted in By Shan on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After Mike’s dad’s wedding, we got to explore the grounds where the wedding was held. The got married at Frederick Meijer Gardens, and the wedding guests got free admission. Unfortunately we were very ill-prepared. The weather was unseasonably warm, and the majority of the facility is outside, so Mike was not dressed appropriately at all. [...]
A parental wedding
Posted in By Shan, Other Weddings on November 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The house we are renting belongs to Mike’s dad. He recently remarried and moved in with his wife, leaving this place vacant at exactly the same time we needed a place to rent. Well, it didn’t work out quite that perfectly, but good enough. We think his wife, Penny, is great, and we’re very glad [...]
Paintball hurts!
Posted in By Shan on November 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
When Groupon (or was it LivingSocial?) had a deal on paintball not too long ago, we decided to give it a try. Mike had mentioned it before and I’m usually up for anything, so we convinced two of my sisters, my brother and all their spouses to battle it out in the paintball arena with [...]
Love Letter Box… three months later
Posted in By Shan, On Marriage on November 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Exactly three months AFTER our anniversary, we finally got around to opening our Love Letter Box and reading all the notes inside. We were supposed to do this on our actual anniversary, but as explained, life got away from us and it didn’t happen until September. One night I was like, ok we’re doing this [...]
Mike’s birthday celebration
Posted in By Mike, Parties on November 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Mike’s birthday was waaay back in September, but I just realized we never wrote about it. Well, Mike told you about how I bought him a corndog maker, but we also did some fun stuff to celebrate. We got all dressed up and went to dinner at a nice place that offers free lobster to [...]
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