My 25th Birthday

Well my 25th birthday means I can finally rent a car! Yay!!

Today has been quite an adventurous day and many brithday firsts for me.

1-I went to the DMV and renewed my drivers license...in case you weren't aware, the DMV is no place to celebrate a birthday!

2-Ryan and I had our final walk through of our almost house

3-We now own that house!! That's right, we closed on our house. Yaaaay!! We own a house!!! We will start moving in on Oct. 9.

4-Went shoe shopping to replace my shoes that were ruined on their way from Vienna.

5- Ate an amazing meal at Mortons. This was my first experience and holy moly! It was awesome. The steak literally melts in your mouth and they served me crab legs the length of my arm!!! They were scary, but deeelicious.

Needless to say, it was a very memorable birthday.

House Update

We are one week away from closing on our house! So far things are going smoothly!!


What have we been up to lately?
1) Going to VT games...yup, we were there for the Nebraska game. It was 2 minutes of awesomeness, followed by 56 minutes of crap, and ending in 2 minutes of pure bliss. Why you may ask? Well, if you're asking that, you obviously didn't watch the game. I'll help you out...here's how it ended...


pure awesomeness.
(and we're going to the Miami game also)

2) Buying furniture and piling into our hotel room

3) Ryan working a heck of a lot of overtime

4) Still adjusting to living in the US

5) I've been going to art classes, and i really love it

you know...just the usual...

Photos of the house that is almost ours

Lovely 70's style facade

L shaped kitchen

Sunken Living Room off of the dining room

Sunroom...this is a nice bonus.

Part of the future Man Cave/Hokie Heaven

Now I'm just hoping that posting these photos hasn't jinxed us in some way! ;)

House Hunting Update

We put an offer on a townhouse last Sunday, and we found out on Tuesday that they accepted our offer! We had our home inspection on Saturday and the inspector did not find anything seriously wrong. If the contract goes through, then we will close on September 30! (Happy Birthday to me!)

It is a townhouse in Reston. It has 3 bedrooms, and a small basement, but most importantly it has a sun room! We are super excited and will keep our fingers crossed that the contract will go through.

Also, the temp0 died so we had to buy a new car. We just go it on Friday-08 Honda Civic. I pretty much love it!

We are doing well, but we are still adjusting to life in the states. I must admit that I am already tired of living in a hotel...and in Sterling. We are sooo far away from everything. But, if we close on the house on Sept. 30 then we'll move in around Oct. 15, which will be much better.

We hope all of our Wien friends are doing well and we miss you!

My Apologies

Hi everyone! We have lots of photos to load, but we've had some difficulties getting them onto my computer...when we figure out the problem, i'll be sure to post the pictures!