Another Overdue Update

Sorry to everyone, it's been a really long time since I posted last. Joseph and I have been enjoying our summer. I finished my semester on August 5th, and shortly after we moved to a new apartment complex (San Prado), that's located across the street from Midwestern University. We love our new place it's convenient for Joseph, now he can walk to school. It's bigger than our last apartment by three hundred square feet, and it's a whole lot nicer, my favorite is the kitchen it has amazing counter space and cupboards for storage, but best of all THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO COCKROACHES coming in from the shotty workmanship. As soon as I get all of our decorating done I will post pictures.

It's been great having Joseph home, and being out here together, I think we've gotten even closer if that were possible. We've enjoyed spending time together, one of the things I've gotten him to do is listen to the Harry Potter books on CD, we've been listening to those together and he ACTUALLY likes them, we've also listened to Hearts in Atlantis by Steven King together as well. As you can tell we spend alot of time together going to the library which is always fun. One other "luxury" Joseph has been enjoying this summer has been World of War Craft, and Halo, I've played Halo with Joseph this summer and he is infinitely better than me, but it's still a blast (when I'm not getting frustrated with his killing me from across the board, or sneaking up behind me and killing me every five seconds), okay so maybe it doesn't sound fun, since that is constantly happening; but it is I promise.

Joseph and I just celebrated our three year anniversary which is on August 12th, however due to moving during our anniversary yet again we celebrated it the following Monday, my co-worker gave us free passes to the Phoeniz Zoo, so we went and looked at all of the animals which was fun. It's more of a children's zoo so their weren't as many animals. Arizona has another zoo called the Wild Life Zoo that we would like to go to some other time.

Here are some of the animals that we saw.

Cute baby Orangutan.

Being a little show off for the crowd, she was soo cute!


Her mama hiding from the sun under a palm tree leaf.

Cheetah
The only thing separating us was a low fence and a moat, that freaked me out, but Joseph got some cool shots.

They had four giraffe's but this was one of the better photo's.

The volunteer was telling us that this elephant was a diva so they had to separate her from the others, we got to throw her carrots to eat, but I only think she ate part of Joseph's.

These turtles are in the lake before you enter the zoo, we thought it was funny to watch them try to balance on the log. Some were falling off, when the others were trying to climb on.

The two of us at the entrance, on our way home. It was way too hot, whenwe got home we took a nap, we were so tired.

We also went and saw the newest Harry Potter movie again, because I really wanted to. I know its not the most romantic anniversary date but we both had alot of fun which I think is just as important. Afterward we went to the Olive Garden and home to exchange cards. All in all it was a great day.

I also recently started sewing, my mom sent me a sewing machine for my birthday. I finally had my friend Toni come over and show me how to thread it (who wants to read the instructions?). I sewed a table cloth and runner. Toni being better at sewing than myself made the cutest baby blanket for her friend. I'm going to make a quilt one of these days (when I have a little more money, don't want Joseph to fall over when he realizes how much fabric costs) to hang on our wall if it's not too ugly by the time I finish it I might have to make a practice one first. (Oh what's that noise you hear? Yeah that's Joseph groaning in the corner).

I will be starting my final class (Marriage and Family) for my associates degree online through SLCC and will finish in December. After that I will hopefully start at ASU to start on my Bachelor's Degree. Joseph will be starting his second year of medical school on August 31st, he is both excited and bummed out at the same time. Other than that our summer has been pretty uneventful which has been glorious. It's been nice having Joseph around, and not having to worry about too much, other than homework. Not too much has been going on other than that, so as soon as I am done decorating the apartment (I still need to buy/make a few things) I will post pictures of what it looks like.