Bye Bye San Diego

Hi everyone! Hope everybody is having a good Monday! This is going to be my last blog post for a few weeks, because with moving/being in Minnesota I don't think I'll have time. I'll be sure to start back up again once we're settled and unpacked in Great Lakes and update you on life there!

Our time in San Diego has come to an end. It was a fast and crazy 7 months here! But both Andy and I have agreed that we are ready to move and start up somewhere new! We are so blessed to have had the chance to live in this wonderful city. I encourage all of you to make sure you visit here at least once in your life! But we won't miss the San Diego traffic, gas prices, construction, parking and how much it costs to live here. As a young newlywed couple, it will be nice to be in a city a little more affordable for us, so we can really starting saving more money! :)

The movers come in 3 days and we'll be gone in 4! CRAZY! This week just consists of prepping things to be packed, prepping the car and cancelling utilities and such. We're be on the road to Illinois by the afternoon on Friday! We are also SO excited to have some time to visit home from around the 27th-8th, woohoo (I cannot wait to get a caribou and eat at Paninos...seriously)! A portion of that will be spent up on the north shore on MN as our belated honeymoon. It'll be so nice to have some time away from life and just spend time us two, we think we deserve it ;)

Andy takes the ASCP on Thursday, which is the certification test to be a medical lab technician in the civilian world. It's an intense test (they even have cameras pointed on you the whole time) and I have faith that my super smart hubby will pass easily! Passing the exam is just a bonus to already working as a lab tech for the Navy, his year of hard work learning & studying is enough to work for the Navy. If he passes, he could then (if he wanted to) get a side job at a civilian hospital or clinic doing lab work as well! If you could all keep him in your thoughts on Thursday and send lots of positive energy, prayers or whatever you'd like his way, we'd appreciate it!

Lastly, I did go to the doctor on Saturday for my ankle. I thought the sprain was getting better but it actually got bad again last week :( she took X-rays and should be getting back to me today if I need a "boot" to fix a fracture or just some physical therapy for my tendons. We'll see!

Welp, that's all I've got for now folks! I'll be back at this in a few shorts weeks...this time blogging from Illinois! I'll leave you with a couple pictures of the dog of course ;) :

These two were sleepy heads this weekend! (ignore the mess in the background!)

She is so photogenic

Moving Stress

Hey folks! Hope everyone had a good weekend.

We were sad to miss Andy's friend's wedding in Illinois this weekend :( such a bummer that Andy couldn't get leave to go. We did have a fun weekend that FLEW by though! Went to a movie with a friend on Friday, San Diego County fair Saturday and hiking on Sunday. There is so many great hikes here, I'm definitely going to miss all the hiking options! Guess I'll settle with walks along Lake Michigan instead :) The county fair was a fun experience too! Coming from Minnesota, we're both biased when it comes to fairs. There will never be a fair more epic than the MN state fair! I will say, the fair here did have a lot of food...just not all the fun, funky and deep fried options you'd find in MN. I found myself comparing all the little details of the fair to the MN state fair, oops haha! There was a floral show that I was in love with! I'm still a flower geek even if I don't work for a florist anymore :) and I snapped a million pictures of all the cool arrangements (I'll post pictures below).

As of this morning, we've had our first major stress of the move too. Looks like we might have a repeat of the move out here, with our stuff taking forever to be delivered! We were told by one person that the company would be able to pick up our stuff and get it to Great Lakes within about a week, so we went ahead and put those dates on our forms. Unfortunately, now they are saying our stuff won't be delivered until around July 5th, which totally ruins the timing our mini-honeymoon/time at home plans! We're going to try and see if we can rearrange the dates. I'm sure starting to hate the moving companies the Navy gives us!

This move is slowly sneaking up on us, only 11 days left! I've been applying to various jobs/internships in the area and still have more places I can check out. I did hear back from an AMAZING looking studio that is hiring yoga teachers with my exact teaching style and they are very interested in me! SO EXCITING! I can't wait to go check out the studio and meet the owner once we move!

Well, I should probably get my butt moving so I can get stuff done today! Thanks for reading everyone and enjoy the pictures below :)

She'll never be too big to be a lap dog! Loves lounging on Daddy's lap!

Yummy gyro from the fair! LOVE a good gyro :)

18 DAYS!

Happy June everyone! I cannot believe it's June already, this year is FLYING by.

Hope you all had a good weekend! We sure did! My lovely in-laws were in town and it was so fun to spend some time with them. We spent a lot of time walking/going hiking (with the dog too of course!). I swear both time they've visited us, they get the greatest weather here! It was a beautiful weekend! My mom-in-law is a major dog lover and she quickly become one of Layla's best friends :) The dog sure did win them both over! We also had a mini family barbecue over at Andy's aunt & uncles house, soooo yummy. It's crazy to think we won't be seeing Andy's San Diego relatives that much anymore! :(

We move in 18 days. 18 DAYS! The move is constantly on my mind now. We should be hearing from the movers any day now to really figure out when they're coming to pack up all our stuff! I'm trying my best to get things organized in our own bins and such so it's easier for the movers, and easier for us to unpack :) I googled our route the other night and we're looking at a 33-34hr drive to Great Lakes....YUCK. But it has to be done!

Growing up in the suburbs, I'm excited to be back to living in a similar area like that. Although, I definitely think our time in San Diego was much needed. What a fun place to live as newlyweds! We've NEVER had a shortage of things to do here, that's for sure. I still can't believe we're already moving out of "our first place"! Now it's onto "our first house" :)

Anyways, I know this is a boring and short post but our lives are really just starting to center around the move now, which isn't any fun for you all to hear about! Also, sorry for the lack of pictures in this post, I always try to have at least one, but I just wasn't being a little photographer this week!