Cat-like Reflexes!

So... Skweemish beware....
Last night, well I should say, this morning around 4:30 I had to sit awake for 30 minutes negoticating myself back into bed. Why? Oh you know...roaches. Yeah I said ROACHES. I woke up in a panic becaue I felt something crawl down my arm and half-awake, I grabbed and squished it in my hand, realized what just happened and jumped out of bed! I apparently have insane reflexes in my sleep, who just grabs a scittering bug?! This is the second time in my life that I have done this...ironically the first time was at a cabin at Huntington Lake, which I was just talking about all last night because I'm headed there next week. Anyway!I whipped on the light, Kellen disposed of the intruder and then I had to stand there shuddering about it for 30 minutes! Literally a nightmare come true.
I feel the same way I did after I saw the horror movie, The Grudge. In that movie the creepy thing gets you even when you climb in bed with the covers pulled up! That's supposed to be the safe zone! Bugs, critters, and creepy spirits with grudges are not supposed to be able to get you in your bed! Safe zone!

On a less creepy crawly note. Ashton and I are Fresno bound this afternoon when I get off work! Yay! Kellen has finals next week so we are getting out of his hair for that. I am a genious and of course forgot to get the baggage out of Ashton's room before he went to bed last night, so I'm going to have to hustle to get everything packed in time to leave! I'm thinking the timing could not have been more perfect, since I would probably have had roach nightmares sleeping in my own bed...I get to sleep somewhere else for a few nights and hopefully forget! (yeah, right.) I will leave Kellen with a big bottle of bug spray. *disgusted, shivery creepy-crawly dance*

Leaving Utah

I've talked about how I feel about Utah before. The good, the bad, the ugly. I love it there for mostly sentimental reasons. There are some things I didn't love so much. Snow from November to May, for example. Even though, now that it's November and still 75 degrees....I find myself missing winter. Barely, just a little! I do love a good cup of cocoa, not much use for hot drinks in Nevada. But I digress.
After Kellen was done with school, we wanted to move on. We'd been there working on that degree for so long, we just felt like a fresh start was needed. So we considered our options. Mid-considerations, Kellen got to talking to my uncle, Aaron, who is a Physician's Assistant. He had recently finished. After talking with him a few times Kellen decided he liked the idea. This was around May-June. So he started doing his research thing, looking up all the requirements, prerequisites, school information. After about a month of tossing ideas around and making sure he really felt good about it, we started making the preparations so move. We decided Henderson was the place to go first. He needed prerequisite science classes and we very well could have stayed where were for those, but we were itching to move along.
I quickly found out that packing for a cross state move is a little more involved than just moving two towns over. Maybe it's just me. My inner OCD kicked in.

 My little green monster helping out the big boys!

All set for the drive with mommy!

A pit stop for some refreshments!