I lost a month- part 2

Ok, so now that July is almost over I can continue what happened in May! After my parents left Jared's parents came to visit a few days later. They came to see Jared graduate from medical school. It was really fun to show them around some of our favorite places in Michigan.

Eating lunch at a really yummy sandwich restaurant

We rented a wheelchair for Cathy because she broke her leg a couple days before they came to visit us (seriously, she is such a trooper!) 

This is just Shad making a mess at lunch on our way to Detroit to see a Tiger's game. I think he's cute.

While we were at the Tiger's game Shad was totally flirting with the girl sitting next to us. He kept doing silly things and then looking over to see if she was watching. This boy!

This is Jared's first official picture as a doctor that I took after he became hooded as an MD!

Daddy and Shaddy

Unfortunately this is the best picture we have of all three of us after Jared's graduation.

Jared and I celebrating our graduations!

I can't believe that 4 years already came and went and that Jared is now known as Dr. Jared Smedley, MD! He has worked so hard and I am so proud of him!


As soon as Jared's parents left we packed and packed until I felt like throwing up, and then we packed some more. The last week of May we loaded up our truck and drove almost 2,000 miles across the country to our new home in Phoenix, AZ. My amazing dad flew out and helped us drive, I don't know what we would have done without him!

Jared drove the truck himself the entire time. Ick!




It took us a lot longer each day than we had planned because the truck was maxed out at 65 mph, so we got to our hotels each night around 1 or 2 am. Jared and Shad fell asleep on the couch the first night while I was setting up Shad's pack n play.

While we were driving we stopped at a little town called Shamrock, which is where they got the idea for "Ramone's" shop on the movie "Cars"(which happens to be Shad's favorite movie).

 Shad really did pretty well considering he was cooped up in the car for 14 hours a day three days in a row! I was proud of my little buddy.

We finally made it to Arizona on May 31 (with bugs on the windshield from 9 different states). Hallelujah!

Catch up

This will be a long post, as a lot has happened in the past few weeks. The first week of July we drove to Michigan with a moving truck towing Jared's truck.

It was the longest and worst 2 days of our lives. We rented a Budget truck because it was by far the cheapest, but now we know for next time that it is NOT worth the savings.
This is how much leg room I had.
The truck had crappy shocks, so every time we hit any bump in the road it sent our entire truck rocking violently back and forth. One of the times I started bawling because I honestly thought we were about to die. Jared was very calm and drove us carefully out of each of these scary events safely. I felt so bad for him, because he drove the entire 30 hours it took to get here, and he didn't even have cruise control. His knee cramped up really bad a couple times and we had to stop and buy him a knee brace at a Wal Mart. Stupid Budget. He was such a good sport though.



I did make a new friend though. The bug on the upper right corner of the mirror hung on through the entire state of Wyoming. (I know, I'm lame, but I had to do something to take my mind off the thought of dying.)


Well we finally made it to Michigan at 2:00 am two days later. Jared and I went to a Lansing Lugnuts baseball game a couple days later.



A few days after that (approximately a week after we got to Michigan), we flew back to Utah for a family trip in Park City with Jared's family. We got there a couple days earlier, and were able to go camping with my family for two days at Washington Lake. We took Jared's cute sister Alina with us. It was way fun! We went fishing in the canoe...




Roasted "mallows" and breadsticks on the fire...


And went hiking up to Wall Lake ...

James rode on my uncle Scott's back, and every few minutes took off his hat and said: "Ride like the wind Bullseye!"


It was a good time. I really love my family and I'm going to miss them a lot...

Moving on.
Next we drove up to Park City with Jared's parents, sister Alina, sister Kendra, and all of Kendra's kids. They are all so dang cute and hilarious. We went on another hike.




The view from the top


We also went to the farmer's market, shopping at the outlets, hung out by the pool a lot, and went boating at Jordanelle reservoir.




I took this picture from the boat, it looked really pretty.


After Park City, we drove my car back to Michigan. It was a lot harder to go this time, knowing it would be a lot longer until we see them again. But we had some good times and we can stay in touch via internet and cell phones. We love all of our family so much and hope they know it. Wish us luck on our new adventure!

I'm scared....

So.... I'm not going to lie, I'm a little scared that it's almost here. We are leaving our family and moving clear across the country. Up until this point, I've mainly been excited, but I think it's starting to wear off and now I'm feeling a little nervous and scared. I know I will have so many times where I will be sad and lonely. I just hope I can make some really good friends to keep me company.