Houston!!!

Well, the big news finally came, and everyone already knows but here it is to remember forever- GARRETT HAS A JOB!!!

And I know you may be thinking...didn't he already have a job? Haven't they been moving around the country like nut bags to work? What the freak. But no this time is the real deal. No more moving. No more crazy random hours. No more wondering if he will have a job still in a week or a month. It's real people! This is what he spent the last forever in college preparing for. This is what he spent the last 8 months applying for. This is why he flew to Dallas and Seattle.

This is his office

Garrett is now an acoustical consultant at Hoover & Keith in Houston Texas!

Yeah, both desks are his. He likes to spin around on his spiny chair and pretend to be important... Even though he really only has played that game where you have to find the differences in two pictures. But they didn't tell how many differences there are, so he was paranoid for like 3 hours just wondering if he had found them all! Real life really is stressful, huh?

And we got an apartment! We have moved no less than 10 times THIS YEAR so it's very comforting to sign a year long lease. It will be fantastic, and the commute won't be bad either!

Green is work. Red is home.

What's that, 2 minutes via longboard? Garrett will probably need some new black skate tread shoes to wear to work.

Anyway, we couldn't be more happy with our move to Texas and full time job! And Danielle said when there's hurricanes we can go to her house in the less rainy part of Texas!

 

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ArKansas

Garrett and I drove up to Dallas to meet up with Sarah and her family and Danielle and her family so that we could all carpool together to Kansas. We met up with the rest of the family at the Kansas City temple cause Seth was going through the temple for the first time before he goes on his mission.

After the temple weall went back to Garrett's parents house where Trevor and Danielle blessed their baby Milo. It was a nice evening!

The next morning we all left Kansas and headed to Arkansas where we rented a lake house for the weekend. It was so nice to just hangout at the lake all weekend. The weather was perfect to just lounge around, but it could have been a little warmer for swimming. The water was pretty chilly until your body went numb and got used to it.

We had two jet skis for one of the days, so everyone had a lot of fun with them. This was my first time with jet skis so I was nervous. I rode on the back with Garrett driving first, but Garrett is to crazy for what I like so it wasn't my favorite so I didn't go on it for the rest of the day. I mean Garrett threw himself off the jet ski twice, he likes to be crazy!! I just hangout on the dock all day watching everyone else play on the jet skis and watched the kids play in the water. Garrett convinced me to get back on it right before we had to return them and I took a turn driving it. That was much better. I just like to be in control I guess.

The next couple days we all just hung out. We would go out and swim in the lake, hang out on the dock, feed the geese, try to jump on the geese, hang out in the house playing card or board games, playing pool and eating. It was a nice relaxing weekend. Here's a bunch of pictures of the fun we had....

 

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Olathe, Kansas!

Garrett and I left Virginia and headed to his parents house in Kansas. He is now working around here for the time being. We have been living here since Easter. I have been doing a couple projects since I got here to keep myself busy while Garrett is at work. The first project was a BIG one. We decided we wanted to make a huge quilt. We succeeded, it is 10ftx10ft. We have been enjoying our quilt. We love that we don't have to fight for covers!

Finished product!!! I think I started and finished it in about a week and a half!

The next little project I did was make a shirt. I just copied the pattern of a shirt that I like that I already own. Finished product...

It's been fun doing these sewing projects and being here while Seth is here before he goes on his mission. Yesterday Garrett got a promotion to be lead tech in Houston, so we will be leaving Kansas and heading to Texas on Monday. Our next stop on our adventure!

 

Wedding #4 - Dalton & Kelcie!!

The time had finally come for it to be Dalton and Kelcie's turn to have their special day. We all gathered in Colorado this time, which I'm sure made my parents very happy about cause they didn't have to do any traveling for this wedding.

Their wedding was country themed. Everything was decorated in burlap. We started decorating the day before, and as things started coming together so we could see what the finished look would be, it looked really nice. It all just tied in so well!

The wedding ceremony started at 4 so the morning of, we all got to the church and finished up any decorations that needed finished or touched up and got all the reception food prepped and ready. Some of us brought our clothes to the church so that we could just get ready there, and some went back to the house to get ready. I had everything of mine at the church except for my boots so I had to remind my sister-in-law to grab them and bring them when the come back.

Kelcie wanted to have pictures taken with all the girls in their outfits helping her with her dress. So since I still didn't have my boots yet I just told Garrett to make sure my feet weren't in the pictures....Yeah that didn't happen he just thought I looked too funny so he made sure my feet were in the pictures.

Now it was time for the ceremony to start and for everyone to be in their seats. They had their Bishop be the one to marry them. It was a very nice ceremony. Now it was time for pictures and to start the party! I will let the pictures do the rest of the talking.

 

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The start of our adventure! Virginia here we come....

Early this morning we each packed a suitcase for our trip to Virginia for a couple of weeks, or so we thought. We were planning on being in Virginia doing security jobs for about 2 or 3 weeks and then coming back to Provo.

We started off in Virginia Beach. We were there for 3 weeks. I really enjoyed it there cause our hotel was right on the beach, so I would spend my days while Garrett was at work sitting out on the balcony listening to the waves crash. I also would watch the surfers and the dolphins, also there were always big ships coming in so I enjoyed just relaxing and watching everything.

Next we moved to Fairfax, and ended up being there for 2 weeks. This view from the hotel wasn't nice like in Virginia Beach so i found other projects to keep me busy. I decided I wanted to go blonde since I had never tried that so I got everything I needed and started bleaching my hair. I had to bleach my hair several times since I started with dark brown hair. Lets just say once I got it kind of blonde my hair was completely damaged.

Next we moved to Richmond and were there for 3 weeks. At this point we realized that we were still going to be out here doing security installs for who knows how long, so we called up our friends and family in Utah to have them pack up our apartment and move all our stuff into a storage unit. We figured there was no point to keep paying rent every month when we aren't even living there. A storage unit is a lot cheaper. One group went in and packed everything into boxes one day, then another group packed up the boxes and took them to the storage unit the next weekend and then a couple friends went in and cleaned it for us. We appreciate all those that took time out of their schedules to help us out since we weren't able to do it ourselves.

After the 3 weeks in Richmond we moved back to Fairfax / DC area. We were there until there wasn't much work left for Garrett to do, so he made arrangements to move to Kansas and work there until we are needed somewhere else. We have been living in hotels here and there for a couple weeks at a time just following where the work is. It has definitely been an adventure!

 

Dalton and Ciara's Wedding / Wedding #3

Today was the big day! We had most everything decorated and set up last night so that when we got to the church this morning all we would have to do was just the final touches to make everything perfect. They ran through how everything would go so that everyone involved knew what they were supposed to do. After the rehearsal we had the luncheon.

Now it was time to start doing hair and getting everyone ready. First I curled Chloee's hair, then it was Ciara's updo and then I finished with curling Mariah's. After I got done doing everyone's hair we got everyone their flowers and then it was time to find our seats. Dalton's brother Lee was the best man and Eliza was the maid of honor. It was a nice ceremony, Ciara looked beautiful and now it was time to party!!!!!