The Life of Riley

Time is rolling on and life is rolling right along with it! Yesterday was our official 1 month anniversary, it seems so small compared to 8 years of loving each other but still, celebrating never gets old! Rachel started her new job yesterday as a perioperative RN and UCI. I have never seen/ been a part of a more amazing hospital and the benefits are incredible, by far the best hospital around! I feel blessed to be a part of their periop team. We have a robot called The DaVinci that surgeons use to preform Urological surgeies ! It's a little overwhelming but we will learn and we will be great Rn's once we are done with our training program. This is a picture of my homemade pizza. The dough was even homemade ! It was a 2 hour event, I got a little stressed attempting to flatten the dough out after we had already flattened and then balled it up again. Note: After you roll the dough out DONT start over, just keep it flat, folding it over onto itself is a disaster...

We have been married for three weeks now! Time is flying by! Last weekend we took a trip up to see our friends Marcai and Randy and got to meet their 8 day old baby boy Noah! It was so much fun to spend time with them, we are so excited for them and their new addition, he is precious! Chad went back to work Monday and I have been getting the house set up, it's really fun because we don't have much (besides our wedding gifts which are amazing! Our kitchenware is SO NICE) but we are making the most out of it. We know in a few months from now when I've been working as a nurse that things will be so much better and so it makes it fun to just blow off the fact that we are on a tight budget. Chad and I saw Julie and Julia this afternoon- it was GREAT! It's right up my ally since I am obsessed with everything to do with cooking, especially French Cuisine lately. Then we went furniture shopping and out to a late dinner with my parents. We are babysitting 8 kids tomorr...

Well, here we are, married for 16 days and loving every minute of it! A lot of you have asked about our honeymoon so we figured we would start a blog to keep everyone filled in on what is going on in our lives.  Our honeymoon to St. Lucia was gorgeous! We had an incredible time at the Sandals Regency Resort.  It was an all-inclusive trip so we were able to eat and drink all day and night! We got upgraded to a beautiful two story villa that was right on the water.  We just walked down our steps and jumped in! So much fun! The water was beautiful and warm.  We went on a day sail and got to visit another part of the island and snorkel and then go to a special event called "Carnival" which is their version of Mardi Gras.  It was really awesome! Talk about a party!    We laid by the beach/pool and indulged in the swim up bar every so often ;) It was really great! We went horseback riding down to the beach and got to ride our horses together bareback into the water! What a dream!  ...