The House

We have been busy, busy, busy with the house every weekend and it's been really fun to see it transform into our home. There will be lots of pictures so hopefully you'll be able to see our progress.

I guess a little info about our house. It has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, and the basement has a bedroom already framed so that's another things we'll be working on in the coming months/years (not so sure how long it's going to take to get to certain projects). When we moved in, it was kind of a mess, but we had a lot of help from our families to get things scrubbed, painted, scraped, moved, sanded, lifted, you name it! Mike's dad fixed A LOT of things as well and we are so grateful for all of the help we got from everyone. It sure made things easier for us!

And now on to the plethora of pictures!

Before we moved all of our stuff in, the first thing to happen was we painted the ceilings throughout the entire house and the family room. It's amazing what a little paint can do to completely change a room. Furniture and pictures helped out the front room a bit too.

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Last weekend we painted the kitchen red with some left over paint we had from our previous apartment. It also made things seem a bit more homey and it was fun to spend the morning with Mike just listening to music and talking about random stuff as we painted our little hearts out.

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Here are a couple of more pictures of different rooms in our house.

This is the entertainment room in the basement the people here before us were working on. Once we've put in a new bathroom upstairs and put in a yard next spring, we'll be putting carpet in here and using it.



This is a little kid room and it's really cute. It has a elephant and a monkey painted on the wall and there's a giraffe on the back of the door. I would take a picture of it now, but you definitely don't want to see the mess of boxes in there.



We'll be working on the rest of the house gradually and I'll post pictures when more things happen around here and when more rooms get painted and worked on.

Changes

The last month has been completely full of changes. They've been very good changes, but scary ones too. Here are a few of the things that have happened.

-Got a new position/promotion at work which gave me the hours I wanted and a raise which was nice. So far it has been great, but I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time so it's been a little adventure/stressful.

-Moved into our house (Post coming up about this little diddy)

- Moved into a new ward.
We went from being one of the oldest couples in the ward to the absolute YOUNGEST. If I could split my ward up into percentages according to age... hum, I'd say 65% are 60 and older, 25% of the people are in their early 30's and older, and 10% are in their late 20's or they're teenagers & kids. Where does that put us? With the teenagers or something? :) No, so far it's been great, just a tad hard (for me especially) to get used to. It seems like women just need friends and since we've moved here I've always had an entire row to myself to sit alone on in Relief Society and whatnot so as lame as it sounds, it's been hard for me to be a loner and to have no one to talk to. But one upside! I can stretch out and take a nap if I'm ever feeling like it with all the chairs :) They do make them nice and cushy. I'm sure it'll be just fine and I just need to be brave and get to know people.

-Had our cars broken into
On Friday morning as I was pulling out of the driveway to drive to work in Logan, the passenger door swung open on my car. I thought that was weird and remembered our neighbor telling us they had had their GPS and DVD player for their kids stolen out of the car and that whoever stole it had left the passenger door of their car slightly ajar so they wouldn't hear the door get shut in the middle of the night. I pulled back in the driveway and looked around in the car and saw that Mike's GPS doc was on the floor, but they hadn't taken anything. I thought it was really weird. They must have been looking for one specific thing because they didn't take the $100 gift card we had (there's only 13 cents on it so we didn't care that it was sitting out) on the seat. There were other things they could've taken too, so I thought it was odd. Mikes car had the same thing happen, but once again, nothing stolen. We had our car doors locked so whoever did it must be good at getting in quickly. On that note, being worried about being robbed has also been a new change :)

So far the changes we've had have been awesome, hard to get used to, and wonderful, but I'm grateful that we know this is where we're supposed to be and what we're supposed to be doing. It makes it all easier.

Shout out to Brooke!

I decided it was time to change my blog background since I was getting a tad sick of it. While doing that, I thought, maybe other people are getting sick of theirs too. If you're sick of yours, you should probably click on the link on the top left hand corner of my blog. This is my sister Brooke's blog site. She is an HTML coding genius and creates free blog backgrounds. Check her out!!

http://www.babblingbrookedesigns.com/

Lake Powell 2011

Every summer of my life, and even before I was born, my family has gone to Lake Powell for a week in July. We take the house boat out on the Lake, eat lots and lots of yummy food, play cards late into the night, ski, tube, wake board, and live in a week of bliss!

Now, I thought I loved Lake Powell, but the second Mike got on the lake last year, he was hooked/obsessed/in love. I'm so happy he enjoys it and will put up with being cramped on a house boat with 15+ people for a week. This year was so fun and it was SO relaxing, which we both needed. Here are a few pics from the week.



My cute parents


This is my mother wake boarding on her 58th birthday. She is pretty hard core. :)






Mike and my nephew Colter


Mike, Christian and Colter Riding a 2 man. They didn't last long.


And of course, we can't go a single year without something happening to the suburban or the trailer :) Luckily this tire blew out right before an exit in Ogden.