July.

It has been a very busy month for Scott (my husband) and I, hence me not blogging that often. I find that I am not one of those people that sits at the computer for hours on end reading articles (like my husband), or looking on Pinterest (like...everyone I know). Rather, I usually just use my phone if I need to look something up or I'm using it to look at Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Because of this I am not often at my computer to blog. I don't like using my phone to blog because it just takes too long to type out. All that to say - I'm sorry its been so long. Not that you've missed me or anything

Anyway, back to July. Wow. The beginning of July started out like any other month. HOT. Then comes July 9th which is Scott's 26th birthday. I love birthdays...Scott not so much. He'd be fine sitting at home drinking a craft beer and relaxing. I however want a party, I want everyone to know it's his birthday and I'm so excited about it! But this year we kept it low key per his request. He had to work so my parents, sister, and I met him for lunch at Shane's Rib Shack (his choice). We had a couple gifts for him. My parents got him a shirt, and a book, and we went in together on 2 tickets to see Liverpool (a soccer team from England) play in Baltimore on July 28th. He already knew we were going to do that, but he didn't know I had bought the tickets so it was a semi surprise. After Scott got off work I picked him up and we went to eat dinner at the Cajun Queen in Charlotte. If you haven't been there you need to go immediately (but save up some money first because its a little pricey...but SO worth it). This place is awesome. It's in a little old house and they serve the best cajun food. At dinner I also gave Scott a new wedding band since he lost his back in March. He was surprise and actually really liked the one I picked out - plain and simple.

The next great adventure of July was the Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware. This was a 3 day, 4 night music festival. We went with 2 friends of ours who are currently living in NYC. It was so much fun. I have never experienced anything like this in my life. It was full 12 hour days of music, food, and like 30,000 other people. We camped outside the gates to the festival (not right next to them but only like 3 min walking distance away). I didn't shower for 4 days. We ate out of the back of my car and occasionally spent too much money on food inside the festival. We danced, sang, acted crazy, and just had a great time. I will definitely do something like that again. It was a blast. Words just can not describe the awesomeness of this trip.

The weekend directly after Firefly we drove to D.C. to attend the Liverpool match in Baltimore. Scott has a cousin that lives outside of D.C. that we stayed with for the weekend. It was really fun to get to spend time with them, I really like Scott's extended family a lot. The soccer match was...not my favorite thing and it was so hot that day...but we still had a good time. It was something we'll probably never see again (English Premiere League teams playing each other in America). And of course Scott enjoyed it immensely. (This is a terrible picture but I wanted to show you..it was bright and very hot...yayyyy)

Now its August and we have vowed not to go anywhere for a while. We have also put ourselves on a spending freeze. We are trying to buy a house so we need to save up money for a down payment. We actually found a house that we really want to buy but we have to get all this loan and credit stuff in order first so it might be a while. I'm trying not to worry to much and I'm trying not to get ahead of myself. If things don't happen the want I want them to right now then I guess it's not supposed to happen right now and/or that's not the house for us. Either way we plan on leaving where we currently live and not resigning a lease. So if you're a praying person you can pray that we are led in the direction we are supposed to go with this whole house/living situation thing. Scott and I are trying to better ourselves in the month of August: spending, being healthy, etc. We shall see how this goes. I'll update again soon....hopefully.