ARIZONA

We are all moved in to our new place in Scottsdale, AZ. Its super hot here, which is going to take a long time to get used too! We still have LOADS of unpacking to do and organizing which feels like it might take forever!

Diesel is having a hard time getting used to the new house! He can’t seem to find where his food and water is half the time, and kinda mopes around the house. I am hoping it wont last long! We all miss California so much! But I guess we have to get used to this area since we will be here for the next 5 years.

The move was a little crazy! We didn’t start packing the u-haul until 9pm Friday night! Kinda insane! I was BEYOND stressed out! and we got too small of a u-haul, so our jeep was PACKED to the rim! After 5 hours of packing and cleaning we finally went to bed around 2:30 and woke up at 4:30 to finish the last few things that needed to jam into the Jeep. We got everything loaded and the jeep on the trailer behind the U-Haul and took off around 6:30. It seriously felt like it took FOREVER to get to Arizona. We finally rolled into our new place around 1:30. Got the keys and started unloading the U-Haul with the help of some of the guys from our new ward! It took the guys about 30 minutes to get the whole truck unloaded! now we just have the daunting task of unpacking all the boxes!!!

We went to our new ward on Sunday. It was really hard not knowing anyone but everyone was very nice and welcoming!

Deric just left for his first day of school! He has to go to the V.A. and get a check for books, and finish all of his paper work with them and then only has one class today! Then we are gonna go get Arizona licenses and become residents! So weird!

I miss everyone in California terribly! Its been a rough couple of days! But atleast we are only 5.5 hours away! we will be back a lot! Can’t wait to see all of our friends back home soon!!!!

what a weekend!

We had a fun filled busy weekend!!!! Saturday Deric and I headed to the beach down in San Clemente with our friends the Williams! Deric and Tyler surfed while Elisabeth and I hung out on the sand with little man Luke! It was such a nice beach day!

Later that evening Deric and I headed a little south to Laguna Nigel and hit up the local candy store! Powells Sweet Shoppe is AMAZING! If you live in the area you must take a trip down! They had SOOO much candy, and soda it was amazing! We got some candy and some old fashioned soda in bottles! We will be making another trip down soon!

Today we woke up early and took some family photos for the Williams, which was so fun. It was a blast to watch Luke just play on the toys at the park we chose for the background. He wasn’t so much interested in posing today, but he sure was a hoot to watch the toys!

Today was also our last Sunday in our ward. I was so sad. Its so hard to say good bye to people who you have seen the past 3 years every sunday and know that you wont be seeing them every sunday anymore. I have really grown to love the people in our ward and am going to miss all of them very much! But we have promised to come back and visit, which we will!!!!!

Later in the evening we took some more pictures of two brothers in our ward!!! The little brother is getting baptized in two weeks and his adorable mama wanted some pics of him for that special day!

Then we headed off to some friends house for a little dessert! It was a wonderful week! Now starts the dreaded packing and getting rid of junk in our house! We only have one more full weekend in California! I can’t believe how fast the time has flown.