.*.The very beginning of our adventure.*.

I walked over to this building to get a closer look, its the Pespatarian church for the sisters. A statue of Christ in front. On Sunday we were with some friends at this little park, where there were some wild yellow flowers growing. Paul picked them for me, the whole root and all! it really was hilarious. A far away view of the pespatarian church.

Right across the street from our apartments

After a very busy weekend of packing, and moving we are here! We did it! We arrived here in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania after a 4 hour flight, we arrived Sat night, and to our surprise it was raining!. and Beautiful!! We got picked up, got groceries and arrived here at our apartment. Its a 2 bed, 2 bath, pretty nice apartments. Getting here on Sat was a perfect idea, because then we had all day sunday to rest, get settled in, and just spend time together. It is absolutely beautiful here! Green EVERYWHERE! Pictures just wont do it justice, but I will try! :) Yesterday was Paul's first day going out & selling, He tagged along with Cameron his manager for most of the day, just to try and get a feel of what he was going to have to do. He then went out on his own for a couple hours. He came home, tired, but still excited to learn and to go right back out today and do it some more! As for me, my day was pretty relaxing, it was such a beautiful day, full of sunshine, so I got to read alot outside enjoying the light breeze. . I kept busy and got things done around our apartment, but as the day was coming to an end I was just so anxious and so READY for Paul to get home, it had been such a long day without him! Im used to eating lunch with him mostly everyday, and then being able to see him when I got home from work around 430. Here I dont see him from 1-10:30 at night! Im going to go and try getting a job, a part time one at least. So hopefully that will keep me busy. We are loving it out here, its absolutely beautiful and such a nice break from our normal routine back at home, I am thankful for this opportunity that we have to do this together and to be out here, learning and growing together each day!!. I Love Paul so much and am so very thankful that he is such a hardworker! Thank you babe for being my support, and my best friend!

Exciting news!!!

Wow... where to start! So much has been happing in our lifes and its all happing so fast!. Paul & I have been looking for a home for about 5 months now, can I just mention how dang frustrating it is when you find one you love so you call on it just to find out its already sold!.. I cant even begin to tell you how many times that happened to us.. but our frustrations have come to an end.. at least the looking part.. We found a beatiful home in a nice coldasack (not sure how to spell it!?) in a way good area. The inside of the home has been remodeled, new carpet, tile, and paint.. so not a whole lot has to be done to the inside just a few things so thats good. The work will mostly have to be done on the outside. Painting of the house and definately working on the landscaping. But we are both excited to do it together, its going to be a learning process but will be fun. Its 3 bedrooms but has a den so could easily be 4, 2 bath, AND... my favorite part... a SWIMMING POOL! ha. I know its not that important but for me it is, I need one down here in the summer! It gets way to hot not to have one. So im thankful for that. We are in the inspection stage and should be able to close the deal here within a couple weeks. Just waiting for a couple things to get finished and worked out. but all in all things are going well. Some more very exciting news- Paul & I are MOVING! yes, we are moving to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania... and I know we just said we are in the process of buying a home. but we are only moving away for the summer! Paul is going to be selling security systems. The company we are going with is called Pinnacle. We are going with a good family friend of my families. So we trust him and are very excited!! We are leaving the middle of next month and will return in time for school. what an adventure it will be! We are so so excited to be able to have this opportunity and to be able to see all the sights back east. Paul has been back there before, but I on the other hand have not and my dream has always been to see New York, which is only 3 hours away! Yahoo! :) We will miss our families but are excited for this time to have only each other to rely on and to help each other. I know Paul will do great, he always does with anything he puts his mind too.

Bowling

Pretty simple night but still a ton of fun! Bowling, car show, dinner at I hop.

SUNS GAME

I got to go to my very first suns game! It was pretty dang fun! Thanks to Lynn who got us some pretty dang sweet tickets in a box! The crew was Joe, Talia, Paula, Paul, & I. We first went and ate dinner at P.F Changs and then off to the game we went!. We had a great time! Thanks Lynn & Paula you guys are awesome, we love you both! We were alittle excited The crew at P.F Changs

Happy Birthday Tal! <3 the Johnsons

First off HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my beautiful sister-in-law Talia! Her hubby surprised her on Saturday by throwing her a big surprise party. Talia, Paula, Candace, and I all went out and got pedicures while the whole time she was thinking we were going to go eat dinner at PF Changs, when we were actually just getting her out of the house so Joe could get everything ready. When we got back to the house all of our family was there and surprised her. We had a BBQ, had yummie cake, and played fun games! Thanks Clares! We {LOVE} you all! Things I LOVE about Talia

• She is SO much fun
• Good Crazy
• Beautiful
• Great Mom
• Makes everyone feel welcome
• Spiritual
• Great personality
• Crafty
• Talented
• Great friend
• Best sister-in-law

FUN FUN date!

On Friday night Paul & I went out on a date with my brother Jordan & his girlfriend Rachel, we went out & ate dinner at Aloha Kitchen (which was DELICIOUS). After we went to Fiesta Mall where there was a big carnival in the parking lot. I'm not much of a rides person, spinney ones make me Soo sick, but there was some pretty intense rides there that Paul absolutely loved. My kind of ride is the Ferris wheel. haha. After we rode some rides we went and bought 2 awesome kites at wal-mart, the wind wasn't blowing as hard anymore but we still were able to get them in the air! We finished our night off by watching Kicking & Screaming. It was such a fun night, great spending it with family!

Our awesome kites!

Getting a kiss on the Ferris wheel :)

Paul's kinds of rides..

General Conference

Dangit I always leave out some pictures and mess it up...

This past weekend Paul & I had the opportunity to go up to Conference! We left Thursday evening after school & work, we arrived and stayed in Kanab that night at the 4 seasons motel! It wasn't the nicest motel, but heck the bed was comfortable and it was a big room... boy did I learn something new about Paul he was constantly saying how funny everything was, like the 50 yr old bed, and the 100 year old tv. I should have gotten a picture of it! But it definately was old school. So what if we aren't staying at the nicest motel, its only one night!! haha But I loved his reaction to everything, now dont get me wrong he definately was not complaining, just making fun of it. The next morning we met up with Pauls parents and drove up to Salt Lake together, it was snowing quite abit in some areas- it was beautiful!. I love the mountains covered in snow, beautiful sight. So we arrived to our destination, we were planning on going and visiting Pauls mission president but he would never answer his phone, so we went and did a session in the Salt Lake Temple, boy it was GORGEOUS!. On Saturday night Paul & Lynn went to the priesthood session where Paul ran into some of his old mission buddies, so we all went out and ate at Texas Road house. On Sunday morning Paul & I had tickets for the afternoon session, but decided we really didn't want to wait that long and then have to travel home so late, so we got up early that morning and went and stood in the waiting line to see if we could get in. We stood there for a long time, they finally moved us up to the doors to go in, we even had the security bucket with our stuff in it, literally 10 steps away from getting inside when a guy came out and closed the doors stating they were full. AWWW.. I was so incredibly bummbed. I have never been to the conference center when it has been in session. . and I was so close! It was ok though we still got to watch & listen to the wonderful talks. We had a GREAT weekend over all and got to spend time with Lynn & Paula and meet new family which is fun.

Me & my love!

Driving up

Conference Center

Gorgeous Temple

Beautiful Sunset