We love Utah

Okay, so after some poking and prodding from people, I am here to update my blog. WE ARE HOME!!!! We got home ….. 3 days ago I think? But I have been so busy at unpacking and trying to make our apartment look nice that whenever I sit down I just want to sit, I don’t even want to type. Sad, I know. So we left Saturday morning from Fairbanks Alaska and it took us til Tuesday early afternoon to get home. It was a grueling 55 hour drive and we slept in the car for 3 nights. Gabe drove all the way, with the exception of me driving at the rest stop from where we pulled in to closer to the bathroom. Gabe is great, that’s a long drive for one person. But his deer maneuvering skills are a lot better than mine. Sleeping in the car was not fun whatsoever. I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned it, but Gabe got like $700 worth of audio equipment from a guy for free, so we took it home with us and it took up the back seat, so we could barely recline our seats to sleep. We basically drove until we passed out from exhaustion, so that we would be able to sleep in such an uncomfortable position. I missed our bed so much, it’s one of my favorite things we own. The last night we drove we looked at the GPS and it said if we kept driving we could get to Riverton at 7:00 the next morning and so we figured we could just drive straight and get there at 7:00. We needed a break in between all the driving so we started looking for a casino. We were in Montana, where even all the gas stations have casinos, and me being 21 hasn’t done any gambling yet. So we stopped in one of the towns and found one open. We put in $10 and played til we ran out of money. There was a really nice older lady that worked there and she kept bringing us complimentary sodas and snacks :) We found out we were in there for almost 2 hours eating snacks and playing a game together, so it was great! After a couple more hours of driving we started to get WAY loopy. We were making stupid jokes and laughing at things that weren’t even funny, so we decided we should probably get some sleep. We got home the next day and have been busy getting settled in and visiting all our family. We went out to dinner with his brother and sister in law last night and it was lots of fun.. I’m glad I have awesome in laws. We are living in BYU housing month to month for now. It’s not the greatest, but you know it’s so much better than living in a hotel. And.... drum roll please…. We have a stove!! I’ve cooked a few times on it already and I have the next weeks menu all planned out so I can cook dinner every night. I cannot wait!


We love Utah. Glad to be home.

Any day now!

We are so completely itching to head back to Utah. What a fun time we've had this summer, but we are ready to have a place to stay for longer than a week. We moved into 3 different hotels within the last week and we have to move everything from our car every time... lets just say we're a bit tired of it. You'd be amazed and how quickly it wears a person out.

I can't wait to:
Meet my new nephew
See all our family and friends
Cook big Sunday meals for my husband
Have a schedule
Sleep on our own bed
Set up our new sound system
Get my hair done
Have a freezer
Eat Little Caesars
Buy cheap food

And the list goes on and on and on and on...

Here's to crossing our fingers we can go home this week!!!

Off to the North Pole

Check out the fun weekend we had:

We took a walk around the block and went to a place called the "Fudge Pot" It was delish! They made blueberry fudge, my new favorite.. And then we ordered pizza to the hotel and watched a movie together

On Sunday we took a short trip to the North Pole :) Yes, that's right, the North Pole! There is a city in Alaska just outside Fairbanks named North Pole and its all decked out in Christmas decorations and most of the street names are Christmas and santa oriented. It made me excited for the holidays! 

And then... we met the reindeer! That was really neat for both of us, I don't think we've ever seen a reindeer before. One of the reindeer followed Gabe around and then he sneezed on his arm! ha ha it was pretty great