Catching Up!

I have alot of catching up to do:) We made it to Maryland safe and sound and are pretty cozy now in our new apartment:) We've been in Maryland since the end of November. Moving across the country was crazy and setting things like internet, cable, etc. in our new place was such a pain! Atleast we are pretty well settled now. Ryan started his new job at Nationwide insurance on December 1st and I just started a couple of weeks ago working at his dad's Nationwide office. It's always hard starting a new job but I think we are both getting more comfortable:) It didn't help that I was having to take Ryan to work which is about 35 minutes from us b/c we only had my civic until last weekend we finally got a new car:) I love our new 03' Acura MDX!! I will have to take pics of it soon:) It has everything we wanted and more; navigation, dvd player, back-up camera, heated seats, running boards, and 6 cd changer:) We are loving it! We went to Texas for Christmas and Travy got home from his mission 2 days before Christmas:) Our whole family was back together! It was so much fun! Ryan stayed for a week then had to get back to work:( I stayed an extra week which was so fun! Susan is going to make me a cd of all the Christmas pictures so I will have to post them in the future. After Thanksgiving Mimi and Daddy came to visit us in Maryland:) I loved having them here! We showed them around all the sights:) We bought a bushel of crabs and took them back to our place to smash them open! It was alot of fun:) Mimi helped me decorate our new place and I love it!! Thanks Momma and Thanks Daddy for induring all the shopping:) One day we went to Baltimore and visited Fort McHenry and ate at this place called the Rusty Scupper on the Inner Harbor where Mimi and Daddy had there first real crabcake:) Another day we made a trip to Amish land in Pennsylvania and saw lots of horse and buggies and talked to an Amish family. The Amish boys were so cute and they have a little accent:) Our last day of sighting seeing we went to D.C. and tried to see all the monuments but it was just way too freezing so we decided to go to the Smithsonian which was pretty neat:) After getting warmed up we went to Arlington cemetary which was my favorite even though we walked about a mile up hill which was hard enough for me and Ryan let alone Mimi and Daddy! But I think we all loved it. At the top of the site we got to go inside Robert E. Lee's mansion:) Our last stop in D.C. was the Temple, it's sooo beautiful!! I'm so glad they were able to come out here, we had so much fun:) This new year one of my goals is to be better at blogging so I don't always have to play catch-up:) I'll post more pics soon!

Farewell Provo!

We're packing up and moving to Maryland! The past couple of months have been so crazy especially the past few weeks! There is so much to get done and pack when you're moving across the country! Since Ryan and I have never done a HUGE move like this, it makes it a little more difficult:) I can't wait to get it over with and be in our new apartment and settle down finally! We are both really sad about having to leave kitty behind but are happy that Ashley and Dorian will be taking care of him:) He's our first little baby and even though he's a rat a lot of the time and gets crazy eyes, he's so dang cute and we will really miss having him around:( Kitty is just sitting on the printer purring right now and I'm not even touching him:) We love him and hope that he'll be happy with Ashley and Dorian and not hate us for abandoning him:( Hopefully we can get a little puppy soon to fill the void:) We're heading off to Maryland on November 20th or 21st. We'll be very busy till then doing a lot more packing and panicking on my part:) It will be all worth it in the end. We will definitely miss all of our friends and family that we are leaving behind:( Especially Mark, Cheri, Juliette, Tiger, Duke, Justin, Ashley and Dorian. We love you guys!! Thanks for all the special memories and for being such good friends:) Farewell Provo!!

Naughty Kitty!

As we are preparing to move we have to paint our bedroom wall back to white. Ryan got everything prepared yesterday to paint and had the paint out and ready. Ryan and I got distracted by an addicting game online and didn't realize that kitty was very interested and curious about the paint. As he usually does to check things out like water in a cup he has to dip his paw in first. So that's exactly what he did and got startled by what the heck was on his paw now. So he shook his paw which splattered the paint everywhere! That's when we finally snapped out of the game and realized that we had a big mess to clean up. It was really funny but not too fun to clean and scrub all the paint he had splattered. He had already licked a lot of the paint off his paws. After that incident kitty was in a daze the rest of the day. We think he was a bit high from ingesting the paint:) He's such a stooge:) We love him though!

Finally!!

Ryan and I have been sooo busy lately. A few weeks ago we flew out to Maryland for a job interview with Nationwide Insurance. Of course Ryan got the job:) He's going to be working for this agent named Ray Dietz, getting paid pretty decent, way more than we make now:) We were in Maryland for a few days then Ryan flew back to Utah and I flew to Texas to be home for a week:) It was a good, fun, relaxing visit with my family. Aubs, Susan, and Savanna were there that week too, which was a nice treat:) Daddy is recovering from his surgeries and was not feeling too good when we were there:( I have the BEST family in the world!! I love them all soooooo much!!! We are planning on moving to Maryland the end of October so I've started packing and selling a bunch of stuff on Craigslist:) I just listed Ryan's nasty Saturn online today and we already sold it for $500 which is what his dad paid for it when Ryan got home from his mission:) I'm feeling really overwhelmed lately with everything so hopefully things will settle down once we are all moved.
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Pizza Party!

Before Ryan and I headed off to Texas we made some homemade pizza that was so delicious:) We made a honey whole wheat thin crust and tried to copy the California Pizza Kitchens Sicilian pizza which has spicy marinara sauce with sweet Italian sausage, spicy Capicola ham, julienne salami, Fontina, Mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses. Topped with fresh oregano and basil. It turned out amazing although it was way more feeling than CPK's. We were pretty proud of it:)

Texas Crazy Trip!

We went to Texas this past week for our family reunion and it was to say the least crazy and fun trip! Susan you put it perfectly so I'm sending people to read your "What a.." post:) To read about the black plague go to http://susanandaubrymoore.blogspot.com/. We are pretty much recovered still some waves of nausea and dizziness but nothing like simultaneously barfing and riaing! It was still so good to spend time with the family and we definitely had some good laughs:) The day Susan, aubs and savanna left mimi and daddy had a doctor's appointment so me, maggie and ryan went to this fun center with mini golf, batting cages, arcade games, etc. We played a round of mini golf and all did pretty dang good:) Maggie made a rule where each of us could do 1 do-over if we shanked it:) Ryan kept score and claims he won by a stroke but I think we may have tied:) After the boiling hot round of golf we went and played tons of arcade games and then picked our lame toys out. We were all really hungry after so we went to olive garden, maggie's pick, she wanted the mac and cheese:) Then we headed home from san antonio. Mimi and Daddy got home soon after we did. That night we watched Alvin and the Chipmunks, which Maggie and I fell asleep to:) On our last day Daddy took Ryan and I to hit some golf balls and show us techniques:) My lefty couldn't hit any because we just had right handed clubs, but he practiced his swing:) I actually hit pretty good:) That was a lot of fun, thanks Daddy:) We flew back home that night:( I miss everyone already! Hopefully we can come again soon and have everyone well this time:) Here are a few pics from our trip: