At the beginning of June we were still in Utah and we'd just gotten our car back from the shop with it's "new" (used) transmission. ($$$) We left the evening of Sunday the 3rd to head home. We thought we'd drive all night but by about St. George Addie was so tired (it was about 11 PM) but couldn't get comfy to sleep in her chair. She fell asleep for about 45 minutes and woke up screaming mad. She screamed for about an hour straight and even managed to get her arms out of her seatbelt. Ugh. We gave up and stayed over at South Point in Las Vegas. (Stopping in Las Vegas and realizing all our friends were gone made me so sad!) Addie woke us up early the next morning so we just got right on the road and drove to Fresno. We got in around 1 in the afternoon. Jacob had brought in all the furniture and boxes but nothing was unpacked. (Wait, it's August and we're still not completely unpacked. Oops.)
Our new house is older, I think early 70s. We have 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, a dining/living room, a "den" and a garage. And the back yard is pretty nice, besides the part of the grass that is dead from the previous tenants' above ground pool. We like the space but the house has some quirks. The kitchen and dining have new fake wood floors but the rest of the house is carpeted in hideous dark brown carpet. Every room has a different light fixture. The ceilings have a really ugly popcorn texture and the walls are textured too. The sink is tiny. The water stinks, literally (we still haven't figured this out yet, but we're not drinking it!) And our neighborhood is not our favorite. But we definitely got the biggest/nicest house possible for the really affordable price. Jacob constantly says we're going to move as soon as the lease is up though.
Our ward is nice but we haven't really clicked with anyone. It's mostly got families with older kids and lots of seniors. Nobody has really taken much effort to get to know us, including the Bishop who didn't even introduce himself till we'd been here 6 weeks. But I'm still trying to go to Relief Society activities and meet people. I'm hoping when the weather cools down a bit there might be a play group or something. On a positive note, Addie LOVES nursery.
June kept us busy doing lots of mundane tasks like registering the cars, getting new drivers licenses, changing the car insurance, setting up the utilities, etc. Jacob's car's check engine light has been on forever and in CA you can't get your car registered if it's on so he spent DAYS trying things to get it off. Finally he got it off just long enough to get it registered.
Jacob's residency orientation started June 18th and he started seeing patients on the 23rd. Every 4 weeks he'll be on a new rotation. His first one was "wards" which is one of the hardest. Morning Report is at 7 AM which means he has to be there with his charts done before that. Most days he didn't get home until 6-7 PM and at least once a week he had short call which means he was on until 8 but wasn't done with charts until at least 9. Once a week he also had clinic in the afternoon which meant he had to go back to the hospital afterward to finish his patients, which was always a late day. He got 4 days off the whole months, every other weekend. Needless to say, Addie and I hardly saw him and he was so tired.
Luckily, he started a new rotation the end of July and it has been great. ER at the VA. Twice a week he has the morning off then clinic in the afternoon. He always has the weekends off. He's usually home by 6:30 at the latest. It has been a nice change of pace! Good to know that not every single month of residency will be really hard.
Addie got hand, foot, and mouth early in July. It was awful. She didn't have the hand or feet rashes which was good but made it harder to identify. We went to the urgent care and they didn't know either. I finally figured it out by searching the internet. A week later we found out that the whole nursery had come down with it but nobody had thought to call us (and save us a trip to urgent care...) Addie went a whole week without using her binky because of the mouth sores (and subsequently not sleeping much) and I thought she might give it up for good. But then she found one and now I think she's more binky obsessed than ever. Oh boy!
Heidi and I have been having really great success with our business lately and that has kept me extremely busy. In just 2 months we've made it into the top 100 sellers of ALL TIME on the site we use and one of our products is currently the #8 most popular item on the whole site. It's been good to have that distraction while adjusting to the new place. I have a mother's helper who comes 2-3 times a week in the morning to hang out with Addie so I can work. She's a little younger than I wanted and sometimes Addie is too big of a handful for her but overall it's been good.
At the end of July we made a super quick trip to So Cal. We stopped in Santa Monica to visit my dear friend Emily and her family. We went to the In-N-Out at LAX where you can watch the planes land. Then we continued to San Diego to meet up with Jacob's sister Erin who was there on vacation with her little family. We met up with them at La Jolla Shores and enjoyed the evening there. It was actually pretty chilly (a nice change from Fresno weather.) Then we went to El Cajon (where Jacob's grandparents used to live) to go to this frozen yogurt shop that their Grandpa loved. It has a 30 minute line! The next morning we joined Erin's family at Singing Hills (a country club) to have breakfast with them and Grandma Bell and Jacob's aunt Lisa + her 2 adult children. Then we spent the rest of the day at the beach (a much quieter beach than La Jolla but it was actually an inlet so the views weren't as good.) Addie was in heaven at the beach! We took off mid afternoon to head home. It was a super quick trip but we're glad we got to go. It was really nice to get out of Fresno.
One of the things we've loved here in Clovis (when the weather was cool for a little while) is the Farmers Market.
Love the photos!
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