Our First Earthquake

At 5:37 Friday morning Erin and I survived our first earthquake. The earthquake was in southern Indiana, but we felt it all the way up in South Bend. So that is one natural disaster that I can cross off my list, only tornado, hurricane, avalanch, flood, and sunami to go. I think I will stay around northern Indiana and southern Michigan where most of those do not occur.

For the Harberts

I am sure that the Harberts didn't think we would fill this out :) and my goal was to beat the Maltburgs to it. So here we go.

Four jobs I have had (only four!?)
1) Construction Worker
2) Bumper Factory
3) Repo guy
4) Dirt Engineer

Four movies that I have watched more than once (more than once is understatement of the year)
1) Animal House
2) Dodgeball
3) Old School
4) The Blues Brothers

Four Places I Have Lived
1) with my parents in Richland
2) Angola, IN (and I am not a townie)
3) Carmel, IN
4) South Bend, IN

Four TV shows I watch
1) The Office
2) Lost
3) Prison Break
4) Flip that House

Four places I have been
1) Maine
2) Orlando
3) England
4) Galesburg

Four people who e-mail me regularly
1) Everyone from work
2) Phil
3) Spam
4) Fantasy Basketball updates, telling me I am crushing Phil.

Four of my favorite foods
1) Pizza
2) Anything Erin makes (with the excaption of the peanutbutter pork chops)
3) Burgers on the Grill
4) Grilled cheese and tomato soup

Four places I would like to visit
1) Alaska
1) Austrailia
2) UP in Michigan (again)
4) Detroit (Redwings Game)

Four things I am looking forward to in the next year
1) Getting Hitched
2) Soccer in the Summer
3) Maybe Moving
4) Taking some vacation time

Time to Cut Wood

Last weekend my dad and I decided that it was a good time to start cutting up the oak tree from the front yard. The other big news is that our house is officially on the market, so if you know someone looking for a GREAT house in South Bend, pass them my way.


Roger starting up the big chainsaw



I was lucky enough to be able to run the bobcat for a while



The wood we cut up, looks like about 1/2. I have to convince my sister that she should do all the splitting and stacking.



My dad off-roading in his golf cart



The HUGE stump

Party!!!

This, like the rest will be a short post with lots of pictures. The first picture is of a lion cake my mom made, and there was a lamb cake too, but my sister and I cut the head off of it and put it in the lion's mouth. We both thought it was pretty funny :)



Erin and Kim at the Party.



We went to Kalamazoo last weekend because Chris was in town from Florida. His mom put together a dinner in Kalamazoo, and it was good to get to see him for the little time he was in town.



While we were up I also played in an indoor soccer game with Phil, in which I was by far the best player, I scored the game winning awesome goal too. Phil scored, but my goal was definetly better.



The next week I had to be in Indy for work, so I got to hang out with Justin and Heather (the Harbert's) and baby Lily. She is getting so big already. I made Justin run a mile with me, that may of been the most amusing part of the trip :) On the other hand it may of been the ping pong.

That is about all of the fun things going on here, but remember with March Madness going on, don't forget, GO GREEN!!!! GO WHITE!!!!

Happy Leap Day!

This is just a picture update of the house blog. Sorry, I am not going to ramble. Please look past the clutter of tools and see that we are almost completely done with the remodel.

The upstairs painted hallway. (Thanks to my mom, dad, and sister for coming and helping paint and tie up loose ends)


The living room.


The dining room.


The kitchen.


The downstairs bathroom, and yes Harbert it is DONE DONE now.


The steps.


The basement.

Flat Thursday

I am sure a lot of you are wondering where I have been for the past month. I wish I could say I have been so busy and here are a bunch of pictures to prove it.........but I can't. I was sick most of last weekend and luckly Erin took breaks from studying to make sure I had soup and 7-up and a blanket, she is the best. I have been working on the house mostly while Erin studies her butt off. I did squeeze in some time to go up north with my aunt and uncle to go snowmobiling, here are some pictures.

Here is the Cabin.



Snowmobilers at a lunch spot.


The Trail.


The groomer.


I haven't talked much about it, but here is a picture of something we are working on at work. It is the new Blue Chip Casino Hotel in Michigan City. It will be 24 stories when it is all done. They are 18 floors up right now, and you can see the Chicago skyline from the top on a clear day.


The title of this blog is to thank Erin. She was kind enough to let me come change her flat tire on the side of the By-Pass at 7:30 this morning. THANKS DEAR!

The 1,300 Mile Tractor

This past Friday and Saturday I spent on the road with my dad, grandpa, and great uncle. We were in search of a Grand Haven tractor located in Chattanooga, Tenn. The tractor is the same kind as my grandpa's first tractor. It was made back in 1953 or 1954. There was an article in a magazine a while ago that told that there were less than 1,000 of these tractors ever made, and the writer only knew where 15 of them were left. This makes number 16. My great uncle found it advertised in a magazine and got some pictures to see what it looked like. It was in good shape, so we decided to take a road trip. We left Friday afternoon and got to Nashville by midnight, then got up first thing Saturday, drove to Chattanooga, loaded up the tractor and some other good finds, and made it back to Michigan by 12:30am, putting me back in South Bend by about 2:00 Sunday morning. It was very draining, but a blast. I got to hear all sorts of stories. I realized the next day that the entire ride down and back that radio had not been on once, a good indication of many stories being told. We ended up driving through 5 states on the trip, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia (only for 4 miles, but it counts).

Here is a picture of the tractor.


I fit on the tractor, but not sure if I could drive it for hours on end.


Here is the crew, my dad, great uncle, grandpa, and me.