A month flew by

Wow it's been a quick month! Interesting too..

We had a fantastic time in Hatteras for our anniversary. We did "touristy" things that we haven't done in forever, or have never done at all. We visited the lighthouse and climbed it. We also did a kayak tour, which was pretty neat. We even went over to Ocracoke, which we do with his family usually every June, but it never really interests us so much. They have a seafood buffet we wanted to check out though. The only downside to the trip is we were evacuated by hurricane Irene :(

As much as it sucked to be evacuated, it was nothing compared to the devastation our island friends are now facing. The pictures and story usually make me tear up reading them. I wish we could do more.

We faired fine through the hurricane up here. My mom had a tree fall on her house, only gutter damage though. Then we got hit with the remnants of tropical storm Lee about a week later and her crawlspace flooded. Could have been a lot worse I suppose. I wish the rainy dreary days would end though. It feels like we haven't seen a sunny day since we were in Hatteras.

On top of all the rain I started school again. Oy. What was I thinking taking 6 classes (18 credits) in one semester. Not sure how this is going to go. One step closer to graduation is the way I am trying to think.

We also celebrated our real one year anniversary Septemeber 7th. Dusty worked all day and I was in school until 7. I just have to say though, this was by far the best anniversary we've ever had. Started off in the morning with him surprising me with my present. He got me 4 new beads for my Pandora bracelet. 2 were a dog bone, and paw print to represent the pups, one was a glass bead with palm trees to represent Hawaii (where we honeymooned) and one that says I <3 NY. Then after I got home we went to Bella Napoli Restaurant. We had our first date ever there. He called ahead and asked the manager to make us a special dessert. It had our wedding date on it. I was about to dig in and he had to stop me to actually look at it! I also got some beautiful red roses :) Overall it was a great day, even though we only saw each other about 3 hours max :)

Laura