It's been HOT HOT HOT out for Washington the past couple weeks (90's), but thankfully we have a couple days of cooler weather coming up (at least temporarily).
I guess I (Rachel) will start writing in first person since I doubt that Jay will be updating this much!
Let's see what is new since last post..hrm:
I went to my graduation ceremony last month at Bellevue College. The ceremony started at 7pm, but I had to arrive in the cafeteria at 5pm to line up. Man, that was definitely BORING standing around waiting 2 hours to get moving. Although, I do say my feet were thanking me for not wearing high heels!! The ceremony itself felt like forever; especially since I spent the majority of the time praying I would not have to run to the bathroom. =) Our *special* guest speaker was Gov. Christine Gregoire, which was okay, except she kept talking about the important of education (then why all the education budget cuts?? :( ). I kept looking around the crowd to see if I could find Jay, Ron, and Karen, but it turns out they were seated the exact opposite in the gym from where I was lol. It was finally over around 9:30ish, and we headed to dairy queen afterwords for a treat!
I think when I finish school next time we can just have a family/friends party...going to the ceremony was too stressful for me!
Recently, I had applied to several colleges in WA and somehow got accepted to all of them (woo hoo!). I decided to go with Eastern Washington University (as they have a campus at Bellevue College where I just graduated). I will be majoring in Children's Studies with a minor in Sociology which will give me several options when I graduate to either work in education, social work, or continue on to grad school. At this point, I am interested in English as a Second Language(ESL) or Special Education, but I know that may change when I take more specific classes. So for now, I am looking forward to starting classes in September. We are in the process of trying to get financial aid (loans boo) set up so wish us luck with that!
On July the 7th, Jay and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary. Jay wasn't feeling well (we were both sick on our first anniversary, hope this doesn't continue lol) with a sore throat and whatnot, but we still managed to have a nice day at home. We had a yummy steak
dinner, some cake from the bakery that did our wedding cake (marble cake with vanilla bavarian cream and strawberries in the middle, topped with creamy frosting), and watched some episodes of 24.Jay has been doing fine. =) We celebrated his 34th birthday on the
16th of July with some birthday brownies followed by going to the movies to see Harry Potter! We both thought the movie was OK, but more of an in between movie (Jay says Harry was too much of a wimp/not enough action lol).
He tried to get away with not blowing out the candles on his brownies, but I told him I didn't care how old he was he still had to do it, haha!
We got to celebrate again the following Saturday with his family at IHOP for a birthday dinner (Breakner? Dinfast?).
Jay has been spending his time beta-testing a new game called Aion on the computer... it's basically similar style to World of Warcraft where you create characters to level and get better gear/do quests as you go. The game isn't officially released until September, but it is something he is looking forward to!
I have been clocking some time on the treadmill the past couple weeks hoping to get the weight loss back moving. I am down 6 lbs., but I have been at a plateau for a couple months now (staying the same is definitely better than gaining, but frustrating when you are putting in the exercise). I am interested in trying out the Couch to 5k running plan to see if it kick starts my metabolism. Also, my mom was nice enough to order me a food scale which should help lots. =)
I am hoping that Jay will be motivated to clock some time too once he gets his new Nike shoes (one of his birthday presents) this week. I know he thinks about it, but I don't think he knows where to start... especially when it's hot out and you don't feel like moving at all lol. It's a struggle, but it's definitely worth it as I feel much much better exercising than not!
Well, looks like wrote my brains out... We are looking forward to seeing the Mariner's with the family on August the 7th. Other than that and doing what we are doing not too much else new. =)
Hope everyone is doing well!
