Living in Southern Utah

As many people now know, Jevan and I are now living in Cedar City, UT.  Jev is going to school at SUU, and it has been quite the change for us here.  The weather is fairly similar to Rexburg, but the campus and town are SUPER empty!  I guess we never realized how over crowded BYU-Idaho was, until we went somewhere else.  We like the town well enough, but don't plan on living here for forever.  Main street has really cute lights it puts on the trees, but every entrance to a store or building parking lot has a huge dip!  Thank goodness we have a lifted Jeep, or else the front of our car would hit every time.  The biggest difference between here and Rexburg is the fact that boys can have long hair, beards, and everyone can wear shorts.  It was quite a shock for me when I went to church that first Sunday and met a guy, just like I described.  Jev's loving being able to wear shorts though.

We really like our new little apartment.  It's only a one bedroom, but that's all we really need.  It also has a washer and dryer, which is so nice to have!  And it's a decent price. :)  The weird thing about it is that our fridge makes kindof a fireworks sound...all the time!  We're used to it now, but it first drove us crazy!

While Jevan has been busy studying, I went and hooked myself a part time..well, less than part time, job as the Math Specialist at Three Peaks Elementary.  How I got it, I'll never know, considering I always hated math.  I guess I'm just good at teaching it?  I've also had a lot of experience in it and have grown to find Elementary math, pretty fun.  It's been a cool job.  I get to work with kids in every age group, 1st-5th.  I get my own classroom called the Math Center, and I get to work with a great team of Resource teachers to plan fun math activities and lessons.  The year is almost over, and now I need to decide if I'll stay doing this job for next year...I just wish it was more than 18.75 hours a week...

I've been job hunting like crazy, and I've had some great interviews!  But, so far, no luck. :(  I consider myself extremely blessed to even get interviews though, considering there are hundreds of applicants, and only 24 or more got interviews.  I feel like I always do pretty good, but the right job must not have popped up yet.  I just keep having faith that things will work out the way they are supposed to.  All I can do is try my hardest, pray, and never lose faith, and doors will be opened. :)

Sorry for the boring writing, if anyone actually reads this thing. :)  Here are a few pics from a family get together last weekend!  My older brother Todd graduated from BYU-Idaho, and then came to visit in Salt Lake with everyone else.  It was awesome!  I just wish I could've stayed longer than the weekend.  I'll also add some pictures from my birthday and whatever else has been going on.

This is my cute niece Jane!  She would smile super big, and then stop right before the picture took.  This is the best smile we captured I think.

Here is another picture trying to catch her adorable smile.  I thought I looked better, but she was smiling less, silly girl!

I snagged Macey, to be in a picture since I never get to see this cute girl.  She is getting so tall and growing up so fast!

Here are my beautiful sisters and beautiful mom. :)

This is a visit to my awesome friend Hailey a few months ago.  She lives in Provo, but every once in a while I get to go visit her.

Here I am on my birthday!  Jevan got me a blizzard for my birthday cake.  It was perfect!