Moving Right In

Well it has been a little bit! I have been so busy with the holidays and such.  I went to Washington a day or two before one of my best friend’s wedding. I was able to spend time with my mother and hang out with my dad without Daryl for a couple days. I missed him but it was nice to spend some alone time with my parents. It was just like old times. Daryl ended up coming out as well as my best friend (Katie) was marrying his roommate from freshmen year (Ryan).  Anyways, It was very beautiful. It was my first friend that I was able to see get married. It was nice to see her and see how happy she was with her new husband. They were both beaming. I love weddings!

Then we headed to Indiana to Daryl’s house. Indiana is as horrible as it sounds. Just Kidding. It wasn’t horrible. I would just like to never live there. It was just fields and fields. I hate to say this but I think I really am falling in love with Utah. Those mountains are just soo pretty to see every day. I love being surrounded by them. I really liked NC and Washington. I love the seasons and I love how green they both are. I just am not a big fan of Wisconsin/Indiana. I like to see more than just fields. Well anyways…I had a lot of fun there. I basically spent all of Christmas there. It was my first Christmas away from the blooded Willie fam. But I didn’t mind at all. I love my new family. They are so loving and fun. Daryl has all little brothers and sister. So it is a lot different than my family with me being the baby. It is fun to tease the younger ones.

Daryl got me a lot of great presents! It was the first Christmas I think I could honestly say I didn’t care about all the presents. I just enjoyed being with the people I love. That’s really all I need. Daryl brings me so much happiness. I love just being able to spend every day with my best friend. That’s why I hate getting back to reality because work and school take up a big portion of the day. Holidays are great for time together with the ones you love. The Klingaman’s are so great and I was glad we were able to fly out and spend time with them. I was also grateful that I was able to go home and see my family for a couple days too.

Then we came back to Utah and Daryl went straight back to work. I worked on packing the house up because we were moving to a sweet apartment! My parents flew to Utah and spent time with their parents for the holidays so they were here when we got back. It was nice because Daryl and I got to go skiing with my dad on Saturday! We stayed up at my Grandparents and hung out with the whole fam in my cousins cabin. It was great to see everyone and Daryl and I enjoyed being with everyone. After the weekend was over it was back to work for Daryl and I started packing up again. My dad came down and helped me after he dropped my mom off at the airport. He helped soo much! It was greatly appreciated. I couldn’t have done it without him.

The next morning Daryl had work off for the holiday and we rented a truck and moved all our stuff into our new place. One of Daryl’s friends and my dad came down and helped us move. It went pretty fast and we had to stack everything in the kitchen and the bathroom because the carpet still needed to be cleaned. I don’t know how we did it. But we fit everything and with room to spare.

The very next day I was able to be lucky enough to go skiing with my dad again! We went up at snowbasin in Ogden. It was a great day! A little chilly but sunny and no one was there! It was sweet! I got to spend a lot of alone time with my dad while he was out here. It was great! I don’t get to spend a lot of alone time with him. I love that man so much! I look up to him so much. He is so wise! I am lucky to be his daughter. He really made my life growing up a complete joy. He was a really good parent and I hope that I can learn from his example and be just like him in many ways. I was lucky to grow up in the home I did. I don’t know how I would even be able to repay my dad for all he has done for me. Love you Dad! You mean so much to me!

Now I am just unpacking right now as we speak. I did a lot yesterday and I am sure it will take the rest of the weekend. I have been thinking I needed a break and needed to keep this updated. I am trying to be better. On the Brightside the Kitchen is all done. I worked on that forever today. Our room is mostly done. And the bathroom is done. The spare room has yet to be done. I will probably go work on the desk after this post. School starts Monday and I want to at least be able to find the school supplies. For the most part things will be done. It will be nice to get Daryl’s help on Saturday. We sold our couch and recline chair! We sold it to one of Daryl’s mission buddies. He is picking them up on Saturday.

We are trying to find a nicely priced sectional that is comfy. We looked in a lot of stores and they were a little out of our price range so we have been checking KSL to see if anything legit comes up. We figure we will probably sell it before we move in 2-2.5 years so it doesn’t need to be really great. We figure it will wear down too. You never know how many times you will move while you are young. Ive moved a lot lately. I would like to be done.

Our new place is way nice. It is a lot bigger! I feel like I am living in a mansion. I feel like I need to decorate this place now. Ha. I am excited about all the space. It feels a lot more homely to me. We are going to look at a bed frame for our mattress tomorrow. We have one in mind that we want from Ikea. So we will see what happens. I hope it is still on sale the one we want! It is sweet. It has like these built in night stands but you can push them behind the bed. So it looks classer.

Anyways, I better go. I still need to do more around this place to get it unpacked. This was a long one but I had to get everything in. It’s been like 3 weeks since I wrote! Still on the job hunt. Haven’t been to great with it lately. But I will get back into it and find something. Laterrrrrrrrrz.