Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all started out the year great. I'm not going to lie, I'm happy for 2008 to be over. When I try to think about what happened this last year, all that comes to mind are two words: Summer Sales. As much as I enjoyed spending every day with my sister in strange new cities, I'm really excited to finally start feeling settled. Traveling just isn't that same once you have kids.
So 2008 to me, consisted of experiencing summer sales, and Zach's last semester of nursing school. GOOD BYE UVU. Hello UVRMC.
Since my husband has been offered, and gracefully accepted a job here in Provo, I'm starting to feel like this is where we are going to live for quite some time. I better start getting used to the idea. These past few days I've especially been trying to come up with all the great benefits of Living here.
1. Close to Salt Lake
2. Close to Great Shopping, and Park City
3. BYU football games, and all the fun events that go on in a college town
4. it's definitely prettier than Arizona
5. There's a chance that living so close to our family could end up being too close (if you know what I mean)
6. My husband is able to take the sacrament while working on Sunday. Only in Utah.
7. Only in Utah do you get to enjoy hearing uplifting messages on the radio brought to you by the LDS church.
8. What other mall outside of Utah sells Family Home evening activities in their Kiosk? As well as baby gear that read 'future missionary'.
9. My ward consists of my street. That makes visiting teaching and Home teaching easy. EXAMPLE: My visiting teacher lives next store, and she plows my drive way with her four wheeler for service. How awesome is that!?
10. Sunday really feels like a day of rest here.
You know, people rip on Provo for being like a big bubble. Okay, maybe that's me. But if you don't HAVE to live in the real world, then why do it right? The other day we bought a new (old) entertainment center from the D.I.
The furniture wouldn't fit in our car, so my bold husband walked up to an older man sitting in his truck and asked if he would take it home for us. "Sure!" the man said. WOW! Talk about an act of service! It wasn't on his way either.
So Provo is not that bad. I could go on and on about everything that annoys me about living here, but I'd rather just be happy my husband has a great job that he loves and that we get live in Pleasantville. I'm looking forward to all the challenges and experiences this new year brings.
I have a feeling it's going to be great.
6 comments:
It's funny, i've spent my last six years in Utah complaining about how much I hate it, but now that I have to leave it I realize how sad it's going to make me! Especially to leave all our friends who are still going to be here (to me thats the best part of UT!) Yay for having a permanent place to raise Jonah and for Zack's job! lol, who brings the Sacrament to UVRMC on Sundays? Thats awesome! :)
Yeah you don't want to be living too close to both the parents, you'd goo crazy! (ha just kidding, well not really)
Yeah, Dad and I are glad that you aren't going to live that close. (If you know what I mean.)
You bought something that wouldn't fit in your car?? What is wrong with you guys?
It sounds like to me you are trying to make yourself feel better about living in Provo... just kidding, you know I actually really liked it there. It is a very nice place. Now buy a huge house so I can visit all the time - or would that be too close?
Poor dad.
I love Utah. It's a good place to live. And, my sister lives there, so I would trade you in a heart beat! Although we will miss having you here...and buying my house!
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