Officially Official

Well, we got our Ohio driver's licenses and car plates...

It was our best (read: worst!) Ohio experience yet.

Doesn't that look awesome.  And these things could be yours too!  All you need is a bundle of money, a lot of patience, and a bunch of time to waist that you could be devoting to other things!

For your new totally awesome looking gear, just follow this simple 325 step process:

1. Take a morning and drive across town to the BMV
2. Once there, stand in a long line
3. Once through the line, realize that you don't have  the 102 documents they require but never mention anywhere and go ahead and drive on home with the list of requirements
4. Spend the afternoon pulling everything together
5. Return to the BMV early the next morning
6. Once there, stand in a long line
7. Once through the line, have them tell you that the documents you were told to bring still aren't right and won't work
8. Get a revised list of exactly what you need to have
9. Go back home and make a thousand phone calls to get all the odd-ball stuff they require
10. Drive back across town to the BMV
11. Stand in a long line.
12. Have your stuff verified and your vision tested for your driver's license
13. Stand in another long line
14. Spend some money
15. Have your information put into the system and your car inspected
16. Stand in another long line
17. Get your license picture taken (NOTE: it will turn out awful!)
18. Leave the BMV and drive to another office
19. Stand in line
20. Have your new car title printed and spend some more money
21. Drive back to the BMV
22. Spend more money
23. Finally receive your car plates

It's that easy!  You are now officially official. Once you are home with your plates, some assembly is required. Be sure you have unpacked the right tools, otherwise you will need to dig through way too much stuff.  Also, make sure you go through this process with an antsy, tired little toddler.  It enhances the experience.
Enjoy!

Up To Date

Let's see. How about some updates? I have a few.  

Quick version, we're loving Ohio and doing awesome!  

For more details go ahead and keep reading, but it's long.  You've been warned.

The Move

Last week our family split up for a couple days and made the long 2,009 mile trek out to our new home.  Tim and Reed traveled via the freeway route.  They made the entire trip in one 34 hour stretch taking turns napping and only stopping for gas. Serious troopers.

Brinlee and I came via air a few days later.  Our trip was only about 8 hours, and we napped together  :)  This was Brinlee's first time on an "awe-paleen" (airplane) and to say she loved it is a total understatement.  I had planned for the worst, but ended up having a blast.  She did awesome!  In fact, she took it better than I did I think.  She couldn't get enough of the "funny tummy" feeling.  Baby Peanut on the other hand did not care for it much.  I spent most of the trip feeling pretty woozy.  All around not bad though.  It sure was fun!

New Home Sweet Home

Boy, thinking back on the trip it already feels like it was forever ago... we are mostly settled in and loving the area so far.  Brinlee already has a little boyfriend down the street, and we have some awesome neighbors.  We still have unpacking/organizing/cleaning/furniture arranging/decorating to do, but our house is already starting to feel like home. 

So far, Ohio feels good.  We feel like our family will be very happy here!

The Big 5

On August 1st we celebrated 5 fantastic years together! 

Remember these kids?

Ok I guess we haven't changed that much... and we still feel like kids (ok, we still really are kids).  It's so weird that we have been married five years.  Not that it's a super long time... but what an adventure it has been already!  In fact, since August 2009:

     - We've lived in 3 states, 5 cities, and 6 houses.

     - We've changed 2 very flat tires.

     - We've worked 5 different jobs.

     - Our biggest purchases have been a laptop, TV, and camera.

     - We made one super cute little kiddo and have the next one cookin'!

     - We attended 2 universities and finished 4 college degrees, 2 internships, and a preceptorship.

     - We saw a gas price increase of $1.17 per gallon.

   

Oh it's been fun.  This was actually the 3rd of our 5 anniversaries that we have celebrated right in the middle of moving.  I'd say we need to quit making major life changes during the summer... but perhaps the start of a new adventure is just the thing for something like an anniversary!

We did get to celebrate early with an evening out back in Boise.  I sure love having that goofball as my full-time sweetheart.  I can't imagine a better friend.  

Bring on more years, we're loving them! 

The Belly

This pregnancy has been getting a little gypped as far as press time goes... we've been busy.  But baby girl is steadily growing and kickin' around like crazy.  We are 25 weeks along and so far doing awesome!  I still feel like I'm getting big way faster this go around.  We're already having to sleep with a few extra pillows.  Not too uncomfy yet though, so no complaints!

He's Official

Well now.  Check out this stud!

Doesn't he look smooth??  Tim had his white coat ceremony the other night and officially kicked off the next four years of our lives.  From here on out he eats, drinks and sleeps school.  And he is actually really excited!  I am too.  He is such a cute smarty pants.  This all already looks so good on him, he'll be awesome!

A Little Out and About

We have been doing a little bit of running around.  On Saturday night the medical school hosted an evening at the zoo for the first year students and their families.  We had heard about the zoo before we even came out here.  It's actually rated the number one zoo in the US, and it is huge!  We were there for a couple hours and didn't even see a quarter of it.  But Brinlee did make fast friends with one of the gorillas there, and we did eat some delicious hot dogs.  We will definitely be going back. 

New Addition

We've added a new friend to our little family.

Meet Jarvis.

Medical school ruined all my years of hard work and gave Tim an I-pad.  For some weird, perhaps totally irrational reason I tend to be a bit anti-gadget.  Call me old fashioned, but I kind of like to stick with pencil and paper.  Maybe less efficient (as Tim tells me, often), but why spend the money, right?  

Well... though I hate to admit it.... I got my hands on the little bugger and it turns out I am kind of a fan of Jarvis.  Tim already new he would like it, he'd been dropping I-pad hints for the last 2 years. But Jarvis is slick, the PBS kids app is awesome!, Siri is pretty fun to talk to, and I can get way better Bejeweled scores.  Sweet!  Luckily Tim will have him most of the time, so hopefully I don't get too addicted.  But I can see us being friends.    

And there you have it!  All the Borup family info I can think of for now.  We're all up to date.

Now, I think I'll go get some chocolate milk.  It sounds good right now, don't you think?

Hello Ohio

Well, we made it.
Welcome to Buckeye nation!

It has been a very long few days.  Lots of miles, some late nights, and too much unpacking. Yuck.  But, so far everything has gone amazingly smoothly, and we are now officially and happily transplanted in Ohio!  We have been here not quite a week, but so far we love it!  We are still not completely unpacked (and may never be actually, I hate that job!), but we are starting to settle in and are still just excited.  Birnlee has been in absolute heaven re-discovering all of her stuff from storage.  We haven't seen or heard much from her actually, she entertains herself and already wanders around here keeping us company like she owns the place.  She's such a fun, sweet little buddy  :)  We're having a bit of a time running around and getting familiar with things though (read: ok fine, mostly just I am having a time with it).  Tim the boy scout already has a good feel for the area actually and has been enjoying torturing, I mean quizzing me, and on which direction we are driving.  I get it wrong almost every time. North? West? Who knows.  No mountains is so weird!  I would be doomed without good old Lola the GPS.  It will definitely take some getting used to.  But even driving around lost, Columbus feels good.  It's really pretty and super green out here. And can I just say that we are loving our apartment!  What to do with all this space?!  sigh...

I do have better updates, and even a few pictures... but for now I am way too tired.  I'll see if I can't get a few more exciting notes pulled together here in the next few days.  But for now, we are happy, all is well, and we are loving this new adventure of ours.
Here's to Ohio livin'!