boise trip circa july 2011

sorry for the delay of these photos as well. i got to see so many wonderful, beautiful people while i was home last month and finally made my decision to move home as soon as possible. im back in boise this very moment visiting right now and (so excited at this news) getting a new car, but hopefully ill be all moved back by the end of september. wish me luck. enjoy!

lunch with rachel (circa july 2011)

about a billion years ago, i went to boise to visit my family and friends. okay it was only a month ago, and now im actually back in boise right now, but i haven't been able to update my blog in so long that it actually feels like its been quite some time since ive been home. sorry for the lack of updating. not having a computer or internet in arizona is hard.

while i was in boise i was so lucky to be able to see my beautiful friend (who i consider a sister to me) rachel and her little boy gavin. he is the best nephew a girl could ask for.  it totally makes me want a baby.  i mean okay, yes i can definitely wait a few years and i surely do not mind admiring everyone else's babies while i wait, but he is just so darn cute! and she is the greatest mom i may have ever laid eyes on. i love both of them very much. oh and on our little lunch date, we went to the brick oven bistro which is is our place to venture when we go on our said lunch dates.

p.s. if i can be half the mom rachel is someday, i'd be one very proud, happy mama.

(just) a few reasons i was so excited to come home

well, this past week i have been back home in boise, idaho. when i first left for phoenix (as some of you may remember), i wanted to get the heck out of boise. i hated it here. i don't know if i actually said that in my blogging, but i absolutely hated boise. i wanted nothing to do with it, no association with the place, i wanted to forget i even lived here. i thought it was boring, had nothing for me, and well quite lame.  however, after being away for almost four months without seeing my family, friends, or having a familiar place to go to, i started to realize how much i actually love boise.

you know how they say "everything happens for a reason" ? i have ALWAYS been a true believer in that quote because it really does. i have so many things that can prove that that saying is true. anyways, maybe the reason i moved to arizona wasn't to have an escape finally. maybe the real reason i moved to arizona, was to learn how to appreciate and love something that was once taken for granted.

so, as the days grew closer for me to finally embark on my plane ride back to boise, i started to become more and more excited to FINALLY be home.. heres a few little reasons of why i wanted to be home so badly, just a few of the things i missed so dearly, and a little number of things i can't wait to finally have back in my life once i move back home.

1. hugs! yes this may sound quite lame, but imagine being so sad and no one to give you a hug or to hold you to make it all better. i have a couple of friends in arizona yes, but there is nothing like a hug from your family or best friends back home. its hard to find that comfort elsewhere.

2. family

3. being able to go outside during the day

4. friends

5. boise downtown

6.. the summer season, the fall season. every season in boise is lovely

7.. seeing someone i know every place i go to

8. kind people

9. familiar faces

10. the daycare center

11. the boise river

12. grass

13. flowers

14. moxie java

15. bsu anything

16. familiar landscape & familiar roads

there are so many more reasons that i love being home as well. my list has grown rather large though, and im sure i dont need to list all of them. that is the jist of it though! 

oh home, how i miss you.

BOISE i really really...

BOISE, i really, really......

LOVE YOU. 

who ever thought those words would be coming out of this mouth of mine. im so happy to be back and be home for the week. i arrived on wednesday and will be leaving (sadly and regretfully) next thursday morning. but i couldn't be happier to be back in this place. maybe the entire reason of moving to arizona was so that i could actually appreciate the beautifulness in the city i once despised. long story short, i never want to leave. i wish i could stay here and get a cute house in the north end. soon enough though. this trip has been the best thing i could have ever hoped for right now. so happy to be home!

is there an over the counter treatment for homesickness?

they say home is where you heart is. my heart isn't in boise though i don't think. so why am i so homesick? maybe my heart is there and i just needed to move here to figure that out. im not sure. but what i am sure of is that i miss my mom. i miss my best friends rachel and sabra. i miss my sisters, my family, working at the daycare.

being here has opened me up to a new adventure and i have met so many wonderful people. i am so appreciative of that and i would never change it for the world. moving away from home though has just got me feeling really homesick. one thing i was thinking about today as far as what i miss was having boise be so comfortable. i know all the streets, roads, shortcuts. i know so many people there. i used to hate the fact that i could never go anywhere without running into someone. but now i miss that. i still dont know a lot of people here and i haven't been able to do that with anyone here. i think though that maybe moving away was what i needed to appreciate the great things i had there. then again, there are definitely some things about boise i don't miss. perhaps i just miss the idea of boise? im not sure. but today i am just missing EVERYTHING about boise.

i was talking to my lovely friend ashley (ive feature her before) and my amazing best friend rachel about all of it too. ugh i miss my rachel (ive featured her also here and here and a few more places!). rachel is just one of those friends who is always so honest with you and supportive and caring. they both made me feel a lot better about today and missing home.

ashley told me "you can always come back and you are somewhere beautiful.you are missing out on NOTHING here. dont let your past steal your present kaileigh:) just keep looking forward! you moved.. thats the hardest part! now focus on all the possibilities." to this i replied "youre right. my past just holds so many comforts i took for granted, but i cant let that affect all the memories i could be making." and then with that ashley said back to me (and i love this):

"you said it yourself though it was "comfortable" dont confuse that with happiness just because its comfortable does not mean it is right for you. life isnt supposed to be comfortable, its supposed to be EXCITING!"

and for that i love her. my whole day became so much better because of my conversation with her. i just need to go home and visit boise asap. also i did decide that my heart is in boise. sometimes i wish it wasn't though.

my big adventure !

on sunday, april 3rd, 2011, i set out on my big adventure to Tempe, Arizona, so that I could start my new life here. I stopped in draper, Utah (a little town south of salt lake city) and arrived at approximately 11:06 pm! it only took me a record 4 hours and 50 minutes and i hardly sped at all. in fact I jut drove with the flow of traffic but it ended up bein such good timing !

I cried alot and I mean a lot when I said bye to my mom. Sunday she went to church early just so she could spend time with me before I left. so after church we went to breakfast, then I went and got my oil changed. afterwards I went and bought "tangled" because my little sister got it for me as an early birthday present, and then i went and said bye to my sisters. holy heavens I miss them so dearly. I cried when I said bye to them too...I cried a lot this day! after that I went home and packed up my entire car and the said bye to mom. then bye to cricky. then bye to sabra. I miss my best friends so much! I want to convince them to move here !!

here are a few pictures from me starting my roadtrip:













okay so I guess since it was dark out I didn't take pictures driving from Boise to salt lake, but I did try to take quite a few from salt lake to Tempe. ps if you're wondering why I took a picture of the bed...my aunt and uncle have this huge bed i slept in. I'm only 5'3" (barely) and the bed came up to the middle of my chest. I swear. I loved it ! they were so kind for letting me stay overnight ! thank you aunt kathy and uncle steve

here's what I have from salt lake to Tempe:




























and I just want to add on this last photo here, where that railing is, well that stops people from driving over a cliff that has got to be at least 1000 feet tall! it was beautiful. it made me think of lion king when rafiki holds up simba for all the animals to see. oh goodness...I would compare it to that wouldn't I?

the last few days in Boise

I am SOOO sorry it has taken me this long to finally start blogging about being here. i currently don't have a computer so getting to one to write is almost nearly impossible. thank goodness though that I found an app on my phone and it let's me write blogs and insert pictures ! but it's a lot harder to do so if it at first the entry doesn't look super great...bare with me :)

anyways here are some photos of my last days in Boise ! as you could see earlier the last three weeks there I worked at my mom best friend jen's daycare (which was so fun ! she has SUCH a beautiful center.) and i played a lot of dogopoly ! but I also went to my dads and said bye to him, my little sister addi, and my stepmom ruthie. we got my favorite pizza in Boise along with my favorite salad in Boise from Protos ! and we watched princess and the frog. it was addis movie choice but with my love for disneyI was so happy she chose that. she really is a little sister after my own heart!