Day Trip to Newport, Rhode Island.

The weather here in New England has been absolutely BEAUTIFUL lately. Last week while dog/house sitting for the Calton's I was able to get a little sun and then this past Saturday Josh and I decided to take advantage of the nice weather and our last free weekend before we move and go and check out Newport since that is one place of many that we wanted to see before moving. In Newport we at lunch at a little restruant on the water front with our neighbors Christie and Eric and their friends Shawn and Tonya who were visiting. After lunch we went our seperate ways and Josh and I went and checked out two of the vineyards in the area. We went to Newport Vinyards and Greenvale Vinyards. We took the whole tour at the Newport Vineyards and did a tasting at both. We decided that we don't need to take anymore tours because we can now give the tours ourselves....:)! We really enjoyed it. Josh said that we have to drink all the wine that we have right now before we leave because we are going to a place were there is far much more....and probably even better....!!!:)!!! After the vineyards we went back toward the water and went on the 3 1/2 mile cliff walk along the water and the right by all the Newport Mansions. It was absolutely beautiful. We did not do the entire walk because we made a mistake and did not use the restroom before starting the walk and plus we had to go and pick up Rachel and Kyle from the airport and did not want to be late for that. Here are a few of the pictures that we took. Enjoy!

Here is what you have all been asking for.....Pictures!

Here is a quick catch up via pictures.....

Josh and I got to go to our last Sub Ball with the wonderful Alexandria Crew:

here are all the ladies...
(left to Right) Kelly, Michelle, Me, Rachel, Tonya, Caroline, Valerie, Staci, and Christie
Here are all the men...
(left to right) Alan, Josh, Kyle, XO, Captain, Tom, Chris, Jon, Jeff, Charles

Rachel and I!
You can check out rachel's blog for more pictures!

Here a few pictures from when I got to go to Texas to suprise my mom for her 50th birthday....my little brother came too so it was a big surprise to have us both there.

Here is me, my little brother Josh and his girlfriend Kristin.....we got to meet her while we were there....:)

Here is a picture of the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium that is being built in Arlington...I took this so that Josh could see how much they had gotten done.

Here are a few pictures from the goodbye party with work. We went to Margarita's( a restraunt in downtown Mystic). My coworker Brett and I were both leaving w/in a week of each other.

Merrill, me and Brett
Me, Heidi and Merrill
Me and Josh...ps Josh and just gotten home from and underway that afternoon...he his such a trooper!:)
Here are a few pictures from Easter! I spent Easter with Rachel at Valerie's house with her family! The food was AWESOME!

Christie, Rachel, me and Valerie at the Good Friday Service!

Here is the bunny cake that Rachel, me, Val, and her brother Michael and his girlfriend all made.
Rachel, Val and me after making the cake the night before Easter at Val's house.
I will try to update this more often but since we are about 1 month away from leaving I am going to be pretty busy getting things ready for that.....I will for sure post pictures of our cross country road trip with the two cats and then of our beautiful new home in California once we get there! Keep us in your prayers as we are driving to California!

5K pictures...

Since it was just Ashley and I and her husband Austin had to work the day of the race we didn't carry anything with us.....so we had to take picuters of ourselves once we made it back to her apartment.....so here are a few....Easter weekend events and picuters are coming....check back tomorrow...hopefully it will be up by then....I even have some funny DDR pictures of me rachel christie and mary! Enjoy! Happy day after Easter!

Myself and Ashley after the run...
Me.....not so hot...
Ashley!!!

5K......Check.....

Well...believe it or not....I did it! I ran in my first ever race. This past Sunday was my first ever 5k run. The run was in Boston, Massachusetts. Let me just tell you.......it was 32 degrees with a wind chill in the 20's when we woke up that morning.....so we turned on the news and checked to see if the race was still going to happen.....what were we thinking....of course crazy Boston is still going to have the race. So Ashley and I got ready and ate breakfast.....then left to catch the subway to were the race was to be. We got there a little early so we sat around for a bit then started stretching(all indoors) before we all got called outside to get lined up at the starting line. By this time it was about this time I think the tempature had gotten up to about 34 max! So yes...we were FREEZING! Then what do you knwo......the race began.....up hill......no big deal...til we turned the corner to at the top of that hill to run up another hill.....when we got to the top of that hill we look out toward the Boston water.....and what do you know....nothing but hills!!!!!!! I thought I was going to have heart attack right then and there....!!!!! But Ashley and I just kept going! We ran all the way (up and down hills) to the end(half way)....made a circle and turned around and ran back up and down the same hills we just ran.....then we get to the end.....and what do you knwo.....we finished going UP a hill.....! I will admit that I did walk a couple of times...but I finished the race and I even finished it 10min. faster than what I had expected myself to. I finished in 35 min and 56 seconds. I think that is pretty good for my first time.....Ashley did an AMAZING job and finished in just over 30min. After we were done we went inside and had some water and fruit...then headed back to the subway to go and get some lunch.....we went and had some lunch at Cheesecake Factory then headed back to Ashley's apartment to relax...shower and watch a movie (by the way...we watched "In her Shoe's" very cute movie). After relaxing I headed back to Connecticut. Rachel said that because I did so well that I could go out for Ice cream....so me rachel christie and mary all went out for ice cream/dinner then came back to my apartment for some DDR(dance dance revolution)! I have some GREAT pictures from the dancing so I will have to post those.....I also need to get the pictures from the race from Ashley....and I will post those! That is about all I have for now.....Josh is still gone still...so continue to pray for him and the rest of the guys as they are out. BYE!