Quarter 1, Done and Done!

So Spence's first quarter officially ended the week before Thanksgiving. I can't believe we've lived here for 4 months already! Time has flown by! Some highlights of our first 4 months here are...

1. We got our backyard finished! I was really excited about this because we loved to leave the back door open and it made our house so freaking dirty! And it's so much nicer looking out there and seeing grass and trees and plants!

2. We got another puppy! We decided with both of us being gone all day it would be a lot easier with 2 dogs so they can entertain each other. Her name is Penelope and she's really cute, and just as sassy as Daphne.

3. We got to see our family a lot! Within these 4 months I drove back and forth to Vegas about 9 times! This is actually the first weekend I've been in town since the week before Halloween. We had baby blessings, a bridal shower, a cousin going through the temple, a Wedding and Thanksgiving, it's been pretty busy! It's actually been nice to stay home and get some unfinished projects done.

4. I feel like I'm finally able to find my way around Phoenix a little better! Our first couple weeks here I used map quest to find my way everywhere! No I think I've got a better hand on the freeways and major streets a little better. Plus, it's so nice that it's set up on a grid system like Utah!

I'm going to attempt to keep up on this a little more, but when you don't have kids or family around all the time things just aren't as exciting! But we're really enjoying living down here, and now that it's cooled down hopefully we'll get to go explore the city a little more!

We Officially live in Arizona! (At least for the next 4 years!)

Well I always loved reading other people's blog's just to keep up and see how everyone was doing but I never made one because me and Spence lived in Henderson with the rest of the family and we got to talk to them almost every day so we never really had anything exciting to tell... But, now that we moved to Arizona for his Podiatry School I figured this would be fun to start so I can let everyone know what's going on with us.

We bought a house in Surprise, AZ (cute name for a town right?) and moved in about 3 weeks ago. We're really lucky because it just kind of fell into our laps and is perfect for us. Spence started school two weeks ago and is loving meeting tons of new people (he's just so social!). I had been looking for a job for the last couple weeks and wasn't really having any luck so I was kind of bummed. But, I actually had my first interview Friday at a Physical Therapist's office for a Tech position and the Director called me Saturday and I got the position! So I'm really excited because I just think I'll really enjoy this job, and I feel like it will help me decide if I want to go on and get my Master's in Occupational Therapy when Spence is done.

Our puppy Daphne is getting really big and quite the sassy puppy, but she's just so dang cute that it makes it okay.

We went to our ward for the first full block today and I'm really excited about it. It's actually really funny because a friend from High School is in my ward, and her husband is going to the same school as Spence so I'm really excited to actually know someone. And it was really funny because I recognized another girl in sacrament and come to find out that we had a couple of classes together at Utah State and her husband is at Midwestern also. So I'm already liking it a lot down here.

We wanted to try out floating the Salt River before we made family come down and visit so we went a couple weekends ago and it was really fun... But, I got REALLY sunburnt! Some of my skin was so bad it had like a purple tint to it... Yikes! But now I'm peeling at it's fine! We've heard about a couple other fun things to do that I'm excited to try out when our families come to visit!

I'm going to post some pictures of our house so that everyone can see since it's almost done...

And since I don't really know how to work this yet I'm gonna tell you what each of the pictures are... I could only get 5 up, lol someone's going to have to help me.

1. Our guest bedroom (Tia already called dibbs)

2. Kitchen of course

3. Our family room

4. This is the view when you first walk in the front door, the living room to the left and our dining room to the right.