A Skip and a Hop!

          So August brought new adventures for us as we decided that we were going to pack up and move to Laramie, Wy.  It was a decision that although it had been talked about..a lot...came pretty quick! I had applied to UW in May when we first started looking at it and Cam started looking at some jobs but we hadn't quite got serious until the end of July! At this point we decided that we needed to find out if this was what we wanted to do and so we took a couple days off work and headed on a mini-vacation! We spent 4 of the most discouraging days as we drove from apartment to apartment and from job to job finding nothing! The apartments we found made us sick, they were old and nasty! I will admit, we're picky! But us not finding an apartment had nothing to do with fancy carpet and lots of bedrooms! We walked into apartments that I couldn't believe met any standard of livability, they reaked of pet urine, or were so run down that the walls had holes to the outside and much more! And although we looked a lot of jobs nothing was working out and we headed home pretty discouraged! The next two weeks were filled with lots of talking and praying and pretty soon we knew that we were heading to Laramie! We didn't have a place to live or a job but we new that it was best for us and so it was a pretty big leap of faith for us!
          We spent the next week packing and Cam finished his last week at work.  From then on we became more and more aware of the blessings we were receiving from our Heavenly Father!  Trying to get everything ready for the move, we couldn't make another trip to Laramie, so the weekend before we moved, my parents drove to Laramie for us and started searching for any place for us to go! What a blessing it was after much of their own discouragement to find us a place in the student housing due to a last minute cancellation! I had called the same place several times, including the morning my parents went there and the lady had laughed as she told me that they had been contracted out since April and that she could put us on a list but it was a week before school and there was no way we would get in!  We were so thankful for them going and re leaved that we had a place to go!
          We left Blackfoot after a busy couple of days of packing and cleaning (thankfully Cam's family spent the day helping us clean and getting everything wrapped up!).  It was a bitter-sweet day! We loved our ward and had a lot of friends and family there making it hard to move away.  We were sad to leave, but are excited for the new adventure we are starting!