European Dinner

Rivaled only by my love of Cafe Rio is Tyler's love of artisan bread, give him anything tasty he can smother in olive oil and balsamic vinegar and the man is in heaven. He's been all but begging me to learn to make artisan bread since we got married so when I found this amazing recipe on Pintrest I decided to go for it. 

I'm glad I did because it turned out fabulously! Tyler just about died and went to heaven, all he ate for dinner was this bread and some fruit. I have a feeling we might be having a few more European style meals in the near future. Click here if you want to try it out for yourself.

Cafe Rio

This is the look of pure bliss. Thank you Cafe Rio.

Cafe Rio has always had a special plate in my heart, if I was stranded on a deserted island this is the food I would want to have with me. Fortunately there is one all the way out here. It's about a 40 minute drive from our house, which is a little hard to justify, but it's only 25 from the temple so we made it a date night, the temple and then Cafe Rio. I think this is going to have to become a tradition, especially after we saw there is a Cold Stone across the street.

Book Club

We started a book club. So excited! 

First books on the list: The Shape of Mercy (about Salem witch trials) and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; both in honor of Halloween.

Way to go Utes!

Saturday we got together to watch the Utah v. BYU game with some friends. As you can tell, we are the only people wearing red. Every single one of our friends are BYU fans, which I guess isn't surprising as most of them aren't from Utah. We were proud to support the Utes and they certainly didn't let us down!

Recital

Last weekend one of the girls in our ward put together a mini recital at her house.  I was able to accompany Aimee as she sang "Amazing Grace" She did a beautiful job and lots of fun!

Moving

Moving across the country is quite the experience. As I've never really had to move, it was surprising how much work goes into it. The first challenge was trying to cram all of our belongings into this small pod (6x7x8 feet). To illustrate just how challenging this was I'll have to quote Blair (my father-in-law) as he was helping us move. "There is no way in hell we're going to fit all that damn stuff into that damn pod."

Well they managed to fit all of our damn stuff into the pod, plus some.  In the end it looked like this:

It made it across the country and we were able to get unpacked without too much stress. We truly felt so blessed when we moved out here, everything went so smoothly. We flew out to Baltimore, rented a car and then drove to Manheim, Pennsylvania to pick up this beauty:

Our first car, a 2006 Honda Accord. It's such a wonderful car and we love it. Next we drove our car back to Baltimore, got a little lost, picked up some food for breakfast the next day and an air mattress to sleep on that night, went to our apartment (which actually existed and had keys with our names on it, hooray!). 

The next day we drove back up by Baltimore to pick up a U-Haul and transfered our stuff (which made it across the country with minimal damage) to the U-Haul, then drove back to DC, unloaded our stuff, drove back up by Baltimore to drop the U-Haul off and spent the rest of the next two days unpacking. It was a lot of work and a lot of sweat but everything went great and we feel that we were so watched over and blessed.

Afternoon at the Pool

A couple of weeks ago I got together with some new girlfriends to spend an afternoon at the pool. Randi (far left) invited us over for breakfast the next day with our husbands, which was delicious, followed by a little shopping while our hubbies went home to study. All of our husbands are in grad school so it's great to be able to get together while they're busy being students. Love these ladies!