WELCOME 2015! After a great 2014 that included racing, working, getting engaged, and starting a blog 2015 comes in with a lot of waiting. Waiting for the house to be built, waiting for the big wedding day, the honeymoon and waiting to get back into Spartan races.
The house search ended with finding a great little development project in the historic town of Ayer. This came after months of looking at houses that had one thing or another that we didn't like. We had been looking in Ayer and liked the area. It is about half way between both our jobs and is affordable. When we first looked in the development project we noticed it had exactly what we wanted. Close to highways and our jobs, an yard for my kids to play in, and a house built the way we liked it. It wasn't until a friends wedding that we decided the search was over we are moving into this neighborhood. At our table was a couple that we had gone to school with. As we got to talking and told them about where we were looking to move to they said "That's where we live!" This was great we found out so much about the community and the houses. The next morning we started looking at the website and had our real estate agent (who has been very patient with us and our very specific requirements for our house) contact the developer and started the process of having a house built. We were very fortunate to get picked for this batch of houses and the lot we received is perfect.
The initial look at the lot make the decision get the pre-approval and put 5% down was like a 2 week time frame. We were very nervous about the pre-approval but the mortgage company that we are working with did quick work and was able to get it done in time for the deadline. This was the sprint portion, which includes the picking of the upgrades but we had a few extra weeks to think about them. Now the endurance piece is here and we just wait for the house to be finished and it's time to move in.
With the house portion of our new lives together figured out it is time to focus on the wedding. We have the venue, and the DJ booked. The Bridal party has been picked and everyone is on board. The Guest list drawn up with the save the dates on their way to us. Next stop putting them in envelopes and mailing them to the guests. Then there is the decision of what to serve at the wedding, what songs we want to be played and which ones we don't. I am sure there are a lot of other steps I am missing but the Bride will remind me as they need to be done.
After the wedding will be the much anticipated honeymoon. We have decided to take a cruise to the Hawaiian Islands. We are biased to Carnival cruise line since that is where I proposed to her. The cruise doesn't leave for a couple weeks after the wedding so we will have to go back to work with the vision of an amazing vacation looming in the distance. It will be 15 days visit 5 of the main islands and have a lot of days at sea. The islands are going to be gorgeous and we will have 12-14 hours on each one. As the wedding planning dies down we will start to look at excursions and plan out what we want to do on each island.
Once all that is done we can put our focus on getting back to Spartan glory. This doesn't mean we aren't going to work out until then it just means we won't be signing up for any races. I am going to do the Deck of Cards workout that I wrote about the other day. I will be modifying it as the weeks pass to keep it from getting to stale. I will also be looking to get into some other kind of workouts on my non work days.
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