Old School Reunion

It finally happened! I've been living here four months now and I've been waiting. Last night we finally have a Shiloh reunion of sorts at Cilantro's. A Mexican restaurant that we frequent because of their half price margaritas and good food.





There 12 of us from Shiloh. It was good seeing everyone and catching up. It was surreal all of us to be in the city, eating together as "grown-ups". I can remember being together on off nights during the summer dreaming of living in the city one day and having nights like last night.



God has done and is doing great things in all our lives. Some through Shiloh and others through completely new areas of their lives. Each person has changed, but our conversations and our friendships haven't.

THE smell

The moment we returned to our apartment after being out of town for a week there was an awful smell in the kitchen. Marcus became obsessed with finding where the smell came from. The first time he pulled the stove away from the wall we didn't find anything. So he started pulling the drawers out. You will never guess what we found.




Lots and lots of Zoloft that expired in 1999. Very strange and eerie.



The second time we pulled the stove away from the wall there was our little mouse (the white stuff is baking soda that Marcus dumped to try to stop the smell). It had crawled into the stove somewhere and died. The smell almost made both of us vomit. It took forever to get the mouse out and then Marcus ran outside to the trash. Thank God I'm married and had Marcus to do the "dirty work".

My first visit home

This was the first time I've visited Cincinnati from living in another city. College didn't count b/c a dorm room doesn't feel like home. It was weird, but so much fun. My granny and the twins met us at the airport. Instead of making welcome signs they just wrote "Welcome home Adrienne and Marcus. Yipee!" So creative. We got skyline on the way home!


Sara and Kim were as much fun as ever. They threw me a birthday party, we went school shopping, they spent the night, and we watched High School Musical 2. Ethan watched it with us too! He kept saying "I hate high school musical", but ended up dancing by the end of the movie. I loved it. I had never seen the first one, but I may be obsessed now. Maybe.



He was so cute and talkative! He is three years old now. It seems like it was yesterday he was born. He kept saying "I love you Adrienne and Marcus." I didn't want to leave him. He loved the girls (Jenna, Sara, and Kim). They spent the night the same night as him. Kim was the only name he could remember though and called Jenna, Jeffrey once.




Jenna didn't want us to leave. Isn't she cute? I didn't want to leave either. Then when we did get back to New York, we realized we had left both sets of keys in Ohio. Luckily, I have the world's greatest granny that overnighted them to us. FedEx got the keys to Kristi's apartment by 9:00 am the next morning. But we did have to spend the night at Kristi's. Trust me, we'll never forget them again! Now it's back to reality. Marcus is job searching and I start my second semester in a week and a half. Wish us luck!

Columbia University

This is the beautiful ivy league school I attend. But below is the actual campus I go to everyday, about 60 blocks north of the nice campus. Such is my luck. I only have a week and a half left of summer classes till I get a month break. Then I'm going to Shiloh for a week and then home for a week!

My NYC apartment!

This is our empty, tiny, very expensive apartment that I have stayed in for two weeks! I was going a little cabin crazy by the end of it. We now have our stuff, but it's all everywhere. But I am happy to announce I am sleeping on a normal bed now, no more air mattresses for me! I will post finished pictures when it's all done.

My day at Ikea

Yesterday me and Marcus spent the entire day at the Ikea in Elizabethtown, NJ. And I mean an entire day. We started off on the free shuttle from the Port Authority in NY with many other eager New Yorkers to Ikea. Neither one of us had been to the phenomenon previously and were pretty excited. I can tell you after six hours we were not so excited anymore. Everyone had told us of this amazing place with cute stuff and it's cheap!

It turns out it's cheap because you do everything. You get the parts out of their warehouse, you take it home, and you put your furniture together. Hopefully we can figure it out. We won't get our furniture PIECES until Saturday when Marcus should be bringing all our things up from Ohio. So I will have a bed, couch, desk, table, and coffee table. And cute computer chair! I cannot wait to be a normal person. My back is getting worse every day by sleeping on the air mattress. Also since it's the only piece of "furniture" in the apartment I eat, sleep, and do homework on it.

Everyday gets a little bit better.

Slightly positive Adrienne

Well, I told you I would be more positive. Slowly, but surely. I'm in my apartment on my air mattress watching tv on my new mac book. Tonight I get to see my husband for the first time in five days. What else can a girl want?