FINALLY GOT OUR STUFF!!!!

Hello! Well, Shawn and I are just livin it up down here in Farmington. We are actually starting to enjoy living here quite a bit, except for all the creepy bugs down here. We found our first spider in the house. It had a bee bumb, long thick spider legs, and a fly face with fangs. It was very large. It was strange. Other than that, things are well. We finally got our things from the moving company. We decided to use the "attorney" word, which got the ball rolling pretty quickly. Funny how that works. It was like Christmas morning for us. We loved having our bed. Everything about it is so wonderful. I actually think not having our things for a while was a blessing in disguise. It definitely made us appreciate the things we do have, and allowed us to still be happy and fine just living with the basics, and each other. It also made us realize that we need to clean house! We have kept so many things that we don't even think twice about, and never use, thinking that we might someday. Well, we can do without all the excess baggage. We are also going to decorate the house to make it a place of serenity and peace, instead of coming home to chaos, clutter, and things we don't even like. We have been finding huge bargains at the Hobby Lobby, and Lowe's. Hobby Lobby is always having a huge blowout sale, and we went to Lowe's the other night, and saw amongst the 30-50 dollar lamps, that there were 2 and 3 dollar lamps. They weren't the crappy ones that nobody wants. All my favorite ones were the cheap ones, and the lampshades too. We got a total steal! It's amazing the kind of deals out there. We have been working a whole lot lately. I even got overtime this week! I love my job, because it challenges me, and throws me out of my comfort zone every single day, but it is actually starting to get exhilerating in a sense to be uncomfortable. I have officially become a morning person also. sleeping in late to me, is about 8 or 8:30. For my job, I have to get up and be to work by 6:30, but I enjoy it. What is wrong with me? :) We also really like our ward. We feel at home, and really comfortable there. It is the first time in a long time I have felt like that. I have women standing in line after Relief Society to talk to me. That has never happened before. I guess that is how it is out-of-state. We are starting to make friends also. It has been really comfortable here. We can't wait to be back in Utah next week though to visit. I miss my friends and family, and it will be exciting to see them again. Especially my little nephew Caden. He is grown.

Up in Durango, Colorado. So beautiful

Durango has incredible townhomes and condos here
very luxurious. They are all marble inside
J Bo's Pizza
These ribs are the most incredible I have ever had
The countryside is just beautiful
Air Gliders. We saw a few in the air on the way in
Here is the train that is famous in Durango


I am by the bees making honey behind the glass

The store is incredibly cute
These mountains are so pretty
This ranch had a waterfall. It was private property, so we couldn't get closer, but I would love to have a waterfall at my ranch!
We stopped off at a cookoff
Here is the dirt road we were driving on in the car trying to find our way back

We went up to Durango last week. It is about 35-45 minutes away from Farmington, and it is so beautiful. We decided to spend half a day there. We started out just kind of driving around. We drove around the college campus up there, and around the nice homes. Durango reminds me of a mix between Park City and Sun Valley. We both really like it. We were hungry, and decided to stop and eat at a restaurant by the college called J Bo's Pizza and Ribs. They have the most delicious ribs and sauce I have ever had! Their pizza is incredible. It tastes like Litza's Pizza, but better! After our stomachs were full, we went up to Honeyville, and went to the HOneyville honey store. They have a live hive in there behind glass. They have a lot of honey products, it's incredible, and their honey is all different flavors and so delicious. It is a cute little shop in such a beautiful area! We would love to live there! It's so green, and different colors of red rock peek through the green on the mountains, and it is so incredibly beautiful. There are so many things to do there. River rafting is really big here, and floating down the river. The Animas river is a major part of Durango. The restaurants here, are compared to the ones in San Francisco, and have been said to be better. They are expensive though. They have plane glider rides, the train ride, pretty hikes, little shops, golf course, etc,... On the way home, we were driving through Aztec, and there was a turn-off for Navajo Lake. Shawn wanted to see it, but didn't realize it's about 21 miles away. We went about 5 miles and decided to turn around, but we used my GPS to get back the fastest way, well, it had us get onto a dirt road. We were driving past oil fields, and kept going. The road was getting rougher and rougher, but we kept going. Mind you, we were in Shawn's Mazda Protege. Not the best four-wheeling vehicle. I thought we were going to high center the vehicle a few times, but eventually found the paved road. It was a great time while it lasted.