8 questions

I saw these questions on another blog that I follow and thought it would be fun to answer them.

1. What were you doing 10 years ago?

Lets see in 2003.
I got hitched. (Weird to think about.) Biggest mistake of my life. So glad that part of my life is in the past.

2. What are 5 things on my to-do list?

Organize front room, enough so that when my visiting teachers come they wont trip over the boxes that are still every where.

Grocery shopping for a few things. Want to start a cleansing tomorrow.

Buy a pillow. (Besides our old bed having mold I had black stuff on my pillow as well. Most likely it was only mascara, but I was too freaked out to chance it. I've been using a blanket as a pillow for the past 2 weeks. I'm officially sick of the neck/shoulder aches and pains from lack of support.)

Continue working on baby chevron blanket I'm crocheting for St. Vincent's hospital. 

Walk on treadmill for 10 minutes and then ice my back.

3. What are 5 snacks I enjoy?

craisins, but they have to be the pomegranate juice infused ones. Yummo!

maple bars (they are my weakness)

cold watermelon

snickers

red vines

4. Name some things you would do if you were a millionaire

The possibilities...

Adopt 

Become like Emily Gilmore. Not the personality, but the donating and helping tons of different causes.

Travel

5. Name some of the places you've lived.
  
Utah, Arizona, Oregon.

6. Name some bad habits you have.

lazy eating

getting everywhere 'mormon' standard time

fidgeting

7. Name some jobs you've had.

mowing grandma's lawns.Some may say it wasn't a job. probably not, but I wish I could go back to that job. I thought as I mowed gave me time to think about whatever and I miss my Grandma Buck something fers and wish I could sit down in her kitchen cooling off by drinking some black cherry Shasta, playing Pollyanna, and listening to Grandma's wisdom and feel her love again.

8. What are some childhood memories.

Playing night games with the other neighborhood kids.

Pillow fights with my little sister.

Car rides to tumbling with Jan singing her goofy songs.

My brother scaring me by doing donuts in the church parking lot.

Coaching my lil' sis softball team.

 
 
Now it's your turn. :)
 

 

   

Our New Apt.

Sorry if my voice sounds funky. I have a head cold.

We are officially out of our old apartment.

Turned in our keys on Monday.

Hip Hip Hooray!

We had a little bit of move in drama.

When we took the cover off of our bed this is the 

nastiness we found.

YUCKY MOLD!! The dangerous kind. :(

Mom and Dad S were so kind to come back up to our apartment the next day after helping us move the day before to pick up this unusable hunk of junk to burn for us.

Plus they were so so thoughtful to pick up a fancy air mattress at Costco for us so

that we wouldn't have to sleep on the floor again. 

So thankful for them and the rest of our family that came to help us out.

It would have taken us forever to do it on our own. 

Jake had to leave during most of the moving for work so we are truly so thankful.

We are slowly starting to get settled in. I've been proud of myself for how much

I have been able to unpack already. My back is being kind. :)

On a happier note. Here is Jake starting our first fire. 

I have to admit I was really excited that the weather was bad enough to warrant needing to heat our apartment. 

P.S. I'm over the needing to heat my apartment. I'm ready for sunshine and spring. :)

Moving...

Jake and I have been having problems with our apartment complex from day one of when Jake moved in. (I moved in after we were married a few weeks later.)

Then on the first of this month we got a notice saying that they were raising our rent. Jake and I were shocked that they would really do that after all the lack of repairs and issues that we had been dealing with. To top it off we had already knew that all the neighbors right around us were already paying $50 LESS than we were. We decided that if we were going to pay more we were going to move to a better place. So that very day we put in our 30 day notice.

Today we applied and were accepted at this great place. I am very excited. It's beautiful! A little higher on the price range then we were planning, but thankfully we got a great deal. The 2 bedroom because of the market right now was the same price at the 1 bedroom. So we got a 2nd room, not planned but loved the idea. Now Jake has a seperate room to do his school work without me distracting him so much, and we will also be making it into a craft room for me as well.

Plus if the 2 instead of 1 wasn't enough we also now have a wood burning fireplace. Finally a way to keep the house dryer during the winter. Yeah! No mold issues. (While packing today, we had to throw out a dresser because of the mold, ugg!)

Three words.. Heated indoor pool. Yuppy!
I am so looking forward to getting my back better, so I can start working and exercising again.
Jake and I have a 5k we are doing in September. :)

I usually hate the whole moving process, all the packing and cleaning, but moving to this apartment will be amazing!

Bring it on! Moving next weekend. :)

I'll post pictures of the new place soon.