Moving Day!

Well, I guess this wasn't technically moving day, but this is us being packed up about a week before we actually left Utah.

Dustin's Grandma and Aunt Lois came and had dinner with us at our layover in Maryland. It was so nice to see them!

The flight to Italy was a little rough. The cats were a mess when we stopped in Maryland. Bad idea to have water, food, and litter in one kennel. Poor Sayla had litter stuck all over her because she had gotten into water and then walked into the litter. Basically she had litter mittins. I am still picking it off her paws today. But in Maryland we threw away all the litter and food and turned their blankets inside out where they were still dry.

The flight for Dustin and I went much better other then we were tired and we had a lot of luggage to move around! We had two layovers, one in Maryland and the other in Germany. At each stop we had to move all of our luggage to the next flight and go through security again. The first stop we had to do that because we were switching airline carriers and the next because we had to go through customs. It was very exhausting. All-in-all, it took us almost 24 hours to arrive in Italy!

This is the building that we are staying at until we can find a place to live.

This is the BX and the commissary. It's a gorgous building with a clock tower.

Beautiful arch walkway that leads to the BX /Commissary

Where the cats hide whenever they hear noises in the hall or rooms next door. Ha Ha. I think that they are still a little nervous. I wonder why?

Unfortunatly, since we don't have a car yet we have been unable to leave the base. Hopefully tomorrow Dustin can get his AFI license and we can rent a car and begin exploring a little more!

Montana, Glacier and Seattle. All in one week!

Last week we went up to Montana one last time to see Dustin's family. We made it up on Wednesday night and stayed till Saturday. On Saturday morning we headed up to Glacier National Park and stayed one night in the park courtesy of Dustin's parents. We had a great time!

On Sunday morning we headed over to Seattle to drop off Dustin's mustang so it could be shipped to Italy. What we thought was a seven hour drive actually took about eleven. It sucked. We were in the car forever. On Monday morning we dropped off the car, did a little sight seeing and since that day was our four year wedding anniversary we went on a dinner boat cruise. It was amazing!

Dustin and his parents at Beerfest in downtown Missoula

A little Black Bear we saw in the park

Going to the Sun Road

A mama Mountain Goat and her two Kids. They were so so cute!

What Dustin was calling "Montana's Stonehedge" This is the rock tower that we made.

Dustin skipping rocks

saying goodbye to the mustang!

Boarding our dinner cruise

3 great weekends and still trying to figure this out!

Okay, so I was totally planning on writing about how fun the summer has been and I was going to attempt to publish my first post with pictures. I knew that it wasn't going to be as easy as everyone makes it out to be, but I didn't expect this! I signed in and wrote my title and then downloaded a few pictures to put in my post. First... pictures are a pain to move around on this thing! Just as I had added a few pics with descriptions my computer gave me a little gift. It decided to just shut down. That's right..it just went black. (and Dustin, I don't need your lecture about how "if I had just gotten a Mac...") So I started it back up again and the internet was frozen! It wouldn't let me type or do anything. I had to close down my page and restart my computer! I lost all that I had written and all that hard work to get my pictures just where I wanted them was for nothing! Agh! So annoyed!

Okay getting over that and moving on to what I was doing in the first place....

SO, as I was going to say, the last three weekends I have spent out of town. The first weekend I went up to Park City with Karlie, Sara, and Brandee who are some friends from high school. We went shopping at the Outlets, went to dinner and then stayed the night at a condo.

Here are a few pics...

Brandee and Karlie

Sara and me

Hanging out in the condo

The second weekend I went with the girls on my mom's side of the family down to St. George. We went to Tuachan and saw Footloose. It was amazing and we had so much fun.

Outside of the Theater- RaeAnne, Alissa, me and Jackie

Aunt Deborah trying to swing her hair like a model! ha ha Great action shot!

Jackie riding the bull

Waiting for the show to start

Mustaches we got at some small hamburger place in Fillmore. And as Jackie pointed out, "They each match our personality!" Thanks Jackie for saying that I'm like Hitler! But I have to say Alissa's matches her to a tee! She has an old man laugh!

The last weekend adventure was going up to Boise to visit some of our cousins. I always love hanging out with them and we really needed to see them since the last time we saw them was Grandpa's funeral. It was nice to talk with them and Saturday night we gave them some of extra things that we picked up from Grandpa's house before they took it to the DI.

Me, Kenna, Alissa and Nichole

Rustin, Marc and Kenna




Kami and Stephen, Uncle Joe

I had my FIRST Ice Cream Potato! Doesn't it look amazing! Alissa had to take like a million pictures before we could eat it.



After eating our ice cream we had to take a picture!

New Blog and no idea what I am doing!

Okay so I have no idea how this blog stuff works. I feel kinda dumb typing to myself! All I know how to do is look at other peoples cute blogs but decided that I, myself needed a blog to document me and Dustin's life and the new advendures that we have coming up.

So here's where we stand: Dustin is still living in South Korea (yeah I know it's confusing since he did get to come home for one month in June) and he will be home on September 4th. Exactly one year from when he left, and I can't wait!
Alissa and I are still roomates here at our house and it's been so much fun. Sometimes we have issues but most of the time it's great!
Dustin and I will be leaving for Italy on September 22, 2009! I am getting so nervous and anxious and excited all at the same time. It's hard to explain the feelings that I have, it's so crazy.