life updates

1. WE BOUGHT A CAR!

It's been a long time coming and after months of searching, Sam found a good deal on a car. I literally came home to the new car, Sam didn't even have time to tell me he was buying it because he didn't want someone to snatch it up before us lol. But you can't get much better than a 2016 with only 8,000 miles for a decent price and zero problems!  Plus it's already an upgrade for us because BOTH the heater and AC work & the windows roll up and down. #winning

But within a month of having the new car, we got bad news that the beloved minivan also has to go. SOOO we are on the search for car #2. But who can afford to buy two cars back to back? Maybe I should set up a go fund me. Venmo donations now accepted also...

 2. SAM LOVES HIS NEW JOB!

Sam started a new job about a month ago. Bonus--it's about 10 mins from our apartment and he could potentially work there after he graduates...HELLO SAN DIEGO forever!! 

But I'm getting ahead of myself. We still have a long time until we know for sure and it's a national firm so we could be moving to one of the other locations. But for now he's been working non stop writing memos and research papers for the firm and they just keep piling it on but Sam is thriving there. So that's a good sign. 

3. I'M THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PRESIDENT! 

As of 2 weeks ago, I'm the new young women's president in our ward at church and it's the most daunting thing ever! Not gonna lie, the first week was rough! But Jesus' got my back! I'm slowly realizing I can do this. And there are so many people willing to help me--my counselors and advisors are great and the girls are great. I just gotta grin and bear it and pretend like I know what I'm doing. There have been many phone calls to my mom, emails back and forth with my ladies, and phone calls to my yw prez bff Pagiey.   

4. ONLY 208 DAYS UNTIL GRADUATION!!

It's the final countdown! Well not really, 208 days is kind of a lot but 1 1/2 semesters left of law school sounds much more manageable. I think we've both agreed that Sam's done with school forever but there has been the idea of getting an LLM hopefully senioritis kicks in so school can be done fore good but we'll see. 

so it's fall now?

 It may be fall but we're still over here living our summer life. We've had a few heatwaves and that's totally fine with me because I'm not ready to give up summer. Except for the fact that the day after we bought our pumpkins at the pumpkin patch they shriveled up on our doorstep from the heat :(

 We've still been out surfing on weekends and sometimes we meet up after work, but with it being dark so early it's totally cramping our style.  

 I took Cortney surfing with me on our day off and we froze our buns off but had tons of fun. 

PS. Props to the old man beach bum who took this pic. But he also took a couple other pics just of my bum so....

  Maggie, Ky, and Everest came to visit us one weekend. We spent all day at the beach and Sam helped Maggie and Ky surf but probably not the best idea in 5-7ft waves. We had a beach bonfire and saw the prettiest sunset.  

We took a break between conference sessions to longboard at the bay. 

We've been hanging out with friends on Sundays after church for potluck lunches whether it be at the beach or Jacky or Cort's house. 

So far the only fall activity we've done is go to our fave pumpkin patch for the 4th year in a row. Got us some pumpkins and free apple cider even though it was 80 degrees that day. 

Even though it's still basically summer, that doesn't mean we can't do fall activities--We've been working on our Halloween costumes for a few weeks now and it did cool down one night and I got to wear sweatpants! So that was fun.