We made it!

To begin, I apologize for the length of this post. I just know that there will be a ton of questions about life here. Let me know if you have any more!!

After what seemed like an eternity on a plane with a baby, we finally made it to Korea. Boy has it been crazy. Truth be told, Hyrum actually did pretty well on the flight. We only got a total of 3 dirty looks, two from the same person, in a total of 13 hours on planes. Well, as far as we saw. ;) I am pretty proud of how well he did. He was so exhausted though by the time that we arrived at the apartment. We had tried to keep him up except for a naps on the plane so that he would sleep once we landed. It worked though we still ended up awake by 2 am. He has slowly adjusted to the new time zone though.

I never thought that I would say this, but I miss the weather in the desert. Yeah, I know, it's 107 degrees outside there and you are all shaking your heads at me. I think I hear someone saying "It's only in the 80's there." and while that's true, this humidity is killing me. Also I think that I have yet to see one Korean sweat. After walking from the subway to Soren's work, I look like I just walked out of a shower. If I look over at one of his coworkers they look like it's a pleasant day at the park! It actually makes me pretty jealous. Also the humidity and heat does nothing to mess up their hair! What woman would not be jealous of that! 

Our washing room

You can definitely tell that it is the monsoon season here. Since arriving last Friday it has rained a little everyday except Saturday, Monday and today (Friday). It never rains all day, except last Sunday, and is usually in the morning or late evening. Also since we don't have a dryer, this makes it exceedingly difficult to dry our clothes!

The front of our building

One of the biggest changes for us, besides moving to a foreign country where we don't speak or read the language, is the massive downsizing. We moved into a one bedroom apartment. It is actually pretty nice and bigger than we thought it would be (we were not very optimistic). The building was just built and is still pretty empty.

Our bedroom

Our bathroom. Yes, that is the shower above the sink.

More of our bedroom (As you can tell, it's not very big.)

We have to use the top of the fridge for storage.

We are lucky about at least one thing in our apartment and that is our air conditioning. As I have looked at the other buildings around us, I haven't noticed a single air conditioning unit. We are so  blessed to have one. I don't think that I would be able to survive the humidity without it.

This is our new kitchen table.

Well, that's it for now I guess. We hope that every one is well! More posts to follow!

And then this happened...

It seems like we have been waiting for something to happen with a new job for so long and then all of a sudden one jumped out at us. Soren was offered a job teaching adults in Daegu, South Korea for a year. We are both so excited! This is something that neither of us have done. Seriously, how many people get to have adventures like this?!

So the first part of our adventure starts next week. We move out of our house on Monday and hop on a flight (17.5 hours!) on Thursday afternoon. We are not quite sure how Hyrum will do with such a long flight but it has to be better than how well our cat did with a 1.5 hour long car ride and I survived that okay so I'm slightly optimistic (not overly though). 

It was a little scary when we were at the Korean Consulate in LA on Thursday. We got a taste of what the next year was going to be like. We were the only non-Koreans there for the majority of the time we were there and I had no idea of what was going on around me for an even greater amount of time. At least they flashed our number on a screen so that we knew it was our turn since no one was speaking English.

All fears aside, I am so grateful to have this opportunity to go and experience a new place with my family. I know that it will be good for us and that we will enjoy if we make the most of it. Don't worry though. We will be back soon! 

Was I ever wrong!

And here I was thinking that bath time was for cleaning!

The Many Faces of Hyrum!

Best Buds!!



He is always flying in his swing. Maybe it's a sign.



He is pretty much the cutest!

What happened next?!

You'd think that in two months more things to have happened. I guess that we are just not that exciting.

Probably one of the most exciting things was actually the amazing moving sale that Joann's had. I don't often have money for things like that so this was pretty much amazing. They had patterns for a quarter and fabric 75% off! It pretty much made my month.

Also school just started for me. I have four classes. Wow, I didn't realize that it would be so much harder to do these classes with Hyrum at home. I am so glad that Soren has been able to help out with this. His help has been invaluable. I think that he has really enjoyed having this time to spend with Hyrum and get to know his little quirks better.

That's about it!

Family Photos!

So neither Soren nor I are picture people. I have to say though, when my parents asked to do family pictures again, I jumped at the chance. I have no problem getting in front of the camera, I just feel like I can't really pull off looking good in a picture. I am still trying to convince Soren that the camera is not going to try to steal his soul. The whole process was complicated by a two month old that was more fascinated with my brother's head than the camera. I am glad to say that even after all of this, the pictures turned out good.

Now I have an updated picture of our little family! :D

2 Months!

It's hard to believe that Hyrum is already two months old! He is just growing so fast! He weighs 15+ lbs and is still as cute as can be. His new thing is smiling. He does it all the time and it is beyond cute! I can't wait for him to start laughing.

I tried to get a picture of his smile the other day, but, believe it or not, wiggling, smiling babies are exceedingly difficult to get a non-blurry picture of. ;D Anyway this is what I ended up with. It's not the best but still pretty good. Looking at this picture makes me smile so much but believe me that it is way better in person!