Utah!

Right now I am upstairs at my parents house in Utah. Yes I am in Utah. I'm happy to be here to see my family but I also am here for a sad reason. On Friday my Grandma McGuire passed away. It is a bitter sweet feeling. She had a stroke 10 years ago and was left unable to speak or move around too much on her own. Although she couldn't talk to us you could tell she was so happy to just hear about what was going on in our lives and to just have us there to visit. I will truly miss my sweet Grandma who always had a smile on her face. I'm glad she is no longer stuck in a body where she is unable to do what she would like to and that she is now finally with my grandpa again. I will miss her!

I flew out Saturday morning from Virginia with Cede in a dog carrier. It was best to bring her with me because Jeff works so many hours a day that she would have been left home alone most of the time. She is enjoying being here, especially because my sister's dog Cleo is here to play with. On Sunday we Bill, Jacee, Kenslee, Bob, Erica, Brody, Ju, Bracken, and Harley came over for dinner. It was so fun to see everyone. I got to play with Kenslee a little, who I haven't seen since Christmas, and she is the cutest thing ever. She has such a fun personality and is always smiling and wanting to play. I also got to spend time with little Brody. He was a little fussy but I got him calmed down and he fell asleep as I held him. It was so fun! Now I just need to meet Peter for the first time and I am set as an aunt. I love being and aunt!

I would love to see anyone and everyone while I am in Utah. I will be here until the 14th so let's get together!

Random!

So, I have been tagged yet again! My cousin Kristen has tagged me to list 7 different, random facts about myself. They can be funny, silly, whatever. Then I get to choose a few new people to tag, so they can list 7 random things about themselves.

1- I, myself am random. Out of nowhere I will come up with random questions or random things to say. Often times this will just stem from a conversation I am having and I will some how connect this conversation to a random thought. I've always been this way and I truly hope that it is not annoying but rather funny to people.

2- I don't listen after I ask questions. This mostly refers to Jeff but it happens with others sometimes. We will be driving and I'll think of something that I would like to know, so I ask but before he can answer I am already thinking of another question or just thinking of something else. He does not enjoy this because I then have to ask the question again. Sometimes it takes 3 times for me to listen. He won't answer after I ask twice usually.

3- I have a fear of sunken ships, yet I'm totally fascinated by them. I know that it is a weird fear because when am I going to come in contact with one. My thought is that ships belong on the water, not under the water so that they are sitting on the ocean floor. I know, still weird. So I watch the Discovery channel when they are talking about the Titanic but I cringe every now and then thinking about it.

4- I love movies. Jeff and I have almost 3 bookcases full of movies at home. I just love that they take me away from my every day life for a moment. I like the chick flicks, the action movies, even Star Wars. I could watch movies all day!

5- I already have at least 20 gray hairs. I'm only 23 and I already have a patch of gray coming in. I think by the time I am 26 I will for sure have a full streak of grays in the front. These aren't easy to hide unless I have my bangs down. If I put my hair straight back you can see them all. My dad tells me that my grandpa was gray by the time he was 30 so who knows if that will be me. I'm completely fine with the fact that I have these gray hairs though. This is life. (I think I get them from Jeff, he is high maintenance. Just kidding.)

6- I love to search the internet. I think of things during the day that I can search on the internet. Thank goodness for technology because I am a very curious person and I can find information about almost anything.

7-I love to cook. If I had a lot of money and plenty of time I would make big meals every night. I love trying new recipes. My friend Brittney and I have joked that we will buy a big house for our two families with a huge kitchen in the middle. I will make the meals for everyone since she doesn't enjoy cooking and she would clean since I don't enjoy cleaning. I also love to bake. It's always fun to try out a new chocolaty treat!

There are my few random things. Some of you may know about these and others won't so now you all know me better. Now I'll tag some others, Rebecca, Sarah, and Amber. Tag!

O.A.R.

Jeff and I had a fun weekend. We drove down to Raleigh to see one of our favorite bands play. We saw O.A.R. Jeff has liked them for a long time and I was able to get us 2nd row tickets. It was an amazing concert. It was fun to share an experience like that with Jeff. We will definitely remember that forever. We then spent the night at the Hilton North Raleigh. The room was so nice. We ordered breakfast to be brought to our room the next morning and just had a great time. On Monday we went and saw "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". It was a great movie. Kind of scary but good. So the weekend was a hit!

Beach Time

We have about 6 more weekends until we go home for the summer so we have decided we need to do as much as possible out here. I believe most of the weekends will be spent at the beach because it is about 30 min from where we live. We did happen to go there this last weekend so I thought I would post some pictures. I wish I would have gotten some pictures of Jeff in the water because let me tell you, he is a fish. He spent all but about 15 min of the time we were there in the water. I almost had to drag him out of the ocean. So with his love of the water we will be spending as much time there as possible. After, we went to a pizza place on the boardwalk and it was amazing. So hopefully we will have many more enjoyable times at the beach and I will definitely post more pictures.

We have moved AGAIN!

Our summer has been a little crazy. Okay not just a little it has been extremely crazy! We have lived in Tampa, Florida, Durham, North Carolina, and now Suffolk, Virginia. I know, we can't believe it either, we moved again. So I am now sitting an another apartment in another state doing the same old things. There is a bonus to this apartment though. In all the other apartments they get us a bed, a dresser, some couches, a coffee table and a table and chairs. As for this place it has everything. Dishes, a tv in each room, pictures on the walls, the bed is fully made and extra linens are in the closet, completely furnished and everything. This is amazing because I'm not going to have to unpack as much stuff and in fact I can start throwing away some things we bought just to use out here. Oh and did I mention we have internet and cable. No more stealing internet from people who have not locked their wireless connection and we have ESPN for Jeff so that after a long day he can unwind. Although we were not happy to move this really nice apartment did help to make it a little easier. We also have a maid that comes in every two weeks to clean and change all the linens and things. We feel like we are in a nice hotel!

So we are slowly making our way up the east coast, maybe we'll even make it up to New York before the summer is over. No, no I do not want to move again. I hope all is well at home with everyone. We love you all


PS For those who have read my "Deal or No Deal" post, the maid is making my life a whole lot easier!

Transformers

Jeff and I weren't able to do anything exciting on the 4th because he worked all day but last night we went to see a movie with the whole team. We went to see Transformers. I have to tell you I wasn't very excited to see this movie. I remember them from when I was little but I didn't know much about them. On the other hand, I guess Jeff really liked them as a kid and was really excited for the movie, so that made me excited. I don't know if my expectations weren't very high, but I found myself caught up in the story line and I completely enjoyed the movie. My friend leaned over to me during the movie and said, "This movie is legit!" I felt the same. The special effects were pretty cool and all around I just really enjoyed the movie. So I do recommend it and we will be buying it when it comes out to add to our movie collection. I hope everyone had a great 4th of July!