A good beginning

It's about time I get to documenting our first few months here in Texas!

After road tripping all the way from Utah we were very excited (and nervous!) to finally reach Dallas. (Nervous because we would be seeing our new apartment for the first time-ha!) But, as it turned out, it is a HUGE step up from our Provo apartment.

This is a small look, I'll post more when it's a little more decorated. Andddd a littler cleaner. It's small, but it has beautiful paint, a new dishwasher and oven (wahoo!) and a little patio perfect for growing some plants. Oh, and of course a fireplace for when it drops below 90 degrees over here! 

We moved here with literally only a mattress and a little card table as furniture, so one of the first places we visited was IKEA. I could walk around that store all day! We ended up buying a dresser, a bookshelf (to store my huge book collection because I couldn't part with hardly any of the books from my classroom library), and a desk for Ty. We spent a lot of time putting it all together....and had fun for the first 10 hours! 

And the final product....

When we first moved here in July, I thought there was no way I could live here for one more Texas summer! It was over 100 degrees every day, and it that sticky, overbearing kind of hot. Ty and I went to try out the beautiful pool at our complex during the middle of the day our first week here (big mistake)! We quickly realized if we didn't want to be boiled alive we would have to swim in the mornings. 

We drove to the Dallas Texas temple in our first couple of weeks here, and I was surprised by how different it is from other temples I have visited. It is not a big temple, and not very tall at all. It's a temple that can't be seen from a distance; you pull around the corner of a subdivision or houses and there it is! 

It was a good feeling to see the full parking lot and to realize we aren't alone here. We had a good couple of weeks relaxing and getting settled in before Ty started Medical School. In the last few days the temperature has dropped to around 80, and I finally get why people decide (of their own free will) to live here permanently. Keep it coming with the beautiful weather Texas!