WE ARE BUCKEYES!

It's official. We are Ohio residents! Devon and I feel extremely blessed with how the whole transition has gone from finding a job and a place to live to the actual move from Utah to Ohio. We have had help from so many great friends and family members. We are very grateful to everyone involved.

We love it here so far and couldn't feel better about our new home, location, ward, friends, job, school, everything! The people here are really nice, we have yet to experience REAL traffic, the weather is pretty awesome (tornado warning today!), and we are excited that we'll be in such a great place for three years! People have already warned me that many who relocate to Ohio "temporarily" for school often become permanent residents. My attitude is, if that happens to us then it is meant to be, but ultimately we'll go where the job takes us.

I work at THE Ohio State University Medical Center. I'm a secretary and surgery scheduler for a urologist. I like it way more than I thought I would (I don't mean that in a bad way). It is great for a lot of reasons. Devon and I are able to carpool to school/work on most days. He usually drops me off and then parks over by the law building. Since I'm an employee, I get a better parking pass than students so he usually gets a decent spot. The benefits are great and Devon gets a discount (a NICE discount) on his tuition because he is a "dependent" of an employee (me). Huge savings. Love it! And I can take classes for FREE! I'm trying to decide if I want to take prerequisites for nursing school or work toward a master's degree.

We have been to North Carolina twice in the last two months. Most recently, we went over Labor Day Weekend. It is SO great being closer to my fam! It's only a seven-hour drive from Columbus to Raleigh! (But we do miss all our fam out west!)

I will take some good pictures of our new place and post those soon.

At the pool in Raleigh on Labor Day

All the girls - Hayley is always being crazy

My awesome 8-year-old brother, Riley

Riley being rad as usual

My two boys on the drive back from the lake

Me and Grandpa Brock

He makes some goooood bacon!

View from the lake

Uncle Aaron and the amazing barrel roll

Victoria on the knee board, Holly, me, Abby (cousins)

Victoria is multi-talented and overall pretty much awesome

Devon on the wakeboard

Yep this is my husband

Our first OSU Football game. One word for the whole experience: incredible

I love [Diet] Dr. Pepper and friends who are cool enough to wear DP T-shirts. Meet Stephanie

Oh yeeeeaaaahhhh