Congratulations Joseph and Jenica!

A big congratulations to Joseph and Jenica who were married on Friday 26th September! We're so happy to have Jenica join the family! It was a perfect day, the most perfect part being inside the temple. 

The happy couple!

It was really windy.

Abby is almost as tall as Dad!

I'm sure there must be one where everyone is actually smiling, but I can't find one. So maybe not!

They had a lovely garden reception!

Beautiful!

I love this picture of Grandma. Abby was blowing bubbles at her.

We could hear thunder in the distance, see lightening and feel light rain...but it mainly held off until after the reception :)

Cutting the cake - followed by a very 'smushy' cake swap!

Mother / son dance

Their first dance was very sweet. They actually danced, not just swayed! Impressive! Video below :)

Congratulations again and welcome to married life Mr & Mrs. Burgan!

Coast to coast in 3 months. Sure, why not?

After a fabulous summer in San Francisco, Spencer got a great job in Wilton, Connecticut! He is a Copywriter for an advertising agency named Tracy Locke.

But that meant we had to move. Again. But this time it was a little further than California. 2,977 miles further. So we packed up our apartment in California and moved everything back to Utah. We decided to skip the whole cross-country U-Haul drama again and just take whatever would fit in our Accord with us to Connecticut. We were able to rebuild pretty fast and cheaply in Cali so it wasn't too daunting - until we saw how much we had stored in Utah. And thus began the ultimate sort out. 

Take it, sell it, DI it, give it away, throw it away, or store it? 

What I was hoping would fit in our car. Plus us. Plus the dog. Wishful thinking?

We were packed in there like sardines. But it all fit! And more :)

 

Disclaimer: No cute animals were harmed in this move! 

He was so good the entire way there. All 4 days of it!

It was quite an uneventful drive (thankfully no car problems at all!) but we did get to stop in Kirtland and look at a few of the church history sites there. 

We spent about 3 nights in various hotels while we apartment searched like crazy people in any location within 30 mins of Wilton. (Wilton is the center of expense...yey). 

Stanley tried to be helpful, but wasn't. 

Our thoughts on CT so far. 

We eventually found a place! We're living in Ansonia. It's got character. 

(Cool house, but not our house)

It feels like we've been to Ikea a hundred times trying to decide on various furniture for our apartment. We'd never built Ikea furniture before, needless to say we had to stop and make brownies a couple times to get through it. The bed wasn't that bad to make, but that dresser...

Ta da!

Spencer's first day of work! Yes, I still take these pictures. 

He's enjoying his job so far. It's only week 2 and he's mainly working on Pepsi.

We're excited to be on the East Coast for a while, even though it is very different to anywhere we have ever lived. It feels most similar to England because of how green it is and how curvy and narrow the roads are sometimes. We've already made a bucket list (check it out) of everything we want to try and do while we are here, however long that may be!

East Coast Bucket List

We're not sure how long we will be on the East Coast but we'll make the most of it while we are here :)

Connecticut 

Yale University

Yale University Art Gallery

Yale Center for British Art

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Mystic Aquarium

Maritime Aquarium (Norwalk)

Essex steam boat and riverboat

Niantic - #1 voted town (shop at Grace and The Book Barn)

Lake Compounce Theme Park (Bristol)

Mark Twain House (Hartford)

To see leaves in CT

Litchfield Hills

Kent

Sleeping Giant State Park (Hamden)

New York

Times Square

Statue of Liberty

Central Park

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum of Modern Art

P.S 1 Contemporary Art Center

Grand Central Terminal

Lion King Museum

Be in New York for Sep 11th

Grimaldis Pizzeria

New York Pizza

Manhattan Temple

West Village (cobbled streets etc)

Boston

Boston Temple

Sleepy Hollow - go in October
Salem - go in October

Old North Church

Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum

USS Constitution

Beacon Hill

Little Brewster Island and Lighthouse

Captain Jackson's Historic Chocolate Shop

Trinity Church

Washington D.C

Smithsonian

White House

Capitol

Teddy Roosevelt Memorial

Lincoln Memorial

Washington Memorial

Vietnam Memorial

WWII Memorial

Philadelphia

Philly Cheesesteak 

Independence Hall

Liberty Bell

Reading Terminal Market

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Barnes Foundation

Benjamin Franklin Museum