Life goes on

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!