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wow. it's been almost 1 month. whoops! there is so much to update. here we go...

starting off on a bit of a sad note... the 1987 toyota camry died. R.I.P. it surprised both of us because we were sure that the toyota would out-live the taurus (jourdan's car). poop town for sure. it was a sad day. we sold it to a junk yard and i really did tear up a little when i drove away. ridiculous? most likely.

we went to utah and had a wonderful time! every single minute of our vacation up north was spent doing great things. we were very busy! one of jourdan's very dear friends was married in salt lake. it was a grand celebration and fun for us to see our friends and catch up.

hofe and jourdan. handsome fellas!

we also went to 2 more weddings, took some family photos with the smith's, our nephew wesley was blessed, and spent lots of time with family and friends.

jourdan had to fly back to AZ on sunday night but i got to stay for a couple more days. i cut lots of hair and also went to the imagine dragons show in orem. wow. it was an incredible show. i am so proud of daniel wayne. it was so fun to spend time with ALL of my siblings. everyone's pretty spread out, living in different states, so that doesn't happen very often. a grand time indeed. 

the venue was packed. it was unreal.

some of the siblings.

completely random, i know. i made a quick stop at IFA to look at the baby bunnies. i wanted to take them all to AZ with me. they are so precious, i can't even handle it.

after we both came back to arizona, we immediately started packing up our things, again! everything went smoothly with our move to mesa. thankfully, we had lots of help loading and unloading the truck. we are very grateful for the missionaries, friends, and family who were so kind to help us out. of course, it was 100+ degrees the day we moved! but, we did it and are so glad it's over. :) our new place is so nice and spacious. we are really lucky.

i got a part-time job at Anthropologie in Scottsdale. i've really liked it so far! i just love everything in that store. we do get an employee discount but i still wouldn't be able to afford anything in there. haha its been a lovely place to work though and i am grateful to have the job.

jourdan is really loving his new job at CAE Oxford. he and ryan riddle have been car-pooling which has been nice! their instructor flew out from england just to train them. pretty cool! we had him over for a barbeque the other day. he's such a nice guy and it was fun to chat with him. he invited us to come to england and stay in his house in the country. i believe we will, one day. :)

bbq with chris (instructor), the riddles, and the ballards. good time.

daniel and alex were in town for a couple days so we had them over for dinner on sunday. jourdan went to pick them up and on the way back, the taurus died. haha pretty hilarious, right? pretty sure it has something to do with the engine (same thing happend with the toyota). probably not worth spending the money to fix it. so, we were car-less for a couple days. my dad surprised us with a couple of really good car deals. we are both still shocked that went from zero cars to 2 cars within a day. we are very blessed to have such supportive and loving parents. good grief.  we are so grateful. we had some more visitors come into town too. we always love that. my mom and niece chloe came down for a couple days. chloe turned 12, which is absolutely crazy to me! how is she that old?! we all went to imagine dragons, shopping, swam, and took chloe to the temple to do baptisms. it was her first time and it was so fun to be there with her. fond memories for sure.

here we are hanging out before the show. love all of these people so much!

love and miss you all oh so much! 

xo, mr. and mrs. smith