The Count Down

We are finally on the count down for our move! Eleven more days - we have a count down chain and everything! On the 29th we will be pulling out! Would you believe that I have lived her for 5 and a half years?! Just in case you wanted to know, that is more than a quarter of my life! It really is bittersweet. I'm so excited to start our new adventure and we have several fun things planned before Logan starts pilot training but we will be leaving lots of good friends and memories here.

This is our last week of work and our last day is on the 21st. I can't believe it! I will have been almost a year and a half working at my company and one day short of our year and a half anniversary. I promise that since we have been married I've stopped keeping track of how long it has been but a year and a half is still fun to celebrate. We're not sure what we are going to do (it'll probably involve some packing) but I'm sure we will have a fun time!

In the last while we have been trying to get all the thing done here in Utah that we want to do. So we have been hitting up our favorite local restaurants one more time. I couldn't leave without going to Aiyara Thai in American Fork or Demae on Provo Center Street, our favorite place in the world to get sushi! Other things we have also been doing is our drives up the canyons, frozen yogert, seeing dollar movies and of course seeing our friends that are still around!

So the moving is going well so far. We are less than two weeks out but I'm happy with what we have gotten done so far. We are renting a trailer and so we cleared out the corner in our second bedroom and tapped out the dimensions with duck tape and yarn. We practiced putting all our large items in the space and decided that it will be the right size for us.

The only sad thing is that we are going to have to get rid of most of the furniture. We planned on that before the move but I was most sad at getting rid of my chairs and table. I loved them but will have to let them go! It is okay because Logan has promised me knew ones :)

The hardest part of the move so far has been to eat up all our random foods, selling our things and coming to terms that this is really happening! I think it will hit closer to home when we are done with work and our apartment is empty.

Another thing that I have had to keep in mind is packing for the next three months and deciding what we will need and what will stay in storage. I feel like I am packing for three different trips and we really are! The hardest one will be when we get to the base. They will put us in temporary housing so we need to have available all our necessities for anywhere from two weeks to a month. Good thing I have so many good friends that have been really helpful with advice!

When Logan got his dates, it was later then we were planning on. That left us with the choice of staying in Provo or just moving home until January when he reports. Since we are both graduated, we can't stay in Wymount anymore (Oct 31st is the last day). We prayed about it and felt that the best plan for us would be to stay with our parents instead of trying to move somewhere for three months. Logan was reluctant but I told him, he would not really have any breaks for the next year and he needed to take a break. We are super excited to have all the family time too!

The plan is to move all our stuff to Albuquerque, NM (my parent's home) and we will be with them for my birthday and Thanksgiving. Then, in December we are going to Bellevue, WA to have Christmas and new years with all of Logan's family! It will be great!

We also have one more thing planned on November 1st. WE ARE FLYING TO EUROPE!! I really didn't think it was going to happen and then all the sudden tickets dropped and after much financial planning and talking we bought them! We will be there for two weeks and we plan on seeing Belgium, Paris, London and Madrid! This trip is really only possible because we get to go and stay with Logan's sister in Brussels.

I'm super excited to see Spain. Since I was in Jr. High, I have always dreamed of going to Spain. We did a class project and I just fell in love with it! How fortunate that I married a man that served there! Lucky me! I can't wait to have Logan show me around. It really makes me feel more comfortable knowing that he knows his way around to places and can speak the language fluently! He is the best!

I always figured that we would go there someday but never could have imagined that we would do it so soon after getting married! I feel so blessed!

So that is what we will be up to for the next few months and all our adventures until we move to Enid, Oklahoma at the beginning of next year. I can't wait!