Too Many Changes

May as well change everything in my life all at once. I moved to a new apartment, a new office building and I received a promotion to Manager for my department all within a month. Although all of these changes were good I think it was a little too much for my system. I am starting to break down more and more when I get home at night. I come home and just crash. I am still trying to unpack at my apartment as well as at my new office. I hope things calm down soon.

Moving Day Again?

I just moved to my new apartment and now I am packing again. This time I am packing my office. We are moving to a new building. Another fast move. We found out two weeks ago. I am excited about this move. I will be 12 minutes from my apartment. No more freeway commuting. It is going to be a lot of work but it will be a good move for my company.

Whistle While You Work

Moving Day is here! I took the afternoon off and went home to finish packing before my brothers came to help me move. I remembered how much I hate packing and moving. We rented a small U-Haul and everyone came to help me move. It took three trips but I am finally in my apartment. Now I need to start unpacking.

On My Own

In fourteen days I will have the keys to my very own place. Okay, so it is just an apartment but it will be all my own for at least the next year. I am both excited and nervous about this move. I have lived away from home before but never completely on my own. I am looking forward to being independant again. I am a little nervous about being alone at night but I know I will be fine. I am not looking forward to being back on a strict budget but it will be good for me. The part I am most excited to pull out all of my kitchen stuff that has been in storage for the past 4 1/2 years. I pulled out the boxes to sort through my kitchen items and found a few surprises. My can opener is absolutely disgusting. I have never seen so much rust. What was I thinking when I packed that gross thing? I forgot about my Pampered Chef shopping spree. That was a fun box to open. It was Christmas Day all over again. It is time to be back on my own.

I love America!

In spite of the fact that all of our 4th of July plans got changed I must say the day turned out rather fun. I had my hopes set on going up to Park City for the 4th but was told two days prior to the holiday that those were no longer our plans. Instead we went Miniature golfing at Mulligans and swimming at our neighborhood pool. I think Ethan summed it up quite nicely when he told my mom the following: "Grandma, we are having a fun day at your house today."

"I'm pretty". Ella's first pony tail hairdo.

All day she kept saying:"My cute pony tail."

"Hey!"

My mom's golf ball got stuck right on the edge of the moat.

Ethan's version of Miniature golf. Hit the ball once and then go pick it up and drop it in the hole or in the tube if there was one. He got two Holes in One this way!
"I'm going to be the winner." he would exclaim. "Can you guess who won the game?

A fun day indeed!

Dinner and a Movie

Memorial Day was a relaxing day for our family. For the first time I didn't put up a huge fight that we didn't have incredible holiday plans. I love holidays and I think they need to be celebrated. We never seem to make big holiday plans and it has always bothered me. I want to have holiday traditions for each and every holiday and believe me when I have a family of my own we will have traditions. However, for this Memorial Day I just wanted to relax. I have been so busy the past couple of weeks. My new job has turned out to be a little more than I can handle at the moment. I love it but I am just overwhelmed. We are short two people in our department and at the time we can't replace them so we are all having to do extra work. It is tough. I was so exhausted last Friday when I got home from work that I just wanted to sit and do nothing for three days and that is pretty much all I did. It was wonderful. Monday night we did go to dinner and then we went to see Night at the Museum-Battle of the Smithsonian. It is a funny movie. It made me want to go to Washington DC and see the Smithsonian museums.

Time for a Celebration

I have had the wonderful opportunity to be a part of the Draper Temple Celebration. One of the benefits of being a Young Women leader. For the last couple months the Young Women and Young Men have been preparing for the Draper Temple Celebration. It is going to be an amazing event. I have been helping the Young Women in our ward who are in the choir. I had to learn all the songs along with them so I could help teach them in our ward. The songs are amazing. I can't wait to hear them being sung in the Conference Center by 1000s of Young Women and Young Men. I have not seen any of the production pieces yet but I have heard they are also amazing. The night of the event I will get to sit with the choir which is exciting. I will get to see the entire event and I can't wait. I know tears will be streaming down my cheeks the entire time because it has been such a spiritual experience for me. Tomorrow night is the dress rehearsal where we will finally see how the youth from 52 Stakes pull the production together. I know it is going to be incredible.