New Ward

Man can I just say how amazing the church is! We went to our new ward for the first time today and of course everyone was extremely friendly and welcoming. It was so comforting to go to church out here where everything feels so different and have it be just like home. One of the family's we met (the Kronks) invited us over for dinner and we had a big Sunday BBQ with their family and a few others from the ward and it was so fun. After a big meal and lots of fun conversation we sat around and played spades for an hour just like at all the Snelgrove parties. They all had very helpful tips on where I could find a job too! Today was a great help to my recent stress levels and i'm actually starting to recognize the streets around our house! Progress!

Pittsburgh

We've been in Pittsburgh for a few weeks now and there are a few things that are still really strange to me. The way the city is layed out is still unbelievably confusing. There is no order or pattern to the random streets and finding anything is almost impossible without a GPS. Not a single street is named with north, south, east or west, so you have to memorize all the names to find your way anywhere. So far i only remember Carson street. The humidity out here is strange too, but not like I expected, mostly I just feel sticky everytime i walk outside!

I'm still searching for a job and not having very good luck. If anyone has any advice i'd be glad to hear it! There aren't any pools near our house and i'm having a hard time figuring out how to find a job in a city this big! Dave starts for real next monday! Thankfully his first rotation isn't going to be to hard so he'll still be able to come home every now and then :)

We went to church last sunday and found out which ward we're in (Pittsburgh 6th) so this sunday we'll actually get to meet our other ward members. Hopefully they can help with the job hunt! Everything else has just been normal and oddly life doesn't feel a whole lot different from before! We're just out here having a good time and enjoying each other!

Moving across the country

Since i'm no longer in Utah and can't keep up with everyone as much I decided to start a blog so everyone can still know what's going on! I'll try to keep everyone posted on how life all the way across the country is!

Well as of today i've officially been married for 6 days and I must say it's pretty fantastic, even though we've spent the whole time moving. The day after the wedding we packed up all my things and headed out of Utah for good. It was quite sad. Driving through Colorado however was gorgeous! We stopped the first night in Denver and drove 15 hours the next day through Kansas, Ohio, and Illinois. It was the LONGEST drive ever and everything was green and flat! I'm completely helpless out here and can't tell North to save my life. There are no mountains anywhere!!! Just millions of trees and bridges! Saturday we made it through Indiana, West Virginia and finnaly home to Pennsylvania. Crazy. After the GPS got us lost trying to find our new home we finally got all of my stuff dumped in the living room and quickly crashed for the night.

Bright and early sunday morning we packed up and headed out again for a 5 hour drive to Philadelphia (which included my first ever toll road) and started packing up all of daves things. Monday we loaded everything up and then it started raining, and boy did it rain. It was the coolest rain storm! It only lasted about 45 Min but if you ran across the street you were completely drenched. I've never seen rain drops that big in my life! We got back to Pittsburgh around 2 in the morning and quickly unloaded.

So Dave had his first day of orientation today, and it went well. Now all we have left to do is try to find a way to clean and organize this disaster of an apartment we are living in. Maybe in a few days we'll actually get a break! wish us luck!