let's go for a ride

so it has become quite obvious that i am not the typical blog-obsessed girl. i cannot seem to get motivated to write in my own blog...but i started this thing with a purpose and i am determined to start blogging!

i have been so overwhelmed with school lately.

i have not had a break from academic related projects/school for over a year and 1/2 now and it is finally getting to me. this is my last semester at BYU so i am really struggling to stay focused!

can anyone else relate to this???

from school, to wedding, back to more school & adjusting to married life, grad school applications and again MORE school, i feel like i haven't had much of a break in my routine. i wish Mark and i could just take an all-paid vacation to new york or paris. school is fantastic and i think it is important for everyone to be educated, but there comes a point where you have had enough of reading textbooks and you want to go EXPERIENCE something!

even an adventurous road trip would be a good enough of an experience for me right now

...sad but true

I wish!

anyway, we have had some really fun times with friends in the last week. i have really missed being able to see my girlfriends all of the time like i used to when I was single, so meeting some married couples that we can go out with {and we both like!} has been such a blessing.

last week we went to the BYU vs. Gonzaga basketball game with our friends tyler & valentina and had such a great time. we sat across from student section, so when they did their flash mob we were able to see it perfectly. it turned out pretty cool.

then on saturday we went out to dinner with our good friends taylor & kacie. we ate @ red rock brewery and had some really good fish n chips...expensive but delicious!! after dinner we went back to their house and talked about EVERYTHING. we ended up spending a good amount of time talking about scary stories and I actually started to get freaked out. haha that doesn't happen that often.

it was a really fun night.

anxious and looking forward to what the future has in store for Mark and me!

ready for something new.

thanksgiving weekend

i love Seattle.

mark & i had the best time over thanksgiving in seattle with his family. we enjoyed a relaxing & lazy weekend filled with lots of food, family time & only a little bit of rain! okay, so I have only been to washington two times, and both times i have been it has only rained like 1 full day.

AMAZING!

Beautiful skyline with Mt. Rainier in the distance

Narrows Bridge in Tacoma (Mark's hometown)

so maybe i haven't had the true rainy seattle experience...washington is so green and beautiful when it isn't foggy and drizzling, though. i just love it.

i really wouldn't mind ending up there for a few years...hint hint :)

grad school??

so saturday we had our open house for the washington family and friends that could not make it to our wedding back in august. mark and i had such a great time bonding with his parents, his older brother and other distant relatives during the reception. it was great chatting with uncles, aunts and cousins that i had never met! {some of which mark hadn't met either} the gifts weren't terrible either ;)

one of the highlights of our trip for me was making floral arrangements with ann, mark's mum (I say mum because she is british && so cute) for our open house. it was so much fun being crafty and experimenting with creating masterpieces out of flowers! i would really love to do more floral arranging and can't wait until i get the chance to try it again. {maybe i should talk to my step sister, jenna claire, she make ALL of our centerpieces and bouquets for our wedding. talented.}

another highlight of spending time in washington was hearing all about mark's childhood, his family and just seeing where he comes from. i loved driving around fircrest, wa listening to mark tell story after story about his childhood & adolescent life. he was such a wild kid, not much has changed, and i die listening to all of the stories about him and his best friend, shane, as kids.

i love him.

i have really never dreaded coming back to school (& provo) since I started college, but for the first time I really didn't want to go back. actually, it was more that I didn't want to leave seattle. i don't know what it was about that vacation, but i have been thinking about seattle and family so much lately. all i want to do is be around the ones i love, do crafts, cook, gossip & chat, watch movies, go shopping and spend time with the hubby.

i can't wait for Christmas, to say the least...back to seattle! :)

and then to LA for new years!

the first of many

Hello! So apparently blogging is a huge thing that women love to do especially when they get married. And well...Mark & I got married a couple months ago so I guess this would be a good time to start a blog, right? Why not!

So, this is an attempt to keep somewhat of a journal throughout our lives. To remember things we do and write down thoughts & ideas we have to cherish forever! I'm not exactly sure how good I will be at this but it is worth a try...

I've never really kept a journal or diary, so bear with me :)

Here goes nothing.....