New House = Party!

Alright since our new place has a pool and club house we are having a house warming party this Friday evening from 6-10 PM. All are invited if you want to bring some treats to share that would be awesome. We have the clubhouse which means bring your swimming suits. If you need directions give me a call. I don't want to post our address on the web. :) It should be really fun and I'd love to show you all our new home. So come on over and play.

Sad News

I found out yesterday, a dear friend of mine lost his father. I am aching inside. This was no normal way to loose a loved one, it wasn't from illness or something sudden but from someone who has no regard for life. His father was murdered.

I can't imagine the pain he must be feeling. I have no words to describe my sympathy and heartache. I feel so helpless and so upset over it which only allows me a small glimpse into what he is feeling with this major loss. I am praying for him and his family and I am grateful he has such a wonderful wife to help him through this difficult time.

For those of you who know Paul Lemen, please keep him and his family in your prayers. For those of you who don't know him, do the same, this family is amazing and needs all the help they can get. Please especially remember his mother as she has lost her husband of 48 years and I can't imagine what she must be feeling.

I'm grateful for the gospel and I'm so grateful for the peace I have been able to feel and I hope with all of our prayers the Lemen family will find peace as well.

Different subjects all over the place!

I wasn't kidding with the title I have a lot of different things I want to bring up and they aren't on the same subject. So I'll start with the happy stuff and then I'll move on to the sad stuff.

First, our ward is GREAT!!! i mean seriously awesome. Our first week there and we sat by a really nice couple, they invited us over for dinner! I looked in amazement and said, 'That would be awesome! Thank you very much.' followed by a wonderful Relief Society where everyone told me about the ward and I had plenty of people to sit by. Everyone was so friendly and I'm very grateful for the fact that my ward is AWESOME!

Second, we still absolutely love our house. We have gone swimming almost every single day! It has been magical. Also involved in this would be the fact that we had our anniversary and it was nice to spend it in our new home. More to come on that because I want to write a gushy mushy post all about Nate. ;)

Third, (we're getting into the sad ones now)our family dog Ebi had three puppies and then passed away. My mom and siblings have been working really hard to feed the puppies and so far they are doing alright without their mom. This has been hard on my family because we all love our pets but the puppies have all been doing well which I think helps.

Church Phobia?

Alright to be a little honest I'm nervous to go to our new ward. We finished out last month at our old ward because the Valiants were in charge of Sharing time and we didn't want to do that to brand new teachers. So this week we are going to our new ward and it's weird because I know we will be in this ward for years. So it's a little intimidating. What if people don't like us? I know this may seem weird but as excited as I am to be in a ward we won't be leaving very quickly, I'm terrified at what will happen this Sunday. I'm sure everything will be fine, I just am hoping the sisters in the ward will like me and I'll be able to make friends in the area. So wish us luck as we start going to our new ward, our permanant ward! It's kind of cool we won't be leaving...we are officially adults.

New car smell?

Alright so you know have everything has a particular smell? I have decided nothing smells better than new house smell. Not even new car smell can beat it. I love our house. I also love our pool which I have used twice in the three days we have lived there. I want to say thank you to everyone that helped move. We were in, start to finish, in three hours. It was awesome and then a few people stayed and helped unpack! I have the best family and friends!

Nate and I turned in our keys at the apartment and now we are so excited to start decorating and arranging everything for our new house. It had been such a blessing for us and we're so glad we found this place. I truly believe Heavenly Father directed us here.

Our neighbors are awesome, next door in the same building is a cute family with three girls and they are super nice. I met the mom named Wendy and she is absolutely beautiful. I can't wait to get to know them better. We'll have to really 'try' because they go to the Spanish ward. And our neighbors on the other side are super nice and fun. They have a boy and two girls with another boy about to come. They told us all about the ward and even gave us their old directory. Told us all about the neighborhood and how we'll be having parties to get to know one another. They're our kind of people. ;)

Thanks again for everything you all did to make our move go so smoothly. It was awesome! Love, The Gross'