Next Destination... Salt Lake City!

It has been 43 days since I moved from Orange County to Provo to live with my sister and be closer to my big man. So far I do not have a job, but I'm not losing hope!

Tomorrow I officially move to Salt Lake City in a house in David's ward. I'm only going to be a couple minutes away every day. I know I must sound like a silly girl in love... but I kind of am I guess.

Here is a picture of how close I will be:



Also, David and I will be buying one of our favorite movies that comes out tomorrow... Night at the Museum 2!



We will buy it and watch it immediately. I suggest you do the same!!

I'm such a happy girl :)

Acclimating

About once a week I go out for a short 2 mile run around the neighborhood to mix things up. Ever since I got here I've had to stop and cough up a lung every time to get the mountain air out. Well, today I was finally able to run it all without stopping and when I got back I wasn't even coughing! My body must be adjusting to Utah... finally. I'll probably try the run again but I'm not getting my hopes up that I'll be able to do it again because knowing my body it was just tricking me into thinking I'm safe.

It was a successful day!

(I also made fondue that was enjoyed across the board at home...mmmmmmmm)

In Utah, not of Utah

I have arrived to Utah safely. Its been almost 2 weeks since i've been here and its been a wonderful ride. My mom and I drove out to the Nevada border from Bjorn's house in Murrieta sunday night and stayed at one of those big hotel casinos there. Nevada makes me sick. Monday morning we got up early and were both eager to get out of Nevada. Since we had already traveled about 4 hours past Orange County we only had about 6 hours left of the drive.

I rented a Budget truck that was just perfect for the amount of stuff I had. David's family and some friends from the ward were so generous and helpful in getting it packed. Overall the weekend worked out really well. I had pretty much planned it down to the minute so I wouldn't have to stress about anything. It was so great.

We arrived Monday afternoon around 1:30 but the guys that were supposed to help unload the heavy stuff from the truck weren't scheduled to arrive until 3. If you know me, you know I like to show that I can do things that even the strong men can do. So I unloaded everything but the couch, bed, and table. I wish I had a picture to show how much stuff was in there. When the guys came, they saw what was left and laughed at how easy and fast it was for them. To that I say "anything you can do I can do better" (to some extent).

Here is a video of me driving up to my sister's house. Lia was so excited for us to come. You will notice there is a pause; that is me telling my mom to get out of the truck and help me back up. Thank goodness there isn't a video of me backing up because that would probably be very embarrassing.

What a frightful sight!

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Baby got back!!

I like to think that I used to have moves like that when I was her age. Who am I kidding... I still do! ;) This child is amazing!!

Its official!!!!

I guess I can now say that i'm officially moving to Utah in October. I just turned in my letter of resignation and there is no going back. Talk about nervous excitement when I turned it in!

Now on to the next stage in life. Wish me luck!

I’m wearing my armor

With all the planning that comes with moving and finishing up things here in Orange County, I’ve been thrown some curveballs by the cunning one. My finances are in order, I have everything planned. This is not to mean that it’s going to be easy on my bank account, but I can handle it. I could always use just that little extra bit… but who couldn’t?

Last night and today I have been given 2 different opportunities to choose the right and be honest. Luckily every morning I choose to start my day off with scriptures and a prayer and put on the armor of righteousness. The armor I put on enables me to make quick and easy decisions.

Last night I went grocery shopping to buy a quick dinner and ingredients to make breakfast burritos (largely in part to a good friend driving me to the airport at 5 am this Friday… I’m repaying him with the burrito), I had picked up a pre-packaged one for dinner that night and put it in the kart and kept shopping. When I went to the car to load my groceries in my car I picked up my purse and there was the burrito… unpaid for. Easy decision… go back inside and pay for it. I was even thanked for being honest.

Today at work we were paid and I received my pay stub. One of my favorite things to do is check on my vacation hours. I noticed that I had 80 more than I was supposed to have. I think since I just had my year anniversary at work it automatically put in the 80 hours for the next year instead of having it accrue like company policy. I could have kept it on there and hoped that no one would notice; it would be a nice pay-out when I leave, but that wouldn’t be right. That would have covered all my moving expenses and the month’s rent that I am going to have to pay without a month’s income. I alerted my boss and he will be correcting it tomorrow with our accounting department. I’ll be back down to my normal amount.

I’m glad that these decisions came easily to me. I had asked some people at work if similar things had happened to them after their year anniversary and they said it hadn’t but that I shouldn’t have reported it because it wasn’t my mistake. Well, that’s not the kind of person I was raised to be and that’s not the kind of person I have chosen to be.

Bring it on, oh cunning one!! (but not too much, please)