Enjoying the Present

I'm sure everyone by now is sick of my posts that talk about the future and moving back to Sacramento, but this is a post about the present!!! Mike and I have decided that along with changing our lives to relect healthy habits, we are going to make the best of our time here in Humboldt. So what does that look like you ask? What is involved in making the best of our time spent here on the North Coast? Well, so far it has involved 2 days of hiking, discovering waterfalls, and jogging on the beach. We hiked to the top of Trinidad head to watch the boats in the harbor, and jogged on the beach while Mike kept stopping to pick up every whole sand dollar he could find. By the end of our jog Mike was running with his arms full of ocean goodies. I said, "Mike, you are stealing from the Ocean! Don't make me remind you of not taking more than you need!" We are environmentalist you know! Needless to say we ended the jog with him putting 60% of our treasures back! It was also nice to let Eva off the leash and run all over the beach! She saw a seal hanging out and "cloud-bathing" (it would normally be sun-bathing but sun is so rare here) and tried to eat it! Much to her surprise, when she went towards it she got a big grunt from that angry seal (who was hoofing it, or should I say finning it to the ocean) and it looked more like the seal would eat her! Eva ran away scared, and hopefully smarter....don't touch the wildlife! Yesterday we also discovered, via google, some waterfalls not more than 5 minutes from our house. I slipped on the trail on the way down to the waterfalls, but even with a bleeding finger I enjoyed the beauty of these huge fern covered falls. So this is the start of our summer in Humboldt. I have a feeling enjoying our surroundings will make this year go by much faster! Well that and writing a thesis!

Summer Weddings!

Love must be in the air this month! Not only did Mike and I celebrate out 1 year anniversary June 7th, but my cousin Steph married her love Matt last weekend and my friend Crystal is marrying her's this upcoming Saturday. What a month for weddings! I love weddings, the guests, the music, the food, the free drinks! Weddings bring people together, not just the bride and groom but families, friends, strangers. Oh how I loved my wedding, how I love being married to my sweetie pie! Every day with my husband makes me feel closer to him, every week we are more connected, and every year we share together will be a year filled with happiness because we are together! What an adventure this last year has been with my love! Moving to Pullman, moving back to California, starting graduate school, cooking for two people, getting adjusted to life as a married couple! Overall, this year has been incredible and amazing and I am so glad I was able to share it with my love. <3

Heartache and Daydreams

Don't get scared, my blog posting will not be as prophetic as the title of my blog. I was checking out houses on metrolist (a housing list serve for the Sacramento area). This has become my favorite thing to do on my spare time, even though Mike and I know we won't be buying a house for at least 3 years (which seems like forever to me)! I get so excited looking at all these pictures of our potential houses, but it also makes me a little sad that we are here right now and now in my home! We are trying to enjoy our experience here, I mean Humboldt has so many amazing outdoor activites! And I know when we look back on our time here we will remember all the fun we had and the beauty we saw, but right now I am thinking about those picnics on the American River, jetskiing on Folsom Lake, eating lunch downtown, jumping on light rail, driving through the Fab 40's, riding our bikes through the city of trees in the sunlight, and simply enjoying the valley, the warmth. But most of all, I miss the comfort of my hometown. Of course the people are importnant, family and friends make it my home, but the atmosphere the area also holds a spot in my heart. I have dreams of owning a house under the tree-laden streets of Sac, wokring downtown and meeting co-workers for lunch, raising my kids in an area where parks, rivers, and trader joe's are abundant. I have visions of my children playing in the backyard on a warm sunny morning, kissing my love under the arches of the capital as we did once before, delighting in the simple pleasure that is good weather and sunshine.... Sacramento air. Mike and I know what we want, and we realize it might not all be possible. But then again, we can dream. We want a green lifestlye complete with cloth diapers and organic local food. We want nice things that will last us years, we want the joy of creating memories in an area where we can excel in our careers, families, friendships. I tend to think too far in the future, and maybe that makes me miss the wonderful things of the present. I am trying to live in the moment so that I enjoy the beauty that surrounds us on a daily basis, but I will never stop dreaming. Dreaming of our future solidifies what we want as a couple, who we want to be, and what our future will hold.

We will make our future... we can have whatever we cant.... as long as we make it happen. Let's make it happen.