New Grill!

Yesterday our brand new Weber Grill arrived! We ordered it about 2 weeks ago using some generous Bed Bath & Beyond gift cards we had received for the wedding. The nice little UPS man delivered it yesterday morning and, since our internet wasn't working at the time and I had nothing else to do, I decided to assemble it all before Sayre got home to surprise him. Fortunately, I only had one fixable mishap while assembling it :) I would have taken a photo of it yesterday, but the weather was kind of icky. Today's slightly less gloomy weather provided more optimal photography conditions :) Anyway, without further ado, here is the new grill! We can't wait to try it out!

Labor Day Weekend Part 2

Today we decided to go to Bed Bath & Beyond to use our last few gift cards to order a new grill! Although it would have been nice to have had it today to grill up some juicy burgers, it's nice knowing it's at least on its way to us. Woohoo! Anyway, after that we headed over to Sears to use our gift cards there too. We were very pleasantly surprised when we found the perfect little table & chairs for our patio there... and they were on sale! Even better! We came back to our apartment and cooked some burgers on our George Forman grill later in the evening and enjoyed them outside on the patio with our new furniture :)

Getting Settled

Well, we're all moved down to Jacksonville now. Although we miss Annapolis, we are absolutely in LOVE with our new apartment! Going from a tiny studio apartment to a brand new 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment overlooking a lake would make anyone happy I suppose. During our first two weeks here, it seemed like we never stopped going (that seems to be a theme in our lives). Before our furniture even arrived, we found a 2006 F-150 for Sayre, started finding our way around the city, AND found an amazing snowball stand!! Woohoo! I actually found it online via the wonders of google... and yes, I know... looking something like that up on google is a sure sign of snowball addiction, but the first step is admitting to the problem, right? :)

Anyway, we drove down on a Saturday & our things finally arrived the following Friday. After sleeping on air mattresses in the living room for a few days we were starting to go crazy, so when our stuff arrived it was very exciting... and it came just in time! By the end of the day we had everything unpacked and in place, then the following evening my parents arrived to bring us a kitchen table (yay!) and all of our wedding gifts (double yay!). It was so great getting to spend some time with them and show them around the city (well, the parts of the city that we had explored thus-far at least :))

Sayre reported to the Halyburton on Monday and so far everything is going smoothly for him. Seeing him get up so early every morning to get to work has inspired me to get to work on updating my portfolio and website so (hopefully) I can find a job soon. My plan is to finish that up this week and then drop off my resume to some firms around here. Sayre helped me to do some research and we were happy with what we found. There seem to be a lot of firms here, and of those, seven really caught my eye. Keep your fingers crossed for me!