Easter Weekend

This past Easter Weekend was really fun. We came home Friday after work and found an early gift from the Easter Bunny (a.k.a. my Dad); It was a great start to a great weekend! Saturday we got up went shopping because I "needed" a new Easter outfit to wear to church, Lance is still trying to understand and accept my definition of need...he's still learning.  After a LONG day of shopping Lance had enough...it was only 2 hours, but he had enough.
We decided to do something Lance wanted to do so we went golfing with Taylor and Cassie. We started late in the day so we decided just to do 9 holes (we knew it was gonna take a while....were not quite pro's). I'm glad we did, it took us almost 4 hour for 9 holes! However, I being the amazing golfer that I am, totally beat Lance!!! (see picture below for reaction) It was a great day!!!

Before we started to Play...

The end result!! VICTORIOUS! :)

Easter Sunday was a fun day. Church was INSANE! You could definetley tell that those children had their candy...It was probably the most rowdy, non-reverent day at church I have ever been to. I still love my nursery kids so I had a blast playing with them.
Cassie and I tagged team the Easter dinner and it turned out pretty tasty! We had steak, funeral potatoes, Strawberry almond salad, bread, and mint brownies. The boys wouldn't let us grill the steaks "that's a man's job" says Lance, so we let them feel manly and cook the steaks. Lance was so excited to finally get our new grill out of the box and actually use it. I have a feeling were going to be living off of grilled things this summer. Whatever makes him feel manly I guess! :)

Overall, the weekend was great, we had so much fun! We wish we were closer to family, Holidays make us feel homesick, but Cleveland is still fun!

~enjoy

First Day Downtown

So we finally got to go out and have a little fun downtown! A lady in our ward purchased group tickets to Les Miserables so we were able to get them and go with some of our ward members. Our seats were great! We were on the bottom level and on a small platform so we looked out over the audience. There was a speaker right above us so we heard everything perfect!  It was the traveling Broadway tour from New York so the production, sets, actors were superb! Lance's favorite thing about it was the set/backgrounds. They really were absolutely amazing!  Anyway, I could go on all day about how much we loved it but I won't. :)


After the show we went out to dinner for a late birthday celebration for Lance. Obviously he chose Brasa' Grill a Brazilian restaurant. It is like Rodizio Grill back in Utah. We both really enjoyed it. They had parmasean encrusted steak which was probably one of the best things I've ever eaten. However, overall...we both came to the conclusion that Rodizio Grill is much better, which only made me miss Utah more!

Our day was really fun it was so nice to be able to actually do something on a Saturday instead of homework. I know Lance was especially excited because he usually just watches me do homework and is bored out of his mind. I told him from now on I would try to get all my school work done during the week so we could do stuff on the weekends. This weekends adventure...I think we are going to the zoo here in Cleveland! I'm so so excited!

Oh... one last thing! We bought a Table!! YAY!! I'm so excited! We have been eating off of our coffee table in our living room since we got here until we saved some money for a full size table. I really like the one we got! The funny thing is were not the only one's excited. The missionaries in our ward have been asking us every Sunday when we would be getting a dining table because I promised them when I got one I would have them over whenever they wanted. I think we finally have all the major things for our house for the most part! I just need to start decorating it a little more! I promise I will post pictures of our house as soon as Lance gets the table set up!

~enjoy

Starting to Warm Up!!!

It has been forever since I have wrote anything so I thought I'll give a little update!! Lance and I are doing great! Work is so long and tiring but we both enjoy it and we're learning a lot. We haven't been able to do much here in Cleveland because of work and school so we haven't really gotten to know Cleveland too well.
Last week I was able to go home to initiate my little sister into Alpha Chi Omega. It was the BEST experience ever. I decided to surprise her and my dad and not tell them, I was scared that they were going to find out but they didn't. My sister broke down with happiness when she saw me and it didn't take long for the rest of the room to start crying. I am so Excited I get to share Alpha Chi with her, words cannot explain how much I love that organization and the girls within it.
The downside of the trip was I missed Lance's 26th birthday. I was sad so why he was gone on a business trip I hid a present in the house so he would have something to open on his birthday, he was excited I got him a membership to ESPN Insider. He had a good birthday I think but then got deathly ill (not really deathly but close too).  He is slowly getting better he just had the flu.
Tomorrow will be the first time we actually go out and do something downtown. With school and work we haven't been able to go do anything fun on Saturdays because I dedicate Saturdays to school. We got tickets to Les Mis it is traveling here from New York so it is going to be AMAZING!!! I'm so excited!! We also are going to a delicious Brazilian place for dinner with Taylor and Cassie for Lance's birthday.
I will update with pictures soon!

enjoy~

All Settled In!

We found a place!! Yay! It is a GORGEOUS duplex, its two bedroom with a huge finished basement. Ron (our neighbor) lives upstairs but he is so quiet we can't even tell he is there! It is so pretty and really makes us feel like we are home. We are all moved in and have the living room and kitchen set up, we are just waiting on our bed set to come in so we can finish unpacking. 

We have been in Cleveland for about 2 weeks. It is extremely different. It isn't as bad as I thought it would but I would much rather be home. I get homesick a lot but I'm sure that will pass after a couple of months.  The weather out her is insane. I thought Logan was cold but this place is CRAZY! I think it must be the humidity but I have never been so cold in my life.

The ward out here is extremely different then the wards back in Utah. We are in the Cleveland 1st ward; the ward consists of multiple cities and the boundaries are HUGE!  For the first time in my life I had to sit through sacrament with the smell of cigarette smoke lingering around me. A lot of the ward members are converts so they definitely bring a new and sometimes very interesting perspective to the lessons, but I am sure we are gonna love it.  One thing that I have learned that I find very interesting and different is that you don't go visiting teacher/home teaching to the active members of the ward. They take you to inactive members so it is like missionary work.

We start work tomorrow, we are both excited yet nervous at the same time. It is going to be extremely weird especially for me to actually have a real job. 

We miss everyone at home so much and can't wait till we get to come visit. I don't think we will until Christmas but we are trying to fit a trip home before then.

Pictures of our new place will be up soon!!!!