It took a little more than 4 months...

So I have lived in Florida since January 22, and now four months later I finally experience what people are always talking about. Every person I have talked to who has at some point lived in Florida has mentioned the massive bugs they have here, I have read stuff online about them and about how there is no getting away from them no matter how clean or new your house is. Well for four months I am thinking that these people must be crazy because the extent of bugs I have seen are a few normal sized spiders and mosquitoes no different than you would see in Washington. Lots of alligators and lizards, but abnormal sized bugs? Nope.

Well today Jeremy and I got sushi for dinner, and on our way out to the car to leave I had my first experience. On the tire of the truck next to us was the biggest, ugliest grasshopper I have ever seen! The pictures don't do its size justice. I though about putting my finger next to it for scale, but there was no way in heck I was getting within feet of this nasty thing! I was thoroughly disgusted and creeped out.

Though the pictures don't look like it, the thing was as fat as my thumb and 2 to 2 1/2 inches long. It just occurred to me I have seen a grasshopper this size, 7th grade biology class. However that one was dead and had been in formaldehyde for at least ten years. And I still freaked out when its foot got stuck on my rubber glove and it moved...my silly 13 year old self swore it was alive for a minute. I was extremely freaked out, and made my lab partner do the dissecting...I was not getting within feet of it. Let me tell ya, they are even more freak and gross when they move on their own.

I will likely have nightmares tonight of abnormal large disgusting bugs....ewww!

Pictures from Mike and Savannahs Visit

It has been a really long time since I updated, and I was told I needed to put more pictures on by Jeremy's parents. So here are pictures from Mike (jeremy's best friend or as Savannah and I say, his boyfriend) and Savannah (mike's girlfriend) visit to florida. We went to Busch Gardens, Adventure Island (waterpark) and downtown St. Petersburg. It was a really fun trip and we miss having them around! Jeremy and I both can't wait to see them again soon!
Jeremy and Mike being monkies and climing the Banyan trees in St. Pete






Boyfriends, reunited at last!

PROOF

That I am officially a college graduate! YAY! This came in the mail last week and I can't wait to frame it and hang it up. It's so exciting to offically have a degree. Though like my last post expresses, being done with school and not having a job is not all i thought it would be back when I was dreaming about having nothing to do all day long inbetween work, school, internship, papers, tests and projects! But despite my boredom, I am glad to be done with at very least part of my education (still haven't decided on a master's degree).

Life as a housewife...

IS SOOOOOOO BORING! It would be one thing if I had a kid, but I am literally bored out of my mind. It would be nice right about now to have a job, but because of all the time i would have to ask for off (for people visiting and going home) between now and August (when I would quit anyways since Jeremy is deploying and I am going to go home) I feel there isn't really a point. So instead I have been cleaning, scrapbooking, cooking and baking like crazy. Which if you know me, I hate to clean and cook. So here are a few of the things I have been whipping up out of boredom...I'm actually shocked at how well I am doing with this whole cooking thing. I have only cooked a small number of dishes in my life, so I am very shocked when all the dishes I make actually turn out. I need to start working out though, because bored at night leads to baked goods. And then I have to eat them of course, because it would be a waste for them to go bad. So yeah, the eliptical is really calling my name but motivating myself is really hard. Its much easier to watch HGTV and eat some more baked goods. MMMM

Busch Gardens

Well this post is a little delayed but I wanted to post my pictures. SO for Valentine's Day instead of doing gifts (since we have been buying so much for the apartment), we decided to do something fun. So since we can get in free to Busch Gardens we decided to spend a fun day riding roller coasters. It was a blast, as most know I love roller coasters, so busch gardens is my idea of a perfect day! Afterward we came home and relaxed on the couch, ordered take-out and watched Harry Potter 5. It was nice to actually spend a Valentine's Day with Jeremy.
We did end up getting these matching Busch Gardens mugs for each other. I never find things with my name spelled right, so we decided to get them!

Wedding Pictures!

Wedding Pictures came in today, so exciting! My cousin did such a great job! I love them. Sorry there are so many (though i didn't post even close to all of them) by my mom has been very anxious to see them like I have and I know she couldn't wait till she comes to visit in March, to see them all. All photos by Erin Smith

Neverending thank you's

Well as of today the spare room is officially done, it is very neat, tidy and put together...yay. I tried to hang pictures and my bulletin board with these hook things so I wouldn't have to put holes in the walls (one more thing to do when we move, repairing walls). And no matter what i did, they kept falling. The only one that managed to stay up was the frame with the pictures of Kristina and me carving pumpkins each year.

So with the spare room organized, I took advantage of the neatness and scrapbooked new pages. It was fun messing it up and doing crafty stuff with my hands. I am so behind on scrapbooking, I have stuff from June, July, August, September, November, December, all the wedding planning stuff, my showers, my bachelorette party and of course the wedding rehearsal, wedding and honeymoon. So it was nice to have a chance to relax and scrapbook again.

But now that the cleaning and unpacking are done I am back to the bain of my existence...the never ending thank you notes. Everyone was so generous with the wedding presents and cash, but I swear no matter how many thank yous I finish, I turn the page in my notebook and there are more names. I try to be creative and gear the notes to the person I am writing to but I feel like I keep saying the same thing... Thank you for coming to our wedding, thank you for the (insert present here), its been put to good use in our new place, the wedding was beautiful and the day went so perfectly, we were so happy to have all our family and friends around us on our special day, hope you had as much fun as we did...and so on. Chances are if you are gettiing a thank you note, anywhere from 2 to all of these sentiments will be included...sorry for my lack of orginiality. It would have been so much easier if it wasn't tacky to have a stamp made with fill in the blanks for name and gift. Oh well they will be done eventually, then i will have to address them all...which is a job in and of its self!

As soon as we get a couch I am going to post pictures of the apartment. I think its looking pretty good, well as good as you can make a boring,white walled, average apartment look. I still need to move the bed in the master because Jeremy had it up against a wall, and its such a pain when he gets home from work and I am already sleeping, I swear he knees me or smashes a body part every other time he crawls over me into bed. But anyways, I can't wait for our tax return because I am so looking forward to sprawling out on a couch in front of the tv.

Well hope everyone is doing well and having lots of fun in life! Miss everyone back home and I can't wait to come and visit!