We did it. We packed up our apartment in St. George and moved to Texas. So crazy!! The last couple of months have been pretty hectic. With cramming finals in a week before they were due, packing up an apartment that didn't seem like it had a lot of stuff in it (but definitely did) and cleaning it.. I barely had any time to think about anything else Which is why I have been slacking at keeping my blog updated. Oops.
I didn't think I would be sad leaving our dump of an apartment... but I was. That last week we were there, I was an emotional wreck! Aside from crying because of having to leave Elsie with other people pretty much all week (one of the last days we were there Elsie was babysat by 4 different people all in one day.. I cried every time I dropped her off.. not because I didn't trust the people who were watching her.. I just missed her and felt like I wasn't being a good mom) so Dee and I could finish packing, cleaning, and studying, I cried because I was actually going to miss the Morgan apartments. I didn't really understand why I felt the way that I did. But it hit me on the last day.. it was apart of the best chapters in my life. The Morgan apartments was our first home together, we lived there 3 years, we found out we were pregnant while living there, we brought our first child home to that apartment, and Elsie had her first birthday there too. The Morgan apartments might be a hole in the wall, but they will always have a special place in my heart because of the memories we made there.
While things didn't go as planned the last few days before we left St. George, we were able to get everything done that we needed to and we couldn't have done it without the help that we received from family! Thank you Megan, Lindsey, Rhonnie, Marissah, Aunt Stephanie, and Linda for helping us out, we really did and do appreciate it! (: I am still mad that we didn't get to go to the Payson, Utah LDS temple open house. Dee got us tickets for Friday May 1st at 2:45.. because we were planning on leaving in the morning, but no!! everything that could possibly go wrong, went wrong that day. For instance Dee and I needed to take Finals on April 30th. I needed to take 2 and Dee needed to take 1, since we got permission to take them early our professors were supposed to inform the testing center that we had permission, but there was a huge mix-up at the testing center so I wasn't able to take my finals until the next day. It was the worst!! Then we didn't set aside enough time to clean the apartment. Apparently we thought it was an easy quick task.. but it took way longer than we had planned. Anyway we were supposed to leave Friday no later than 11am.. but we left at 7pm.
Before heading to Texas Dee needed to go up to Ogden to attend summer sales school for a few days. While Dee went to sales school I stayed with my mom up in Idaho and then Elsie and I flew into Houston at the end of the week on May 9th. We got to Idaho on May 2nd. and then Dee left May 3rd so he could make it back to Ogden in time for summer sales school at 8am on May 4th. Being away from Dee was the hardest thing ever! We haven't been apart since we got married.. besides the time I went to my great grandma's funeral a couple months after we were married and the one night Dee went up North for a meeting for Summer Sales back in February. Okay.. I guess that makes it not our first time.. but it was our first time being apart for longer than 2 days.
Even though Elsie and I were away from "daddy" for a week we had fun spending time with Elsie's grandma (my mom), her great grandparents, her aunts and uncles, 2nd cousins, and great aunts and great uncles. We got to go to the park, a museum, shopping, we went on walks, and we had a movie night. Everyone absolutely adored Elsie and Elsie had a lot of fun! Although we had fun at grandma's house, we were pretty dang excited to be back with daddy! We missed him so much. & I realized I never want to be without Dee again.. or go on an airplane with a toddler alone again.. That was freaking hard!
(She learned that she could climb onto the chair to get onto the table.. and how to get the chocolate covered raisins.. plus how to take the lid off all by herself. She is too smart for her own good!)
(She learned that she could climb onto the chair to get onto the table.. and how to get the chocolate covered raisins.. plus how to take the lid off all by herself. She is too smart for her own good!)
That's all for now!
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