Too Long its Been...

Umm... I feel like 9 months is far too long of a gap since my last blog! Some of you may or may not know... We're moving to Utah at the end of this year! Yay. I'm so ecstatic I can't contain myself. I mean three words: moving, middle of winter, and Utah. What could be more AMAZING! I checked Provo, UT's weather track record and... it's not doin' it for me. I feel like... 25degrees is not an acceptable average temperature. Like, at all. For me. Because I hate the cold, I feel like it's sooo inconvenient! If you want to go outside you've got to put on layers upon layers upon layers of clothes! And then once you get back inside, you're basically stripping off everything you just put on! Ehhh... not worth it to me. One thing is for sure, I'm going to miss CA every time I go outside. Aside from the whole "uber cold" thing that I'm slowing coming to accept, it's a whole new world out there. Really. All I'll say on this is the Church is true, but the people may not be. In reality, people there may not be all that insane. Chance's fam-bam in southern Utah are all awesome people! The kind that are amazing in all they do. However, Provo UT isn't Richfield or Joseph UT. Provoites are probably pretty normal (but I've heard mixed reviews), and probably really good people. However someone could be sugar, and spice and everything nice - with a dash of crazy, real easy. I figure that if I set myself up to expect some crazy culture, then when we get there I'll be pleasantly surprised! What do you guys think? I'd love some opinions on this. I have a countdown widget on my phone, and with out move-out date being December 27th (which is up for changing ), we've got like 109 days left here in Cali. 109! That actually kinda sounds like a lot, so we'll go with about 3.5 months, which sounds less. I feel like time has flown by this year. I remember at the start of the year we were all excited and gung-ho about this big adventure we had coming at the end of the year, but now.. it's almost here! And... We're leaning closer to the "holy crap, holy crap we're gonna be big kids now" side of the spectrum. Neither of us have ever lived out of state before, Chance lived out of country... but that's different... and we're scared. A bit. At this point we're thinking ok... applications for Winter semester due in a few weeks, umm... we're moving in a few months but have no jobs and no where to live... This is definitely a "leap of faith" situation. We both know it's what we're supposed to do, so we're doing it. Last night we had a wonderful family home evening over at Rich & Steph Hodges' home, where Steph talked about Amy's (her twin sisters) decision to go on a mission. She kept going back and forth, yes and no, when finally she realized she had to make the decision and take that leap of faith. Now she's at the MTC learning whatever language they speak in the Philipines. She did it. So that got me thinking about out decision. They asked us if we've recieved confirmation. Chance struggles to get answers sometimes, so he sorta leans on me for those things. But I struggle with scripture study, it balances out. My point, is that sometimes when we're faced with a hard decision, we just have to weigh out the facts and make it ourselves. We always want that dramatic confirmation that we're on the right track, but if that always happened then how would we learn? Heavenly Father lets us make our own decisions. (I started writing this a week ago... so it may not be uber up to date!)