FREEDOM!

After a few long months of job hunting for Parker (and anxiously waiting for me) the hunt is finally over! Parker received and accepted an offer for a financial analyst position at Freedom Group earlier this week. The job is in Madison, NC just about forty minutes from where we live now. What is Freedom Group you ask? Well since my response is usually just "they make guns", here is a description I found online: "Founded in 1816, Freedom Group is the world's leading innovator, designer, manufacturer, and marketer of firearms, ammunition, and related products for the hunting, shooting sports, law enforcement, and military markets. As one of the largest manufacturers in the world of firearms and ammunition, we have some of the most globally recognized brands including Remington, Bushmaster, DPMS/Panther Arms, Marlin, H&R, NEF, Dakota Arms, LC Smith, Parker, AAC, Barnes Bullets, EOTAC and INTC." 
Congrats Parker! You're a top shot  ;)

The 14^th was our 1^st anniversary. Woo-hoo. We decided to go and spend the weekend exploring Charleston. I fell in love with it right away. I’m pretty sure it’s the epitome of southern charm. It has plantation homes, cobble streets, horse carriages, great food, a battery with old cannons and stuff and the beach. So great. Also, you get offered sweet tea anywhere you go. A year has gone by pretty fast, but we both agreed the first year didn't seem as tough as people make it out to be. I guess it’s just because we’re so truly, madly deeply in love ;) Here are some pics from the trip:

Here is our lovely hotel,

 with Parker entertaining the guests at the piano.

Okay that's a lie. It was just a really nice hotel Parker decided to have us take a tour of.

  I loved this building. They should put it in a movie or something. It was where we were waiting for our carriage tour. 

 what a stud

Okay, so the best best best thing we did in Charleston may have been eating out at Jestine's Kitchen. It was soooo good. Seriously. We had fried chicken with fried okra and mac and cheese. It was mouth-watering. Rachel Ray has even eaten there. The best part though was the homemade berry cobbler. It was so good that after Parker's first bite he said "this made the trip for me". It was really funny but so true.

Three reasons why I loved folly beach: dolphins, british speedo man, and this blue house:

Welp here's to our marriage. Only an eternity left to go ;)

Life has definitely changed since the last time I've posted. Here's a brief synopsis: Parker came back to Utah, we packed our U-haul and the burb' up and we made the trip across the country to North Carolina. We stopped for a day at his sister's house in Illinois so it was a nice break in our trip, but it's definitely not a drive I am wanting to make again anytime soon. It was fun getting to spend time living with the sis before I came out here and am sad to leave all my family and friends out west. That being said, I'm glad to have my husband back which has made the move a lot easier to handle. That and the fact that we got to go to beach the first weekend I was here and then again all of last week with the whole Haderlie family. It's been so fun. Parker would definitely spend everyday all day at the beach if he could, and I can't complain about that because there's nothing I love more than sitting by the ocean getting a good tan. We got settled into our new apartment and bought our first living room set together. Pretty exciting stuff. Parker's still looking for a job, but things are going well. He's had a lot of interviews and we're hoping something is going to come soon. I am going to start student teaching in three weeks so am taking advantage of the nothing I have to do. Really I don't know when in our lives we are ever going to both have nothing (no jobs, school, kids, etc...) to do, so I figure we better live it up. Well so much for the short part, but here are a few pics to spice up the post.

No picture of the u-haul, but here's us on the road.

Long weekend down near Charleston

nice sandals park ;)

We both love playing with the kiddos

new apt. loving the new couch set. take note of our class dining room table :)