Still no internet

I am blogging this time in between my two night classes at Cabrini. I apologize for the lack of blogs recently, but we do not have internet at our new house yet, nor do we have much time to think, let alone blog. Both Ash and I started school this week. She leaves at about 6:30 every morning (the price we pay for living far away from the city), and gets home around 5:00 at night. I have class from 4:30-9:45 on Monday and Thursday, so that means we pretty much won't see each other on those two days. On Tuesday I have class from 7:15 to 9:30, so we at least get to eat dinner together. That leaves Wednesday and the weekends for our time together. As you can probably tell, we are not all the way unpacked yet and are feeling the stresses of a busy school year coming already. The nice thing is, after this semester I will student teach in the spring and be working in the fall. Ashley will have a year of he-- but it will be much easier after this one is done. Let's hope we can just make it through these next few months. (Our internet should be in soon so you can expect a lot more blogging from me). Love you guys!

Da Beach

Alright, the last three days have been spent on the beach. The water is really warm and the waves are great for boogie boarding and body surfing. It has been beautiful outside and we are having a lot of fun with the other people here. Sorry about the lack of pics, mom. I'm gonna try to post a bunch right now and also see if I can post some video of Ash and I boogie boarding.

Wright Brothers and lots of Volleyball!

This morning was a little cloudy so we all went to the Wright Brothers National Park/Museum in Kitty Hawk. It was really cool! I guess I never really knew how much science and planning went into their first flight. It was a pretty fun place to visit and from the top of the hill you could see all of outer banks. We came back and in the afternoon we spent hours in the backyard pool playing hoops and volleyball. Ashley was the only girl to play and she was a dominating presence. She even rejected the guys numerous times and gave them facials on some amazing spikes. That's why I married her! I was very impressed. The guys kicked the girls' butts at Cranium tonight. It was a fun day. Enjoy the pics of Kitty Hawk, NC (10 minutes from our place).

Outer Banks North Carolina

Ash and I made it down to Outer Banks today. We are in this freakin' awesome house with five bedrooms (there are 5 couples here) and a nice pool (see picture from the third floor of our deck). The trip down here was amazing. We drove along the Atlantic coast through all of Delaware, the eastern edge of Maryland and the outer tip, peninsula part of Virginia. We had to pay 12 bucks to cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel, which was the coolest bridge ever. You couldn't even see the other end of it so it felt like we were driving into the middle of the ocean. Then, it would dip down under the water into a tunnel. It was crazy. As you can tell, we have internet here so I'll try to keep you bloggers posted on the fun we're having.

We're tiiiiired!!!

Wow! We are in our new house! Our first official night! This is Ashley. I have to specify since I haven't written anything on here yet. :) Well today has been a very long day. We woke up this morning by a phone call from our Refrigerator/ dryer guy. This was at 7:30. We are still on AZ time so this is like 4:30 a.m. Well anyway, I decided to go back to bed :) and Tyler went to our house to unlock the door. A couple hours later, Ty went to U-Haul and they didn't have the truck we reserved. So an hour later, we were given a 26 foot truck that was a stick shift and a diesel! Luckily, our friend said he'd drive. And...the U-Hall guys told them they had to have the truck back in four hours. Well, I was able to get a lot of the packing done, but ran out of boxes to put things in. I started using pillow cases and things.
We finally loaded up the truck and weren't able to fit everything. Meanwhile, there was a guy waiting to pick up our huge player piano that we couldn't fit in our condo. So we helped the guy load the piano, unloaded Austen's stuff and unloaded our stuff. We celebrated with pizza, pop and Rita's ice cream (the best ice cream on the east coast!). One of the guys that stayed in our apartment while we were gone this summer told us that he had two pianos and could give us one. So we were really excited about that. Let's just hope it fits! So there is a lot more to the day....but.....we are super tired and have to go to bed. We are leaving for Outer Banks (North Carolina beach) in the morning for a week. We're getting that one last fun week in before the dreaded school starts again. J/K we are excited about school. Ok, now that this is officially the longest blog ever....have a good week everyone.

Back in Philly! (For a few days)

Well, we got back to our apartment last night and I took Ashley over to see our new house. We were a little surprised to see that the walls weren't very clean. I remembered them being nicer, but Ashley pointed out all the painting that needed to be done. I thought she was upset about it, but she told me she's just excited about doing some projects. We're really excited about our first house and we decided that we weren't going to stress out about it and just work on things little by little. Today, a lot of stress was relieved when we were able to buy a fridge and a dryer at Lowe's for a good price with free, next-day delivery. We were also able to schedule the carpet cleaners to come tomorrow, which is great because our place smells like cat pee really bad. Hopefully they can get rid of that because it is nasty. On Saturday we will move all of our furniture in and we will be leaving for Outer Banks, North Carolina on Sunday. We are trying hard to enjoy our last summer break for a while.

Supermodels!

The other day, Trevor, Tiff, Derrick, Ashley and I decided to make a guest appearance at the local water park (Water World). The people working there, recognizing our beauty, asked us if they could take pictures of us going down the slides and riding the lazy river for their upcoming promotional brochures. We agreed to be models for the day are were rewarded with 10 free passes to come back another day. The rest of the day was spent mostly in the wave pool, where Trevor and Derrick laid the smack down on the 14 year old kids and tossed the rest of us through the water like bowling balls. Ashley even threw me so hard through the water that I scraped my forehead on the ground and have a nasty scab now. It was a fun day!

Our New House!

Alright, here we go with the blogging. On July 28th, Ash and I closed on our first house! We're so excited. To make a really long story short, we had some last-minute problems with our lender that had been promising us that everything was okay for months. After a week of stress and lots of prayers, we were able to get a loan from a different lender and everything worked out better than we could've ever imagined. We obviously haven't moved in yet because we are still in AZ for another week, but we can hardly wait to get all of our stuff in when we get back. The house is actually a 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo. It is on the second and third story of the building and has a big living room area and a family room in the loft. We love it. Here are some pics so you can kind of get a visual. (Oh yeah, and by buying a house Ash saves like $12,000 dollars a year in tuition, so that helps us like it even more).

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