Our biggest adventure yet...

As many of you know, the move to Ehrenberg Arizona hasn't been the funnest thing for us.  I have spent MANY nights crying wishing I could just be back home.  From HATING our so called "house" to HATING not being around ANY of our family, from not being able to find a job to working the worst possible job EVER, I just wanted to turn back time and NEVER have moved here...I had pretty much given up on EVERYTHING! Then one day, I got a phone call.... it was my cousin Chandi. She has been living in North Carolina for a while and I asked how she was doing it, being so far away from everyone. We had a much needed talk and she gave me some really good advice. I was telling her that I am SO embarrassed by where we live and what we live in....... A trailer! You know, everyone gets SO EXCITED about stuff they do to their houses and they post pictures so everyone can see what fabulous stuff they have... well I haven't wanted to do that because I was embarrassed by all of it! We live in a MOBLE HOME, OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, our walls are wood paneling, the wallpaper is 70's floral, the shower and bath tubs are yellow, the carpet is atrocious, the blinds are stained and have holes, its kinda falling apart, and it smells! (luckily I sell scentsy!) So why would ANYONE want to live here?! Well I don't know, but Nick and I ended up here for some reason and we are making it work... Nick LOVES his job and is home by 5 every night, he doesn't work weekends and we have got to spend all this time together.. just the two of us and I wouldn't trade it for the world! I have been SO HUMBLED by living here.  WE may not live in the nicest house around, but we have nice things and we have each other. We have been SO BLESSED our whole lives with SO MUCH! My cousins advice was to take pictures of where we live and show them off.. be proud of where we live because we won't be here forever and one day we will be able to look back and say.... WE LIVED THERE!!! So I am taking my cousins advice and showing off our cute little old trailer that we call home... for now :) (Heavenly Father has definitely taught me the meaning of gratitude on this one!! :)

This is our  family room

     

One Bathroom

The other bathroom... isn't the wallpaper beautiful?!

The Kitchen

My Scrapbooking/Scentsy Room... look at that carpet!! :)

Our fabulous front yard!

This is the front door! The ramp is there because there was a handicap that lived here once.
Check it..... we have a palm tree in our front yard!!!! :)



Moving here from Utah has been SO different! Nick is contracted for 2 years and then he will be able to put in for a transfer!  I have to keep telling myself that this move isn't permanent! But we are enjoying it while we're here!  One of the hardest things has been location.... The only stores we have are Rite-Aid and K-mart. Then for groceries we have Albertsons and Smart and Final. But all of these stores are in California so they are RIDICULOUSLY expensive! So we have to travel quite aways to get to just about EVERYTHING! It is an hour and a half to two hours to: Lake Havasu City, AZ.  Yuma, AZ. Phoenix, AZ. and Palm Springs, CA. It has made it kind of fun because we REALLY look forward to the weekend because we get to go to the city!! :) We have LOVED getting to know all of the different towns and finding all the Malls!! Oh and we are only 3 hours from DISNEYLAND!!! We haven't been yet because it's SO expensive but I'm sure we'll make it there sooner that later! :)


For other news: Nick is serving in the Young Mens and I am in the Young Womens! We both LOVE our callings and they are definitely helping to make living away from home SO much easier!!  I was working at a Salon in Quartzite, AZ for just a couple weeks, but they close their shop for the summer because Quartzite is a SNOW BIRD town and EVERYONE leaves. I am planning on returning to the shop in late September! As for surviving the Summer heat down here... We are RIGHT on the Colorado River so we'll be in the water to stay cool! We also have thought about getting season passes to Knott's Soak City waterpark in Palm Springs! Well I hope I haven't overwhelmed you with this post! But thanks for reading!!