House Hunting

Well, Josh and I thought we would start looking into houses to rent in Florida to see what kind of price range we were looking at. We were pleasantly surprised by a really neat website called www.militarybyowner.com. It allows you to look at homes for rent or sale by military personnel near the base you will be reporting to. We contacted a few property managers and have had great success so far. We really like one potential house (to rent, not buy...no worries!) in a new subdivision called "the Floridian". It's on a cul-de-sac in the corner, has a fenced in back yard, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a nice kitchen, etc etc. The property manager and owner seem very nice and have sent us some great pics....the place looks a little empty now...but we could do something about that with all of our nice wedding gifts :). Josh is allowed to have 10 days of "house hunting" leave, so we are hoping to go down to FL soon to check the place out.

Tuesday I went to a "space-A" seminar which talked about flying on military flights standby for free. It sounds very appealing but is not too reliable. Apparently a really good time to fly is from October up until Christmas...so we are hoping to hop on one of these planes to Pensacola (not a direct flight with the military planes). Right now apparently is a very busy time to catch a plane through "space A"- 275 active duty personnel were trying to fly out on Tuesday night (from BWI airport in Baltimore). Eek! Good news for us though is that active duty personnel (that would be Josh) and their families on house hunting leave have 2nd level priority (next to people on emergency leave).

P.S. Leave = vacation days or time off

pics

Keesha and Kenny's Wedding

Edgar (A.K.A. Big E) roaming

Blanket I made for Josh when I was at Calvin College....and just found the Burks basement ;)

Who's that girl?

He looks like he knows what he's doing

Honeymoon in Puerto Vallarta, MX



New Apartment in Baltimore

Luke and Erika Playing RockBand!

Getaway car from the wedding :)

What's New?!

Well,

I thought I would add some pictures of recent happenings....So, we're back from our wonderful honeymoon (well...we've been back awhile...but I wish I could go back!) and we've done a lot in our first 2 months of married life.

I just finished my 2nd summer semester (whew!) and I begin my final semester the day after labor day!

Josh just finished working one job at the Naval Academy and will now be working for the Physical Education Dept at the Naval Academy....he seems to have a lot of responsibilities with this new job (for example: he will be teaching 7-8 swimming classes a week, assistant coach to the rifle team, miscellaneous jobs he gets assigned like weighing in all the midshipmen for 6 hours!, and so forth). Josh will also be completing introductory flight school before we move down to Florida (well, at least that's the plan!)

We've seemed to catch up with a lot of friends in the meantime: going to Keesha and Kenny's wedding, spending time with Matt, Heidi, Jeff and Feroza, Luke and Erika, and of course Edgar.

One new development that began when Heidi was visiting is that we have recently begun letting Edgar (our guinea pig -of course) roam the apartment. We thought he would just sit idly but races all over the place in search of any sort of green food. At first he was pretty bad at it but he's catching on. We've got to watch him though or he'll chew on anything made of wood!

Another recently new development is that I (Whitney) have taken up golf! I have had 2 lessons and actually enjoy it. I used to mock it saying "who would ever want to hit a ball, watch it fly, watch it land, walk to it, and do it all over again!" but I have really enjoyed spending time walking the course with Josh. He says I'm the best newbie he's ever seen (I dunno, there might be a little bit of bias there ;)).

What am I doing with all of my "free" time while school is out? Well...I'm working on my ongoing research project for school (pilot testing for individuals with spinal cord injuries), organizing the apartment (you'll see a pic of a blanket I made while talking on the phone with Josh at Calvin College- we just moved the last of Josh's stuff out of the Burks' house), and trying to get into an exercise routine. Well, I'm sure I could write more, but I should go work on my resume.....it's probably a little more important :)

Our new blog :)

Hey Everyone!

Well, here's our blog where we will post pics of our adventures and such....hope you enjoy :)