New Home, New Adventures

It's been awhile since I have posted.  I keep waiting for life to slow down a little but life doesn't seem to be willing to comply.  We are loving the new house (I will post pictures at some point, we are still in the buying furniture, putting boxes away, trying to find a place for everything stage) and we are very thankful that our serendipitous decision to casually look at some houses this summer worked out so well.  While we loved our time in Broad Ripple and our cute 1939 house, it is so great to live in a family neighborhood in a more spacious home.  We love living in the Carmel community more than we ever thought possible and are excited to establish new roots and traditions here. 

 Although it's been a a busy first 6 weeks of living here we have found some time for fun.

• We bought bikes over Labor Day weekend and Carolyn LOVES riding in the bike. She is constantly asking to "biii" and will bolt for her bike carrier as soon as she gets into the garage.  So far we have been able to bike to watch a rain make-up varsity football game, bike into downtown Carmel for a casual Friday night dinner (what a great family friendly atmosphere!), and bike to the park. 
• We have also been able to do quite a bit of furniture shopping to try and fill up some of the empty space that is an obvious consequence of moving to a larger house.  Although Jesse and I aren't HGTV specialists we have had some fun dates shopping for furniture and looking for deals.  
• We have also gained some great new friends who we "picked up" at the nearby park! :) They live just a few houses down and have a daughter around Carolyn's age and we are very thankful for the great new friendship that is blooming.  Between going to the pool and impromptu and an impromptu we are looking forward to making many more memories together!
• We only live about 10 minutes from Conner Prairie now and Carolyn loves to go and run around and see all of the animals.  Jesse and I enjoy learning something new about how life used to be every time we go as well.  

We feel very blessed and are excited to be entering into our first change of season here and all of the new memories that we will create!