Our new home!

Yes, we have made it to Connecticut!! We arrived in Trumbull safe and sound after a very long road trip that lasted 7 days! There were ups and downs of course: the truck breaking down, the weather, sicknesses, but thankfully the kids were happy in their car seats for the most part, my mom and Hannah came along and helped with driving and keeping kids happy, and we stopped in Omaha, Nebraska for a day (where I grew up). That was really fun, I hadn't been there since I lived there 12 years ago. It was also nice to see the Winter Quarters temple for the first time ever. Needless to say, we were very exhausted and happy to be in our new apartment when we finally arrived.

It is so different here in so many ways. It is beautiful, though, there are so many trees everywhere you go, in fact our apartment complex is set in a grove of trees. I've heard that it is quite stunning in the Spring and Fall seasons when the trees have bloomed. We are so close to the ocean shore, we've driven by many times, the sunsets are amazing. I love driving through the neighborhoods because the houses are so cool! They're really nice old fashioned styles. One thing that we are going to have to get used to is how expensive it is here. Holy Cow!! We live in Fairfield County and we learned that it is the most expensive and the richest county in the Nation! BUT, Bridgeport (our neighbor city) is 6th in the Nation for poverty (and used to be 6th in the Nation for crime). So, there is obviously a lot of diversity too. We love our new ward, it consists of about 5 different cities, and everyone is so welcoming and nice. It's also been really nice to have some friends out here, too. We have two families from Utah starting the program also, so the husbands car-pool and study together and the kids and I have friends. It's nice to not feel completely alone while Taylor will be so busy.

We went to New York the other day, it only took us an hour and a half to drive to the Statue of Liberty! That was our first time ever being in New York City, it was nuts for Taylor to drive in, but we want to go again sometime soon (maybe after figuring out the train system), there are so many things that would be fun to see, and I can't believe we live so close.

Taylor has been enjoying school so far, he was pretty anxious to start and now that he has started he's been doing really well, and is liking his classes and learning alot. Taylor amazes me with how good of a student he is, he really enjoys school and learning. And now that he is learning how to do what he will be doing for the rest of his life, it's a lot more motivating and fun for him to learn.

This was only a small update, I feel like we have been going non-stop for a while. Sorry if this was boring, I will post a bunch of pictures really soon!!