Internship...

Well Andrew and I have been living in Maryland for a little over a month now and we love it. Andrew is really enjoying his internship with Senator Risch. His commute isn't so fun... I drive him to the bus stop, he catches the bus, rides the bus into D.C. then gets on the metro, rides the metro for about 15 mins or for a couple stops, gets off the metro and walks about 2 blocks to the building that Senator Risch has his office. The entire commute takes him about an hour and a half. But while the commute is awful, Andrew enjoys what he is doing once he actually gets to the office.
We have been to a couple Orioles games, which has been super fun! It is a good date night. :) And every Friday night we go support Karson Lawrence at his high school football games. We have had a lot of fun moments while we have been here and hope that we can keep having them.
I'm sorry that I haven't posted any pictures lately and I'm sad to say that I'm not very good at taking pictures. I guess that I'm going to have to change that if I'm to convince Andrew to get me a super nice camera. :)
Here are a couple pictures that Andrew has sent me from work. And I promise, I will try to be better about taking pictures and posting them!

Here is Andrew at his first day of his internship. He looked super good in his suit.

 This is a picture of all of the Senate interns. Andrew told me that they were kinda forced into this awkward social situation "to mingle with other interns" and at the end this picture was taken.

Oops!

So it has been a long time since my last post. Sorry :) Life just got going and I didn't have much to blog about. But some big things have happened since my last post so here it goes.

January - April 2012 marked my last semester of classes for my Bachelors degree. It was hard for me to believe that I was already at that point in my life. At the time I was trying to figure out my internship and had something lined up. Well it ended up not working out and I found another option, which would begin at the end of April.
April is when I walked in the graduation ceremony even though I wouldn't officially graduate until July. It was an amazing thing! My family came and I loved having them there to be part of my accomplishment. After graduation, Andrew and I took a little vacation. And then it was back to Rexburg. My internship started and Andrew started his new job on campus. 
My internship was with the Eastern Idaho Public Health District. I was working on the implementation of the Fit and Fall Proof health promotion program. Basically what I was doing was teaching exercise classes for the elderly (50+). It was such a great experience. It really showed me that I was in the right major.
June was a stressful month. This was when Andrew was going to find out if he got his internship for the fall. I had the hardest time waiting. I wanted to know so bad if he got it and I'm pretty sure I was worried enough about it for the both of us. We found out while he was on an internship expedition in Washington D.C. and HE GOT IT! We were going to be spending the last four months of the year in Maryland!
July came quickly! I was finally done with my degree and I couldn't believe it! It is still hard for me to believe that I am a college graduate.
August came quickly as well. Before we knew it, Andrew and I were getting ready to celebrate our first anniversary. We got massages and then went camping with my parents and little sisters. It was a fun way to spend our anniversary (as well as my parent's 26th anniversary). And then my diploma came in the mail just as Andrew and I were getting ready to move out of our apartment in Rexburg and move to the east coast. I cannot express the emotions that I felt. I was so excited and happy. I felt so accomplished.
The end of August was upon us and we were on our way to Maryland. Andrew's internship starts tomorrow (Sept. 10th) and we knew we wanted to have a couple weeks to get settled and to spend time with his family. We also knew we wanted to save some money on rent so we decided that we would live with his family in Waldorf, MD and he would just commute to D.C. This way we can save up money for the next year.
This year has flown by and I wish I had some pics to post but I have been really bad about taking pics. Hopefully while I am here in Maryland I will get a little better at it. I will also have to post about what Andrew is doing for his internship. Right now what we know is that he is the GIS intern for Senator Risch from Idaho. GIS is Geographic Information Systems or basically mapping trends. We are excited to see what he will actually do. I will do better to keep this blog updated.

Happy New Year!!

Well I think its safe to say that I'm not so good at keeping  up a blog while I'm in school :). I did finish out the 25 days of thankfulness for November on facebook, so I wasn't a complete slacker.
Here is a quick update of what has happened since my last post.
November: Andrew and I spent Thanksgiving with his Aunt and Uncle in Alpine, Utah. We had a lot of fun and I enjoyed meeting more of his family. We spent a lot of time with family and got a lot of spare time to spend together. We got new phones (Droid Incredible Two) for free as part of Verizon's Black Friday Deals; and we really like having smart phones! I was able to get an internship with help from one of my teachers (Major Blessing!!)
December: We were both super busy and stressed because of finals and my work schedule. It was a crazy couple of weeks trying to finish everything and do it well enough that our grades wouldn't suffer. And then it was a little stressful waiting for grades to come out to see how we did- which we both did rather well! And then once finals were done and we were both done working graduation, we had a couple days to ourselves and then we left for Utah. Once we got to my parent's house, we hung out for a few days, helped my dad pack the car, and then left for California. We spent about a week and a half or so in California visiting family and visiting parts of Andrew's mission. We had a great Christmas with my family! And we got to go spend a day at Knott's Berry Farm, which was way fun!! New Year's Eve was spent at my sister's house just hanging out and we brought in 2012 with a kiss and some sparkling cider. And on January 1st we drove back to Utah.
So here we are to today. It has been a crazy, wonderful year. We are looking forward to starting this new one and we both have some resolutions that we want to work on. And we all know that resolutions are hard to keep for longer than a few weeks but I'm going to try something to help us remember and hopefully it will work.
I am most definitely looking forward to my last semester of classes and my internship. I will be working with a general pediatrician and a neonatologist both in a clinical setting and a hospital setting. I am graduating in April and will officially receive my diploma when I'm done with my internship (July-ish). Then I will be applying/working on applying to PA schools.
 Andrew is excited for the new semester as well. He has a full load of classes and will be working Mon, Wed, and Fri from 7am-12pm on campus. It was a blessing that he got this job, because he hasn't been working since his birthday in November and he won't have to drive back and forth between Rexburg and Idaho Falls anymore.
We are ready for 2012 and all the things that it will bring! We are glad to be where we are at and can't wait to see where life takes us next. Happy New Year! and remember that perspective is everything!