Quick but very important update

I just wanted to update everyone on this, because if you know the two of us you will not believe it, Jordan and I have joined a Gym!  Please everyone close your mouth and keep reading, I know it is a surprise to most of you but we decided it was needed.  So pretty much next time you see the two of us you will not recognize us because we are going to be so buff and in shape you won't even be able to believe it.  We will keep you updated on how this whole gym thing goes for us...being that we are new to the scene.

Firsts

Well there are firsts for everything, first time even being in Connecticut, first time living in New England,  and this weekend we had a couple of firsts since we have lived in Connecticut.  

We had our first group of guests after a week of living here.  Lindsey (my sister), John (brother in law), Becky (1 of 2 sister's that are our best friends), Nick (Becky’s bf), and Cooper (my nephew and Zoey’s cousin) all came to visit us and help break in our new home.  

Lindsey & John

Becky & Nick

Cooper & Zoey

Becky and Nick road the train in from New York and Lindsey and John drove up from Washington D.C.  After picking up Becky and Nick from the train station we took them to a local place, where we already know some of the waitresses, Dottie’s Diner (coming soon a whole post on this diner).  They were able to meet the nice people we were had already met at the diner and also taste the most wonderful donuts ever, Dottie’s homemade donuts.  After this very wholesome lunch we decided we needed a drink so we took a trip out to the middle of nowhere to a local winery, McLaughlin Winery.  At the end a dirt road we saw a beautiful old house on top of a hill with vines and fields surrounding it.  We went in for a tasting which was very fun and we learned a lot about the winery and wines and then because it was a beautiful day decided to have a glass and sit outside in the sun.  Although the wine wasn’t the best we had ever had the settings made up for it, as you can see in these pictures.  This was also the first time that Jordan and I had met Nick so it gave us a great opportunity to grill him and make sure we could let him into our little “cousins” group that the Armor and Jones girls have, we are a pretty tough group to get into. 

  

Lindsey and John arrived and we had a chance to catch up and get warmed up for dinner with some cheese, crackers, and wine.  After fixing ourselves up and getting all pretty we headed off to dinner at a local Woodbury restaurant called John’s Café.  We had heard it was a small restaurant with only about 15 tables, but for some reason still decided that our group would be ok here.  A little fyi if you don’t know the Armor and Jones girls, we can get really loud and usually end up getting looks from surrounding tables even if we are at a large restaurant.  John’s Café ended up being excellent, the food, wine, atmosphere, and everything else was absolutely wonderful.  Although halfway through dinner we started to notice that a couple of the tables around us were starting to give us looks as our decibels got louder and louder.  By the end of our dinner we had pretty much the whole restaurant staring us down.  We decided it was probably time for us to leave these poor diners to their peaceful meals so we stood up to leave.  Walking out though was like a walk of shame…the restaurant grew silent and people followed us with their eyes out of the place.

We had a toast to our visitors, new home, and almost getting kicked out of a restaurant

So not only was this a first for visitors, but it was the first for getting stared out of the restaurant and almost getting kicked out of our adorable small town.  But for those of your who do know the Armor and Jones girls…are you surprised?

Over all it was a wonderful weekend with out first group of guests and we can’t wait for our next round.

P.S. Don’t worry Nick, you passed the Jones girl test and you totally fit in with this group!

Starting out

Well it's official, Jordan and I are now Connecticuters (we hear that is what we are called out here)!  We have moved in, unpacked, and are starting to get settled hear on Tuttle Road.  

The little town that I found my apt in is Woodbury and it is probably one of the most adorable little towns I've ever been to.  There is a Main Street that runs straight through the middle of it that has everything on it.  Little restaurants and shops, but no chains, which I love!!  They have rules for businesses along the main street like; signs can't be bigger then a certain size and they vote if business can open a store on the street or not, so everything is very nicely managed and it looks adorable.  It is what you would think a small new england town would look like. Everyone that we have met here in stores, waitresses, or just neighbors have all been so nice, I don't think there is a mean person that lives in the town.  Outside of Woodbury there are a ton of other little towns that are very close that have more then Woodbury so we can get to anything that we need quickly, like Target, Grocery Stores, Malls, etc.

The apartment that I found is also really cute (if you can't tell already I think everything that we have seen so far is cute).  As most of you know, I signed the lease and put the deposit down before I even got here and saw the place, so it was a huge relief when we pulled in and I loved it!  The whole complex has 11 buildings and sits on a huge pond with so much land around it.  Zoey loves having all the grass around to run in, since she was used to going right on the sidewalk.  

 

Jordan doesn't start work until May 1st so the weekend we moved in we went by the course just to see it.  It is absolutely beautiful.  He went by the course to meet his boss and some of the others that he will be working with and it went really well.  Everyone that he met that day was so nice and welcoming and he is really looking forward to starting.  They are having us at the club for dinner this week to meet some of the members, I'm really excited to meet all of them and hopefully meet some of the local Woodburians.