Home Again, Home Again, Lickity Split

Hello!

Well kids, I'm finally back in Provo and it almost feels like I never left! Minus the fact that my apartment is different and basically remodeled because of "The Fire". We have new tile flooring all throughout the kitchen and family room, which I'm not ecstatic about having tile in the family room. I just love to come home and lay on the floor and talk or watch movies so we'll definitely be getting a rug or something. Then, we have new cabinets, fridge, washer, paint job and microwave. They're all actually really nice and our sink even has one of those little sprayer things! Living the dream! I only wish we got a new washer and dryer because that dang dryer has burnt so many items of my clothing! haha. The place actually looks pretty good! In Mesa the fire was pretty surreal to me and almost funny but it all became a little more real to me when I pulled out some of my clothes that were in a plastic container with drawers and they had soot on them. It's really fine and black and it gets into your nails and fingers. Luckily it came out of all of my clothes but it did make me realize how bad it would've stunk for Erin to have to clean all of this up.

My new roommates Mindy and Maddie moved in and I'm soooo excited to be living with them! I hadn't met Maddie until yesterday but I already felt like I knew her just from all of the millions of stories that Mindy has told me. She is so cute and so fun and I can tell we are going to get along so great! I feel like this is a dream team of roommates this year and I'm so very happy about it. Haha.

Our house is still completely chaotic and I really should be cleaning it but I just wanted to blog really quick about being back in Provo. I love it so much! I'm so lucky to be going to school here. It's such a great atmosphere with lots of great people around you doing great things. It's wonderful. Now I just have to worry about the going back to school part which I definitely do not feel ready for! ugh. Kind of dreading it now that it's so close. I love learning and think it's great but I'm now remembering how stressful it can get some times. Also, I have a job this year so I'm kind of nervous about that time being taken out of my day. I'll just have to be a little more focused and use my time wisely which I think will be a good thing for me.

I'm grateful today for the life that I have.

Lots of love,

liese