Virginia Beach!

I spent the last week in Virginia Beach with my family. We had great weather and it was so nice to just relax and enjoy the sun!

I love beach vacations because it is socially acceptable to lay on the beach all day and drink beer or fruity drinks and nap at 2pm. However, most of my trip included keeping Dylan entertained and boogie boarding in freezing cold water :)

Some of the highlights from the trip included burying Dylan in the sand and going parasailing!

I hate heights so while parasailing was a cool experience I was terrified the whole time! We got back on Friday and now I am repacked and heading to Maine tomorrow morning to spend some time with Matt's family!

Late 4th of July Post

It has been really busy these past couple of weeks but I had a great 4th of July with my family. We celebrated by starting the day off with a Nationals game. The Nats finally won which is something I haven't been able to experience this season and I have been to 7 games!

After the game we went to a friends house for a BBQ. I made some patriotic desserts that tasted pretty yummy. Gotta love Pinterest and its great ideas (when they actually turn out right!)

We ended the night with going downtown to Washington DC and watching the fireworks! I have done this before, but a long time ago and I wanted to go one more time before moving to England. I had some pictures but the ones I got did not do them justice.

Happy (late) 4th of July! :)

First steps towards our move to England

After months of talking about moving to England I finally got to complete some items on my "to do" list! Matt got his official orders so we were able to schedule the movers to our storage unit in Delaware and ship my car to England. Yesterday my mom and I drove to Baltimore port to send off my car, which should arrive in England before Matt and I do! :)

We had to spend the night in Delaware so we could meet the moving company for a pre-inspection of our storage unit. Unfortunately they were not able to measure all the items they wanted to because Matt packed everything in the unit too perfectly :)

Yep, that is our entire belongings packed into a 10x10 storage unit. Sigh....I miss all of our things and cannot wait to unpack it all in our new home.

It was pretty hilarious to watch the guy from the moving company measure our wooden bear Brutus. He thought Brutus was pretty unique, but also a pain in the butt to move...opps sorry military he must come to England with us!

Tomorrow is 4th of July and we have a day full of baseball, BBQs and fireworks in DC! I am making some fun desserts for the BBQ and will share next time!

34 days till Matt gets home!!! Wahoooo!

Summer so far via pictures

It has been a busy summer so far! Way too much to write in a post so I will let all the pictures show how much fun this summer has been.....

Spending days relaxing by my dad's pool!

Cheering on the Nationals! 

Beautiful night for a baseball game

Took Dylan and a couple of his friends to King Dominion

It was an exhausting day but they loved the amusement park

Visited my friend Lindsay at the beach in NJ to celebrate her engagement!

Went to the Counting Crows concert with my mom and Rick! 

Went to another outdoor concert with Torie and my mom

We went to go see Straight No Chaser. They are a male acapella group that performs a bunch of cover songs. They are amazing to see live and even when it started pouring rain on us we decided to stay till the last song. And then proceeded to drive home in a down pour of rain!

Why I love Colorado

I spent the past weekend in Colorado with my family for my cousins wedding. As excited as I am for England, every time I visit Colorado I never want to leave and wish Matt and I could move here tomorrow. This weekend was super busy and filled with a lot of fun family time so this post will have a lot of pictures to display all the reasons why I love Colorado!

Me and my cousin Chelsea

One of the main reasons why I love Colorado is my favorite person ever lives there. I hate that we never get enough time together and having to say goodbye today without having a future visit already planned out was really hard :(

The incline in Colorado Springs

Reached the top!

Our treat for reaching the top

 The second reason of my love for Colorado is there is always something fun and active to do and the views are amazing! The wedding was in Colorado Springs so on Saturday before the wedding we hiked the stairs of the incline. It was a really hard hike and the altitude killed me but the view from the top was amazing! And note to self bring a lot of water next time you do something like that!

Garden of the Gods

This picture needs no explanation as to why I am in love with the views Colorado has to offer! 

My cousin, aunt, mom and I

My cousins wedding

Pink cake, it's a girl!

And finally the most important reason why I want to live in Colorado is family. All of my family lives there and I miss being around for holidays and family events. The wedding ceremony was wonderful and the reception was a lot of fun! The cake at the wedding had pink filling which revealed that they are having a girl due in October! I wish I was going to be around to see the beautiful addition to our family, but I guess Facetime will have to do for now. 

Time to go back home and back to reality. In other good news my best friend Lindsay got engaged this weekend! I am so excited for her and her fiance and their wedding gives me another excuse to come back to the states! 

Matt got his ticket home from Korea and will be arriving August 6th! wahoo :) We also have tentative date of August 20th to fly to England! Crossing my fingers I get my visa in time so I can leave with Matt. 

Permanent Change of Station

We have already known for awhile that our next base would be England, but until yesterday we did not have our permanent change of station orders in our hands. The military has a funny way to tell you one thing (hint: you are moving to Alaska) and then doing something completely different (changing those plans to moving to England!). So I was extremely happy to hear from Matt that we finally got the documents making it official for his new base! Now that we have that piece of paper we can pretty much schedule everything for our move (except booking our tickets). In the next couple of weeks I am going to be running around trying to pack up my entire life so I can meet the movers in Delaware to ship all of our belongings to the UK. In a few short months this will be where I will call home! 

Mildenhall Vilalge

Excited for Summer

A lot has been going on since I got back from Korea. I was the matron of honor in my best friend Galin's wedding. The wedding was beautiful and the bride looked stunning! It was a very hot and humid weekend but it didn't rain and so we got to enjoy the reception under the stars.

My little brother Dylan had a great time busting some moves on the dance floor :) Galin planned and put together everything for the wedding. It was a lot of work on her part but it was worth it because it looked amazing!!!

This past weekend I went to a Nationals game. The Nats played the Twins and lost in the 11th inning 4-3 :( Even though they lost it was still fun to go to a baseball game with my family.

I am excited for the start of summer. I have a couple vacations planned and I am leaving Thursday for Colorado for my cousins wedding. It will be my third time this year going to Colorado but I am not complaining I love seeing my family and the rocky mountains. More exciting news is the start of summer marks the season Matt will be coming home. Only about a month and a half left :)