The Parmenter Family: January 2012

Happy 2012 friends and family! I hope it has been a great start for you! So the last time we posted it was finals time and we were getting ready to move. So I will go from there.

   Glen and I both did pretty good when it comes to exams. I am very much a perfectionist so I didn't do as well as I wanted but Glen convinced me that my best was enough. This worked for now but, next semester I'll do tons better! ;) During finals week we got ourselves packed up and everything with help from some very nice priesthood members from our student ward (it was a very nice ward, we were very fortunate). Moving is so stressful and causes so much contention in life in general, which is one major reason I super don't like it. Anyways, We drove to Texas in two twelve hour days, only four of which my sweetheart let me drive. We stopped for the night at Brett and Corrine's (Glen's parents) after our first day drive and stayed there for a day. We were very lucky to be able to spend some time with both sides of the family during the holidays. We spent that Saturday and Glen's parents and just relaxed. We participated in Glen's family tradition of building a cookie train. This apparently makes me officially a Parmenter. I got to see some old pictures of Glen, which is always fun but next time I will definitely insist on videos. :) We watched a movie and rested up for our next day drive. We headed out Sunday morning at around 8 am. I was sorry we only had a brief time at Glen's parents but I was super anxious to see my family. It was a very long day and there is not much of anything on the route we were driving. Not to mention, I have this terrible inability to stay awake in the car (unless I am driving of course) so poor Glen was driving a lot of it alone. But we had a lot of good conversations and we laughed a lot. I usually am not a huge road trip fan, but this one was pretty good.When we finally got to my parents' house Glen made me wait to get out of the car until it was completely stopped (go figure :) ). But I ran inside and almost took out my Dad when I opened the door (he was putting on his shoes). It felt so good to be there! We slept a lot because we were so exhausted and then got right on the job hunt the next day.
    Now I guess it's on to talking about Christmas, which I never mind! Christmas is my favorite holiday and it was particularly special because it was our first Christmas as Mr. & Mrs. I was dying for Glen to open his gift from me, I think I was more excited than he was! We had a great Christmas with my family, but it was a little strange having no little ones here for Christmas. They always make it so much more fun. But we did get pictures from my brother Chris of Justin and Lucy opening their gifts. It was a nice relaxing Christmas.
   New Years was just as relaxed. We went to see a movie as a family then just spent time together eating and drinking the tasty Shirley Temples my daddy made. The clock turned to midnight and we brought in the New Year with some sparkling grape juice and a kiss :). What's better than that?
   We've done tons of job applications and Glen and I actually both got responses expressing interest. We're hoping and praying for interviews and employment to come. Things are already looking up though. We've been in Texas two weeks and are already closer to a job than we were in Rexburg, definitely answered prayers. We've done some looking at apartments and we think we found the one we're looking to get into, now it's about getting the jobs and then going and getting our stuff from Idaho (thank you Daddy and Glen). We've been staying at my parents and they're so nice about us being here. They insist we aren't getting in the way but we're trying to help out so we really don't. The semester starts tomorrow and Glen and I are both already about a week ahead because we've already done the introduction week stuff. We're such geeks, but we both want to keep boostin' our GPA. That's all for now. But I'll post some pictures. I'll write more next month! :).