Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Sierra Vista

When Luke started working for the government, we were told that he would need to attend counter intelligence training at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Arizona to become a CI agent. Which is what he was hired to do. So obviously we assumed we would get that training done ASAP. Instead, as you probably know, the government has been kind of a B lately. So we were prepared to go in April and then again in July. Instead of going, we were all furloughed and shutdown.

BUT! Now we are here! It has been almost exactly a year since Luke started and we've basically been sitting on our bums waiting, but who cares? We are here now.

We are living in a fully furnished vacation house, which is great. We stashed all our stuff in a storage unit in San Antonio and just brought clothes and my glorious Kitchenaid. It made unpacking really easy. The house we live in is nice - very Arizona-ey with a rock backyard, which is Ivy's favorite feature. There are three bedrooms, and since we have June in our room, I might do a playroom for Ivy, sans toys....since we didn't bring any. At all. What was I even thinking?

For now, our tentative plans are to go to Mesa for Thanksgiving and Utah for Christmas. I'm still a little traumatized from the 12 hour drive with Junie, who, like her sister before her, hates car seats with her whole heart.

I really, really want to make friends here. I know we are only going to be here for 5 months, but Luke will be working longer hours and Ivy is getting to the age where it would actually be fun to join a playgroup or something like that.

Ivy found one of her Christmas presents during the packing up times. She loved it, so I guess it's cool.


Our house! Complete with an unpronounceable Spanish street address! 


What can even be said about June's neck fat? You can even see a little dimple in there. It's too much.




Ivy is just a little lovey. Her favorite words are "happy" "Shooonie" "pika" and "bum."

1 comment:

  1. Yep! That looks like an Arizona house. You're so friendly that I know you'll meet friends fast. The Christmas lights will be up by Thanksgiving at the temple so you should go see them. They are pretty gaudy and ridiculous, in my opinion. They have to be pretty extreme for ME to say something like that about Christmas lights, but it's an experience you should have if you'll be up there. Plus you can see where Joseph spent a lot of his time as a missionary and that's where we were married. They have a great visitors center and the temple (minus the Christmas lights) is really pretty :)

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