Home from Vacation

We are home from Mexico and trying to get back into our routine. Saturday, June 13th we left Hays when Lindsey got off work. We stayed with Cory's brother, Chadd, until we flew out on Tuesday, June 16th. While staying with Chadd, we saw a movie, went to a Royals game (well, part of a Royals game), spent time in the College Basketball Experience in the new Sprint Center, tried to visit the Zoo (unfortunately we only saw the parking lot since the zoo was closed), and went to Harrah's casino, where we ended down about $3.00. Tuesday started out at 2:15 am as our flight left at 6:00 am. Some of the activities we participated in while we were in Mexico besides hanging out at the pool at the resort were swimming with the dolphins and going to a park called Xel-Ha, where we snorkeled, climbed on a rope bridge, and jumped off a couple of cliffs. We were very fortunate with the weather while we were there. While we were booking our tours one afternoon, it rained for about 10 minutes, and it rained while we were on our way to an activity. Other than being hot, the weather was great. We left the resort Monday at 10am and flew out of Canucun at 12:40 arriving back in Kansas City a little after 6:30 Monday, June 22nd. Tuesday we drove back to Great Bend and Albert and drove back to Hays Wednesday morning. We were both back to work Thursday.

Hope this finds you doing well.

Summer

Summer is officially here, which for us just means we don't have classes {and that isn't even true for Lindsey this summer}. The first big event of the summer is our move. We had some trouble getting into our new rental house on time, but, a week and a half later, with water and a new bathroom, we were able to move in. Luckily, we had allowed ourselves two weeks of overlapping with the lease from our apartment. The landlords completely re-did our bathroom, so we had no water to the house for about the first week of our lease. This made for an interesting living situation since we had arranged for family to come help us move on the 15th (the day our lease was supposed to start) and for our cable and Internet to be switched to the new house that day. We spent a week spending the evening at the house watching TV, and then returning to the apartment to sleep on an air mattress and use the restroom and shower. But that is all over with now, and we are moved in and getting settled. We have turned in the keys and left our apartment "the cleanest an apartment has ever been left" according to our old landlords. Hopefully we will be posting pictures of the new house soon. It is so nice to have our own space and not have people constantly walking above us, or slamming doors and drawers in the neighboring kitchen. Also, Kyzer has come home and is adjusting very well to city life. At first, he barked at the door a lot because of the traffic, but that is getting less and less. I think he is glad to be here.
Lindsey is taking one class online this summer. She is taking Calculus thought Hutchinson Community College. Fort Hays decided to do only online courses this summer, to cut costs on campus. And the choices of online classes are limited. Calculus is the only class standing in the way of Lindsey's Bachelor's of Business Administration. So, it will be a challenge this summer, but the reward will be worth it!
We will be taking our trip to Mexico as we had originally planned, well, kind of. Originally we were going to return to the same resort we visited for our honeymoon, but we decided to go to a new resort this summer instead. Rather than being 45 miles south of Cancun, we will only be about 25 (or so they tell me, directions are not my forte). We will be leaving for Kansas City after Lindsey gets off work Saturday, June 13. We plan to attend a KC Royals game on Sunday, which unfortunately means we have to miss Lindsey's grandmother's birthday party. Monday will be a lazy day, since we have to be at the airport Tuesday morning at approximately 3:00 am, to prepare for our 6:00am international flight. We will be staying with Cory's brother and he will be taking us to the airport (thanks Chadd!). We will return to Kansas City June 22nd.
I think this novel pretty much covers what has happened and what will be happening coming up! Thanks for checking in!
Love, Lindsey and Cory

Upcoming Vacation

As you may or may not have known, we were planning a vacation back to Mexico this summer to the same resort we went last summer on our honeymoon. We booked our trip back in December or January. Since booking our trip, we have been watching the developments in Mexico. First was the drug cartels, but after researching, we were confident that we would be okay in the area in which were were going and the activities in which we would be participating. The newest development is obviously the swine flu (the the h1n1 virus to be politically correct). We now are questioning the safety of a trip to Mexico. We have been looking at our options, and as of right now we are planning on changing our reservations to a resort in Jamaica. We have not yet made the change, as we are waiting to see how everything plays out (and saving for the additional expense we will incur). We just wanted to the the chance to update everyone on our vacation plans.

We hope this finds everyone doing well!

A much needed update

I realized this weekend how long it had been since we did an update, so here is a much needed up date!

Really, not a lot has changed since the last post. Cory is still working at Wal-Mart and Lindsey is still working at Simply Charmed and Simply Elegant.

Recently, Cory took a trip to Denver, Colorado with two of his brothers and a friend. They went to a Nuggets vs. Clippers game and did some other sight seeing while they were there.

In other news, our lease on our two bedroom apartment will end at the end of May. After much time put into checking the classifieds, making classifieds, driving by addresses, and looking at places, we found a new place to rent. May 15th we will move into a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house, with a nice front porch, a fenced in backyard, and a 1 1/2 car garage. Quite the change from our little apartment. We are really excited. Also, we will be able to have Kyzer, our dog, who has been at Cory's parent's house, since we cannot have pets in our apartment.

Thanks for checkng in, hopefully it will not be as long before we update again!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year. We hope that the new year brings all God's blessings and the best life has to offer.
We are enjoying our last week or so before we return to classes for the Spring semester. It will be busy as all of our semesters are. Lindsey will be working on finishing up the requirements for her Management degree and working nearly full time. On January 10th, Lindsey job will expand, as her boss opens a second store in downtown Hays. She has been working on all aspects of opening a new business and is getting a lot of great experience! The new store will be a Prom dress store, opening on a trial basis from January to May, then the plan is to re-open in October on a permenant basis. Lindsey will also travel to Dallas mid-January with her boss to experience her first market.
Cory will also have a full schedule of classes, as well as working nearly full time. He continues to work in the Tire & Lube Express (TLE) as a technician in the Hays Wal-Mart.

End of the Semester

Here we are at the end of another semester. It is almost hard to believe that it is over. This week is full of homework and tests for both of us. Lindsey will be done after Friday the 12th, but Cory has a couple of tests to take next week. After that we get about a month break from classes, much deserved if you would like our opinion. We will both be working full time over break, maybe more than usualy (if that is possible). We will be heading home this weekend for Chris and Claudia's wedding (Cory's brother) who will be married in Olmitz on Saturday.

We are looking forward to the semester being over and having a little time to relax. We are looking forward to getting to see family and friends at Chrismas. :-)

First Post

Hello,
Welcome to our blog. We thought we would set this up so we could keep everyone up to date with out lives. We don't have a lot going on right now between full school schedules and full work schdules, we are pretty busy.
Anyway, thanks for looking at our page. We will try to post regularly to keep you up to date!

In the meantime, our e-mail is lindsey.cory@hotmail.com.