Texas

Well we are here!!! We left Sunday around 3:15pm and the drive went really well - the only thing was - the air conditioner in our car went out. Luckily it went out later in the day and it was cool enough that we were ok. We drove 7 hours on Sunday and arrived in Farmington New Mexico where we slept that night - in the morning we tried to get the AC fixed but none of the auto shops could get it fixed until later that night - so we decided to drive to Albuquerque (about 2 1/2 - 3 hours from Farmington) and have the car fixed there since it was still early and cool outside - we took our car in and waited 3 hours!!! Then they called us and told us they wouldn't be able to get the car fixed until that night at 6 or the next morning - they were not sure - so we decided that since it was later in the day again and cooler, we were just going to drive the rest of the way. So that got us into Lubbock at about 10:30pm. We had people lined up to help us at 5:30 (our original arrival time) but since we were in so late - we just unpacked 1/2 the truck that night by ourselves. It was such a neat/scary feeling when we pulled up to the house. We were so excited to finally be here and finally get to see the house in person, but scared at the same time. Luckily - we walked in and were very excited! The house is everything we had hoped it would be! Tuesday morning we woke up, finished unpacking the truck, and started to put the house together. Then Wednesday Dan and I went and bought a washer and dryer, couches, tv mount, vacuum, hose, just a bunch of things we needed. It was so hard for me because I am such a saver and don't like spending large amounts of money - lol - but we had saved for all of this is I am doing ok. Thursday, Friday, and today were spent putting the house together. We are finally basically done - there are just a few things we need to finish - but for the most part - we are good.

We have had some interesting experiences already and there are things that are very different here that will take some getting used to - first of all - on Tuesday when they turned our water on - the hose nozzle in the front was spewing out water and that was an interesting experience to try and fix. Then when we were trying to figure out why we didn't have garbages, we found out that we have a back alley way behind our house where there are dumpsters every couple hundred feet that everyone on the street use and we were already violating code because the weeds behind our house were out of control - so we spent part of the day clipping the weeds and taking them to the dumpsters (*side note - I have 8 itchy bug bits on my legs from that wonderful project). The street lights here are horizontal instead of vertical and the turning arrow is in the middle of it. It is SUPER flat and I have already gotten lost a few times. I never know which direction I am going and their road system makes sense in some ways - and in others it is just weird. Oh and that last fun thing that happened was that this morning when we went to take the moving truck back, we noticed our neighbors yard had a big puddle of water so when we got back we went over to tell them. Well they were not there but their mom was there watching their house while they were on a trip and the hose had been left on for who knows how long. Not only did it flood their yard - if flooded the side and a tiny bit of the back of our yard! LOL - so we have had a very eventful first week here. Oh and when the neighbors mom asked where we were from and we told her Salt Lake City she said, "oh your not Mormon are you?" LOL - we said yes and she hurried and said - "oh well I mean thats ok -there is nothing wrong with that" and found an excuse to run inside. HAHAHAHA!

So far we love Lubbock. We miss Sandy - but LOVE having our own home and Dan is so excited to start school next week. Jaxon had no problem adjusting and loves running around the house and yard. We ALL love that Jaxon has his own room!!! I will post pictures soon of the house once I get everything totally done!

I just want to say thank you to everyone that helped us with moving! It was so hard saying goodbye to everyone and we miss you all already! I also wanted to give a special thanks to my sister Whitney who drove down in the car with me and helped with Jaxon SOOOO much the first couple of days so Dan and I could get stuff done. It was really hard to say goodbye to her on Thursday - but we are excited to see her again soon hopefully.

We love you all but are very excited for our new exciting Texan adventure!!! YE-HAAAA!