Empty House

Our house is empty. We have packers come to our house Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. As some packers were taking apart the girls' bed, Jared asked them where their bed was. They both stated "in our room", with a look like, where else would it be. So Jared asked them to show him. That's when they discovered that the packers were taking apart and packing up their bed. Then Emma stated in a sweet innocent, and really serious tone "can I have my bed back please. It is mine, please put it back". The packers just laughed while Emma was waiting for them to follow her request. Half of our stuff is in Kanosh while the other half is on it's way to Korea. I was really excited to go, but after looking at my empty house, I felt like crying. I have so many great friends here, so many wonderful memories, and a ward that is so awesome!!! Although I am grateful for the opportunity that we have to remain together as a family, a part of my heart will linger in Colorado. We will also miss our family out in Utah, Jared's parents and his aunts and uncles. We are traveling there in a couple of days and cannot wait to spend time with them. Jared and I have always thought about living in that small town. Every time we go out there we look at the piece of land that we want and make plans on where we would build our house, our barn, what animals we would have, and the different types of fruit trees we would plant. It is so fun to plan our future. Latley we have just been going with the flow, and that is fun too. We never know what is around the corner, but we always try to make the most of it.
A couple of days ago, a friend and I went out to lunch at Red Robins. They gave Ariana and Emmalee balloons. We managed to shove them in the car and drive to Wal-Mart. Then the unimanigable happened. Emma's blue balloon flew away when I tried to retrieve her from the car. She asked me to get it as I tried to explain how only birds can fly. Then she asked a bird to go and get her balloon. When the bird flew away I told her that her balloon flew far far away to Grandma Lang's house. Now, her and Ariana can have a full converstaion about how her balloon is at Grandma Lang's house, and how Grandma has to share the balloon with Emma. It is so cute. So the girls are anticipating the trip to Grandma Lang's house (be ready Grandma Lang [blue balloon]).

Packing Our Bags

We are so happy to say that we are almost ready for the packers to come and pack our house in 4 days, yikes!!!! I am not sure when the next time I will be able to blog. We are heading to Kanosh in 12 days and stay there for awhile before we (Jared, myself, and the girls, my parents, and Jared's family) heads to Disneyland. We are leaving from there to Korea. I am so excited and sad at the same time. I will miss my friends here, my family, and my home. We love you all and can't wait to see what adventures await us. And as the Koreans would have it, Annyong hi kaseyo or Do poepket ssumnida.

Princesses

JJ was over visiting, and we wanted to dress up like princesses. So they each picked out their dresses, they got sparkles in their hair, and princess make up was applied (Ariana was the first, and therefore my experiment). We then sat down, or danced, while we watched a princess movie. Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil

Sweet Memories

I was recently at my parents house, and she gave me these pictures of our wedding reception in Kanosh. Jared and I have never seen these pictures before (except for a couple of days ago). Sweet Memories.

Little did we know that Jared would leave to Afghanistan 12 days later.

We are so silly!!!

The Mustache Gang

Cute Pictures in Kanosh

I know this is a little out of order, but I found these pictures and thought they were too cute to not post them. Jared made this soldier when he was in high school.

Emmalee and Ariana loved the snow!! They didn't want to get out of it even when they were freezing.

Ever felt like a bowling ball??

Okay, so I can tell you exactly how a bowling ball feels. I know what it is like to go down the lane, using the bumpers for support (so you don't go in the gutter), and turn every which way while trying to knock down the pins at the end of the lane.

As most of you know, I start the nursing program this semester (tomorrow, actually), or that was the plan. In previous blogs, I wrote that my plan was to not have a plan, or so I thought was my plan. Things are constantly changing, whirling me in every direction. As I travel down the "alley" of life, I feel as though Heavenly Father "bumps" me back in the lane to prevent me from rolling into the "gutter". Jared got a call a couple of weeks ago informing us that our command sponsership (something that lets me and the girls go with Jared) to Korea has been approved. All my books were already purchased and I was going to my first nursing meeting the next day. I was so confused as to what to do. What would Heavenly Father want me to do? I prayed and found no answer that brought me comfort. Either I stayed home with both our girls for a year and get my LPN while Jared was gone, or, I go with him, throw away all the classes I have been taking for the last couple of years, and scramble to get things ready to go to Korea.

After deciding to do the latter, I swallowed the lump in my throat, cancelled all my classes for this semester, returned all my books, and booked four plane tickets to Korea through the military transportation office. I then scheduled for our household goods to be picked up. That's when I found out that we are only allowed to ship over 2250 lbs with us. Now, if you don't know, a normal room has about 1000 lbs in it. We have a 2100 sq ft house, with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. We also have a piano and very heavy bowflex dumbells. So, for the past couple of days, Jared and I have been majorly downsizing.

I am so grateful for all of these experiences that we have had, and I feel so grateful for all that we have. I feel like Heavenly Father is bumping me back on course when I get a little towards the edge. I also feel grateful that Jared and I have the opportunity to be together in Korea for a couple of years.