AZ to NY

So it's been a while, but here we are living in New York for the summer and we couldn't be any happier! JP got an internship at a company called BioLite so we flew out to this big city on Monday and had a little vacation before he started! I'm pretty sure we've been everywhere, and we only got lost on the Subway once!

We went shopping in SoHo, checked out where JP would work in DUMBO Brooklyn and of course went there shopping too! We couldn't help it there were just the best vintage shops, but we didn't buy anything which was good even though we wanted to buy everything! Once we got back to our place in Ridgewood JP got an email from his boss inviting him to a rooftop party to celebrate their success on Kickstarter. So we got right back on the subway to Brooklyn and joined in on the fun! It was cool to meet all the people he would work with before his actual first day, and they grilled hot dogs on their new home stoves (I'm pretty sure those are the new ones BioLite just came out with, but I could definitely be wrong!) Either way it was beautiful and we enjoyed ourselves.

Our view from the roof of the BioLite building!

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 Then yesterday we walked around Central Park, of course visited the Apple Store and then we channeled our childhood in FAO Schwarz. I've never seen stuffed animals so big in my life, they were seriously life size! And JP was really excited to see that you could make your own muppet! Who knew? If only they weren't so expensive...But anyway here are a couple pics of our adventures so far!

Just hanging out at Central Park, and we probably didn't even see half of it!

I'm almost as tall as Batman. 

Just News

This week has already started out crazy with late night homework and finishing projects. BUT I finally finished my sculpture project at midnight last night - and I'm sure our neighbors loved hearing my hammering and drilling until then, but thats the life of an art student! And while I was doing that JP was trying to work on his website and other homework, but I put him a little behind because I needed help. Which is why he definitely gets the best husband award because he helped me so much even though he had a lot of work of his own. I don't know how I could have done it without him!

So that was last night and now were just back to doing homework while JP endlessly works on his website - which by the way is www.jpowhite.com if you want to check it out! He's trying to get it done as soon as he can so it'll be ready for when he applies to internships this summer (hopefully that'll start within the week). So if you know of any cool industrial design internships outside of AZ don't be shy!

Onto other news...I got called to be the Young Women's secretary in our ward a couple months ago! It's been that long since out last update. But yeah, it's crazy because I feel like I should still be in Young Women's and now I'm one of the leaders! It's been great getting to know the girls and other leaders, but it's definitely a learning experience.

Well, I believe that's it for now. Maybe next time we'll have an internship landed and know where we're going this summer! Hopefully.

Belated Christmas

So even though it's been over a month lets talk about Christmas! It was our first Christmas together and it couldn't have been better! Christmas Eve we had dinner with family and did all that fun stuff, then that night JP and I decided to move our mattress into the living room and sleep there. Our tree looked beautiful if I do say so myself.

Then we spent the morning exchanging gifts and playing with our new toys (JP got an architecture Lego set and I got a gel nail light). After that we went to my parents house and had tamales and more gifts! It was fun to have the whole family together and of course we played games like always! It was a great day full of family and fun and I'm so thankful we were able to spend it together with them!

Just opening some of our amazing gifts from the parents!

Some family and couple pics, it definitely took us a 

while to get a good one of us all together!

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Then we were able to spend a week up in Utah with JP's family! We went to the movies at Jordan Commons in the VIP theater (I think that's what it was called?) which was so fun! Had a New Year's party with the family - where we toasted to the New Year at around 8 or 9 because of the kids and then we hung out with JP's friends. It was definitely odd to toast to the New Year four hours before the actual time, but it was still very fun! We also took family pictures which went surprisingly fast even with all the little ones!

I've never taken pictures in the snow so that was kinda fun! A little different 

than the family pictures we took in Arizona when it was 75 degrees!

JP was also able to go snowboarding, while I just read in the lodge! 

We went to Brighton and it was so busy! It was so cool to see him 

come down the runs though - I'm definitely not as good as him! 

Another day we also went to Park City and wandered around Main Street. I've never 

been there so it was really cool to go to all the little shops and art galleries that
they had there! And on the way home we saw this beautiful
sunset that I couldn't resist taking a picture of!