2015 so far

2015 has been very eventful so far! For our NYE celebration, we didn't do too much... We just stayed in and relaxed and watched some movies. We did stay up til 12:30 though! That 27 minutes later than last year.

On New Year's Day, we took the train into town to see the Mummer's Parade! It was super fun as always, and we met up with McGee's youngest sister (Mook) in town for a bit. Then we started walking our way over to Timmy's house, because he has a party every year on New Year's Day (with a keg and everything!). We hung out there for a bit, and then we walked back to the train after a few hours so we could head home. It was an exhausting (about 6 miles of walking!) but super fun day!

Here's one of the groups that went by us! They were pushing beds for some reason... I don't know.

The beds again! I don't get it... 

And here's more of the parade down Broad Street, and you can see City Hall in the background. 

I thought it was really fun that the inside of the trains were decorated!! 

This is going to be such a big year for us!!  We're getting married in June (I hope you can make one or both of our parties!!), and buying a house this year too!!  I've been keeping it kind of quiet, but we're in the process of buying a house right now actually! Our offer was accepted (after a little negotiation... mostly on their part because we didn't budge much... ), and we've had the home inspection already. We actually even met with an arborist this morning, because the property has a bunch of HUGE trees that we wanted to find out more about (there's an enormous one within a few feet of the house!). The arborist was really awesome, and she told us so much about all of the trees on the property and let us know that they were all healthy and solid, and told us how to keep up with their health and maintenance. Most of them are red oak or white oak, with a few tulip poplars too. Fingers crossed everything else goes ok with the home-buying process... but it's looking like we may have a house starting in early March!

Tonight we're taking it super easy, because the weather is GROSS outside!!  We've had a mix of snow, sleet, and rain... It's way gross. So, McGee is enjoying some beers and I'm enjoying some hard cider, and we're watching a ton of movies while a nice fire warms us from our fireplace. We just finished watching Dark Crystal for the first time ever, and WOW what a weird movie!!!  Thank goodness I'd already had a cider or two for that one. Now we're going to watch The Interview, and hope it's as funny as we're thinking it could be. I hope you're all having a very relaxing and fun weekend too!!