Peru Bound!

well, in 16 days!

My best friend Jp and I are headed to Lima then Iquitos Peru for 2 whole weeks on July 30th! I am so excited to discover a new place and do it with my dearest friend. We don't have a lot planned at the moment, and we are most excited about ALL the time we will have to catch up and talk, or sleep or do whatever we'd like. That part is most exciting for her, being a mother of two, working full time and being a wife...getting little time for JUST her.

I know this will be the trip of a lifetime and I will really cherish all of it since we live so far away from each other these days!

Covering up from a sandy sandy day at work in the desert!

Happy Birthday America

Since our family are the busiest during the "normal" holidays...we have our "Christmas/Thanksgiving" get together during the July 4th holiday. It has become a great tradition that we all count on attending. One of our traditions is running a 5K on the morning of the 4th. Last year was one of the only years we haven't ben together in a while bc of Jay and Susan moving. So it has been 2 years since we have done our traditions.

This year we did the "I Run for the Party" 5K in downtown Nashville. We were not excited about waking up at 5:45 to make our 7am start time, but by the time we got down there, we were happy to be keeping up a tradition. We even decided that the complaining before hand is tradition! We all ran well, I had my personal best! After the race the 3 of us went to Nashville's Pancake Pantry to enjoy a siblings only breakfast! We enjoyed the time together just the 3 of us. We will definitley be doing it again next summer!

2 months later...

Well, I have fallen back into my old patterns of not blogging....i feel so shameful! To all 4 people who read this;)

Well, since my last entry a lot has changed in the "Young Woman Gone" world. I have moved from Utah back to Tennessee to work in Georgia. I have gone to Europe with mom. Well, that's it, it seems like alot more when you live it, i promise;)

The "summer break" has been a wonderful re-charge for me personally and I have enjoyed getting to spend time with family, and since that is the primary reason for the move, it has been a great reinforcer for the move.

I started my first shift at Second Nature Blue Ridge last week and while it was a good reminder of this being a job I love, it was also overwhelming to be in a completely new environment without so many of the people I love to be around and work with. At Entrada I felt so confident in everything about my job and it is humbling to have to start over in a way and learn a whole new system. Luckily for me, therapy is therapy and I have found that my skills and love for that part of the job are still intact!

To say the transition has been smooth would not be correct and there is still a feeling that this is the right place for me to be right now, is it long term? I couldn't answer that and won't try to. I have a lot of options for my next move in life and for the time being am trying to enjoy getting so much special time with my parents and a break from some grown up things like BILLS!

I miss Utah and my friends there Dearly and think that they are the kind of friends that will hold up to all of these miles, and that is comforting for me during all of this change! here are a few pictures from the last few months!

Enjoying some pool time before Luke and Avery moved to St. Louis

Mom In Rome
Mom and I on the Eiffel Tower

Jp and I the night of my going away party in Utah

Went to MI to visit and saw drew's soccer game

Megan and I playing soccer, it was a close match!

Jeremiah and Susan are coming down with their kids for the 4th of July this weekend which is the unofficial yearly reunion time for our family since football season gets in the way of us spending time together during the holidays, we have to be flexible! can't wait to enjoy some pool time and hang at fatty bread with family!