Christmas and Phase one of the move

Christmas is over and now I have to act like an adult again. Drats! :) I love christmas and I'm sad to see it already over. This christmas was me and Justins first christmas together. It was also my first Christmas in Arizona. It ended up being a nice quiet day that we spent together, just the two of us. :) we opened presents and just spent the day being lazy.

Earlier in December my parents came down to see us and to spend time with us. We went to a house here in mesa with model trains through the whole backyard. It was very cool to see. The people living there must have spent a long time building up the collection.

After seeing that we went on a drive to see Christmas lights. We aw a house that has lights that go along with music playing, and we also went and saw the Mesa LDS temple lights. They were very cool. My parents were unable to stay real long and we were sad to see them go. Today is New Years Eve and Justin and I are officially moved out of our apartment. Yesterday was our moving day. It ended up taking longer than expected, but went fairly smoothly. We rented a uhaul and hauled our stuff to the middle of Phoenix to ABF to fill a trailer with our stuff. They are shipping it over to us. Filling the Uhaul was a little crazy. We found out very quickly that a King sized bed doesn't fit into a 10 foot truck. It took us a while to figure out how we were going to haul it and we were finally able to squeeze it into the very top. We were able to fit all of our stuff that we wanted to and headed over.

It took us a while to find the location but we found it. We pulled in and found out that instead of having a pod, we actually got a full trailer. We measured off 7 feet (since that was what we ordered) put the loading ramp up to the trailer and started to unload. It was actually very easy.

After we had finished we had to figure out how to put in the bulkhead and how to lock it up. We figured out the bulkhead very quickly but our locks we had brought didn't fit! Luckily the nice people inside told us where the nearest Walmart was. We rushed over and got some locks and finished up.

It was a very long day. I have figured out today we went up and down the flight of stairs at our apartment (36 stairs) at least 25 times. Today we cleaned to apartment and turned in our keys. I am kind of sad to say goodbye, but excited for our new adventure. I really hope our new apartment is ok. If its even half as nice as the one we were in I think I will be ok.

7 days from today and we leave for our new home in Midland Texas. I hope I'll survive!

Happy New Years! -The Whatcotts

~The Married life: 4 months of Marriage~

Back in March of 2013, while on a vacation in Utah, I got engaged. He proposed in St. George Utah, on a cliff overlooking the valley. It was soo amazing! I had been hoping it would happen on the trip, but was completely oblivious to it happening then.:)

In July 2013, I got married. My husband and I were married in Manti, Utah at the LDS Temple. It was the happiest day of my life!

On the day we got married, My husbands uncle offered us a job opportunity in Texas. Of course he wanted to move right away and look into this, but we decided to wait, as we had just signed a lease on our apartment, and I really didnt want to jump immediately into a move after getting married. We decided to wait until January to move so we would both have more time to prepare.
 In October I got a second job working part time at Petsmart to help pay for the move. Having a second job made me really appreciate my husband more, and realize how precious my time with him was. I am on average working 50-60 hours a week. I am lucky enough to have a husband that helps with the house chores!
The week of Halloween I had been feeling a little off, and decided to take a pregnancy test. It was positive!
We were going to parents! We had it confirmed by a doctor and started the process of making doctors appointments and changing my diet.

Later that week, I ended up miscarrying. It was a very hard time for my husband and I, but in the end, we knew it was a blessing in disguise, Since moving at the beginning of the second trimester would be very stressful, and would increase the risk of loosing it then.

It is now December and we have less than 30 days until we move! we have been packing and sorting all week. Its been a little crazy. We got our first tree and have it up in our slowly emptying apartment. This time next month and we will be in a new state, with new jobs, exploring our new start. I am excited to move with my hubby and excited to see what comes from the move! :)

Hopefully it all turns out well!

Merry Christmas from The Whatcotts!

Over and out

Jess