Wish List

Here are a few things that are on my furniture/decor wish list...can you catch my style? I love all these pieces...and I want my whole house to coordinate with them. Enjoy :)

All Moved In.

These didnt post in the order I wanted, for some reason when i post pictures it only shows the HTML so i dont know which pictures are which...but none the less....here is what you have been waiting for! Moving in went really fast, we thought we had alot of stuff, but now that we have more room than we know what to do with and spreading our stuff over 3 floors doesnt seem like we have so much stuff anymore. Only two bedrooms have furntiture in it, but thats okay I have so many decorating ideas. It will take me along time to be able to afford to fill the rooms but I cant wait! Tyson and I are so happy to be in our new home and are so grateful for being able to make the next step in our lives! We were lucky enough to get some money back from the sellers and were able to buy a new couch, dining room table, washer & dryer, and fridge. Hope you enjoy these pictures and for all of you who live far away...we now have room for you to visit!! So come see us!

Crapola

Soooo...I am going to have to be a really lame blogger for the next little while until i figure out a solution or get a new camera. Apparently we one have one ethernet cord in our whole house and its downstairs where our TV is. So there is not place in our whole house to set up a desktop computer and have access to the internet. Since my camera is so old, i can only download pictures to my old computer because our laptop has windows 7 and there is not a software for my camera to download that works with windows 7, atleast not yet. Who is there right mind only puts one ethernet cord in a three story house? REALLY!? does anybody know if you can take a phone jack and get an adapter to make it an ethernet plug in? Or any other solution besides a new camera? I want to post pictures so bad!

Dont be mad

Alright its been too long since I have blogged with so much I need to blog about. We have been really busy around here. Unfortunatly we dont have internet and cable set up and our old computer which has my camera software on it is the only one I can upload pictures to. I am currently stealing whatever network i am on. I will give more details and pictures as soon as we get "our" internet! SO many good pictures to come :)

Temple Square

Even though technically it was our turn to go to Tysons family this year, my family came to Utah to help Brian and Becky with some home upgrades. It was so nice to be in Utah for Christmas AND get to be with my family. Wednesday night we all went to the Salt Lake Temple together and did Baptisms. That was only the second time I had ever been inside the Salt Lake Temple and the first time doing baptisms there, it was so neat to see all the details and how beatiful and ornate it is. I feel so blessed to be able to go in the Temple with all my family, the only exception was Dan, who we got to talk to Christmas even via video chat from the Philipines. Afterwards we saw the lights for a few minutes and walked around temple square. Since Tyson was still in his suit and looks like he is 20 everyone thought he was a missionary..haha he gets that alot. Aftwards we went to P.F. Changs it was so delicious! I forgot how good it was.

Coming soon

We had a great Christmas Morning and Holiday...I will post more once I can find my Camera! I cant find it! Stay tuned

The Wait is OVER!!!

After 6 Months of Looking, Searching, Short Sales, High Hopes, and Disapointments we are finally done! As of today, Tyson and I are officially home owners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last wednesday I was looking on KSL, just perusing the classifieds, and I came across an ad for some townhouses we looked at this summer but were a little more than we wanted to spend. Now, 4 Months later, they were offering a $5,000 builder incentive AND a $4100 grant from their lender, AND the basement came finished, where before when we looked at them they didnt. Plus on top of that we still get the $8000 tax credit. Thats a total of $17,100!! We felt like it was a deal we just couldnt pass up and so we decided to ditch the short sale and make the plunge. Today we signed the papers and our closing date as of now is set for January 6th. We were hoping to be in by the end of the year but because of the Holidays the process will take a little longer.

We are so excited to finally have a house of our own and cant wait to move in and decorate! Seriously my mind runs crazy with ideas...oh and the storage! Its a 3 story townhouse in American Fork, it has 4 bedrooms, and 3.5 baths, 2 car garage, clubhouse with pool and hottub, and its in a gated community. Something else we excited about it is just being done with the whole process and not having to work with our realtor anymore! It has been a nightmare for me. Enough talking here are a few pictures of the model house (not Ours) but OF COURSE we will post pictures of ours as soon as we can!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

I just had to do it..

Now I am All Decked Out

Decking The halls

I couldnt wait until after Thanksgiving. I tried, but I was just in a festive mood after church today and had to put up my wreath atleast. I got this wreath, and most of the ornaments and such at Tiapan after christmas last year. I think the wreath was like $7 and with all the accessories probably another $15. I have been wanting to put it together for awhile now but who wasnts to make something and then put it in a bag and shove it in the closet. When we get back from Wyoming for Thankgiving I will put my tree up! I cant wait

Grandma's 80th Birthday

Grandma Showing off her Clogging Skills....still tappin' at 80!


All the Brothers and Sisters


All the Girls: Grandmas, Moms, sisters, cousins, aunts, grandaughters, great grandaughters


Grandma and Grandpa


Everyone at the Party


Blowing out the candles


Throw your hands in the air! And waive 'em like you just dont care


There were so many people for "Thanksgiving" Dinner we had tables set up outside too, it was still warm though because we had patio heaters, I think i want one of them in my house!

Last weekend Tyson, Chelsea, Brian, Becky, and I took a road trip to Oregon for my Grandma Georges 80th Birthday. She said all she wanted for her Birthday was for ALL of her family to be there. All 7 of her sons and daughters were there and all but about 3 grandchildren who couldnt make it. (Daniel being one of them) We had a huge party on Saturday with about 100 family members and guests. We had a little program with singing, dancing, stories, and Grandma even did some clogging! Can your grandma do that? Sunday since we had everybody together and it was the week before Thanksgiving we had a big Thanksgiving dinner. It was so great to see everybody and have everybody together. There were several cousins I had never even met yet! Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for raising such a beatiful family and bringing us all together. Right after dinner we had to get back on the road to be back for work on monday...well atleast some of had to. (hehe, not me)

Patience my Friends

So just to fill the people in who actually read our blog, the house process is still at a stand still. We were supposed to have the paper back from the "investor" which is who the bank answers to. Well it was supposed to be a quick 3 days max reply, which turned into about 2 weeks. By the time he finally decided to sign the last paper needed he realized that because everyone took the sweet freakin time, the appraisel on the house was more than 60 days old and ordered another one to be done because the housing market has "gone up" in the last 3 months. That takes about 5-7 days to get someone out to the house to do it and then we have to wait for the "investor" to sign again, and thats only if it appraises for the same it did before. If it appraises for higher, than most likely they will want to rewrite the approved amount and sale price and we will basically start all over, probably end up waiting another 2 months. We are hoping for the best and that things will come back the same...otherwise COUNT ME OUT. You might be wondering how we have been so patient to this point, well i havnt really been but i kind of have to be. At this point its saving us about $20,000 so i figure its worth it. But if it doesnt appraise the same, I only have so much patience and I am afraid I will have met my max, we will probably go for another unit in the area that is NOT a short sale...Man what would that be like? It was be a breeze.We should know what it comes back at within 2 weeks I am hoping, and then another 2 weeks or so for the "investor" to sign off. Luckily the housing tax credit was/ or is going to be extended so we still have that on our side and gives us a little more time. I guess we will have to be patient for 1 more month. I just hope we can be in a house by Christmas.

Sister Sister (sing it)

Hello Everyone, This is my sister Chelsea! She is 5 years younger than me and she graduated high school this year and moved to Utah. I am so excited for her to be here. First thing we did when she got here is went shopping...soon after we started showing up places wearing the same thing! But seriously I really do love having her here. She is adjusting slowly to life in Utah, her roommates turned out to be more like my age so she just hangs out with me mostly, which is just fine by me. We are currently seeking friends and boyfriends for her right now. :)

Okay now for a little history lesson: When I was in high school I drove a green dodge stratus. When I was 17 I got in a car accident with my Friend and totaled the car. My grandpa decided he wanted a project and fixed up the car the best he could. He got parts from the junk yard so the hood ended up being black, the passenger door was white, the oil leaks like crazy, and it rode pretty rough. I then took this car to Utah when I first moved out here. We painte the white door green so it semi matched but not totally. When I finally bought my first car, the stratus was then passed on to Chelsea for her high school years. Everytime I went home to visit the car died a little more each time. It was SO loud and rough, but still worked, it would never die on you. Well Chelsea then drove the car out to Utah. Which honestly I didnt know if it would make it out here. But it was quite the champ. The car has been totaled, been driven from portland to Boise in the red, almost blew a gasket in the process, and leaks about a quart of oil a month. However we named the car..THE TANK, (aka army jo)for its indestructable body and undying bravery.

Not a great pic, but that was her date...dont think they have been on a second one yet :/

The Saddest part...Last weekend The tank was totaled.....again. Chelsea was driving her and her date out to a corn maze and someone pulled out in front of her and she T-boned them. (you should have seen the other car) Luckily it wasnt her fault and nobody was hurt, but we will miss The Tank and the many memories and places it has taken us. As it was pulled up on the tow truck the bumper fell off...hopefully for the last time. R.I.P in the junkyard forever