Jacob received and accepted a job offer today!!! The job is in Jefferson City, and we are so excited!!! He starts Monday, which means we have to find a place to move into, pack up the whole house in the next few days, and move on Saturday. This week is going to be crazy!
My emotions have been a little intense today... One minute, I'm feeling awesome and wanting to do a happy dance, and the next minute I'm feeling completely depressed and sobbing. I really am so happy that we got this job--I was really excited when Jacob got this opportunity, and I am definitely happy about it! I'm excited to move to the Jefferson City area. But I am so, SO incredibly bummed that we won't be moving closer to my family. I didn't realize how much I was really hoping for that until the possibility was gone. The last few years have been really hard, and it's been torture not being able to see my family (one visit in almost 4 years is pretty crappy, seriously). It's been really nice being close to Jacob's family for holidays and being able to visit randomly for the weekend occasionally, but I want that kind of deal with my family. One visit every few years, or even one visit every year if we can pull that off, just isn't the same. It's just not. And it really sucks. I knew that when Jacob graduated, there would be a chance to move closer, and I was really hoping for that. So today has been awesome, and happy, but also a little disappointing and kinda sad for me.
But we are employed! Yay! And we are so excited for this next move/adventure!!!
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Monday, October 13, 2014
Friday, August 16, 2013
Our latest moving adventure!
We are finally moved into our new place in St. Louis! I'm so glad that this move is basically over. It was so terrible. It seemed like nothing could go right! I was a wreck the entire week or so before the move... I had a to-do list 2 pages long, and I was so stressed out that I was having panic attacks, which I haven't had a problem with since graduating from college. It was a crazy time. But somehow we got everything (or the most important things, at least) done in time for our move on Saturday.
The first major complication hit on Friday, when I got a text confirming our noon pickup for our U-Haul the next day. The only problem was that I had set up an 8 AM pickup. We had church members coming at 8:30 to help load up the truck, church members meeting us at our new place in St. Louis to help unload the truck, and the Charter Internet guy coming to our new place at 3 to get us set up for internet. So I called U-Haul, and the ever-so-helpful U-Haul rep explained that 8 AM was simply my preferred pickup time, but the actual pickup time depends on when the trucks are returned and when one can be available for me. I explained our situation and said that we had to be at our new place by 2, and I asked how anyone was expected to plan a move if they can't tell you when you can pick up your moving truck until the night before, but he just repeated the same stupid thing. He was so helpful. And super understanding. (That's called sarcasm.)
Anyway, three calls and three U-Haul reps later, I spoke to someone who actually was helpful, and she located a truck for me to pick up in Fulton, which is a 40 minute drive from Columbia. SO not ideal. But definitely better than not getting a truck until noon and not having anyone available to help load and then unload our things. So we all woke up at 6:45 on Saturday (the kids were super happy about that one), hopped in the car, and drove 40 minutes to pick up our U-Haul. We almost lost our way, but thanks to the handy GPS my parents sent me, we got there right on time at 8! And the place was closed. So we sat in the parking lot until 8:10, when we finally called the guy, who said he was just getting ready to leave his house. Frustrating, especially when I had even called the place on Friday after U-Haul changed my reservation to make sure that they had received the info and knew we were coming. So they had even spoken to me and confirmed our 8 AM pickup. But we did eventually get our truck, and we made it home by 9, which was WAY better than noon. But we will not be using U-Haul in the future it we can avoid it!
Only 2 guys showed up to help Jacob load the truck, so that was disappointing. I had expected that we'd have more help than that. But they knew what they were doing, and they got all of our stuff to fit! (Although we used every single nook and cranny in that 20-foot truck!)
For the kids, Saturday morning was rough. They were super tired, they had no toys, and we had to shut them in their room so that they were out of the way. Naomi really wanted to help, which means she was running around after the men, trying to carry things, or look at things, or run into the truck, and I was so scared she was going to get clobbered by heavy furniture. Which is probably what was going to happen. So we played in their room, but everything was boxed up. For a while, they jumped on Aleta's crib mattress. Then Naomi found Easter baskets & a box of Christmas bows in her closet, so they were entertained with those for a while. Both girls hit a point where they decided they were done with being shut up in their room, and things got really bad until I realized they were starving and I got them bowls of Fruit Loops. Also during this time, I was trying to help carry boxes out, and vacuum all of the rooms once the guys emptied them, and sweep the floors. It was really really hard. The next time we move, I will beg, plead, and maybe even offer money to any wonderfully kind souls who are willing to watch the kids while we are packing up & cleaning. My friend Jess even offered that morning, but she had already done so much to help me, so I didn't take her up on the offer. Plus, I really thought I'd be fine. Silly me! Now I know better.
With all of the snags in our plan, we didn't get out of Columbia until two hours later than we had hoped. But as it turned out, that didn't even matter. Because when we arrived at our new house in St. Louis, it wasn't finished! And by "not finished", I mean there weren't any carpets, or tile floor in the kitchen, or cabinets, or a fridge, or an oven, or a million other things that should have been done. And our landlord apparently didn't think we needed a heads-up because he never called to tell us that our place wasn't ready, even though our contract said we would be moving in August 10. I maybe had a bit of an emotional breakdown, I am not proud to say.
So we weren't able to move in on Saturday, but our wonderful next-door neighbors and friends let us stay with them, so we weren't completely homeless. And then a ton of people from church helped us unload the truck on Sunday so we got everything into the house pretty quickly. We don't usually do that type of thing on the Sabbath, but this was a unique situation.
So we're moved in! Finally. Our house is still a major work-in-progress. We didn't get any window blinds until Monday morning, and we still have 3 windows without. We didn't get a fridge or oven until Monday. We still have gaping holes in the ground where vent covers are supposed to be, and two of our sinks are leaking, and one sink isn't attached to the wall, and we have no closet rods to hang anything, and almost none of our doors close, and some don't even have doorknobs. But we are moved in! And the workers are here, working super hard, so things will hopefully be done soon! I have a major love-hate relationship with our place right now, but more on that in another post!
The first major complication hit on Friday, when I got a text confirming our noon pickup for our U-Haul the next day. The only problem was that I had set up an 8 AM pickup. We had church members coming at 8:30 to help load up the truck, church members meeting us at our new place in St. Louis to help unload the truck, and the Charter Internet guy coming to our new place at 3 to get us set up for internet. So I called U-Haul, and the ever-so-helpful U-Haul rep explained that 8 AM was simply my preferred pickup time, but the actual pickup time depends on when the trucks are returned and when one can be available for me. I explained our situation and said that we had to be at our new place by 2, and I asked how anyone was expected to plan a move if they can't tell you when you can pick up your moving truck until the night before, but he just repeated the same stupid thing. He was so helpful. And super understanding. (That's called sarcasm.)
Anyway, three calls and three U-Haul reps later, I spoke to someone who actually was helpful, and she located a truck for me to pick up in Fulton, which is a 40 minute drive from Columbia. SO not ideal. But definitely better than not getting a truck until noon and not having anyone available to help load and then unload our things. So we all woke up at 6:45 on Saturday (the kids were super happy about that one), hopped in the car, and drove 40 minutes to pick up our U-Haul. We almost lost our way, but thanks to the handy GPS my parents sent me, we got there right on time at 8! And the place was closed. So we sat in the parking lot until 8:10, when we finally called the guy, who said he was just getting ready to leave his house. Frustrating, especially when I had even called the place on Friday after U-Haul changed my reservation to make sure that they had received the info and knew we were coming. So they had even spoken to me and confirmed our 8 AM pickup. But we did eventually get our truck, and we made it home by 9, which was WAY better than noon. But we will not be using U-Haul in the future it we can avoid it!
Only 2 guys showed up to help Jacob load the truck, so that was disappointing. I had expected that we'd have more help than that. But they knew what they were doing, and they got all of our stuff to fit! (Although we used every single nook and cranny in that 20-foot truck!)
For the kids, Saturday morning was rough. They were super tired, they had no toys, and we had to shut them in their room so that they were out of the way. Naomi really wanted to help, which means she was running around after the men, trying to carry things, or look at things, or run into the truck, and I was so scared she was going to get clobbered by heavy furniture. Which is probably what was going to happen. So we played in their room, but everything was boxed up. For a while, they jumped on Aleta's crib mattress. Then Naomi found Easter baskets & a box of Christmas bows in her closet, so they were entertained with those for a while. Both girls hit a point where they decided they were done with being shut up in their room, and things got really bad until I realized they were starving and I got them bowls of Fruit Loops. Also during this time, I was trying to help carry boxes out, and vacuum all of the rooms once the guys emptied them, and sweep the floors. It was really really hard. The next time we move, I will beg, plead, and maybe even offer money to any wonderfully kind souls who are willing to watch the kids while we are packing up & cleaning. My friend Jess even offered that morning, but she had already done so much to help me, so I didn't take her up on the offer. Plus, I really thought I'd be fine. Silly me! Now I know better.
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With all of the snags in our plan, we didn't get out of Columbia until two hours later than we had hoped. But as it turned out, that didn't even matter. Because when we arrived at our new house in St. Louis, it wasn't finished! And by "not finished", I mean there weren't any carpets, or tile floor in the kitchen, or cabinets, or a fridge, or an oven, or a million other things that should have been done. And our landlord apparently didn't think we needed a heads-up because he never called to tell us that our place wasn't ready, even though our contract said we would be moving in August 10. I maybe had a bit of an emotional breakdown, I am not proud to say.
So we weren't able to move in on Saturday, but our wonderful next-door neighbors and friends let us stay with them, so we weren't completely homeless. And then a ton of people from church helped us unload the truck on Sunday so we got everything into the house pretty quickly. We don't usually do that type of thing on the Sabbath, but this was a unique situation.
So we're moved in! Finally. Our house is still a major work-in-progress. We didn't get any window blinds until Monday morning, and we still have 3 windows without. We didn't get a fridge or oven until Monday. We still have gaping holes in the ground where vent covers are supposed to be, and two of our sinks are leaking, and one sink isn't attached to the wall, and we have no closet rods to hang anything, and almost none of our doors close, and some don't even have doorknobs. But we are moved in! And the workers are here, working super hard, so things will hopefully be done soon! I have a major love-hate relationship with our place right now, but more on that in another post!
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Romney News
Oh, life has been so eventful lately! A little too eventful for my taste, but things are hopefully finally settling down!
Here's a little update as to what's been going on with our family:
I got mastitis again a few days ago... either that, or it was the same bout of mastitis as before, and it just never got completely wiped out. But I'm on new antibiotics and am starting to feel better again, so hopefully this will be the last time! I've been to see a doctor 5 times in the last 18 days, to 3 different buildings, to see 4 different doctors, so I'm really hoping that things are finally taken care of.
Jacob started classes for his spring semester at Mizzou last week, and he had his first day of his clinical rotations yesterday. Naomi decided to wake up at the break of dawn (we don't have curtains yet for her room, so that's what happens), so I was already up when Jacob left in the morning. Our camera's battery is dead, but I got a picture on the cell phone of my studly man in his scrubs & lab coat! (Sorry the quality and lighting is so crappy... I should have gotten the real camera ready, but I was too sick to care at the time! Also, please excuse the mess... we are still not unpacked!)
Naomi is now sleeping in her very own twin bed! She had been sleeping in the pack 'n play (because we already raised the mattress in the crib to the highest setting for Aleta), but on Wednesday night when we put her down for bed, she somehow climbed/fell out of the pack 'n play and sat there on the floor crying until I came in to get her. So Jacob & I decided it was time for her real bed. We were both expecting her to have a hard time adjusting to the new bed & new room (she had also been sleeping in what will be Aleta's room), but to our surprise, she has transitioned very easily to sleeping in her new bed! On Wednesday night, Jacob laid down with Naomi for a little while before leaving her room. When he left, she cried for a few minutes but then fell asleep. When I checked on her later, she was curled in a ball on the very bottom end of the bed, which was the only part of the bed that didn't have a wall or a bed gate blocking her from falling to the floor. Luckily, she didn't fall out! Every time since then that we've put her down for bed or for a nap, she has gone to bed happily without crying at all. So we have been very happy with how well Naomi has adjusted to her new sleeping arrangements! Right now, Naomi's room has no furniture except for her bed, which has no cute bedding--just white sheets--but as soon as we get her room looking prettier, I'll take some pictures.
Aleta has started smiling and cooing a lot, which I am enjoying! I think she sleeps better at night than Naomi ever did, which has been nice for me. Naomi woke up so often to nurse for the first year of her life, and I never got any sleep... it was awful. I'm hoping Aleta will continue to be a little easier on me as far as sleeping goes!
Our new place is still a disaster... I'm actually surprised we've gotten as much done as we have, considering I've been sick almost the entire time we've lived here. My amazing sister-in-law Rachel spent a few days here with us when I was sick with mastitis and we had just moved in, helping with the kids & helping us get things unpacked. We wouldn't have gotten anything done without her, so we really appreciated having her here with us! Naomi loved having someone to play with and give her attention, too, since I had been too sick to play with her. Thank you again, Rachel! You are awesome!!
Once we get all of the boxes & bins unpacked and put away, I will take & post some pictures of our new place. But it may be a little while, so be patient with me!
I will leave you with a few more photos of terrible quality from our phone from the past few weeks... I wish I had had our camera charged & good to go, but that just was not a priority at the time with everything else going on!
Here's a little update as to what's been going on with our family:
I got mastitis again a few days ago... either that, or it was the same bout of mastitis as before, and it just never got completely wiped out. But I'm on new antibiotics and am starting to feel better again, so hopefully this will be the last time! I've been to see a doctor 5 times in the last 18 days, to 3 different buildings, to see 4 different doctors, so I'm really hoping that things are finally taken care of.
Jacob started classes for his spring semester at Mizzou last week, and he had his first day of his clinical rotations yesterday. Naomi decided to wake up at the break of dawn (we don't have curtains yet for her room, so that's what happens), so I was already up when Jacob left in the morning. Our camera's battery is dead, but I got a picture on the cell phone of my studly man in his scrubs & lab coat! (Sorry the quality and lighting is so crappy... I should have gotten the real camera ready, but I was too sick to care at the time! Also, please excuse the mess... we are still not unpacked!)
Naomi is now sleeping in her very own twin bed! She had been sleeping in the pack 'n play (because we already raised the mattress in the crib to the highest setting for Aleta), but on Wednesday night when we put her down for bed, she somehow climbed/fell out of the pack 'n play and sat there on the floor crying until I came in to get her. So Jacob & I decided it was time for her real bed. We were both expecting her to have a hard time adjusting to the new bed & new room (she had also been sleeping in what will be Aleta's room), but to our surprise, she has transitioned very easily to sleeping in her new bed! On Wednesday night, Jacob laid down with Naomi for a little while before leaving her room. When he left, she cried for a few minutes but then fell asleep. When I checked on her later, she was curled in a ball on the very bottom end of the bed, which was the only part of the bed that didn't have a wall or a bed gate blocking her from falling to the floor. Luckily, she didn't fall out! Every time since then that we've put her down for bed or for a nap, she has gone to bed happily without crying at all. So we have been very happy with how well Naomi has adjusted to her new sleeping arrangements! Right now, Naomi's room has no furniture except for her bed, which has no cute bedding--just white sheets--but as soon as we get her room looking prettier, I'll take some pictures.
Aleta has started smiling and cooing a lot, which I am enjoying! I think she sleeps better at night than Naomi ever did, which has been nice for me. Naomi woke up so often to nurse for the first year of her life, and I never got any sleep... it was awful. I'm hoping Aleta will continue to be a little easier on me as far as sleeping goes!
Our new place is still a disaster... I'm actually surprised we've gotten as much done as we have, considering I've been sick almost the entire time we've lived here. My amazing sister-in-law Rachel spent a few days here with us when I was sick with mastitis and we had just moved in, helping with the kids & helping us get things unpacked. We wouldn't have gotten anything done without her, so we really appreciated having her here with us! Naomi loved having someone to play with and give her attention, too, since I had been too sick to play with her. Thank you again, Rachel! You are awesome!!
Once we get all of the boxes & bins unpacked and put away, I will take & post some pictures of our new place. But it may be a little while, so be patient with me!
I will leave you with a few more photos of terrible quality from our phone from the past few weeks... I wish I had had our camera charged & good to go, but that just was not a priority at the time with everything else going on!
This is the bedding I ordered for Naomi's bed from Target (on clearance!! 29.98 for the whole bedding set)
This is a picture of part of our living room in our new place, right after we moved in. Our box spring sat there at the bottom of the stairs for 3 days before we finally asked the maintenance guys to help us. They had to take off our front door and scrape up the walls/ceiling a bit to get it up the stairs.
Naomi started sitting in the stroller in the living room to watch her movies. Jacob finally folded it up and put it in the kitchen so it was out of the way, and I walked in to find her trying to sit in it while it was still folded up!
Naomi has also started crawling in the basket under the stroller and trying to hide.
Aleta had her first real bath here in our new house. I expected her to scream the whole time, since that's what Naomi did when she was a baby, but she actually was pretty calm. She didn't seem to like it, but she didn't even cry or fuss... she mostly just lay there in her tub looking like this:
What a week...
Note: I wrote this post on the 17th but didn't post it right away, and then we lost the internet we had been using and didn't get internet again until a couple days ago. So I wasn't able to post this until now.
The past week has been a pretty crazy one for our family! I don't think I'd want to repeat it even if you gave me a thousand bucks. Last Monday, we got the call from our new housing management telling us to come in the next day to sign the lease & get our keys. So we made plans to get the Uhaul and have help come on Wednesday to make the move. We didn't have our stuff completely packed up yet, but I knew we could have it done by Wednesday if we worked hard.
I woke up sometime in the middle of the night and I instantly knew I was sick. The upstairs in our old place was always really hot, so I never slept with more than a sheet, and even then I was usually pretty warm. So when I woke up covered with our huge, heavy comforter, and it just felt wonderfully toasty, I knew I had a fever. I spent Tuesday in a haze, with a fever that would spike at 103 before it would break (with the assistance of Tylenol & Ibuprofen) and then come down. I somehow made it through what seemed like an eternity of signing papers for our new lease, and I also made it to the doctor's office, where I found out I had Mastitis (as I had suspected). Jacob ran to Walmart to get my antibiotics for me, and for the rest of the day we got absolutely nothing accomplished. This meant that nothing else got packed for the move, which was a pretty big problem considering we were picking up the Uhaul at 9 am the next day.
On Wednesday morning, I tried to convince Jacob to put off the move for a few days because my fever was still shooting up to 103, and I was still completely miserable. But Jacob's mom & brother were coming to help us, and we had already reserved the Uhaul, so he really wanted to get it done. I was pretty much useless, so the three of them did most of the packing and loading up the truck. Since we had gotten nothing packed the day before, we could only load the big furniture pieces and the small number of boxes I had packed for the move in advance. This left a TON of stuff still unpacked at our old apartment, which meant that Jacob & I would have to make lots of trips back and forth with our little car to get everything moved.
By midday Thursday, I was finally feeling pretty decent, but it only lasted about a day. By Friday night, my mastitis was back with a vengeance. My fever was spiking back up to 103, and I was feeling completely awful. Saturday I went in to urgent care, where they gave me a shot of another kind of antibiotics. The doctor also mentioned that the reason I might not have been getting better (or started to get better and then got worse again) could be that I had an abscess. When I asked what could be done if that was the case, she gave me this look and said, "Let's just hope you don't have one." That lead me to believe that it would be pretty unpleasant... haha.
On Sunday, I googled "mastitis" to see if I could find anything else to help me, since I wasn't responding to the antibiotics as I should have been, and in my research, I discovered that the pharmacy had given me the wrong directions for my prescription. I called the pharmacy to double check, and I was right... I had been taking two extra doses every day. I don't think it affected my recovery, but I had very unpleasant side effects from the medication that were probably a lot worse than they would have been if I hadn't been taking extra doses.
By Monday, I felt really weak and still kinda sick, but I was finally starting to feel a little better again. By Tuesday I felt pretty good, but I had to go in to see my doctor yet again because I was worried I had an abscess. After my doctor checked me out, she was also worried that something was going on (either an abscess or something else), so she scheduled an appointment for me at the breast clinic for the next day. By some miracle, by the time I was seen at the breast clinic on Wednesday, the lump that had been present for the past 4 days was pretty much gone. I have no idea how it disappeared overnight, but I am definitely not complaining! The doctor scheduled an ultrasound for me anyway in two weeks, but I'm planning on cancelling if I still don't seem to have a problem.
So there you have it... our crazy, awful week. But I'm finally feeling better, and hopefully things will start to calm down so we can get unpacked and get our new place looking pretty!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Reasons to love Missouri...
This move has been really hard for me for numerous reasons, the latest of these being that we gave up the two-bedroom townhouse that we were going to rent in Columbia to move in with Jacob's family in a tiny, middle-of-nowhere town called Marshall so that we could save money. Luckily, I have amazing in-laws who are completely normal and wonderful, but it is still hard not having our own place. I didn't blog for two weeks after we moved mostly because I was really depressed about life and our situation, but in the past few days I have shaped up and am feeling more optimistic!
As part of my new, optimistic outlook on our life here in Missouri, I am going to find a new reason to love Missouri every day for the next week. So, reason # 1 that I am going to LOVE Missouri is... (drum roll, please...)
No Traffic!!
Traffic in the Provo and Salt Lake City area totally SUCKS, and I have been loving these empty roads!
What a beautiful sight!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
To sum up our life...
After celebrating our fake anniversary, we went to the Macey's grocery store beside our apartment complex to get a yummy cake, and Jacob saw that sign. He bought it for me because he thought it adequately summed up our life since we got married.We got married in June of 2009, shortly after Jacob was put on academic suspension from BYU, which also meant that he could no longer work at his job because he would no longer be attending BYU (he worked in the bookstore on campus).
Within a month from the day we got married, we got pregnant... still while Jacob was unemployed.
In March of 2010, we had our little Naomi-girl, and we decided that I would not be returning to teach next year so that I could raise her and be a stay-at-home mom. Jacob's current job didn't pay nearly enough for us to live on--we needed both of our incomes to survive--but we felt that it was the right decision despite the fact that we had no idea how it was going to work out.
In the beginning of June, Jacob lost his job, and we made a quick decision to move to Missouri at the end of the month. We had been planning on moving to Missouri anyway by the end of the year so Jacob could attend Mizzou (they have the program that he wants, and BYU does not), but since we had nothing holding us to Utah anymore, it made sense to move now. So we packed up everything we owned and drove across a few states to our new home... without having any money, a new job or a definite place to live. But again, we felt it was right, so we did it.
And now we are living with his family (more on that later), still penniless and job-searching... and still confident that somehow, everything will work out.
We couldn't wait for success, so we went ahead without it!
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Moving Day
Tomorrow... well, really today... we are moving to Missouri. We're not at all ready. We still have hours of packing ahead of us, with hours of cleaning to follow that, and we need to be awake and ready to pick up the Uhaul in about 6 hours. Wish us luck... we need it!
Goodbye, Utah... Hello Missouri!
Goodbye, Utah... Hello Missouri!
Friday, June 18, 2010
Where our family began
Today we went to Salt Lake City to see the temple one last time before the move. It was a GORGEOUS day--perfect for walking around temple square. And we were able to get a picture of our little family in front of the temple where we were married.
I'm so sad to be leaving! I can't believe we move in less than 2 weeks. It is going to be a sad, sad day.
I'm so sad to be leaving! I can't believe we move in less than 2 weeks. It is going to be a sad, sad day.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Two Weeks...
That is how much time I have left in Utah. I'm incredibly sad. I have so many things to do before we leave... so many people and places to say goodbye to. I hate goodbyes. I'm an emotional wreck!
I realized the other day that I won't be able to go to Jamba Juice once we move... they don't exist in Missouri. I think I'm almost as sad about that as I am about leaving my friends! (Ok, not really... but I really LOVE Jamba Juice.) I suppose I will have to attempt to make my own, although it will never be the same. Before we leave, I intend to get a Jamba Juice at least two or three more times.
I also need to go to J-dawgs one last time before we leave Utah for good. I hardly ever went when I lived just down the street at Regency during my single years, and now I won't be able to. So sad! (Alicia, didn't you somehow concoct your own "secret sauce"? What did you put in it?)
Other places I need to see one last time before we go...
*BYU! I've been wanting to put Naomi in her stroller and take her on a walk around campus, but I kept putting it off. If I don't do it soon, I'll lose the chance.
*Salt Lake/Temple Square. We were married in that temple, and I'd like to get a picture of my little family in front of it. Temple Square really is so pretty, and I don't think I've been back since our wedding.
*My favorite park... Nielsen's Grove Park, I believe it is called (out by the Orem Walmart). I just like it because it's pretty. :)
*The Provo temple. I don't know if we'll be able to do it, but I'd like to do a session with Jacob. We haven't been back since I went through the temple right before our wedding last June (I know that sounds awful... don't judge!) We kept wanting to go, but I got pregnant pretty much right away, and then I got sick and was sick for almost all 9 months of the pregnancy, so it just didn't happen. It will be even harder to go to the temple once we move to Missouri, so I'd really like to go before the move.
I can't think of anything else at the moment, which is probably a good thing, because I don't think we can possibly fit in anything more in just two weeks!
Because I have no picture to go with this post, I will leave you with a video of my beautiful baby!
I realized the other day that I won't be able to go to Jamba Juice once we move... they don't exist in Missouri. I think I'm almost as sad about that as I am about leaving my friends! (Ok, not really... but I really LOVE Jamba Juice.) I suppose I will have to attempt to make my own, although it will never be the same. Before we leave, I intend to get a Jamba Juice at least two or three more times.
I also need to go to J-dawgs one last time before we leave Utah for good. I hardly ever went when I lived just down the street at Regency during my single years, and now I won't be able to. So sad! (Alicia, didn't you somehow concoct your own "secret sauce"? What did you put in it?)
Other places I need to see one last time before we go...
*BYU! I've been wanting to put Naomi in her stroller and take her on a walk around campus, but I kept putting it off. If I don't do it soon, I'll lose the chance.
*Salt Lake/Temple Square. We were married in that temple, and I'd like to get a picture of my little family in front of it. Temple Square really is so pretty, and I don't think I've been back since our wedding.
*My favorite park... Nielsen's Grove Park, I believe it is called (out by the Orem Walmart). I just like it because it's pretty. :)
*The Provo temple. I don't know if we'll be able to do it, but I'd like to do a session with Jacob. We haven't been back since I went through the temple right before our wedding last June (I know that sounds awful... don't judge!) We kept wanting to go, but I got pregnant pretty much right away, and then I got sick and was sick for almost all 9 months of the pregnancy, so it just didn't happen. It will be even harder to go to the temple once we move to Missouri, so I'd really like to go before the move.
I can't think of anything else at the moment, which is probably a good thing, because I don't think we can possibly fit in anything more in just two weeks!
Because I have no picture to go with this post, I will leave you with a video of my beautiful baby!
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