Living the life??

Sam and I have been married for almost two months. And it already seems like forever. Well not forever. At least not forever in a bad way. I mean it as, it feels like I've always been married to him. And that is probably one of the best feelings int the world.

So a quick little back ground information on us, and how we became us. Samuel, he likes to go by Sam, was born on June 21, 1988. He grew up in the air force, so he moved around as a child, but likes to call Idaho home. I, Jennifer, like to go by Jenn. I was born on July 24, 1990. I grew up in a small town in Upstate New York and will always call it home. We met at Brigham Young University in the Fall of 2009. We were engaged on January 18, 2010. Sam proposed to me at the Idaho/Utah state border, on the Idaho side because he knows how I feel about Utah. Secretly though I am beginning to like it a lot better than Idaho. We were sealed for all time and eternity in the Draper, Utah LDS temple on April 23, 2010. While some may think we are too young to be married, we are loving every minute of our time together as husband and wife.

Maybe some of you curious people are wondering why I chose to title this living the life. I'll explain. I'm not living the life I thought I ever would. Currently, Sam and I are living with his parents in Idaho. We have been here since we were married. We did get to spend three lovely days in Driggs, Id by ourselves for our honeymoon. However, since then our life has been very full of his parents. He doesn't seem to mind, because they are his parents. But I won't lie, it has been very hard for me to not get to spend this first part of our marriage alone. But then again it has been very nice to get to know my in-laws. I have grown very fond of them. We will be living the life in Idaho until the end of August. Which is still a little daunting to me. Another reason why I'm not living the life I ever thought I would has to due with the fact that we live on a little farm. The farm is not his parents lively hood, however it's more like a hobby farm. They have about 16 horses, three dogs, and a cat. And a vicious goose. And that is the extent of their "farm." But they do have about 60 acres of land that they grow hay on in order to feed all of the horses. I have never lived in such a place in my entire life. Living here I can honestly say that I have done the most manual labor I've ever done in my whole life. Sam works for his dad, doing all the things his dad doesn't have time for because he is a full time psychologist. Some of the things Sam does requires two people, so he drags me outside to help him. I have helped him build a fence for the horses, paint a circle pen, get hay, and even put up a barn door. While these tasks may not seem to awful or hard to anyone else, they were to me. They weren't exactly awful, but they were in no way fun. I guess in some ways it was nice to do that with my husband, but that's about as far as the fun goes.

I guess in my little brain I am treating this like a journal or something along those lines. So here is something that I would tell a journal type thing. I miss New York. I miss home and my family and the beautiful green that is everywhere there. I miss all the lakes and creeks. All the natural places to swim and that add to the beauty of New York. I miss the thunder storms and all of my friends. I even miss Provo, Utah, which is something I never thought would happen. I miss the metropolis of Provo. There is a lot more to do there than here. And I have friends there. I don't really know anyone here except Sam and my in-laws. And it gets pretty depressing for me at times. Even though I miss all of these things, I would miss Sam a billion times more than them all put together if I wasn't with him. And so he is worth missing it all.

Anyways, this is my life as of now. Not too much has been going on. I work at this place called Idaho Pacific. They make all sorts of products with, you guessed it, potatoes. I weigh the trucks as they come in and leave. Also I do a little secretarial work. It's actually a pretty good job. I like it. When I am not working, I'm either helping Sam or hanging around the house. It's been pretty rough at times, and I've cried a plenty of tears from it all. But this is my life, even if it's not the life that I expected.