Welcome to Texas!

This week Jake and I spent our last few days in Idaho before beginning our trip to spend a month with Jake's family in Texas! This is my first time ever visiting Texas, so I was pretty excited to travel somewhere new and have some adventures.

Jake and I packed up all the stuff we'd need, cleaned our apartment, and set out on Wednesday morning to Utah! We drove from Rexburg to the Ogden area, and dropped off a package for my friend Hermana Pecjak who's serving in the Ogden Utah Mission. Then we met up with some of our friends from Twitter Stake (a group of LDS kids that use Twitter) at the In n Out in Ogden. I was so happy to have a little taste of California again! And it was so fun seeing friends and just laughing and spending time with them. We spent Wednesday afternoon and night at Jake's Uncle David's house, relaxing and getting ready for the early morning we were about to have.


Thursday morning we were up at 3 am to get out to Salt Lake City for our 6 am flight. It was NOT fun waking up that early, but since it was such an early flight we saved a lot of money on the tickets. We flew out to Dallas and Jake's dad and three of his siblings picked us up, and they brought their two new puppies!! Cooter and Sheriff are half Coonhound and the other half Australian Shepherd and Rottweiler. They're so adorable! It's funny how quiet our apartment is, compared to being here in a house with six other people and two puppies. There's NEVER a quiet or dull moment, and the kids have me laughing pretty much 24/7. It's fun being around a big group of family again!

Saturday I helped out with Jake's parent's pizza catering business, Fire in the Hole Wood-Fired Pizza! They catered a birthday party and the whole family went. I helped cut the pizzas as well as put toppings on, and it was pretty fun! It was pretty hot outside, but thankfully we were in the shade. So no sunburn for pasty white me! Hooray!

This Week's Spiritual Thought

Sunday Jake and I went to church with his family, and it was a nice reminder to me of how the Church is true no matter where you go. Things are always slightly different because every ward or stake runs certain things in their own way, but the core principles and values are always the same. Even if the speakers have a thick Southern accent and half of the congregation is wearing cowboy boots!