Why we came back home

Well, I don't have internet on my laptop yet, so this will be short and simple. Hard to write a post on phone. 

Last year in September, we sold our home in Las Vegas and moved. Just felt the need to. Can't explain why. We had a wonderful 10 months in Vancouver, Washington. 

We learned and experienced a lot. It's another planet up there! A different kind of beautiful. As some of you good friends saw from my Instagrams, we explored a ton. A great way to live. 

We lived in one of the best LDS wards ever. A gift that I will explain in more details on a future blog post. 

I was blessed to serve the young women at church, and loved them all, especially my 5 dear Miamaids. Another whole post coming up on that:) 

We struggled and grew from it. Cost of living is a bit higher in WA. We wanted to afford our bills again, and survive financially while going through Nursing school. One reason to move home. 

While the summers there are beautiful, they're actually not hot and long enough for us. We learned that we actually do prefer the desert summers, imagine that? 

The trees were hundreds of feet tall and beautiful, but blocked out any horizon views. Coming home last week and seeing a sunset was a gift. 

The day we arrived home was a day of many emotions. We'd been waiting since January to come home, but in the meantime we lived it up in WA. It took three months of online job hunting for Vegas jobs. No interviews. Test of faith. Finally, a phone interview came which turned into a job, our ticket home. I have learned again that Heavenly Father knows best. He saved the perfect CNA job for Shaun, and we had to learn patience while we applied to dozens of jobs. He knows our needs and wants to bless us. I have seen his blessings in our lives since we left last year, and before. 

It's bittersweet. While it has been wonderful to come home and hug old friends, I left amazing new friends in WA. A piece of my heart is left there. There are good people everywhere, and it was lucky to meet some of them, and experience a much different way of life. Beauty abounds. I used to despise the desert, no joke. Now, it couldn't be more beautiful to me. Isn't that funny? I see things now like the sky, clouds, sunset and huge, vast horizon that I didn't see before. Funny how life does that to you:)

Since 1991, this is the fourth time I have moved to Las Vegas. I just think that's hilarious. You have to live here to know why it's great. It's so fun to live here. 

More blog posts to come, but that's it for now. That was a lot of finger tapping to get this out:) 

Dear Salmon Creek friends; thankyou for blessing me life, and sharing your kindness with me. I feel like Audrey Hepburn on 'Roman Holiday' when she said at the end, 'I will cherish my time in Rome for as long as I live.' My thoughts exactly about Vancouver:)