April!

Whew! We're getting there my friends! April was some fun times. :) Let's do this, shall we?

I got a new hair cut! (mostly bangs and some layers) but I LOVE it! Yay for hair getting longer!!

went shoe shopping for wedding shoes for my sister! The wedding is coming up!

how we watch conference....

How Rusha watches conference....

allergy inducing trees

date night at the Ballet! This show was FANTASTIC!!!

Lindy was here in April and we were able to play with her one night

fun times!!!

tired girl after a night of fun!

Food prep for one week....we need to do this again.

I LOVE Lilacs! They smell so good and we have bushes by our mail box. :)

Good mail day! I actually have an influenster post coming....

new purse I made. I'm in love with it!

we went and had dinner at my in-laws and we met their new goat. :D

sewing project! I need to finish this skirt....

SNOW! this did not make me happy

the influenster Bella Voxbox....stay tuned for a post on all the fun things inside!

lunch date during restaurant week

all the flowers for our awards reception at work.

and that, my friends, was April. So much busy. Don't get me wrong though, it was a blast. :D

The rest of August

August seems like so long ago and yet it also feels like yesterday. Funny how that works.

Anywho, August was a fun month. After getting back from Yellowstone we did some fun, random things and basically enjoyed life. :)

 We had Lindy for a random weekend and went up to visit Allan's mom. She show Lindy this fun stuff that she could play with and blow into bubbles, etc. She had a blast with it.

  

Pictures from our garden. I was not the best gardener this year. We got on little cucumber and a few tomatoes before the plants died....mostly because Daelynn was the one watering them and she moved to go to BYU-I in September....so yeah. :D I'm really not the best porch gardener as much as I've tried.

We had a pool party as a going away party for some of our friend in the ward. I love all these people. This is Allan doing an eagle jump off the diving board. :)

We got to help out in the Church's peach orchard by picking peaches. These peaches were HUGE! And they smelled SO GOOD. It was fun to get to help out and spend a few hours in the morning picking peaches for people in need.

 

Lindy's visa didn't come through and she ended up not leaving at the beginning of August like we thought she would. This was great for us because it meant we got to spend more time with her doing fun things. One thing we did was take her dancing with us. She was convinced we were "going to a ball," and she just HAD to wear her "ball gown." Of course she chose to wear her Cinderella dress. She was so cute and everyone loved getting to see her. It was fun. :)

That's pretty much the month of August in a nutshell for us. It felt like a really busy month - and yet it was a lot of fun too. :)

Adventures with Lindy

*note: I know I'm behind. So, I'm going to do some monthly recaps to get caught up and then I'm going to TRY and be better at blogging consistently. We'll see how well it goes.... ;)

The month of June brought one of Lindy's scheduled visits to Utah. With family in town we planned SO MANY FUN things. I really don't know how we packed so much fun into a few days, but we did it. :D Here are some of the fun things we did:

Participlay at the Children's Treehouse Museum

Children's Treehouse Museum

Tractor rides with Grandpa Gary

Splash Pad with Daddy!

Car rides with cousins

Train Museum with Daddy and Grandpa Mac

Trying exotic Dragon Fruit

Getting to meet and hold new cousin Rusha

Bean Museum with cousins!

Bean Museum with Grandpa Mac and cousins.

Picnic with cousins and Aunts!

So there's just a taste of all the fun things we did with family and Lindy. It definitely started out a fun summer of adventures. :D

We went to the Zoo!

Lindy came for one of her scheduled visits this past weekend and we had SO MANY FUN adventures planned. I don't know how we managed to pack in so much fun in to so few days, but pack it in we did. :D Lindy has grown so much and she honestly is such a great little bundle of joy and sunshine. We love her and love the time we get to spend with her.

On Monday, with the most beautiful weather ever, we met my sister BreeAnn and nephew Sammy at the zoo and then spent the morning seeing all the animals. We had a blast. :D After the zoo we went down to Liberty Park and had a picnic/played on the playground. It was a good day.

Here are some pictures:

Birds and tigers and elephants oh my!!

My two silly monkeys!!

We had so much fun. And the weather was so perfect. In fact, I got my first sunburn of the season. :P

Until our next adventure....ciao!

End of an Era

We interrupt my little 31 for 31 challenge posts with a post about life.

Today is the end of an era around these parts. See....I'm leaving my current employment - a place where I have been for four and a half years to move on to other things.

See, back at the end of May Allan was basically handed a new job that was what he was doing when we were dating just as a civilian contractor instead of being on military orders. Even though it's way up North - it was a 30% increase in income and would help further his career. Allan took the job and started June 1st.

I had looked around and interviewed a little bit here and there for new opportunities, but nothing ever seemed to work out. Shortly after Allan took his new job we had a conversation about what we want for our future and what not. Commuting is not something either of us enjoy, so soon after Allan started working, I started applying for jobs in the same area as Allan's employment. I had 1 phone interview (which didn't work out because the job paid a lot less than I was willing to accept), 1 in person interview (which is slightly comical and I knew I didn't get the job before I even left the office) and THEN I had this amazing interview at for a job and I felt SO GOOD about it. They offered me the job 2.5 weeks ago and I start August 1st!

I'm so excited for my new job opportunity and the wonderful things that will come from this job. I'll get the chance to learn and grow some more and use the skills I already have to help out my new employer. It's going to be good and it feels so right.

Today is my last day at my current job. I've been here for so long and it's been my second home that it feels weird to be leaving it. Kind of like leaving behind school and my single life in a lot of ways. Even though I got married while at this job - it still feels like it's tied to my single life/post college days in so many ways. I'm excited to start a new adventure and get to create my identity as a married woman - my maiden name won't really ever come up. :o) (not that I don't love being connected to my maiden name - it's an identity thing though...)

ANYWAYS.

Changes abound in our household and it's fun and exciting. I keep trying to imagine life five-ten years down the road and it's just so weird to think about. I'm so excited to spend the rest of my life figuring things out with my best friend. :o)

Ciao y'all!

P.S. Only 8 more sleeps without my husband. :o) He'll get home on my 2nd day of work of my new job. woo hoo!