Home sweet Pocatello

Welcome to the apartment upstairs!! This is my bedroom with the new quilt that my mom made me. She did such a good job!!!

The living room turned out great in the upstairs apartment. This is where I will be most of the time when I do my homework when I am not on campus.

Our kitchen....I have a table to sit at now because I have room and it was given to us by a family that I grew to love so much in Coeur d'Alene. The chairs, my sister found and we recovered them when our parents were here. Many blessings came about to help me move down here, including keeping my job with Wal-Mart. Had I have come down earlier I would not have been able to stay with my job as a pharmacy technician for the same company. Needless to say I really feel that I am in the right place at the right time.

However, I have realized the BIGGEST difference this time going to school compared to BYU-Idaho. That is the fact that I was in a student ward with other single people that were all close to my age, and now I am in a family ward. I miss having the ability to associate with a lot of people that are close to my age and in similar life circumstances. Hopefully when the Fall smester starts it will be better as I am around more people my age.

With my family in Pocatello

The fun adventrures of moving into a new place. We were in the basement apartment which stays really cool during the summer and is really nice. This is the mess that we started with and pictures are coming to show what it is like now. Each room looked pretty much like this.

After a long day of driving and moving into our new place as sisters, we all went to dinner at Pizza Hut. All of us meaning, my sister and I as seen above, my parents, and my grandparents as seen below. For some reason we didn't take a picture of my parents, or at least I don't have it.

We had a day in Idaho Falls to go to a few places that we don't have in Pocatello. One of the places we stopped at was the Falls, along the snake River that are there. The water was really high!!! but it made for really nice pictures as you can see with the temple in the background.

The story behind this picture is I wanted to sneek into it and it turned out really cute. Funny thing is that I am not at my usual height. i am scrunched down.

Then we also have pictures of us sisters with just our dad, and one with just our mom. It was a really nice day. We had a lot of fun together.

One day that I was not working, just after I began my summer speech class my parents and I went all over southeastern Idaho to take pictures of gravesites for some of our ancestors that are buried in various places. I took my book with me and read as we were driving but I had a lot of fun trying to help find the right headstones. We left Pocatello and then proceeded to the following cities: Inkom, McCammon, Lava Hot Springs (as seen above for the waterslide that goes across the road), Bancroft, Soda Springs, Grace, Thatcher, Preston, and Franklin. We also stopped in Whitney since that is the place that Ezra Taft Benson is buried. We didn't find the cemetery but it was still fun anyway. I talked my dad into driving to the Utah/Idaho border. He is such a good dad!!!!

Here I am by the Utah sign. I wanted one to show I was in 2 states but it was raining and it didn't work out that day. I loved it anyway. Then I turned around and took a picture of the Idaho sign the other direction.

My parents stayed with us for a week and we had a good time, even though my sister and I had to work off and on through that week. The main issue was that there was a water leak in our apartment which drenched the carpet in the living room. So we made the decision to move upstairs. More to come....

Moving from Coeur d'Alene to Pocatello

It has been almost 3 months since I last blogged, and a lot has happened since then. The first thing worth mentioning is that I had a thyroid ablation--meaning any thyroid cells were destroyed by 2 capsules filled with radioactive iodine. Therefore, even after surgery I still had some cells and now I have none. The healing has gone fairly well.
The next big thing....is moving from Northern Idaho to Southeastern Idaho. I left the land of pine trees and lakes for the land of sage brush. Here are the pictures to prove it.

This was next to Wal-Mart in Post Falls, ID and I just really loved the sunset. It was one thing that I enjoyed when I got off at 9pm during the week.

Lake Coeur d'Alene with the boat docks. The lake is big and it was always pretty.

May 12th---the day I had help to pack all my belongings into a Budget moving truck and left Coeur d'Alene. This is that truck in front of my apartment after it was all loaded. My parents came to help me move and we left that night. We drove to St Regis Montana and stayed the night.

One of the many views of Lake Coeur d'Alene along the I-90. I loved the pine trees and the lake!!

The next day on May 13th we drove the rest of the way down to Pocatello. After driving through Montana We saw the Idaho sign as we crossed back into Idaho. There was snow there which made it look really nice.

And as I said above, I traded pine trees for sage brush. This is the scenery as you get to Blackfoot Idaho before getting into Pocatello. The same thing is very close to my apartment down here too.

More to to come.....