4th of July in the ATL

I am really trying to keep this blog updated now so that I can make up for all the time I didnt keep it up to date. So I just flew into Utah this morning from Atlanta. Im here to watch my parent's dog while they travel Europe. Poor parents... Anyway, I was really sad to leave Aaron even if it is only for two weeks. I mean, I did wait for him for two years! But after that I dont like being away from him for any amount of time. In my mind I already served my time and I dont want to go through that again.

Yesterday was the 4th of July and since we were in Atlanta we were not familiar with the area and where to go to celebrate our nations birthday. I found this cool place called Rock Mountain Park not too far from where we are living. It is literally this HUGE rock that is the size of a mountain. On the side of it there is a carving of some general from Georgia from the Civil War. Its kinda an attraction spot so there is a little village park area below the rock mtn. with tons of little shops and bbq food places and a rope course and a area to golf. And at the end of each night they have a lazer show on the side of the mountain. It sounds pretty fun right? At least thats what I thought. A whole group of us went there around 3 to try to beat the croud and hopefully get a pot reserved for our group at a bbq area or somewhere on the grass for the Lazer and firework show at night. But even at 2 in the afternoon the traffic was horrible and the entire park was filled. There wasnt a spot left on the grass for us to sit and in order to do any of the activities there (rope course, golfing, take the tram up the mountain, ect.) you had to buy some sort of day pass for like $40 a person and a two hour wait to do anything! SO NOT WORTH IT! We were bored out of our minds and to make matters worse it was so so so hot! Even in the sade I felt like I was dying of heat stroke. The last thing we wanted to do was stand around in a huge croud of people in the blazing heat until 9:30 just to watch the fireworks. So all of us decided to head back home and get some food then hang out at the pool and maybe find some fireworks near by when it got dark. But of course we had to snap some quick pics before we left. I was able to get a video of John (the office manager), Chad (Stacy's husband), and Aaron reinacting Johns son getting a splinter in his foot. They actually had to hold him down and use tweezers to get it out! Poor kid! He was screaming crying and after seeing how big the splinter was I dont blame the kid. I would have cried my eyes out too! Anyway, the Rock Mountain park was fun while it lasted. It was actually really cool! Im sure in other circumstances we would have had a great time but it was just too crouded for us. Aaron and I went to Wild Buffalo Wings and then got milkshakes afterwards then went to pool with everyone until it got dark. Unfortunately we didnt get to see any fireworks but Aaron and I had a fun time together and thats all that really counts. :)

My buds Madison and Carson chillin at the pool

This is how they do it down South!

Enough Said......

Its Chow Down Time!!! I love me some SOUL FOOD!

Me, Marcie, and Tash in our matching shirts :)

The Cheesecake Factory

Linc, Natasha, Stacy, Coca-cola bear, Me, and Emily

Sportin the 3-D shades

The Kanga cub (Lincoln) and Mama (Natasha)

Me showing my Lion Rooooaaaarrrrr!

Look out Miley Cyrus- We "Cant be tamed"!

(Darcie, Rozalyn, Natahsa, Me, and Stacy)

Darcie, Rozalyn, Me, and Natasha

Since last year....

I understand that it has literally been almost a year since I last updated my blog and there is just WAY too much to write if I were to cover everything that has happened since then. So Im just going to sum things up and bring it to the present. :)

A year ago when we finished up with selling in Philidelphia we found ourselves a cute little apartment close to campus and have been living there ever since. Aaron did very well this last semester and I continued working at Shoots Chinese Cuisine three days out of the week. We celebrated our first anniversary together and were pleased to add two new members to my family; Amber (who married my brother ward), and Eva (My newest niece. Damon and Leslea's).

Now Aarons sister Tiffany is having a baby and is due in September :) This will be the first nephue on Aarons side of the family!!! We are so excited!

So that sums up all the basics of what this last year has entailed. But to bring things to the present....

In April, just after Aaron finished his finals, we headed out for our newest adventure to sell alarms with Pinnicle in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It only took us two days to get there and when we arrived we were happy to see that our apartments were so nice :) I hurried and applied for jobs and quickly was hired to work at OutBack Steakhouse just accross the street from our apartments. Unfortunately we had to transfer our office to Altanta, Georgia just three weeks later due to some attorney general stuff and our offices selling liceneses. So once again we packed up and headed out to Altanta!

In wasnt as smooth of a transition as the first because everything was orgnized at the last minute. When we got to Atlanta we couldnt move into our apartments for another few days and had to stay at a hotel for the weekend. When we were able to get into our apartments we had to wait for our rented furnitureto arrive for a full week! The apartment was completely barren! We ate on the floor, slept on the floor, sat on the floor. We used all my clothes from my suitcase as padding for a bed! When our furniture came it was one of the happies moments in my life! And, with the humidity here there are SO SO many bugs! I kill like 30 centipedes a day in our apartment. So anyway, now here we are in Georgia having a great time! Oh, and I have to mention that we are the ONLY white people in our complex. hahaha! But it has still been a great experience non-the-less.

Aaron wakes up and goes to the gym nearly every morning and then eats a lunch and heads out to work. He works outside ALL day in the heat! Door to door, every day, ALL day! Then he comes home, eats dinner, and goes to bed. I dont know how he does it all! He is so driven! Right now he is #3 in our office for his number of sales. He is so amazing and succeeds at all that he strives for. I am so proud to have him as mine!

I, on the other hand, dont have a lot to do with my time since we arrived here. Luckily my friend Natasha is out here again this year so we keep eachother company along with all the other wives who are here with their selling husbands. Ill name a few; Amber, Marcie, Hillary, Stacy(Natasha's sister), Rozalyn, Whitney, Kelly, Morgan, and a few girlfriends here and there who fly out to see their guys. My brother Ward and his wife Amber were also out here for the first couple of weeks and decided to leave after a short while. I was sad but I had to go on with my summer time life and make due.

We (us wives) have fun- and try to entertain ourselves while spending the least amount of money as possible. We go to the pool, we play cards, stop by the grocery store at least twice a week.... Most of the time we have to carpool because the guys take the cars and rotate each week when they go out to sell.

I have made some lil friends out here also :) Some of the black kids here love me because I play with them when Im at the pool. Marcie has a little boy named Carson along with her step daughter named Reese. They are 3 and 4, Carson is the older one. They are so cute and love to play games when we are at the pool. And thats how it started..Amber and I were having fun with Carson and Reese and some of the other kids at the pool wanted to join us... and since we go to the pool like every day this became routine. Yada yada... And before I knew it I was getting knocks on my door from all the neighborhood kids asking me to come play with them! haha! My favorite friend is little Madison. He is 5 and was actually the first kid to come join our pool games! Him and Carson hit it off! Madison has an older sister Named Mia, 8, who is like his constant baby sitter. Then she has her best friend Jordan and her older brother Jaden, 10. They are my new possie.... My buds!

Last week our friend, Emily, from home flew out to ATL to see her husband who is doing some sort of internship at Georgia Tech. So Natasha, Stacy, and I drove out to the city to pick her up and have a fun day together. We went to the cheesecake factory where stacy decided to taste a bite of Natasha's Hibachi steak and bit into a huge bolt that was embeded in the pice of steak! We immidiatley notified the waiter who then notified the Restaurant manager.. yada yada. It was funny but crazy also.

After getting a massive discount on the check we went to the coke factory downtown. It wasnt as cool as I thought it would be but we still had a good time in our own way! I broke my camera trying to hurry to take a pic with the coke-a-cola bear and I dropped it :( They had a live DJ outside of the factory and we got our grove on as we left.

Just a few days after that Aaron and I were getting ready for our date night (every Sat night is date night) and we got a call from some friends from our ward in Provo. Ephraim and Steffi were on a lay over in Atlanta on their way to Germany to see their families. They were staying for the night so we went out to get them from the airport and had some dinner. When we went to find them a hotel there were non that had any vacantcies so we brought them back to our little apartment and made a bed out of the couch cussions for them. The next morning we all went to Wild Buffalo Wings to watch the Germany vs. England World Cup watch. Germany won!!! Then we got them ready and left to take them to the airport. To make a long story short, we got them there too late and they missed their flight so we were lucky enough to spend another fun night playing games with our friends! It was a fun time! And we were glad to see some friends from home! But luckily they made their flight the next day!

Today myself, and all the wives went to the Atlanta Zoo! It was so much fun! We saw all the animals and gave Miley Cyrus a run for her money when we found a giant bird nest and showed her what it means 'To Not Be Tamed". haha! We had a good time! The Atlanta Zoo isnt as big as the Phili Zoo was but it still had its perks. haha- get it.... Perks? haha!

So this sums everything up and brings it to the present. Ill do my best to keep this updated but my comp is retarded so I have to use other sources in the mean time. CIAO!!!

We're Home/ My birthday!

So, I havent updated this in a lil while because I've been pretty busy. We got home on Aug. 25th and we moved right into our new apartment in Provo. I love love love our new place! We got a new couch and bed frame and they fit perfectly into our little place. Aaron started school again at BYU and I went back to work at Shoots Chinese Cuisine. Things are going good :)

This past thursday, Sep.24, was my birthday and if you know me I tend to celebrate all week long! On thursday night we met up with most of my good friends- Aaron, Allyse, Blake, Natasha, Whitney, Mike, Hailie, Chow, Ciera, Nikki, Lohren, and tyson- at Wingers Diner in Orem. It was so much fun being able to munch and mingle with everyone! Nikki got me the cutest shirt and necholas! Natasha got me a cute headband and some sexy nail polish! And Ciera got me a delicious smelling candle! Then the next day, Friday the 25th, Aaron took me out to Park City to eat at this insanely nice japanese restaraunt! He got me a brand new Guess Watch ( SO SO CUTE) and then he took me to the Guess outlet up in PC just in case I wanted to exchange the watch for a different one. But I liked the one he picked the best! On our way back home we drove up to Provo Point up at the top of the mountain and enjoyed the beautiful scenery! Overall, I pretty much had the best birthday ever! I love my friends, family, and I love my husband! I am one lucky girl! :)

Aarons First NYC Adventure

It has been a little while since I last wrote on here. Im going to have to go back a few weeks and cover what has been going on from there. A couple of Sundays ago Aaron and myself had the priveledge of joining natasha and bridger on a trip to the big apple. Now, I know that this is not anything super new since I have already been there a couple of times. But for Natasha, Bridger, and Aaron this was their first. :)

The Weather wasn't as nice as it was the last time that I went mainly just because it was so dang hot and humid this time around. We were sweating our little buns off! We went on a bike ride through Central Park and took a ride on the Sub and then we had a nice dinner in Time Square. We did a lot of walking and saw some neat stuff. We were all seriously dying of heat though. But none the less, we ended up having a good time. Here are some pics of our lil escapade... enjoy :)

Atlanitc City

So, Aaron and I spontaneously decided to head out to Atlantic City, New Jersey this past weekend and it was a lot of fun! It is honestly like Vegas on a boardwalk. There were so many people there and it was so so humid. We lounged at the beach for a lil while and then we went for a walk up the boardwalk. There are so many shops along the way and even a little carnival area with rides and games. Unfortunately the ferris-wheel wasn't open so we didn't get to take a ride. But we did get some ice cream! :) Yummy for our tummies! It was definitely a fun way to spend our time together!

The 4th of July!

The 4th of July was a lot of fun this year. Aaron and I have been a thing since we were in the 8th grade, which would put our relationship at out 7 years now. As we were enjoying the fireworks on the night of the 4th we realized that this was the first 4th of July that we have EVER spent together. CRAZY! Some how over the years we managed to either be broken up or apart each year on the 4th. So this was kinda monumental for both of us.
But anyway, the day started out kinda slow. Aaron left to start working for the day (Yes, they even work on Holidays) and I headed out to see a parade with some of the other APX wives. Celeste, Kynzie, Natasha, Stacy, and myself drove out to a little town nearby called Norristown. The parade was hilarious! I dont know if the parades in Utah are out of the ordinary- but in comparison to this one they are amazing! haha! The parade consisted of a septa bus (which is the bus tranportation here), the city fire department, a street sweeper, two clowns, and a few random cars with local figures. haha! None the less, we had a good time! It was almost better just because it was so bad. Natasha and I showed our patriotism with some american flags.
After that I had to work in the office until the guys finished selling. Since they didnt have a set time that they were going to be getting off, I was worried that Aarons and my 4th was going to consist of no fireworks or festivities :( Luckily they were able to be home by 8 and Aaron, myself, and our friends Ashley and Colt headed out to the city where we wanted to see the fireworks at the Philadelphia Art Museum.
The Traffic was insane and the parking was even worse. We figured that we would be better off finding a little park with a view and watching from there than walking a long long distance to the museum, and thats just what we did. The park was located in the middle of a kinda ghetto neighborhood on a hill on the opposite side of the railroad from the museum. From there we had an awesome view of the city and of the museum. The crowd there was colorful to say the leaste! Just sitting 20 feet from us on one side were a circle of college kids hanging out getting drunk and passing around their doobies along with smoking their Hooka pipes. Then on the other side was a number of different families of many ethnicities. There were a few scattered couples laying on their blankets and we could hear a group of black women singing the national anthem. There were random pops and explosions of fireworks every now and then all around us.
While we waited for the real fireworks to start it wasnt very hard to find some entertainment- while we were people watching, someone who had been drinking a little too much had lit a fire work accross the street from us just around 100 yards from where we were sitting and had started a seemingly small fire. But in a matter of seconds the fire caught the surounding dry grass and trees. haha! It actually grew into a large fire extremely fast and the crowd started growing around it. Within minutes the fire department was there and took care of it before it became a full blown hasard. haha! It was actually pretty funny and made the night quite memorable. When were weren't people watching we played 20 questions and had some fun conversations. Good times!
When the firewroks finally started it was around 10:45 and we were all exhausted. But we stayed and enjoyed the loud pops and beautiful colors of the show and remembered how grateful we are to live in such a wonderful place where we can be free. Being surrounded by all of those "colorful" people from all different races just confirmed that this country belongs to everyone and thats what makes it so beautiful. The end :)