More good news!

This past weekend was pretty uneventful. William and I didn't do much of anything of here's the recap: Friday we went out to eat at this restaraunt called "Texas Roadhouse" and it was really good! Saturday night we went and saw Eclipse (my second time, William's third) and went out for ice cream at Ben and Jerry's afterwards. It was SOO good but it was so hot outside that we had to eat it really quickly. We only managed to snap a picture of William's cone so here it is:

Sunday night I had to return to Raleigh because my orientation for my job was at headquarters in Raleigh on Monday morning. I went Sunday night so that I could spend a little time with Charles and Verny (a.k.a my parents!) and our precious dog Charlie!

I had a lonnggg orientation all day Monday, complete with OSHA training and every other boring thing imaginable, and William continued here in Winston with his med school orientation. As soon as it was over I headed back to Winston where William informed me that he received a FULL SCHOLARSHIP to Wake Forest. He was nominated and sent his application the day before we left for Africa. They told us he would find out in July but last week they gave out the financial aid so we figured he didn't get the Full Ride. They sent him and e-mail yesterday and we are BEYOND elated! Since Wake Forest is a private school tuition is high but thank the lord this burden has been lifted!

Happy Days

The past few days have been some happy days! Yesterday William and I went to the mall, mainly because we had a bath and body works gift card, and the mall here is huge! Bath and Body Works happened to be having some GREAT sales so we got $80 worth of stuff for $25. The wallflowers (and refills) were buy one get one free and the aromatherapy collection was buy two get one free. I love sales...

Today was an extremely happy day because it was the first day of William's medical school orientation AND I was hired for the job I wanted! I have orientation monday and then I officially start Tuesday. William's orientation continues through next Friday but it won't always be ALL day like it was today. They received their laptops today and had to go through a bunch of computer workshops and confidentiality stuff. William was at least happy that they got Chic-fil-a catered for lunch! Here's a picture of him before he left this morning: (I felt proud!)

He has to be there early tomorrow but I think he gets out by lunch. We have a lot of errands to run tomorrow and I'm glad we get to spend the rest of the day together!

A little Traveling

The past few days have been filled with family visits. My aunt, cousin, and her bf (who are below) went out of town on vaccation and winston-salem was on their way back so they popped in for a visit. We had a good time laughing at William who was hyped up on iced-coffee!

We arent't sure what's going on with the weather in Winston. It seems like everyday since we've moved in has been complete with a tremendous downpoor out of nowhere. We were getting ready to go to the gym and when we walked out this is what was happening. You probably can't tell by the picture but it was the hardest rain I've ever seen. Soooo we went back inside.

Monday we got ready and drove to Oxford where William is from. We mainly went to visit and run some errands with his family but we also got a few important things done like changing William's car's oil and giving it a MUCH needed wash!

We went out to dinner at Cracker Barrel with his family and then we played Mad-Gab with William's sister Victoria and her BF aaron. I don't know if anyone reading this has ever played that game but it's sort of weird. I guess this is one of those "had to be there" things but here goes: The point of the game is to guess the phrase from the cards but the cards have like mushed-up sentences on them. The only clue you can give your partner is whether to stretch out their words, pronounce it faster or so on. I laughed SOO hard at william, mostly because I was mad at him, because the card said "A Seal Den Full Hope", the answer obviously being "a sealed envelope" and he got the sealed part but he KEPT saying "den-full-hope". I was yelling "WHAT is a sealed den-full-hope?" HAHA. We laughed about that for a while but he eventually got better at the game.

We had to come back to Winston today because I had to have like a second interview/training session at my potential job today. I'm pretty sure I got the job but I should know for sure tomorrow. William's med school orientation starts this Thursday so we'll keep you posted on how everything's going!

Our first week in Winston

Welcome to our blog! We thought this would be a great way for all of our friends and family to keep up with us and our big move. As many already know, William and I went on a month long trip to Africa to do medical service and he asked me to marry him at Olduvai Gorge which was one of our "tourist" spots along the way to our destination. William and I have been friends for four years and we've been dating for almost two years. We're so excited to get married and open this next chapter of our lives. We moved to Winston-Salem last weekend because William begins his first year of medical school at the end of this month. If you know William, then you KNOW how excited he is!

This whole week has been spent getting settled, unpacking, and preparing for what's to come. I have had two job interviews this past week, we have been back-and-forth running errands, and we have sick family members that we're thinking about from afar. Needless to say we needed a little treat so tonight we ventured downtown to Mellow Mushroom. It was some of the best pizza I've ever had. Here is a picture of us before we left:

and here is William waiting on the pizza:

When we moved in last saturday my aunt and uncle took us to get our wedding present early...SOO tonight when we got back from dinner we were ready to test them out:

WOOHOO! I have never been so excited to do some laundry, and boy did we have a lot of it.

Sorry this first post was not so eventful but I left my camera battery charger in raleigh so I have to take pictures with my blackberry! We will be sure to post some pictures of our apartment and whatnot as soon as we can take some more!