Wednesday, January 22, 2014

A Fresh Start



The first picture I think shows English fashion perfectly! Love it. I also am obsessed with the street performers here in Durham..and this guy in the last pic sounded exactly like Johnny Cash. Anyways.. In December we found out our flat that I previously did a post about here was infested with what I like to call, the 3 M's…Mold, Mice, and My neighbor's poo. Around our front and back door we had a serious mold problem, and I would spend everyday scrubbing the mold off with all sorts of different concoctions that never worked. We knew it wasn't good for us to be inhaling those awful spores everyday. A few days before Christmas I walked into the kitchen at night to get a drink of water, and I flip on the light and lo and behold a furry creature scurried underneath our washer. I don't know what it is about us and weird creatures in our apartments, but we have had a variety of animals inhabit our homes including frogs in our bathroom and growling voles (a mole/mouse like thing) in our ceiling while living in Pennsylvania. Guess they just like us or something! A few days after Christmas Daniel and I were watching a movie on Netflix, and I smelled something awful, and blamed it on him. He insisted it wasn't him and went off to search for the source of the smell. He opened the bathroom door to see about 2 inches of sewage in our bathtub! How lovely! We moved out the next day.
Our new place has a SHOWER. I don't know how we went so long just taking baths. No Mice! No Mold! (ok maybe a little, but that's just England for ya!) I am so grateful for this little fresh start and new flat. And for showers! Long glorious showers.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Two Words




If someone told me to describe northern England in two words, they would be: Sheep & hills. Everywhere you look in the countryside, you will most likely always see these two things.

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Thursday Afternoon


Can you believe there are berries and blossoms on the trees here?! I almost died when I walked to the park today and saw them. The weather here is SO weird. We haven't gotten any snow this year, and the temperature holds a steady 45 degreesF every day! It's such a mild winter, and the summers are mild too. The only downside is we only have daylight from 9am to 3pm, and it rains all the time. My heart goes out to all our Pennsylvania friends who are in the middle of some crazy cold weather right now!! I can't even imagine. I am welcoming this early spring-like weather with open arms, but I sure do miss those fun snow days with my brothers back in Idaho!

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Moments



The Sacred Grove, during our road trip to Rochester, NY and Palmyra
Roadtrip to Wilmington, NC. We fell in love with this charming beach town.

Philly, PA
Rocky Statue in philly!



Penn State Grad!! So proud
Packed up our little life and moved back to Idaho!
Stopped in Nauvoo for our 2nd Anniversary on our way back to Idaho!



Moved to England!

Edinburgh, Scotland
Bamburgh Castle, England


Watching the USA play Scotland in Glasgow

London!

Christmas 2013
New Year's Eve 2013

There are so many things to write about 2013, I wouldn't know where to start. It was an awesome year to say the least, filled with ups and downs, and plenty adventures. It is going to be hard to top it! But I have high hopes for 2014, and we are going to make it the most adventurous yet! 
New years eve with our ward was a blast. Probably the most fun we have had in a while! Our ward is like one big family, we are SO lucky to be a part of it! At the party we had a projector and a screen so we could watch Big Ben strike 12 and see the incredible firework show over London. It was a great way to end the year, and a great start to the new year. 
We love you already, 2014!