January Update

Ok here we go into January. So after the 1st of the year is when we really buckled down and packed up our apartment. We were so exhausted from our California and Florida trips (mostly because they were really back to back) that it was hard to get motivated to get moving at times. But we had everything pretty well packed up by the 3rd. We were lucky to have a lot of our family in town to help us with our cleaning (explanation as to why everyone was in Cedar to follow). By the night of the 4th we were 98% done, just a few more things to clean and a few things to pack up. We checked out of our apartment on the 5th and moved up to South Jordan.
So Jared had his Senior Recital on the 4th at 7:30 p.m. He did so great I was so proud of him. Because of his recital all of Jared's immediate family was all in Cedar, which is why we had so much help in our move. My parents also were there for his recital. I'll leave anything more about Jared's recital to him.
Well... we moved up here to South Jordan on the 5th. In case I did not mention it before, we have moved in with my parents for the next several months. And because of this most of our stuff is now stored out in the barn. We now take up residence in a small bedroom (well at least smaller than our last bedroom) in my parent's house. So we went from it being just Jared and I, to it being the 2 of us plus my mom & dad, my 2 brothers (most of the time that also means 1 of my brother's girlfriend because she is here SO much), 2 dogs, and a cat. Yep that's quite the increase. So we are NEVER home alone, and only get alone time when we're in our bedroom with the door shut. Which really isn't terrible terrible. It's nice to be here with them, because I really missed having the dogs and the cat around. In our room we have our king size bed, a dresser(which we share), a bookshelf, and our entertainment center. Not sure how or even why we have all of this in there, but we do and it seems to be working out for us.
Well, I may have mentioned that I was going to transfer to another Maverik up here but I ended up getting a MUCH better job. I now have a job working at a credit union in West Jordan as a teller. I started last Tuesday, and am loving it so far. I work full time and make $1.25 more than I did working at Maverik. So my work days start at 8:45 and I get off around 6:15 when I am working a full day. If I don't work on Saturday I work a half day one day during the week, but if I do work Saturday I get a day off during the week. I really like all the people I work with, and am looking forward to the opportunities I will have working there.
Jared started his student teaching at South Hills Middle School on the 9th, and he is absolutely loving it. He's had many opportunities to teach already after 15 days. There are 2 band classes, 2 music connections classes, a jazz band class before school, and I can't remember what else. I'm sure Jared will post something before his time student teaching is up about how everything is going with that.
We have graduated from a married student ward to a family ward, and it wasn't because we had a baby that graduated from nursery. ha ha ha. We now are members of the Parkway 1st ward, and so far don't have any callings. Though, we are on the committee for the Valentines Dinner for our ward. We both don't really know anyone in this ward, because I grew up in the 9th ward not the 1st ward. We are both looking forward to serving in our new ward and getting to know the people in our ward.
One thing that is nice about living where we do, is that both Jared and I pass a temple on our drives to work/school. Jared drives by the Oquirrh Mountain Temple on his way and I drive by the Jordan River Temple. We hope to be able to increase our temple attendance at least a little now that we live so close to so many temples.
Speaking of temples, I have set a goal that this year I will do more with family history. I found out at our stake conference or ward conference that after March the youth will need to bring names to the temple and that temple names will not be as available (at least I think). So I am hoping to increase(ok start) working on my family history work so I can receive the blessing that Elder Scott talked about in the talk he gave during general conference in October.
We are both enjoying this new chapter in our life. A chapter full of many opportunities and changes. Oh and now that our cost of living has gone down, we are hoping to save up money to pay off the 1 loan we have once Jared graduates, and also start saving for a down payment on a house.
I think that about covers January.

December Update

Okay my goal this year is to give an update every month. I am guaranteeing that it will actually happen, but I will do my best to do so. So here is an update of our happenings since our vacation: Well we went on vacation to Disneyworld  with my family and had a BLAST! We spent 6 days at Disneyworld and 2 days at Universal Studios Orlando, plus 1 day of rest (we all were feeling a little sick and needed a rest) and travel days. We had so much fun. Here are some of our favorite pictures from our vacation:

Yes these are just a few of our favorite pictures. My dad had this photo pass thing, so we got all the pictures from the rides that take your picture plus pictures taken by their official photographers. If you want to see more pictures there are more on my facebook. But as you can see from these pictures, we had fun.

SO after the vacation we came home and went to Cali to be there for Thomas' baptism and a quick trip to see our family there. We made a pit stop on our way home from Cali to see death valley because I had never been there and we have a national park pass.

After our california trip, we then proceeded to pack up our apartment for us to move to South Jordan. Which leads us into January, so you'll have to read January's update for more updates.