11 Days to DC!!

So, I don't know if I mentioned this before or not, but one of my favorite mission companions-an person in general- is getting married this July. I'm super excited for her she totally deserves to have happiness in her life. I think it's also cute that she met her fiance in New York doing clean up after hurricane/super storm  Sandy.
Anyway, Ian and I are flying out July 3rd for the wedding that weekend. We're excited for the wedding and also to see the fireworks on the 4th of July!! They should be absolutely amazing in the nation's capital. We were told that we should try to be at the Washington Monument to watch them. We'll have to see how late the buses run and if we can do that.
We're also planning on spending time at the Smithsonian Museums, the Holocaust Museum, and wandering all over the place. We really want to visit the Washington D.C. temple too. I hope we can!

As for an update - we are currently staying with my parents in an itty bitty apartment in Perry while we wait for our apartment to be vacated. (They're actually moving out this coming week!) Truthfully, it hasn't been bad living with my parents. Both Ian and I are at work most of the day so we really only see them in the evenings. By then we just eat dinner and get ready for bed. Weekends have been fun. We've been helping in the garden. It's a large garden plot and I'm super excited for late summer and fall when we get to harvest!!
Our new ward is good. It's a little too big though. The primary is huge! I'm not used to being in such a noisy sacrament meeting. Ian and I got to substitute in primary for my mom. She teaches the 4 year-olds. We had 8 little kids to take care of. It was chaos but a lot of fun too. Ian had never taught primary before. I was surprised.