My name is Beth. I lived most of my life in Provo and Orem, Utah, except for 2 years when I lived in Arizona as a young child, and 1 1/2 years when I lived in different parts of Ontario, Canada, serving as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. When I came home from my mission, I planned to finish school in Logan, Utah, but my best friend Kyle had different plans and proposed before the next semester could start. We got married 3 months later at the end of February and have now been married for almost 6 years. Since then very few things have gone the way we planned because, well, life just happened.
After over 5 1/2 years together, we now have a beautiful 3 year-old daughter (she'll be 4 in February), a very busy 1 year-old boy, and Kyle has made a complete career change from being an electrician (which he does still do on occasion) to being a helicopter pilot. That alone wasn't in the plan 6 years ago, and when it did become part of the plan just over 3 years ago, the schooling didn't go nearly as quickly as planned, and the job didn't work out as planned.
We had originally planned for him to teach at the school that he went to so he cold build up his hours and then get a job in Alaska flying helicopter tours for a couple of summers ( I was ecstatic about the chance to get away from the summer heat - I would be happy if it could just be fall year-round). Well, he never did get the job at that school which meant that he didn't build up enough hours for that job in Alaska, and finally, a year after he finished school, he was offered a job with a company that has contracts to instruct Latin American Military. So, at the end of May he packed up a trailer and the back of his truck and he and his dad drove across the country to get our new life started in Florida. That's right, you read that right. Florida. (Not exactly the place one would go to escape the heat.)
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