Cecil's in Houston

It has been a while since I have been on here and better give everyone an update on what we are up to. Eric got a job working as an analyst on the BNSF's marketing team. He is so excited and it was exactly what he wanted to do. That meant that we had to move to Houston, Texas. I was at first super nervous but we have only been here for 3 days. We are really enjoying it so far. The moving truck came on Monday and picked up our cars and all of our stuff. 

 After they left, it meant cleaning Grandpa and Grandma Warnick's home. We are so grateful that they let us live in their house for the past 8 months. We flew out on Tuesday night and arrived at our new home in Houston. We live about 40 minutes away from downtown Houston in The Woodlands and Conroe area. We were able to get into our new apartment on Wednesday morning and it is so great! Eric did such a good job picking it out. Our cars got here on Wednesday afternoon but our stuff won't be here until next Thursday. We bought a blow up mattress and have been sleeping on that until our stuff gets here next week. We went to Costco and got a Costco card and shopped for the house. Every time you walk into that place you walk out spending like $200. Thank goodness it is like 35 minutes away so I won't be going there too often. They are building a Costco 5 minutes away from us that will be done in about 4 months. We had a hay day in there!

Eric has to go to work everyday all day so I have been exploring around and getting a lot of homework done. I am getting ahead in school before all of our stuff shows up next week. I know it will take a while to get everything put away so I wanted to get ahead. Eric is working and I am going to be a wife and do the wife thing getting things settled and decorating our new place. I am doing school online through UVU so that will keep me busy as well. I may find a little part time job in a couple weeks to try and keep myself busy. You can only do the wife thing and do school so much. Eric and I are so excited for this adventure! It will be hard to be away from family all the way in Texas but we know this will be such a great opportunity for the both of us. We can't wait to meet friends out here that will be our friends for life and make memories here in Houston. It is a great part of town that we live in and we are excited to call this home!

Our First Christmas and New Years!

We could easily say that we had a blast over Christmas Break! From making chocolate covered pretzels with my sisters, Juanito Bandito, the Piano Guys, and the Musical Elf, the break started out very fun. We then enjoyed tubing on Christmas Eve, new jammies, doing the nativity, and then enjoyed a day filled with family on Christmas Day.

The picture where we are all in the matching shirts (2 pictures above), was to send to my grandparents. They are serving a mission in Arkansas and these were their mission shirts. 

The day after Christmas, Eric and I loaded up the car and drove to West Virginia. It was a very long drive but we made it in time to attend the funeral for Eric's Grandpa. We then got back in the car and drove back to Draper so we could enjoy the last couple of days with family before McCall heads back to Hawaii for school. My parents surprised us on Christmas with tickets to go Snowmobiling on New Years Day. We are all very sore and Eric and Morgan were going so fast that they got in a little crash but other than that it was a blast.

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and has a Happy New Year!!