UTAH HERE WE COME!!!!!

Thats right.. we are leaving Virginia and headed back to Kaysville! Wahoo! We are so sad that it didnt last longer in Virginia... but sometimes not everything works out the way you hope. We are grateful for the experience and the wonderful time we have had. We have gotten to know some really neat people as well as make some good friends... THE ASHBOCKERS. We will miss them a lot but thankfully theyll be back in Idaho in a few months. We are excited to get home and see our friends and family again. We will be looking for an apartment and new jobs before we know it... so we are going to have fun with the few short days we have left here. I wouldnt trade this experience for anything even though it was one of the hardest things we have been through. We are both thankful for what we were able to learn! It is crazy how small things are such great blessings and sometimes unanswered prayers arent answered for a reason....BUT UTAH HERE WE COME!! We cant wait to see you all again.

...Mom's Visit...

On Saturday afternoon my mom flew into Washington DC. She and I had talked about her coming to visit and just giving ourselves sometime to shop and hang out together. We went straight to the Washington DC temple when she got here. It was so pretty and such a great experience. We spent Sunday in Washington DC with Caden. We got to go to the Arlington cemetery, the White House, Lincoln memorial building, and to some other sites around the area. The rest of the time we spent shopping and simply spending time together. It was so awesome to have my mom here. She is definitely one of my best friends and such a great example to me. I am so grateful to have her in my life. I am lucky to have the relationship I have with her. It was so fun to get to be with her for those few days! 

I know this is a lame picture cause its from the wedding.. but my mom had her camera with us and I forgot to take some of the pictures off of it to have them for myself... I wanted a picture with the post though!

s.t.r.a.w.b.e.r.r.y. j.a.m.

I found strawberries last saturday.... BUY ONE GET ONE FREE!! We love to make strawberry crepes so I thought I would take Harris Teeter up on their offer. I got the strawberries and as Caden and I planned out our dinners for the week on Sunday we left out anything that included my 2 plastic containers of strawberries! I just figured I would use them as a side or something later on. As the week went on I totally forgot I had them. By Wednesday night they were looking a little dark and less appetizing. I looked at my schedule and realized I didnt have work Friday so I needed a project or else the day would seem never ending. SO.... I decided to use the strawberries up and attempt to make strawberry jam. I have never made jam or paid much attention to my mom and grandma when they would make it together. I found a recipe I had copied down of my grandmas and went to work! Aubree and I decided it would be fun to do it together because she had also had taken up the BUY ONE GET ONE FREE Harris Teeter special. We bought darling glass jars, fruit pectin, and to my surprise A LOT of sugar. I didnt realize how sugary jam is but..... thats what makes it SO GOOD! We had so much fun making it together and I am even more excited to eat it. Peggy gave me a very helpful hint.... to use RED food coloring. I was amazed at how much more colorful and bright it made it look.. thanks for the tip Peg! Anyways.. I was pretty excited and so was Caden :)! 

FLOOD

We had a flash flood warning on Wednesday. I was at work and within a few hours there was 4-5 inches of standing water in the parking lot! On Cadens ride home one of the boys told him that the small stream behind our apartment building had become a RIVER!! When he got home we decided to check it out. Its hard to tell by the pictures but there was so much water and HUGE slugs on the side walk. The water had pushed over trees and even broken a fence... pretty crazy!

...the best 2 months...

Today Caden and I have been married for 2 months! I cant even believe how fast time has gone by. I am so very grateful for Caden and the amazing man he is. 

Virginia has been a hard but very good thing for the both of us. We are learning to depend just on each other and to cherish every minute (seeing that we only have a few hours a day) that we spend together. 

I am so proud of Caden and his motivation toward selling. He has been such a hard worker and he has a great attitude for the work he is doing. I know this is the hardest job he has ever had but I have definitely learned that he is a hard worker and he wont give up. I am so pleased with what he has been doing and I am so thankful he is my husband... This has DEFINITELY been the best 2 months for me! I love you CADEN.

I just had to post a picture of him in his cute APX uniform with his new haircut :) I am so lucky.

CLOSED Carnival

On Monday at work I was talking with my manager and she informed me that there was a Herndon City Festival/Carnival starting on Thursday. I was SO excited. I love carnivals and festivals and if you know Caden and I and our dating history this is one of our favorite things to do. We decided on Sunday since Caden was off work we would give it a shot! I went Saturday with Aubree and we checked it all out. There wasnt really anything too exciting and I was kinda bummed. Aubree had her 3 month old baby with us so we didnt have the option of riding the fun rides and I wasnt about to have her watch me entertain myself haha.... so Caden and I went back Sunday. I am pretty sure Caden had heard as much as he possibly could stand of how BAD I was craving a funnel cake ever since I had read the pamphlet with all of the festival details.... so after church we got changed, ate lunch, and left! We got there and it was C.L.O.S.E.D!! yeah.. BUMMER! It was so sad. We walked around as they were cleaning up and listened to the police on their mega-phones announce "The carnival is closed.. time to go home..." It was really depressing.. We rented a movie, invited Aubree and Skyler over. Of course... we had a lot of popcorn and otter pops and that made up for our disappointment. It was a fun day with Caden on his day off!