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August 13, 2003
Hello everyone and welcome back! It’s been a busy week for us. This is our last week in Utah and people have just been flocking to see us. This past Saturday, my parents threw a farewell open house for us and we had almost everyone come! All of Jeff’s family and most of my Aunts and Uncles came. It was great to see everyone one last time but I do wish that I could have had a chance to talk more with everyone. That’s the problem with open houses, though. It was really sad and I have to say that I almost cried 3 or 4 times. Especially when Jeff’s dad asked me to take care of his boy. Even now just thinking about it makes me tear up. I never knew that leaving family and friends behind could be so hard. I just keep thinking of the things that I will miss and it makes me sad to go. I am excited to move but it’s hard.
This past weekend we celebrated my SIL’s birthday by going out to dinner. We went to this cute Chinese restaurant and enjoyed each other’s company. She just turned 20. Happy Birthday A! Anyway, when we got home and they went to bed, my parents brought out their anniversary present to me and Jeff. It was a complete shock to me because my mom had given us these cute little salt and pepper shakers on our anniversary and I figured that was it. The only reason why she did that was because my dad was out of town and he wanted to be there. Let me tell you the whole story. My mom and I love china. The dishware, not the country. We love to look at it together. My mom has 3 sets of china: her wedding china, her Christmas china, and the china that her mom bought in Japan (which is where my mom was born.) Last Christmas, Mom and I were shopping and we stopped to look at the china (of course!) I fell in love with this set of Christmas china. It was white, with pastel snow scenes painted on it and polar bears on a few of the pieces. I thought it was so beautiful and I had the money to buy it. I was determined that I was going to get it (way on sale too) but everyone kept asking me not to. I finally decided that I should probably save my money for something else and didn’t get it. Turns out that my parents were going to buy it for us and didn’t want me to buy it before they could get it for us. Anyway, to make a long story short, that’s what they gave us for our anniversary. Sweet, huh? I love my parents.
I had horrible cramps on Sunday and I wasn’t able to go to church because I just have to sleep it off. I always get bad cramps with AF but here was no AF and bad cramps! Too bad AF showed up today, though. It’s probably for the best that we don’t move in with me newly pg. It would be hard to have a job and then 12 weeks later tell them that I am pg. So I guess it’s on to month #12 for us and I don’t expect anything from this month either. One thing I am upset about is the fact that I have to drag AF across the country. I swear I bring her on every vacation we have!
Monday was busy, packing and getting everything ready to go. We don’t have a lot of stuff but we had accumulated papers all over the place! So we threw out a lot of stuff and packed up everything we had been using. Most of our stuff was packed from our move to my parents’ house but we still had a lot to go through. Everyone kept asking me if I got enough space in the truck and I got so worried that we didn’t that I barely slept on Monday worrying about it.
Tuesday the truck came and we started to load it up. And load, and load and load. Good thing Jeff’s best friend came to help because he is so strong. Loading went by so fast. And, we had plenty of room, with a foot to spare! So I was very happy. I never knew that the inside of semi trucks could get so hot! And it’s hot here in Utah (over 100) so moving, lifting and sorting in the truck was very hot. But well worth it.
It seems weird to have all of our stuff gone. Our bed, couch, TV, Jeff’s computer, everything. It feels like we’ve been robbed because our stuff isn’t anywhere in the house. I sure hope it gets to VA okay and there are no problems. I worry about all my pictures and journals the most. The irreplaceable stuff. It’s not going to be an easy week for me.
One week from today we arrive in VA, and in 4 days we leave! The summer has flown by so fast. Soon Jeff will be back in school and I’ll be working somewhere. One thing I am excited to see is our ward for church. What is a ward, you ask? Well, our church is split up into 4 subdivisions. The ward being the smallest, then stakes, then region, which all fit within the main body of the church. I can’t wait to meet the other members of our ward and get to know them. It’s nice to have that to look forward to!
I won’t be posting next week, since we’ll just be arriving. More in 2 weeks and I can tell you all about our trip!
Oh, I was wondering if everyone could post some fun car games that we could play? I’d appreciate it!
--Always, Cat
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