Welcome!

Hi everyone! Welcome to our blog! Neither of us have much experience with this, but we wanted to keep you all up to date with our lives and all of the excitement that comes along with it! We figured this would be a great way to be certain that we didn't forget to tell anyone about all of the fun details of our new life in DC.

As some of you know, this has been a whirlwind start of an amazing adventure!  So let's review:

- Friday, June 8th, Joe proposes. Blake says "YES!!!"
- Also on Friday, June 8th Joe officially accepts a full-time position to start in DC in just over two weeks
- On Sunday, June 10th we become graduates of THE Ohio State University. Whoa.
- On Wednesday, June 12th we left for D.C. in search of an apartment... any apartment.
- On Thursday, June 13th we found our apartment.
- On Friday, June 14th we plundered through rush-hour traffic and managed to beat 3 other people and sign the lease for our apartment.

After that craziness, we returned to our hometowns to say goodbye to family and friends and then made our way down to our new home. We officially moved in on Friday, June 22nd. Shout out to Joe's dad, grandpa, and D.C. friends for lugging all our furniture up to the top floor and squeezing it through practically impassable door frames :)

Joe started his position on Monday, June 25th. Blake staked out a favorite coffee shop (Starbucks won because of their stellar sweetened iced coffee and impeccable internet connection) to study for her upcoming NCLEX exam--the national nursing board examination.

Slowly but surely, we started putting our humble abode together (pictures to come soon!) to make it into our home away from home.

We will be updating the blog every week so please check it out to see what is going on! We did not make it public and we don't want it to be shared with everyone (Facebook style), so just let us know if someone wants to follow it and we can send them the link!

We love you all! Talk to you soon!

B&J