I thought this would be fun. :)
Sam and I got married on December 29th, 2009. We met at BYU-Idaho and completed one more semester there before transferring down to BYU in Provo, because BYU-I didn't have the major my husband wanted to pursue.
He graduated in Linguistics (which is "the scientific study of language and its structure, including the study of morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics" according to google) in August 2012, and I in Psychology in August 2013.
We became parents almost exactly a year and a half after we got married, when Jori Colette was born at the end of June, 2011. Then added a boy to the family right after I graduated in August, 2013: Atticus Hugh.
After Sam graduated college, he worked in management for a landscaping company, which lead us to move to California briefly. After multiple checks bounced, they asked him to put things on his own personal credit card, etc. etc., we realized we had to get out of that situation and did.
Sam was fortunate to find work for a company called Multiling in Provo, a few short months later. And after working part-time for them for two months, about a week before Atticus was born he was offered a full-time job for them with benefits working as a Legal Assistant. (Which was basically the work of a paralegal, but Sam got trained on the job.) We also moved a few months later to Springville for the first time, and loved our time there.
He discovered pretty fast that working in law was a great fit for him, that his mind works that way well and he found a lot of satisfaction in the work.
So! We decided in the fall of 2014 that he needed to go to law school. He studied like crazy for the LSAT, took it twice, applied to law schools, got accepted to a few, then to the University of Oregon with a partial scholarship...and then got into the University of Utah, which he'd been hoping for. Yay!
Around this time our third child, our girl Willow Marie, was born. More yays!
We looked and looked for places to live, after we knew where he'd be attending school, and in a moment of discouragement told Sam's parents about our struggles. They promptly hopped on KSL, and within about a week had purchased in cash a mobile home in a little community of them about twenty minutes from the U of U campus for us to live in. Only having to pay the rental fee for the land, this place has been a tremendous blessing for us. (They will sell it after Sam graduates and we move, and if they lose money on it we'll make up the difference.)
So in faith, after three years working there he quit his job, and started law school!
We're pretty much living exclusively on student loans right now, since neither of us have jobs. Things are tight. But we're happy, faithful and hopeful that things will be easier down the road in the finance department.
Also! I decided I wanted to (at least partially) homeschool our daughter Jori, who this fall will be 1st grade age. So we have her in this program a few charter schools have where she goes two days of the week to this program (Monday and half-day Tuesday), and the other three days we do our own thing. Woot woot
Plus a couple friends of mine and I are doing a home preschool thing for our three boys, that we just put together...together. (Whoa, double wording.) I didn't think following a strict curriculum was necessary; we can handle introducing writing and letters. I'm looking forward to it!
Was that helpful? :) Tata -Ariel
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