The Big AZ!

So here I am in the state of Arizona, sitting in my air conditioned apartment wondering how I am going to live through the summer. It will probably get twenty degrees hotter than the current temp of 95 degrees before the summer ends! You go through life thinking about the future and think, "oh it won't be that big of a deal, living in a tiny apartment for a little while, eating hot dogs and ramen noodles, and telling your kids they can't get even a little toy at the store." But it actually is harder when you are going through it. Our apartment was supposed to be over 1300 square feet. I was excited because that is the same amount as our house. We didn't read that the square footage also included the patio and storage space, which has to be about 300 square feet! When the guy was showing us the apartment I went into the back room and cried and then realized how much I really did love my old house! Luckily the people in the ward here on campus have been super nice. We have received one dinner, one plate of treats, been to one dinner/swim party and been invited to Sunday dinner. I have a feeling we are going to really like our ward.

Weird things I have noticed in AZ-The elementary schools look like prisons! You can smoke anywhere outside a building (I believe in Utah you have to be 25 feet away from a building to smoke). Seeing all the girls and old women in their tiny little dresses (which I expected to see but is still weird). The fact that it is broad daylight at 6am and gets dark at 8pm is still making our bodies crazy. By 9pm we are both dead tired and want to go to bed!

The campus here is beautiful and we live a block away from the library and a couple blocks from a fun swimming pool. It has been an adjustment but we have almost got our house ready to go, so that makes us feel a little more at home. By the way, our apartment was made for someone with a wheel chair, so I feel like a monster while I am trying to cook dinner because the counter tops are so short and I feel really skinny when I walk through our doors because the are so huge! Here are some pictures of the last few weeks!

Here is the moving truck. Fun to see how little Jordann is compared to the truck!Swimming at Katie's birthday party. She was just so cute in this picture I had to post it.Hanging out with the grandparents. I think they were trying to get some time in while we only lived 2 1/2 hours away! Luckily we got to spend time with all of our grandparents before we left.Sitting on the front porch while the boys loaded the moving truck up.And the missing two front teeth! The extractions went really well and James has done well with no front teeth! More to come on quirky Arizona things!