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New Ulm Oktoberfest

This past weekend we went to Oktoberfest over in New Ulm with my parents. I forgot to bring my camera, so I don’t have any pictures. My mom didn’t forget to bring her camera, so she has pictures. She’s been sending them around to the family, so I figured I’d just steal that and use […]

Getting Moved In

Not much to report around here. We’re slowing getting ourselves moved in. We’re still planning to do a tour video, but we kind of want the place to be respectable like. So who knows when that will be! Joni has been doing her teaching thing. It’s gone very well for the most part. She’s getting […]

Regular Ordinary Smoothie Making Time

If you don’t know about Epic Meal Time, and you haven’t seen Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time, then this will probably make even less sense.

School Tomorrow

Well, Joni starts school tomorrow. How exciting is that?! I think she’s all set to go. She’s got her stuff planned for the first day and has even started getting Wednesday prepared. Ben came over this weekend for some fun, so I’ll have to sit down and write something about that on my blog. Moving […]

Forks and Knives

We’re moved in… somewhat. We got a ton of stuff down here over the weekend and have been working on getting things unpacked. It’s actually gone really well/fast. The only issues we’ve run into is that when we unpacked the silverware we got from the wedding, we ended up with a pack of forks and […]

Video and Small Update

So, we’re in Mankato for a few days here as Joni does orientation for her job. I’m basically sitting around waiting for a call back on one of the jobs I interviewed for last week. I’m also waiting for a call telling us when we can move into the apartment. We’re hoping to get in […]

What’s Up?

OK, update time again. Things have been progressing without fail. I have a couple of interviews in Mankato next week, so fingers crossed on those. Joni has been getting some paperwork and information on training for the new job. She’s going down with me at least one day next week to do computer training while […]

Another Update!

That apartment we mentioned in the last post was decent enough, so we applied and got it. Mark one thing off the list. Next up is me finding a job. I had a decent lead, but that fell through in the worst way. The guy just stopped emailing me, even after prodding. So, I’ve been […]

What Have We Been Up To?

Alternatively titled “To What Have We Been Up?” Anyway, we’ve been looking hard for a place to live in Mankato. It turns out that apartments are really, really scare down there. We managed to find one with a less than ideal move in date. We’re going to see it on Thursday. If it’s decent, I’m […]

Jobbing

So, Joni has a job. She had an interview with Mankato yesterday morning. By the afternoon, they had called and offered the job. They called before we even got back to Watkins. I guess we’ll be living in Mankato come the fall! Well, probably come August. We’ll see.