Our first Christmas on own!! We had ham, baked potatoes, and all the crackers and cheese goodies from Kelley! :) Thanks Kel!
Us crossing the Texas border! My first time setting foot in the Big Horn State!
Our last date night at our old house!
Rob at the Dallas temple. It's so similar to the Boise temple!
Yikes, it's been about 4 months since my last post, sorry guys!! We've been putting off getting internet until now, mostly just didn't want to pay for it, but it's been long enough to where we can't get away with it anymore. so, we have a lot of updating to do!
Well, i guess we should start with the move. It was a VERY long and somewhat boring of a drive but it went well. We left on Friday September 30th and stopped in Salt Lake for Rob's brother's wedding in Bountiful, there we met up with my dad who was thoughtful enough to volunteer to drive the moving truck the whole way. I don't know how he did but we are so grateful he was willing to do that! :) The next trip we went from Salt Lake to Ft. Collins Colorado, which was somewhat of a pretty drive. The next day we went from Ft. Collins to Amarillo, Texas. Let me tell you, it was beautiful all through Colorado until we got to New Mexico. Then it was dead and flat, all through Texas. For those that have never seen Texas, it has NO HILLS, NO MOUNTAINS WHATSOEVER. It kind of hit us then we were going to be living in a completely different part of the country for the next couple years. Thankfully we all made it safely to Dallas and unloaded everything into our small but cozy 1 bedroom apartment. It was difficult going from a 3 bedroom house to that, but since we've gotten used to it, and with some decorating and love we've managed to make a home out of it.
Well, we've officially been here 3 1/2 months now, so far things are doing pretty good. It was pretty tough at first. There was some/still some homesickness, and when I started work we had to work opposite shifts since Rob is in a leadership position. It seemed bearable until we hit Christmas season, then we had to work about 60 hrs a week, and saw each other maybe a total of 45 minutes for the whole week. For those of you who have worked opposite hours, or spouses who are in the army or work out of state and see each other every few months, I don't know how you do it, but I admire you! It was hard enough for the 3-4 weeks!! But, lucky for us, we were done by Christmas Eve, and after Christmas I only had to work one more day, Rob 2, and then we spent the next 11 days together, 5 of those on our wonderful cruise to Mexico!! So, moral of the story is, things turned out pretty good I think. :) Now we're just back getting in the groove, and I finally started school at the National Personal training Institute!!! Finally after 2 years of planning and wanting to finish, I finally get to start doing what I love most: exercising and learning to teach others to get in shape and feel good about themselves! :) So worth the wait.
Rob's still working full time at Scentsy while I work part time, so we have evenings together now. Things have slowed quite a bit but we're sure it'll pick up beginning of February. Rob stays busy with work but he's doing a great job!! He's learning lots and really becoming a great leader. It's great he'll be able to apply his skills wherever he decides to go from here.
Wow, I think that's it for now!! Again sorry it was so long in between posts but now we have internet i'll keep better updated!
Love the Rogalsky's
