We're moving!!!

Our current apartment

Our new apartment

Reasons why we are excited to move:
- The new apartment is about 3-4 times the size of our current apartment!
- No more litter-strewn streets 5 minutes after the street cleaner goes by because people don't feel the need to use trash cans
- No more finding empty liquor bottles on our front steps
- We won't be awakened at 2:30 in the morning by people screaming "F-- You" anymore.
- No more having to ask total strangers to move off our front steps so we can get into our apartment
- No more worrying about finding parking during snow emergencies
- No more sitting in my room on a Sunday afternoon trying to read the Ensign while my neighbor has rap music blasting from his car stereo that is so loud it sounds as if his car is actually in my living room
- No more doing dishes by hand, the new apartment has a dishwasher!

Reasons why we are sad to move:
- Leaving the best landlord we have ever had (she would let us use her apartment when she was gone, she would even babysit for us!)
- Our backyard garden will have just have started producing veggies!

My kind of camping...

Last weekend we went camping at Senaca Lake (one of NY's finger lakes). It's an LDS-owned camp, and they have a lot of girls' camps and youth conferences there. We went to help get the camp ready for the summer. When I agreed to go, I was secretly dreading it. I am not a camper! But this was definitely my kind of camping...cabins (bug-free, I might add), electricity in the cabins, flushing toilets, and showers!

We went a little early on Friday so we could squeeze in some fun. Much to our surprise they had canoes! The lake was beautiful, crystal clear, and freezing cold :)

Cala playing in the water with her friend, Lucy (or See-See, as Cala calls her).

Cooking dinner on the campfire. My main goal with food was "easy". Mark and Cala had hot dogs, and since I hate hot dogs...I brought a hot pocket! I even cooked it over the fire on a skewer...they're definitely better in the microwave. Luckily, some friends were nice enough to share some of their yum tin foil dinners.

On Saturday we got up at 6:30am to go for an early morning canoe ride, but the water was way too choppy. Then we tried to eat breakfast on the pier, but it was a little too cold so we went back to eat by the campfire.

During the day Mark helped dig out fire pits and lay gravel, while I helped clean this funny round minty green boat house. Apparently a BYU intern is coming out for the summer to be the waterfront director and this is where she's going to live. It hasn't been lived in for 2 years and it was DIRTY!

After cleaning we spent some time by the water, had some lunch, and packed up and went home. It was a fun weekend., and Mark and I added Senaca Lake to the long list of places that we would love to live someday.

Popcorn Poppin'

Cala is a very energetic little girl who loves music...as you will see in this video :)

I heart Nemo!

I feel like I've been posting lots of videos lately, but I just couldn't resist posting this one! Cala loves to watch Finding Nemo. She asks to watch it EVERYDAY! And she definitely knows what she wants as shown in this video :)

Teeth Brushing

Cala is becoming more and more independent these days. Tonight she took matters into her own hands and brushed her teeth. I was pretty impressed by how well she did. And I'm not sure where she learned to spit like that!

How old is she?

Today I wasn't sure if Cala had aged 10 years overnight or what! I was confused because she ROLLED her eyes at me!!!! I was getting frustrated with her repeatedly throwing food on the floor after asking her not to, so I was giving her an in-depth explanation about why I don't want the food on the floor, and she rolled her eyes. What the heck?! She's 19 months old, I thought the eye-rolling would wait at least a couple more years...

My first job!

After 5 years of undergraduate school, 1 year of unpaid work as a dietetic intern, countless papers and tests, many missed hours of sleep, and quite a few tears....I took the registered dietitian exam and passed! (That was about a year ago) Then came the challenge of finding a flexible part-time job...and I finally did. Today was my second day of work. It's sad to be away from Cala, but I have such good friends that are watching her, and I know they are taking great care of her. Anyways, it's so super cool to have my own desk, voice mail, and email. Today someone called me for a recommendation about the amount of Ensure a patient should be receiving, and I told them what I wanted her to be getting. Then I wrote a recommendation to the doctor about it and got to sign Adrienne, RD. It was the coolest!