Adventures of Newlyweds in Kansas

Yesterday we had our first "real" snow in Manhattan. Only got a slight dusting, but it snowed long enough for me to at least see it on the ground for a few hours. The wind was blowing like crazy also and knocked over two chairs and a grill off of our deck.

In non weather related news, Lindy and I had our parents up yesterday for a holiday dinner. The food was wonderful, Orzo rice (my fav), turkey, green beans, jello salad and some ginger snap cookies. Lots of wine and beer was served too :). It was great to have family up to do things like this while we are living close to each other.

Lindy and I are also very excited to be going to the Pinstripe bowl in NYC featuring our Wildcats and Syracuse. We have all the stuff ready to go, plane tickets, etc. and it should be an awesome time. I'm sure we'll have lots to share after that trip is over. I'd also like to announce that I have setup an online cookbook for Lindy and I to keep track of recipes we like. It will be growing as we make new things and put our favorites on it. Check out cookbook.derekandlindy.com!

We spent the weekend of Thanksgiving out in Colorado visiting my family.  My parents rented a van (haha) and my parents, Kali, Derek, me, Mia, and Bristol all loaded up and we headed out!



Oh how I don't think I miss road trips!  We'll about 10 hours later we arrived in Ft Collins at my Grandma's!  Thursday we had a huge, yummy feast at my aunts house.  Friday we went out shopping in the afternoon and got our hair cut by my awesome cousin.  After this we went to a piano bar where we drank far too much, oops, those fish bowls were amazing though!



Derek and I danced towards the end of the night to our wedding dance song, I'm sure it was absolutely horrible, but my mom has all the photos.  Saturday we bummed around and my little cousin Ariston and aunt Teri visited from Denver.  Sunday we got into that van again and drove all the day home!

I have been sick since returning and Derek has been great!  He got me medicine and even went out to get a humidifier at midnight the other night.  We also got me chocolate and pretty roses!  I have been very spoiled.  Well today I finally went to the doctor cause I got sick of coughing and keeping us both awake, and apparently I have bronchitis, but now have medicine to make it go away and some powerful cough medicine so hopefully I can sleep through the night.