No place like a furnished apartment!

Well we are getting settled and finding free furniture to fill the space! Its been adventurous and I've learned that they have yard sales here up until it snows! The nasty roaches have been absent for about a week now so that's a good sign. Today was the first time it snowed here this winter.

I had to get rid of this spider by myself because Joseph was at work. It scared me when I saw it!

This is our view from the living room window. Not bad huh?

This is what our place looks like now. Cozy. Just needs curtains.

Joseph says that in this moment I was the perfect woman. Playing the piano in my heels and skirt and wearing an apron because I was also cooking. HA.

Our beautiful piano! I love having one again! The top is open in this picture.

Our New New Place

There was a man who lived in a shoe. Life was good but he wanted an extra foot or two. He packed his boxes and moved. He found an apartment he loved. And since it is bigger than his previous tiny house, he felt as small as a mouse.

Joseph and I feel the same way! The studio was great and all but now we have S P A C E . We are starting our furniture collection and becoming masters at craigslist and yard sales. We are just a mile down the road from our previous place so Joseph still just has a 15 minute bus ride, but it is a different route so he has to walk about a half mile from the Pentagon to work.

We are really lucky because we are in the same ward as before, which is good because we just gave talks so we'll stay in this ward because it won't be our turn for a while :)

This past Thanksgiving week Joseph's brother Adam came to hang out and see the sights. On Saturday Joseph, Adam, Raquel and I went to George Washington's Mansion House at Mount Vernon. Other highlights were the White House, Capitol building and the Supreme Court and various Smithsonians. We didn't take many pictures though. Enjoy!

Behind the Mansion House by the Potomac River

Our living room

The Mansion House

View of the Capitol from the Supreme Court

In front of the Supreme Court

Having Fun!

It's been so good here! I love our studio but I am so excited to move into our next place, it has a bedroom! I am also looking forward to finding furniture to fill it with. Too bad it's not yard sale season anymore. We'll be in the same ward as we are now which makes me happy. I really like the people I've met. Work is going well for both of us and we are just chugging away at life. This Saturday we hope to get out and see more of D.C.

Her are some pictures of our weekend we spent with Raquel. We ate crab, went to the beach and I got a quick lesson from Kirsten on how to ride a horse English style. My thighs were so sore the next day! We didn't get a picture of me on the horse though.

Our little car

If Raquel were short

Joseph and Michael were having a hole digging contest


Joseph's first crab. He didn't get ANY on his shirt or tie! I'm so proud!



On the ferry in Maryland

I'm finally here! It is so exciting being in a new place but I am not looking forward to getting a job or working with my current job. Maybe it's because I'm not familiar with the area yet. Health Fitness has a lot more events here but they are in places that I don't know how to get to.

This is where we will be living until December. It's small and cute and I think it will be perfect for 3 months. Yesterday we went to check out the local YMCA, our memberships are included in the rent. We plan to go 3 times a week.

I took a bike ride yesterday to check out the area. I passed a bunch of fitness places like little yoga places and a ton of little restaurants, and lots of apartments. Tonight I am meeting Joseph when he gets off work and we'll go grocery shopping and check out the area around where he works.

I got most of our things put away. The rest will be going under our bed. There are 3 buildings in our complex. We are in the last one on the second floor. To get to our place we have to walk down a hallway passing about 4 doors on each side. We are pretty much in the middle of the building. We have one window :)

In Transit

Yesterday mom helped me pack all our stuff into an ABF relocube. The unit is 7 feet long by 6 feet wide and is 8 feet tall but we didn't stack anything above waist height. I forgot to take my camera so I don't have any pictures. Joseph took most his clothes with him and other things like the laptop a pot and a pan and our camping dishes. So our worldly possessions are in a metal box headed across the country. All I have is a weeks worth of clothing which fits into my duffel bag, my carry on luggage!

Tuesday cannot come soon enough! I will be working at Idle Isle this weekend. All day on Friday and Saturday. Today I went in for a refresher and I realized how much I loved working there! It will be fun and help the time go by faster.

Maybe I can get Joseph to post some pictures he's taken in Virginia, we'll see. So this is goodbye to all, at least for a little while!

So I guess since we've had our apartment moved into I can write a new post. I just bought my ticket on sunday to fly out to D.C.! Sadly it's not til the 14 of Sept. 3 more weeks and then I can hang out with Joseph again. We are trying to find an apartment and it is exhausting!

Also Joseph has our camera so no pictures this time. I guess we haven't been taking pictures anyway.

It's been fun to live at home again, enjoying the perks of living with my parents! Yesterday we picked 10 dozen ears of corn and bagged it for the freezer. It was sticky.