New Pics!

I finally loaded some of the new pics on here, I need to take some of our actual apartment and outside of our door and such, but here's the view and some other pics of Dallas:

There is one picture of the beautiful freeway we took on our way here on our 22 hour trip, and the other two I took right outside our apartment. There is a shopping complex across the street :)

I guess I'll stay active...

Funny subject line, huh? I thought so, its my tag line for the day. So I was having a pretty down day yesterday, I would probably say partly hormones, partly being overwhelmed by the last year all coming together to now and just ready to have consistency, but not sure I'm in love with this consistency, etc. As I'm writing this I'm listening to myself ramble on and I realize, yeah, its probably hormones, but anyway... that's besides the point.

So we went to our ward today, I was a little nervous but prayed a lot before we went that I would like the ward and find some people that I could relate with and feel like I could become friends with. Brad and I woke up right before church started because he fell asleep without setting the alarm, and we went to bed at 2:00 AM, so we got there late, but we walked in after Sacrament right at the back of the chapel by the door that every walks out and somehow got stuck there greeting everyone as they walked out. It was kinda like my wedding reception all over again, except I didn't know anyone and I met like 20 people, and can only remember about 3 names... hmm, make that 2. Anyway, so we went to Sunday School and Relief Society and I met some really fun people that I think I can relate to and become friends with and I was really relieved cause I've been hopping wards for about 9 months, almost avoiding making friends cause we weren't going to stay long, and i was just worried that I wouldn't find any friends, but I think I'll be okay. So as we went home from church, I told Brad that I met some really nice girls and I said, "So I guess I'll stay active now." ehehe, just as a joke of course, but I thought it was pretty funny.

Its all starting to sink in...

I was just looking at some pictures to put on my blog and started gettin a little sad. I'm happy that we're here and have so much opportunity and that life is going to get a lot better, but I'm sad that I won't be able to be so close to all of you, and its just a big change. I thought with all that we've been through in this last year, that this song was very suitable, and gave me some courage to start this new chapter. But in respects to the last move and changes and such, here are some pics to enjoy while you listen to the song from Meet the Robinsons, its a great one!

Saying Goodbye

Well, I haven't had a chance to post these up yet cause my computer was packed, but it is unpacked, so here we go. These were Tori and Abbie's preschool teachers. Tori's teacher was Mrs. Smart, and Abbie's teacher was Mrs. Cochran. Both amazing teachers who we dearly miss! These pics are from their last day of preschool.

Welcome to Texas... Jeni, you were right.

So first of all, rest easy, I'm alive. I don't know how many of you saw the news this morning, but there were TORNADOES!!!! I guess you can say my life is never boring, huh? So my sister in law, Jeni told me there were tornadoes in Dallas. I was terrified. So I asked people around here about it, and they all said No, no tornadoes. So I felt much better. We moved here last Saturday, and four days later, guess what happens, TORNADOES! Crazy! Luckily there weren't any tornadoes in our area exactly, but in Southern Dallas there was, and West of us there was. This is sure to be an interesting life here :) Lets just hope it is a long life, not a short one, right?

Wow Wednesday!

So I was thinking about the Twilight Series and how I really need to get the next few books and how I don't have money and then this idea popped into my head: ONLINE LIBRARY. I thought, you know, I'll bet there is a library out there that will send me a book. So I checked and sure enough, there is! http://www.bookswim.com is like Netflix in that there are no late fees and no shipping costs, you sign up, make a list of books, and they send them to you, you read them, send them back, and they send you more. http://www.booksfree.com is also another one. I thought it was brilliant because I'm not one to read a book more than once except for the scriptures, I just feel like its redundant, so this is perfect for me. After some searching, I found some coupon codes as well :) http://www.retailmenot.com/view/bookswim.com and http://www.retailmenot.com/booksfree.com

So I thought this was such a great idea and then I thought, "Wow, its Wednesday!"

(*please note that a lot of the bookswim coupons did not work, I think booksfree is probably much less expensive.) And if you do decide to do booksfree, enter in my email as a referral: littleangelbaby@mac.com :)

AND PLEASE LIST IN COMMENTS ANY RECOMMENDED BOOKS YOU THINK I SHOULD READ. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ELSE TO GET EXCEPT FOR THE TWILIGHT SERIES, SO ANY RECOMMENDATIONS ARE APPRECIATED, JUST MAKE SURE ITS A BOOK I WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN CAUSE ITS SO GOOD :)

The Lord Works Mighty Miracles

So we have the ABF Moving Truck coming to deliver our things today. We live on a very busy street that is usually lined with cars on our side of the street (its a one-way street) and the only place the Moving Truck could possibly park is right outside our door on this street. We called Dallas City to see if they could let us cone off the area to reserve it for our truck and they denied our request, so it was up to us and the Lord to leave four cars worth of space on this busy street open for our truck to come this morning at 8:00 AM. We worried about it quite a bit yesterday, and I decided to leave it up to the Lord to take care of, so I prayed really hard and had faith. Last night I woke up at least three times to check outside to see if cars have moved or not and they were still there. I didn't give up hope. So this morning we went out there, AND?... the cars were still there, HOWEVER, those cars were on the left side of our house, and there were no cars on the right side of our house where I couldn't see out my window. Four cars length. Just amazing. So we hurried this morning at 6:00 AM to go park our cars inconsiderate enough to take 4 parking spaces :) And Brad is standing out there looking official in his khakis and khaki contractor jacket and don't forget the flashlight he's holding :) He's so cute. He likes to feel official :) Anyway, so the space is ours, we've got 65 feet of room, the truck is about 40 feet, so I think we'll make it. If it makes the story any better, I woke up at 4:00 AM Washington time! :)