The Joys of Moving

Well, I am all moved into my new place. I unpacked the last box on Saturday. It is definitely a relief to be done. In all of my moving, I have one conclusion - moving was much easier in the days of F Smith 161. Back then, I loaded up my parents red and black suburban for the "trek" to BYU. I was worried about forgetting something, which ultimately I did. Over the course of the semester, I brought down many more boxes and bags of precious items that I had forgotten. Somehow, it all managed to fit in the tight quarters of my tiny room. Sure, it helped to have elevated beds, a storage closet (since we were all from Utah), and the luxury of returning unnecessary items to my parents house. Seven years later, the move is much more complicated. No more fitting your whole life into the back of a suburban...this time a full-size moving trailer, cars, suburbans, and a few trips filled with furniture, baby toys and supplies, more books (I'm obsessed!), clothes, dishes, decorations - you name it. I am no longer able to store things at my parents' house since they are moving and I live so far away. I have far too many things - yet somehow I can't manage to part with it. Am I becoming a pack rat, I wonder?! So, there you have it...and ode to the simple days when moving consisted of a suburban and a few boxes. I am excited about this blog. We have some great memories together and it will be fun to share other exciting news with each other - a little different from our own personal blogs. I love to make lists so here are a few of my favorite memories with the roomies:

*Running through pouring rain with E. Mit in the attempt to get our freshman passports stamped
*The Honor Code song
*Roomie Prayer

*Going around dressed up in crazy clothes during finals week

*FHE Group - dinner on the ping pong table, dying eggs, playing games, "Pops," great lessons, making cookies, going to the Bishop's house...etc.
*DESSERT nights...who could forget those?!

*Fetz scaring Katie in the shower
*Wall of good fortune, ceiling of love, corner of lovin', wall of quotes, etc.
*Late night talks
*Pranks, pranks, and more pranks
*Spying on people making out and making sure our upstairs neighbors were watching too! *Walking to church together
*Going to Park City and the cabin
*Freezing through all of the BYU games (which I really WAS interested in!)
*Ordering delicious breadsticks
*Martha's subway sandwich ritual
*Taco salad
*Jen's tuna
*Watching movies in our makeshift living room/kitchen
*Playing Bigger or Better and getting our extra couch for the basement
*Dying Eggs
*Halloween fun
*Going out to eat
*Paying for food with all change
*Grocery shopping trips
*Late nights at the creamery

*Painting the ceiling
*The joys of cleaning checks *
Study sessions until all hours of the night
*Entertaining all of you with my sleep walking - ha ha!

*Saturday's Warrior stalkers

*Our photo shoot
*Great friends
*Basement Buddies
*Practicing signing
*Crying, laughing, and growing together

The list could go on and on. Thanks for the great memories and many more to come! I am excited for all of your posts! xoxo Becca