"Ugh whatever." E. Harker

The Harkers

On June 28th, my friend Chelsea came into town to visit her husband...and me of course ;). Since then I have had only four days without a visitor. It's been great! But, I must admit I am tired. Tylers' family left Sunday and I've been busy doing laundry, cleaning, and really just getting back to real life. I've been working for Apx as an office assistant for the last couple weeks since one of them left early. It's easy and I'm hoping to do it full time next summer, if we go out again.

I'm going to take it slow and just post about our visit from the Harker family, which came into town after Chelsea and my trip to NY to visit the sisters, (see post below). It was really nice having my sister and her family in town for a week and I hope they enjoyed their stay. If you would like a more detailed version of what we were up to check it out here.

Here's my version of what went down:

Pool time.


Blueberry/raspberry picking.




Gillette Castle.



Picnic by the state capital building.

Park playing.

Beach in Rhode Island with Grandma.


It's been a fun summer. The east coast has been a great new adventure! I really do love it here and it is beautiful. Don't tell anyone, but I miss Rexburg ;) (I will be wanting to escape it within a few months though. Once the snow comes and the temperature gets below zero!)

July

No time to blog! Went to NYC first week of July, had sister and her family the second week in July, my Mom is here right now, and the Muir family will be here the last week in July... I may or may not blog again till August. We shall see.

NYC Weathers Style

Three of my sisters have real jobs that pay them a real salary so they get to do some real traveling. They all met up in NYC a week ago and are heading to France, Germany, and Austria for the next 2.5 weeks. I met up with them in New York last Wednesday and spent a couple days with them.

My first train ride. (From New Haven to Grand Central.)




We hit up Time Sqaure, Empire State Building, Manhatan Temple, old Public Library, and a few other places...








But, probably the highlight of the trip was...


Center orchestra seats 6 rows back at the Met for the ballet. You could see ever muscle and every drop of sweat. It was beautiful.

House Wife

This summer I have been "working from home". Which, in all actually means I'm waiting for my boss in Rexburg to give me work. I half heartedly looked for a part-time job here in CT, but with no avail. During the school year I am the primary bread winner so it's really weird right now not to be the one raking in the dough. Feeling guilty, I take my role as a loving house wife. Here is what I do for Tyler while he works:

- Clean
- Laundry (he helps with this one)
- Grocery shopping
- Pack him a lunch
- Make him dinner
- And occasional cook up some breakfast
- Wash all the dishes

I try not to let him help me out because then I feel like he contributes way more than me ;) This may not seem like very much to most of you, but it is very different for me. While I work 40 hours a week and Tyler goes to school we usually take on all these responsibilities together. Equally. Well, he never makes dinner, but he usually does all the dishes afterwards. I guess it's good practice for when I'll be staying home with the little ones in the future...

Vintage

My darling sweet husband of mine loves old cars. He loves them so much he owns two, a '76 Cadillac something, and a sixty-something Lincoln, I don't know the specifics :). They both run great, but look nothing like these beauties:




Half of this car is made out of solid wood. I can't imagine how heavy it is...



I like the color of this car...


We went to a car show yesterday afternoon. There were probably a couple hundred cars there at this local park by our apartment complex. Most of them were amazing! Some were...funny. We saw a few souped-up cars from the 80's and even some "fast and the furious" type cars. But, mostly it was just really nice vintage cars from the Ford Model-T to that Charger muscle car at the top of this post, (one of Tyler's favorite cars ever) and everything in-between.

Maybe someday I'll get on the show Over Haulin', so at least one of Tyler's cars can look real nice...for free.

Love

There are a few recent loves I would like to share with you today...

First, cities:






Although, I loved my first visit to New York and Boston, I have to admit that I like Chicago better. It was funny because Tyler has been to New York several times while one of his good friends was going to Columbia and when we were walking through the city he was like, "I like Chicago better." I was thinking the exact same thing. We are soul mates ;)

Second new love:






Connecticut is beautiful! My only wish is that there were big huge mountains with the same trees currently covering every part of the state.

And last, but certainly not least, my husband:



It's not as much of a recent love as a continual love since the day I laid eyes on him summer of 2006, when my dear friend Brady introduced us. It was our one year anniversary this past Saturday! I can't believe how time flies. I feel like we just got married a week ago.