2 months in a nutshell

What we are doing in Kentucky

It has been a while since I have updated the blog but I have a very good excuse; we don’t have Internet at the house we are staying at and I can only access the Internet at my in-laws and I do not have time to compose a blog while there and during the day Brigham has the laptop so I cannot even write a blog to post later. For some odd reason Brigham does not want me to be on the computer while he is home, he wants me to pay attention to him!

We have been in Kentucky about two months and we love being here. Brigham is doing an externship/internship with an attorney out here who is also a state senator, Dan Kelly. An externship means that Brigham works for free but earns school credit. An internship is paid. While Brigham works for Senator Kelly at the law office, it is an externship. But for two weeks Senator Kelly was in a special session of state legislation and Brigham worked as a paid intern at the state capital. Since Senator Kelly is the Senate majority leader, this means that he is very busy with committee meeting and other such things and Brigham, as his intern, is also very busy. But overall, Brigham is enjoying his time out here and has learned much more about the law than he has in school. It is probable that we may move to Kentucky when Brigham graduates next year.

At first I was not sure about whether I would want to live in Kentucky. We are in the country and I am a city girl. The closet mall is an hour away. But I have grown to love driving narrow country roads with cow pastures and fields of growing crops all around. Kentucky is beautiful with lush green rolling hills and I love the quiet. I am so sick of living between a busy street and railroad tracks with their constant noise night and day. I am also sick of feeling like I am living in limbo waiting for our lives to start, when we can buy a house and start creating the home we want instead making do with the house we rent. In Kentucky we can actually afford to buy a house with land, lots of land. The other day as we were walking through town we saw a house for sale: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, finished basement on 4 acres, for $180,000. In the 6 weeks we have been here, Kentucky feels more like home to us than Utah. Actually Utah has never truly felt like home to us, especially me.


James and Anna

James and Anna also love being in Kentucky. They love the aunts, uncles and grandparents who spoil them with attention. Anna has learned to crawl and eagerly wants to walk so she can chase after her brother. James is talking more and more each day. His new favorite word is temple. Any time we pass a church he excitedly shouts out "Temple!" He has also started calling me by name but not "Mommy" as I have long hoped for but "Cassy." I guess it is better than nothing.


One thing that James loves out here is all the animals. Every day we drive passed pastures with cows and horses. There are birds of all types everywhere. We have a family of bunnies in our backyard and we often come a cross turtles in the road trying to get to the other side. He also likes that his grandparents have a cow and several alpacas in the pasture behind their house. He often escapes from the house to run through the pasture. He will miss this freedom when we return to Utah.


Trip to San Diego
At the beginning of June we took a trip to San Diego to visit my family as all my siblings would be there at that time to say good-bye to my youngest sister and her husband before they moved to Korea and to meet my new darling niece Isabel. We had a wonderful time there playing on the beach and just spending time together. This will be the last time my family will be together until my sister returns from Korea in two years.

What's Next
We have about another week in Kentucky and then we are going to DC to visit Brigham's brother and then to New Jersey to visit my brother. From there we head home to Provo . I wanted to post pictures of our time out here but for some reason they are not uploading. I have posted them on Facebook for now and hopefully soon I can post some on here.