Ok well, it’s been like 2 months since I’ve written anything
in my blog so I guess I better start updating. It seems so weird to be updating
things from July still when we are almost done with September now because it
feels like forever ago, but I better do it anyway. I probably won’t be super
detailed on the old stuff though.
Ok, so the last thing that I mentioned was how much I wanted
to go to the beach. Well, we did! One Saturday we drove to Annapolis and went
to the beach. It was really fun, we found a spot that was not very crowded at
all and we went swimming in the water and played in the sand. Unfortunately it
took us a while to realize that the reason it wasn’t very crowded around us is
because we were in the non-swimming area because of jellyfish. Yes, and too bad
we found out the hard way when David got stung on his ankle. So we moved down
where all the rest of the people were and I swear there were more jellyfish
there because we saw a bunch of teenagers scooping them out of the water using
a Frisbee. So after that we were pretty much too paranoid to get in the water
anymore and we were done with our beach day.
We drove into Annapolis, which is
a charming and adorable little city by the way, and we went in search of the 6
pound milkshake place that David had seen once on Man Vs. Food. We found it!
It’s a little place called Chick and Ruth’s. We saw plenty of 6 pound milkshake
remains, but decided against getting one ourselves since it was just the two of
us and I knew that I wouldn’t help very much, so we just got a "small" milkshake (which was still huge) and some food. The milkshake was delicious and the food was great, they had the
best homemade pickles I’ve ever had! So, in short, I got my beach day and we
topped it off with some great food! It was cool because just a few months
before we dipped our feet in the Pacific Ocean at Alki Beach in Seattle and
then we went swimming in the Atlantic Ocean just a few short months later! We
really did go coast to coast!
We sold our car in Gaithersburg before we headed home to
Utah! I know it was quite a risk to take to buy a new car in Utah in the hopes
of selling our old one in the few short weeks before we left, but we did it! It
all worked out. We didn’t make as much money on our car as we were hoping, but
who ever really does? We were just glad to be rid of it.
So instead of driving home, we got plane tickets to Vegas
and flew back across the country. My
family picked us up at the airport there and then we made a 3 hour drive to Big
Bear Lake, California. We had an amazing vacation there with my family. It felt
so nice to be with them again. I hadn’t seen any of them for about 6 months and
I had missed them. David and I had so much fun! We were able to relax, hang out
and joke around with my family, we went to gelato a few times, we went
shopping, boating, on an alpine slide and a water slide, we went mini-golfing, bowling, to the zoo, on walks by the lake, and hot
tubbing… Basically we had a lot of fun! And I got to be with my family, so that
was awesome. We also celebrated our one year anniversary while we were there. I
can’t believe it’s been a whole year! It’s been such a great year, I married my
best friend and I love spending all my time with him.
After the week in California, we drove back to Utah and
spent a few days in Southern Utah at my parent’s house. While we were there we
mostly just hung out with my nephews and family some more. David went dove
hunting with my dad and he had fun, although he felt pretty bad killing the
doves. I went through all my old boxes that were still in the garage and got
rid of most of it and decided what I wanted to keep. Finally we drove up to
Provo and moved into our new apartment… Well, after we got there and found out
that we were locked out and waited for about an hour. Either way, we got into our
apartment and now we love it! It’s about twice as big as our old apartment and
it’s awesome! We have a dishwasher, we have our own sinks in the bathroom, and
we have a whole second bedroom to put whatever we want in. We have more than
enough room for all of our things, so we are sure enjoying the space.
We both have started school and work again and it’s crazy
how busy we are. I’m working at Tristar again as the receptionist and going to
school full time and David is working as a math TA and a research assistant and
is also in school full time. David will be graduating in April and I will
graduate in December, so that’s something to look forward to. Right now David
is getting ready to take the GRE and apply for Grad school. There are several
places that he wants to apply, but we haven’t narrowed it down yet, he has
until December to apply, so we have some time.
David and I both had our birthdays this month, so we’ve been
celebrating those too, David got me some slipcovers for our couches and some
new pillows and we love them! I have been wanting these since we first got
married and now we finally have them and David loves them just as much as I do,
they greatly improve the look of our apartment. We celebrated my birthday with
Maile and Michael and it was super fun, we went to Texas Road House and had an
awesome dinner and then went back to our apartment to watch Harry Potter and
then got ice cream at SubZero, yum. It was a super fun night. We have yet to
get David a birthday present because I’m a bad wife, and also because I’m
letting him pick his own present and he hasn’t found one in our price range
yet, so I’m not that bad of a wife! We’ll get him something soon when he finds
the right thing. Oh, I did make him bacon though, so I did good there. We
celebrated with David’s family for his birthday, they took us out to JCW’s and
then we went and walked around Thanksgiving Point, after that we got cheesecake
and went home to relax and eat it, we watched “Clue” and then David and I went
home to go to sleep, it was a good day. Anyway, now we’re pretty much caught
up!
