Moving in less than a month!

In one month we'll be settled into our brand new house in West Lafayette, IN! (Hopefully by then we'll also be mostly unpacked.) Here's our current schedule for moving:
Jan. 2nd-3rd - moving company is packing boxes in Peoria
Jan. 4th - loading the moving truck in Peoria
Jan. 7th - closing on house in IN
Jan. 8th - unloading the moving truck in West Lafayette



















Right now it's surreal to me that we're not going to be here in a month. Sure our house has been up for sale and we've found a house in IN, but it hasn't hit me yet...It probably won't until the moving company starts packing the boxes.

A week and a half of work left here in Peoria...Crazy. I can't believe my job here is almost finished. My new job will be challenging. I'll be working at the CAT plant (but still be working for Mactec) in the facilities engineering department. I'll be working on projects to restructure and expand the current facility there in Lafayette. This will involve work with structures and foundations, which I've hardly touched since college. I'll have to dive back into it in January when I start over there. All I have to say right now is that it'll be different. But I'll also be working in the same place as Chris, which will present even more new things.

Summer 2007

This is our new Ford Escape that we bought at the beginning of the summer. We went to Lake of the Ozarks in MO for basically a 10-day vacation over the 4th of July. We got to spend the time with Chris' parents and sister at the Stevens' lake house.

Maggie had quite the experience since it was her first time in the water. She found the rafts to be a haven, even though she had a life vest!















After a while, if she was on the dock we couldn't keep her out of the water!

Chris and his dad caught some good catfish on the lake. So we got to have pan-fried catfish for dinner one night. Yummm!















I finally learned how to ski! I believe I'm skiing "blind" in this picture, with no contacts or glasses since I lost a contact while learning how to ski! But it was so much fun once I learned. I'm convinced the reason I got up was because of the expert help I had from the three Barnes' skiiers, and Chris' mom even got in the water with me to teach me.


















Chris showing off on the slalom.

Welcome

Welcome to our blog! I thought it be fun to start this to keep all of our friends and family up-to-date and to post fun pictures too about us two engineers and our crazy dog, Maggie.