Farewell P-Town

Our apartment is a mess. I like it though. It means that everything is getting put into boxes and we are one step closer to heading to Florida. Basically I have been talking about moving back to Florida for the last three years. But don't get me wrong, there are many things I am going to miss about New Joysee. To name a few:


Walking around in downtown Princeton.

Fall leaves.

Biking down the canal path with Katie.

Apple picking.

Being so close to NYC!

Taking part in the local farmshare.

Being so close to Rae and Kevin (among other great friends).

The SNOW.

Being able to take a (cheap) train ride.

Living right across the street from Anthropologie so I can keep an eye on sales.

Among many other things.


And now a final picture of our apartment before I completely tore it apart put everything into boxes. 

Last shot of us in front of the old apartment. It's getting torn down after we leave. 

Love you and miss you all. 

5 Boxes

That's how many boxes I have packed today. I have also watched 3 movies, drank way too much coffee, walked across the road to get a (really) heavy box of packing paper, created a (possibly) good fish and veggie concoction in the crockpot, and most importantly told my Dad I loved him. Today is Father's Day. Dad, thank you for being funny, strong, optimistic, and supportive. I love you and you are wonderful. 

Graduation and some

Zach graduated May 19th and I am finally getting around to posting about it, among other things. Graduation weekend was a ton of fun. Finally the day had arrived! My parents and Zachs mom came up for the weekend. We had so much time together. A wonderful reminder of what is to come when we move back down to Florida (in T minus 25 days). 

Rae and Zach getting ready to goooo!

Zach and his proud momma.

Little Daddy and Little Cathy

 We ate graduation dinner at Vidalia in Lawrenceville. It was amazing. 

Everyone was headed back home by Wednesday and Zach and I were back to work. Right up until Memorial Day weekend. We originally decided to visit Grandma and Grandpa Grant in Rhode Island, then I was able to take off an extra day of work so we stretched the trip and spent our last two nights camping in Cape Cod. Rhode Island was lovely and relaxing as always. 

Our campsite in Cape Cod wasn't all that great, but the location was amazing. Both days we were there our schedule consisted of: sleeping in, breakfast & lunch at the site, riding our bikes the 2.5 miles to the beach, exploring/reading at the beach for 4ish hours, back to the site, showers, reading, dinner, smores, sleep. So wonderful and soooo necessary.

Woods by the beach.

Our ROYGBIV rock color scale.

Our grey rock color scale.

Crazy steep cliffs on the beach.

We are both incredibly happy we decided to go to Cape Cod. So gorgeous. In other news, look at these cute pictures of autumn and Zach. . . 

That's all for now. I can't believe we are moving in 25 days. Yes, I have the moving truck and everything. Now we just have to find a place to live (details). 
Miss you and love you all!

Guess what. . .

Zach graduates TOMORROW! Then it's only ONE MORE MONTH until we move back to Saint Augustine and start a new chapter in our life together. So fun. So exciting. 


Love you and miss you all.

Sinko Day Mayonnaise

 Hi there. Let's just dive in shall we? A while ago one of my coworkers, Mary, gave me a ton of art supplies that her father left to her. Both of her parents passed away way before their time and she was left with a lot of things she had no use for. Then she found out that I loved to paint and draw and do creative things so she let me have the art supplies. It was extremely generous and thoughtful of her. In return I would make something for her. I always get nervous about making things for other people because I want the end result to be so good and I don't want them to be disappointed, etc. So it took me a couple of months to get something on paper. I painted one thing, then decided it was too bright and playful. . .or something. It wasn't right. Then I decided it would be nice if I was able to draw/paint a picture of her with her parents. So that's what I did. Just in case she secretly thought it was too weird or whatever I also painted her some flowers. 

 This past week Zach and I have been dog sitting for our good friends the McNeals. Little Clancy has been a lot of fun to have around. Scooby and Clancy have so much fun together. And by that I mean Scooby loves to rub up against Clancy while he just stands really still hoping that Scooby will just leave him alone. Scooby just wants to cuddle. 

Scooby loves Clancy

Autumn also loves Clancy.

Zach and I saw The Avengers on Saturday morning. The theater was insanely packed for a Saturday morning. The movie was so amazing. Everyone should go see it, immediately. Saturday night it was time to celebrate Cinco De Mayo! Katie and I went to a thrift store to find some costumes. I ended up finding the one (mini) sombrero left and Katie ended up with a skirt and some sweet boots. That night we headed over to our friends and had such a fun time. I love guacamole and corn salsa more and more everyday. 

Zach was the best Mexican.

I let him wear my "Sombrero".

Wild n crazy seminary party!

Katie didn't like somesing. . . . 

. . . but now she's the happiest. She borrowed Kurts "Poncho"

"Look Mexican."

We had a blast last night. I wish our friends were available to hang out every single night so we could party year round. Today we slept in and then I ran some errands to pick up some craft supplies! One of my coworkers asked me if I knew about Chan Luu bracelets. I had seen them but I didn't know the fancy label name and I also didn't realize how dang expensive they were! But I did like them so I decided to make one! 

I really like the way it turned out and I think I am going to make another one with smaller beads. So easy and so cheap! I also had a couple of white shirts I wanted to die so for a bit, our kitchen sink looked like it was filled with blood. 

So bloody. . .  

We'll see how those turn out later. . . I have a feeling they are going to be a bit spotty because the directions said to "stir for 30 to 60 minutes" bah yeah right. 


OK well, that's all for now. 


Miss you and love you all.