pure and simple...

...I hate packing! I wish it was all over and done with! I don't know how my friends with Kids pack and move while entertaining them.

Yes, we did procrastinate a bit. Since we didn't know when we were going to close. We didn't want to live out of boxes. I just wish i had a magic wand to make is all packed, moved and into place at the new house.

all signed

We pick up the keys in two hours!
WOO HOO!!!!

08-08-08

Just a side note. While we were waiting for them to bring in Trenton the sealer said on 08-08-08 they had over 120 weddings planned just for the SLC Temple. But because people didn't want to get married at 6am or 9pm a "few dropped off". LOL. That day there were 98 weddings. WOW! Yesterday at the temple there were about 50 planned. Too crowded for me!

An Eternal Family

We had the GREAT pleasure and honor to go to the Salt Lake City Temple yesterday to witness the Sealing of Trenton to our dear friends Tina & Jared. Tina was my roommate up at Ricks College and Jared was Kevin's roommate at Ricks College. They got married 2yrs before us. Tina, like me has problems getting pregnant. To make the story short...Tina knew at girl from the dance team at BYU-Idaho who's little sister became pregnant. This young girl called up Tina & Jared one day and said "Hi this is (name), i am pregnant with your baby!" I wish i could have seen their expression when they got that phone call. The birth mom and Tina & Jared have an amazing relationship. To where she was there yesterday waiting at the Temple and attended the baby blessing later that afternoon. She is an amazing young girl! I wish there were more like her that would realize that there are couples out there that would give anything to have a child and that the smart thing for them to do is give that child up so they can have the chance to be in a loving home with a mother & father who are prepared for raising a child. OK, I'll get onto the pictures.

Tina, Jared & Trenton (6mons old)

Tina, Jared, Trenton, Me & Kevin

Trenton - he is just so dang cute!

WE LOVE YOU GUYS! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

first of three

We had a coupon we wanted to use at Hollywood video so we rented three movies last night. Not that we don't have anything else we should be doing right now...like packing. But we just weren't feeling the need to pack. So...we watched Penelope. It was really cute! Kevin actually watched the whole movie with me too...and like it! OH! and it had a trailer for Twilight on the DVD! :)

thursday...

Looks good with grass huh?

Well we are NOT closing today (surprise surprise) and we are fine with that. We are going over at 9am to have a walk through with the builder and let them know things we want fixed. Really there is just some minor stuff. But if you don't get it fixed before you move in how long will it take them to do it afterwards?! :) PLUS...we got a call from our mortgage lender and the developers just got the occupancy paperwork yesterday (Wednesday) so they need to have the final appraiser come in. Then it takes a few days to get that paperwork back. So we are looking more at Tuesday for closing. *sigh*

closing week?

Well Kevin and I stopped by the house on Friday to see what's been done, nothing. LOL. There are still a lot of little things in the house that need to be completed and i do not understand why it's taking so long! We are supposed to close THIS Thursday. I just do not see how that is going to happen. Here is the latest picture of the house. Looking good. They landscape the front and we are in charge of doing the back. We could have had them do the back yard but they wanted an INSANE about of $$ for it. We can do it ourselves cheaper. Just need to put in some manual labor.


Friday we went to the Cassia County Fair after work. We picked up Kevin's mom on the way out there. It's the fair that Kevin grew up going to. We try to make it every year but that doesn't always happen. LOL. Kevin LOVES this food booth that sells nothing but Corn on the Cob. They have the cooked corn on a stick and dip it in a crock pot FULL of melted butter! It's divine! LOL. Here is Kevin with his TWO corn on the cobs. See the napkins are soaked with melted butter.


After we walked around and saw all the animals, 4-h art displays and such we ate some real food. Hamburger's. Corn just wasn't filling me up...maybe i should have had two. ;) Kevin said "Let me go win you a prize." I said "ok". So we walked over there and they have the booth where you squirt the water into a hole and the first to reach the top wins. Well i love that game so we all played that. Well I ended up winning my own prize. LOL. So I got a small pink gorilla. We walked around trying to find another game so Kevin could win me a prize. None of the others looked that great to play. Chances weren't good at winning. So we went back to the water gun game. We played again. I ended up winning again! LOL. So i upgraded my pink gorilla and got...

Fiesta the Duck!

Thanks for my prize love! :)

Congrats!!!

Congratulations to...
Eliza & Bryan on the birth of little Weston.
Eric & Rochelle on the birth of little Abe.

only a week?

Seems like i haven't written in FOREVER but it's only been a week...if you call that much of a post. Maybe I'll make you guys wait a little longer. LOL. Just kidding.

So i am on book 4 now! Started it Sunday. Only about 250 pages in to it. Loving the books!!! Makes me so excited for the movie...but i know others that are WAY MORE excited then i am. Maybe I'll have to go down to UT and see it with my friend Sarah M. What do you think Sarah? :)

So we are getting closer to the supposed close date on the house. I REALLY don't think we will close on the 21st. There is still stuff that needs to happen, be fixed, etc... They have been screwing up lately on our house. Our friend's are building the same floorplan as us but they picked out completely different things then we did. Well, somehow we are getting some of their stuff in our house! This afternoon i ran over and we now have their microwave installed in our kitchen...we already have their dishwasher installed. Their's are white and ours are black. We HAD their kitchen sink and they had ours...they finally got that switched out. Though ours is still sitting on the kitchen floor waiting to have the right fixture put on it, before they put it in. Yeah, they had ALL the wrong plumbing fixture throughout the house. UGH! They at least got the right light fixtures in the house, though we are missing one in the pantry (still). I don't know what their deal is! I don't know why this has turned out SO difficult! It's driving the four (us & the Merritt's) of us NUTS!!!

We have given notice to our apartment complex stating we will be out on Aug 31st. We are supposed to close on Aug 21st. So we figured we'd have plenty of time to move. Well i REALLY don't think we are going to hit the 21st. I am nervous. We have everything in order to close...it's just the stupid builders. UGH!!!

We haven't packed one single thing in our apartment. Kevin's been sick and I've been busy...reading and watching the Olympics. :) We have gotten the boxes out of storage and taken apart our table so we can start putting packed boxes there. :) We rarely actually sat at it anyway. So we've kind of started. LOL.

ok maybe more like obsessed...

So in one week I've finished...

Books 1 & 2.

Last night i started #3 (after having to go buy it at lunch time).

I can not wait to get to #4.

Sunday night i was up till 2:30am reading! Last night i FORCED myself to go to bed at 11:30pm. Though i could have easily stayed up longer. I will be so sad to be done with them, but i have a BUSY month this month...so i guess read them now while i can.

crazy

I can't believe THIS is happening in CA. Crazy.

addicted

I was up till 1am last night reading. LOVING IT!!!!!!