Bye San Diego and Hello Ephraim

This last few weeks have been a huge roller coaster of ups and downs as I left my home in San Diego and now I am in my apartment in Ephraim for College... It was SOOO weird packing everything in my room and cleaning just about everything and more that I could imagine. My mom even made sure I cleaned all of the baseboards in our house before I left =) It was an adventure trying to get everything cleaned and packed while trying to spend time with my friends and family before I left!!! It was really hard saying goodbye to everyone and I caught myself crying a lot the last two days before I left and again when I left Stacee's house saying bye to my dad. I love my family and they have become some of my best friends this past year so I really didn't want to have to say goodbye to them, I even delayed us leaving the house for like 2 hours so I could spend more time with them =) My last full day in San Diego was a ton of fun though! I started off my day by finishing cleaning up my bedroom and then it was off with my girls. Heather, Kelsey, Tara, Megan, and I all went out for ice cream (it was the kind that you get at disneyland) and then we came back to my house because Tara had to go back home for her dads birthday. After that we went and bought cookies and doughnuts from Albertsons with all pennies!!! It was so much fun and I couldn't stop laughing!!! Heather has always wanted to buy something with all coins and I had just randomly saved about $2.40 in pennies so we decided to go out and spend them. We would have felt bad if someone had to actually coun

t it all out so we went to the self check out lines. It took Heather, Kelsey, Tara, and I nine minutes to pay for it! =) We then took our treats to a park and we ate them there and messed around on the playground and in the grass. It was a lot of fun!!!

After the park we went home and then I went to drop Heather off at her house and then went over to say goodbye to Josh and his family. That was a really hard goodbye. 

I have loved getting to know Josh and his family better. They always make me smile! It was so cute how when Josh

 opened the door Jen and John came running out to give me a hug! I am really going to miss that him and his wonderful family. After I said bye to all of his siblings and Jen hugged me for the 10th time Josh walked me to my car as he always does and we spent a little more time talking toge

ther. We both didn't want to say goodbye and it was very difficult knowing this was our last time together so after teary goodbye it was time for me to go. 

After Josh's goodbye I came home and I made my mom open her birthday present early so that I could watch her open it (and so we could watch it together). It was a perfect present because she had forgotten that she asked for it. I gave her confessions of a shopaholic and it was soo much fun watching it together with her!!! We stayed up tell like 1:30 watching it and then we went to sleep. 

Then in the morning we packed the car, helped Brett with his eagle project, and I received my father's blessing. It was another teary goodbye as I said bye to my two best friends in the entire world, my mom and my little brother!!!

 I miss them soo much and I wish I could have them here with me but I know I have to be here and that they are only a phone call away, THANK GOODNESS!!! 

I love and miss everyone back home but I know Snow is going to be fun once everything gets going