Always Playing Catch Up

       I cannot believe it is August already! And that I have lived here for almost 8 months! And that we have been married for almost 6 months! And that we've had our pup for 4 months! Life seems to by flying by at super sonic speed, but somehow there are always those weeks that feel like they c-r-a-w-l by! Sometimes I feel like I am just waiting for the weekend once Monday comes around. Of course that 's because I want Ryan to be home, not because I work soooo much! Haha- yea right! A lot has happened since the last post (what a surprise) so here I am, playing catch up! 

       A few weeks ago my sister & her boyfriend came to spend the day with us (on a Saturday) and it was so great having time to just hang out & talk with them! My sister is my best friend, yet we hardly get to talk because she has a real job plus a babysitting job and I have a few jobs (but no where near full time) and a hubby that I looove spending time with. Not to mention the HUGE factor of living 2+ hours away from each other! :( They got here around noon and we went to our pool and cooked out and swam, and our friends Brooke & Jacob came too! We really enjoyed spending time with all of them & my sister and Brooke got to talk all about being teachers and their experiences with crazy/funny kids which we all were entertained by! J&B left after the pool and the rest of us got cleaned up and went to see Captain America. Now let me just say, neither my sister nor I wanted to see it but the guys wanted to so we went with it....it actually ended up being really good! Afterwards we introduced them to the delicious world of Bento Sushi! mmmmm! I LOVE sushi from Bento so when we talked about sushi I said we had to go there! My sister loved it and then found out there is one in Orlando too! Wonderful! We were so thankful to get to spend time with them between all of our crazyyyy schedules! 

      Over the last 6 weeks I have been taking my first grad class. Which has been kind of a joke in the sense that it hasn't been a real class that we've learned anything, we've just had different assignments that get us used to learning how to use their online system. I must admit... it is no where near as intuitive and user friendly as UF's website, buuuut what would you expect? ;) It's been cool though because I found out there are 3 ladies in my cohort that live in Jacksonville & we just met up for dinner this week to meet & get to know each other so that we can have someone to call with questions, or to study with, or just to vent! Haha! Anyways, one of our assignments was to create a short video about ourselves so we could all get to know each other (which was a cool idea) so here is my video, just to add a bit of humor to this post. (btw-turn your head to the right!)

And just for kicks, here is a video of one of the many ways Chelsea keeps me entertained during the day!