We're Kansas residents now! :-)

Wow, Life is so crazy! First we drove down for the Speck family vacation in North Carolina, then drove back to Pennsylvania, packed for our move to Kansas then the next day we left for Kansas.

The way our GPS took us we crossed into Maryland, West Virginia, back to Pennsylvania....

...back to West Virginia...

Into Ohio...

We were hoping to make it to Kansas in one day but we got too exhausted and were running behind schedule so we stayed in a motel in Indiana:

The next day (Tuesday) we traveled.....

through Illinois...

through Missouri...and a quick stop at DQ ;-)

All the way to Kansas, where Scott and I had quite the shock when the apartment we were given turned out not to be the one we thought we had signed up for...not even the same apartment complex. We also walked into our apartment and couldn't even breath, the smoke was so thick and when Scott and I drug our mattress to our top floor apartment, we nearly passed out because we couldn't get fresh air in our lungs. We have talked to the manager about it and she will have someone clean out our air ducts next week when we are gone. We need a place to stay and we only signed a 6th month lease so we will be fine. Scott and I unloaded a lot of the truck ourselves because it was hard coordinating times with our new ward, but they showed up at the end and helped (thank goodness, we were dieing). 

My mom was soooo amazing and provided us with all of our "starter food".

Our cluttered apt....we need to unpack.

Yay! ALL DONE!

I also had a job interview today and got a job that starts the day after we get back from The Tillery family reunion in Utah (which we leave for early Saturday morning or Friday sometime...depends on if we get everything straightened out for Scott's law school because he also starts school the day after we get back from Utah). The job is a temporary campaign season job but they are considering me for the permanent position, which pays better and would be so great so I didn't have to look for another job in a few months. 

Topsail Island

Went to Topsail Island in North Carolina for a week with my family. It was a very nice trip. We left PA July 27th and Got back to PA August 3rd.

"Virginia is for Lovers" (On our way to North Carolina)

This was a farmers market right next to a gas station we stopped at on the way. It was soooo cute, and the guy was so friendly. I got a white peach there, which I've never tasted before. I want so badly to live in a small town :-). 

Our first day there, walking along the beach.

Scott's and my room/out on our deck.

 Ready to head down to the water. :-)

Woke up one morning, This was on my desk. :-)

 

Enjoying the beach

 

Our sand castle

Our street/ beach house (ours is the tallest one in the middle)

Sunrise on the beach (There are "seams" in the picture because I took a bunch and just pasted them together.)

Gorgeous skies the whole week and some fantastic thunder storms.

There was this neat hangout just down the street from us with mini-golf, bike rentals, ice-cream, and an arcade. I actually beat the high score I the wack a' shark one! (the score on the left is mine, the score on the right is the high score, which I had just reset in this picture! :-) ) I was so excited!

Scott with all the tickets we won.

The local aquarium came a gave a presentation on the crocodile family. Above is one of their back bone/scales (it acts as a solar panel to keep them warm). Below is one of their teeth (they actually are hallow because they grow teeth within teeth so if they lose one they won't have a gap.)

Night time stroll along the beach. Scott's so cute. :-)

At the "Beach Bunny" :-)

Hahahahah! SuperSam....

"Beach bunny" again

Toy story at the "Beach Bunny"

Banana Split

Mom's b-day

Mom's b-day party (Mini Golf)

Frustrating puzzle 

Fam pic


Gonna add some more pics...just gotta go to bed since we are moving tomorrow! Kansas here we come!

Enjoying our Summer before the move

July 17th marked our 2 year anniversary of when Scott asked me to be his girlfriend.. We wanted to make it a tradition to go to a drive-in the night of the 17th, but there were no showings that day. So we saved it for the weekend. We went to Hellenic Kousina to celebrate instead (we had a gift card :-D ).

Here is our first course/appetizer, some sort of imported cheese brought to the table flaming and they put it out with lemon juice. It was so delicious! And to top it all off, red sparkling grape juice.

Beautiful setting! They have Greek pillars, lights, and that Greek statue water fountain in the background.

The dinner was fantastic: pork, chicken, these spinach cheese crescent roll type things, and some delicious vegetables!

And TA-DA the Sweetheart cake. Fantastic.

Scott pulled out these earrings after dinner. I have a feeling he stocked up on a bunch so he has a present for me every special occasion. Silly boy, he doesn't have to do that.

On Saturday we went to the drive-in and saw "Turbo" (pretty much "Cars" but with snails) and "The Lone Ranger" (which turned out to be very entertaining).

It was such a beautiful night. To our right was the sunset, to our left was a lightning storm, and above us was a full moon.

The only downer was when, what appeared to be, a 16 year old girl lit up in the car next to us (we all had windows down, because it was sooo hot and humid, and the smoke was making it so I could hardly breath). I asked her to please stop smoking or try another spot because we did not smoke. She actually stopped after me asking her a second time, but her stoned boyfriend wanted to make a scene. He started yelling, telling me to take a chill pill, etc (he was the only one there riled up....) Luckily I wasn't there to make a scene and seemed like the girl didn't want to either so she told him to shut up. Right after that he lit up to "prove a point" but I think she talked him into stopping....seriously kid? 

Some people are so ignorant and self centered. They scream for acceptance from everyone but they aren't willing to accept us and our choices. They chose to smoke, fine, I'm not telling them to stop. That is their decision, but just because you smoke doesn't mean I have to. Now freaking learn some respect and grow up you stupid little spoiled rotten self entitled twirp (that's what I wanted to say to him, but it would've been like talking to a brick wall, totally not worth getting riled up over.)


Oh, AND I went to a gal in my ward to fix my hair....my hair is much shorter than I would've liked, but she did a good job at hiding the hacked to pieces chunks of hair from my last haircut. What had started out to be a trim turned into a complete new hairstyle. Oh well, hair will grow back.

I LOVE Avocados!

So Scott had bought these nasty huge avacados (not the regular kind)....and they were totally not edible. So Julie and I decided to do a Avacado/Oatmeal facemasks. We made Scott do it too.

Tree Ent

It felt so gross...

Looks like she's feeding me, but it was just dripping into my mouth.

Scott's such a good sport! Haha.

My favorite picture ever...

...it actually worked. Our faces were super soft afterwards!