The month of May...

Is my favorite month! Cause it’s my birthday on the first! So since we were travelling at the end of April it meant we were still getting all settled in for my birthday, and of course Dan had to work all day. So Dan gave me my gift early, which was a copy of the most recent Les Miserables sheet music! I loved it, but only got a chance to play through it once before packing up. We’ve got every intention of going out to dinner to celebrate my momentous 23 years of life, just haven’t gotten around to it yet with Dan’s limited free time. One of these days!

I also got the chance to visit a new temple this month! My friend Cardin Frei and I spent a Saturday driving up to the Kansas City, Missouri temple, about 45 minutes away to do a session together. It was great to experience the beauty of a new temple as well as enjoy the fact that no matter where you go, the principles and patterns of the Church are always the same. It was a great way to spend the day and feel the Spirit.

(Not my picture.. but still beautiful!)

Saturday’s are the only night (except Sunday) that Dan has off, so we don’t get a lot of time together to do anything, especially time where he is not physically exhausted! We did take one weekend to go see Iron Man 3 – it was pretty good, though to be honest by this point I can’t remember a whole lot of the details! If that’s your kinda movie, and you liked the first 2, I’d say it’s definitely worth a watch. But since we’re new around here, we just went to the first theater we found it in. It ended up being fairly pricey, so we didn’t get popcorn – my favorite part! Needless to say, it is much harder to enjoy a movie without a bag of popcorn in front of you!

We also went out as an office to eat at Oklahoma Joe’s. Kansas is famous for BBQ, so it’s supposed to be this amazing BBQ restaurant; apparently it’s actually on some top ten list of places you must eat at before you die! Sadly, I’m not a big fan of BBQ so I didn’t enjoy it all that much. But the boys went crazy! They absolutely loved it, and it was a ton of food for a good price, so it’s a triple win for them.

Finally, the whole group went as an office to see an MLB game: Kansas City Royals vs. New York Yankees! It was my first time going to a professional game so although I’m not a huge baseball fan I was kind of excited. It got pretty cold, and baseball is a loooong game; I spent most of my time playing with my camera and talking to Dan. But it was a cool experience nonetheless.

Not gonna lie May  was a tough month for me; it’s always so hard to pack up and move to a new place, especially when it means such long work hours for Dan and long, lonely days for me. I try to be supportive, but I’ll be glad when this part of our lives is over!

My newest niece, Maddison, born May 16