dear minnesota:

It took a while for us to get to you. You see as we were driving through Nebraska on i80, a blizzard hit. We almost died, and saw a million people crash. Well then we come to a complete stop, on the highway, for they closed it down. We pulled out our blankets and pillows and tried to sleep, but we were so uncomfortable. It was pretty funny at first but, after six hours waiting in the car, we were kinda getting annoyed. Like seriously, where was the national guard at this point? We were starving! So 24 hours later, we were finally arrived to our destination!

trying to sleep in our crowded car

We are living in Eden Prairie, just outside of Minneapolis. It was rated by money magazine to be the number one best place to live in 2010. And Minneapolis was rated number 4 best place to live in the summer! I love it here everything you need is just a minute away. It's been pretty cold here so we haven't seen much. (Besides the mall of America which took me three hours just to see the bottom floor.) Kylan has been real busy. He goes to the office at 9 a.m and comes home at 12:30 p.m. so I barely see him. Our apartment is indoors like a hotel, and we have a lot of Indian people in our complex who will just leave there shoes outside in the hallway (which is think is so weird because someone could easily steal them) and everyday we get a new smell from curry to garlic. I also found out that you can't idle outside of walmart here (which everyone does in Utah and I have no problem with it) they will write down your licence number and get mad at you.

Everyone talks a little funky here, but i love it. They say "beg" instead of "bag". The first time I heard, "Do you want the receipt with you or in the beg?" I was like, what the crap is she asking me?  They always "bean" instead of "been", and "fer" instead of "for". Its great. They also have a million road/highways everywhere! they have exits off the right then the left, then it splits into three different roads. I get pretty scared driving, but everyone seems to drive pretty slow here so I'll be okay.

Our first Sunday here was wonderful. The ward is amazing! The people here are so nice. Our ward is in Minneapolis and right after sacrament, EVERYONE came up to us and introduced themselves, got our numbers, told us about things to do here, etc. The funny thing was that there were so many people talking to us that we didn't even get to go to the rest of church because they were talking to us the whole time! Easter Sunday was so fun! I had hid candy all over the apartment (i have too much fun) for kylan to find and I video taped it all.

Well good news: I am graduated and It feels so good to be done! I absolutely love graphic design so stinking much. For those of you that don't know, i transferred to BATC to finish my major there, and it was the best decision i ever made. Instead of taking 3 more years to finish plus putting in 40 hours a week, it took me 7 months for 30 hours a week! I was the fastest one to ever go through the program! I learned so much and I'm so happy about it.