Christmas Shopping

I am almost done with Kevin's shopping. One last thing to get and I'll probably do that today. THEN I'M DONE! We pick names in each of our families of who to purchase for for Christmas. We had Jeff & Barbara on the Brown side. DONE with them! Then on my side of the family we have my Parents. Just waiting for dads gift to get here and then I'll mail that off to them as well.

I LOVE BEING DONE EARLY!!!!

HOW ARE YOU GUYS DOING???

Job Update

I have accepted a job at CSI! It is only part-time which sucks, but it's something so i can start bringing in some money and it's a foot in the door to the College. Though i am still waiting to hear back from the hospital. I left a message for the lady i interviewed with late yesterday afternoon asking where they are in the process of hiring. So hopefully i will hear from her soon! I am not sure when i will start at CSI. They are supposed to call me back probably today. So my guess is that i would start Monday.

Open House

I've got my tickets to the Rexburg Temple Open House. DO YOU HAVE YOURS?!?! I am so excited! Saw this article. I figured the open house would draw a big crowd.

good morning....

...SNOW!!!!!


I was just thinking yesterday that it really didn't seem like it should be Christmas time because there was no snow. I know this part of the state won't get a much as Rexburg did, but come on, give me something. Well i got some. It's PERFECT packing snow to make a snowman. So maybe after i get done with the gym i'll make me a little snowman.

another monday

Well it's another Monday...of another week. Thanksgiving was great. It was so nice to have Kevin home for Thursday & Friday. We went to Kevin's parents for Thanksgiving. Most of the family was there. We were missing Lynn, Shauna, & Charlee. They spent the holiday with her family. Seems like i spent most of the day in the kitchen. We played a few games in the evening and then we all went home. I did get ONE picture from Thanksgiving and it's of Kevin holding Karson. Kevin had yet to hold Karson; he says he is still to wobbly. But Jeff just handed Karson off so he could help Barbara with Karter. See how HAPPY Kevin looks to be "holding him"? It lasted about 2 mins. LOL. Plus he wasn't thrilled that i was taking a picture. LOL.


Friday we took down our FEW Thanksgiving decorations and put up our Christmas stuff. We can't wait to get a tree!

Here is our fireplace w/ our stockings.


This is my "Go-tee" Joseph. I made this years ago at a R.S. activity back in Redlands before i was married.

This is an ornament that my parents got us for Christmas this year. Kevin LOVES it and can't wait to put it on our tree. Right now it's sitting on top of the TV. LOL.

my NEW 6

OK, so it's time for my NEW 6 things about me.

1. I love musicals, chick-flics and comedy movies. Sometimes i can do a little suspense. But NEVER EVER would you find me watching a scary/horror film!!!

2. When it rains i HATE the rain drops just sitting on the windshield! I constantly wipe the windows. Even if Kevin is driving i will lean over and make the window wipers go! I LOVE RAIN, just not the drops just sitting on my window! LOL.

3. I LOVE playing Tetris on Kevin's PS2! I can play it for hours! I'm pretty dang good too!

4. Growing up i ALWAYS wanted to be a photographer for National Geographic Magazine. But then i realized i am MUCH too picky of an eater to be able to have a job like that and go to some of those remote spots.

5. I also wanted to be a teacher, because they got to use the BIG paper cutter machine. I was very much a "teachers pet" in Elementary school and some classes in Jr High (man what changed in HS?).

6. I love the smell of floor cleaner!

Achmed

Kevin showed me this HILARIOUS video. Thought I'd share. Makes us crack up!

Job update

Yesterday i had an interview with the Hospital here in Twin for a job. It would be in one of the pediatric doctors offices doing receptionist stuff. Scheduling, taking co-pays, etc...

Today i got a call from CSI wanting me to come interview next Tuesday for a position there. If i am, thinking of the one it probably is (administrative), it's only a part-time gig. So i would hope the Hospital job would work out.

Things are looking better. But i still have to make it happen. Wish me luck!

p.s. WE ARE GETTING SOME SNOW FLURRIES RIGHT NOW!!!

Weekend Update

Kevin's been talking about going to the Men's Basketball games at CSI since we knew we would be moving to Twin. He loved to come to Twin growing up and go to the games with his buddies. So Saturday we finally went. I am NOT much of a basketball fan at all, which Kevin is trying to change. So apparently there was some sort of Tournament happening and the team CSI played Saturday night...RCC, that's right...Riverside Community College! I was excited having a team from So. Cal. up here. Well CSI's men's team is ranked something like #2 in the nation for Junior College basketball. So they gave RCC a little "beating". There was one point where a CSI guy just ATTACKED an RCC player. So i cheered in defense for RCC the rest of the game. Kevin & I were laughing because some of my cheering and clapping got us looks from the CSI fans we were sitting around. Kevin joked that we would have to run to the car after the game so we wouldn't get beat up. Well RCC lost and i was glad to see that it wasn't as bad as it could have been. CSI started putting in the scrubs towards the end. RCC never put their "token white guy" in to play the entire game. I felt bad for him. All in all it was fun and I'd go again.

Sunday we went to our new ward for the first time. It was actually bigger then i expected it to be, but NOTHING like our ward in Rexburg, thank goodness, that was WAY TOO big! But i don't like the set up of the schedule. R.S., then Sunday school, and then Sacrament meeting. It's VERY hard to concentrate in Sacrament meeting because your attention span has already been spent on the 2 hours previous. Especially for the kids, it's gotta be hard going into that meeting after Primary! This is going to take some getting used to.

I had to introduce myself in R.S. and they all laughed when i said where we moved into. Apparently the apartment complex we live in is notorious in having people move into it and attend the ward for only a short amount of time till they find a house to purchase (Jeffrey told me this after church was over). Which is EXACTLY what we are doing! And then when we went to the clerks office to get our records into this ward, i heard him mention to an older lady in the office as well, that probably a third of the ward lives in our apartments. I hope to meet some of them and make some friends.

We are looking forward to Thanksgiving on Thursday. I can't believe it's already that time of year. Should be fun. I'm glad that we don't have to make such a long drive now. That's a bonus of living closer! I have to make my friend Sarah's FAMOUS rolls for dinner. Which the family just loves. Oh the pressure!

Guess that's it for now. Happy Monday!

YUMMY!!!

OK, so i was craving some sweets so i thought i would try out this EASY EASY cookie recipe. Here is the final product. yummm



check out the recipe on the Recipe Swap Blog.

Twin Falls Temple

Yesterday after i dropped off a resume for a job i decided that i would go see the progress on the Twin Falls Temple. It does look a bit like the Rexburg one, but unfortunately it looks like it's going to be COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY HOUSES!!!! That is so sad!







*This is a look at the stone they are using in the landscaping. love it.

Turkey Turkey

This is one of my favorite Thanksgiving decorations. My sister, Natalie, made the feathers and head for us probably for our first or second married Thanksgiving. I got this pumpkin yesterday at Walmart for 25 cents! Excellent purchase. Thanks Natalie!

So long first home

So here is a picture of us in front of our townhome in Rexburg. I am trying to remember, i think i took this after we packed up the Uhaul and were about to take off for Twin to drop off our stuff. I were SO SAD to leave our first home, but i know we will find another one that we will loved too. Gotta love timers on camera's. As you can tell i didn't level the camera perfectly, but i was rushed. So this will have to do.

testing...

ok, i haven't been able to post a picture since i've been using our Mac at home. So this is going to be a trial to see if i can get one on.




Update: Ok, i guess it worked. This is a picture of Kevin and I back in October 2005. We took Ostler Family photos before we moved to Idaho.

Tuesday's blabberings

So you'd think that since i am home all day i'd find more time to blog. But this is usually how my days go. These are all approximate times.

7:10am - get Kevin out of bed to get ready for work.
7:20am - getting myself out of bed to go to the gym.
7:30am - walk Kevin out to his car and then i go to the gym.
8:30-9am - get back home from working out.
9:20am - eat breakfast/watch the rest of the Today Show/clean kitchen/apartment
11am-1pm - do some job searching/check blogs/emails
1-2pm - eat lunch/watch "Days of Our Lives" (i know waste of time)
2-5pm - do more job searching
5-10pm - make dinner, eat, clean up and hang out with Kevin.
Start all over again the next day.

Plus not working doesn't seem to give me lots to talk about. Though i guess i didn't always talk about work. But it seems like i lead a "lack luster life" right now. Which in some ways is really nice.

My sister Natalie has started a blog. So check out hers for updates. Pederson Family on my links of blogs.

It's rather chilly tody compared to last week. We are currently 41 degees but according to weatherchannel.com it FEELS like 31! buuuurrrrrrrrr!!!!

well i guess that's about it for now. Gotta eat my lunch.

wow. sorry.

I've been thinking. My last post of "my 6"...it was really depressing. I guess i was just having "one of those days". I will need to re-do "my 6" when i'm in a better mood. sorry about that everyone.

Yesterday i went to a bridal shower for Kevin's cousin who is getting married at the end of the month. It was a good thing we went, there didn't seem to be too many people. Apparently though she seemed to have already had one and this was like a "family" one. I went with my MIL and Barbara, my SIL. We played some fun games and i'm usually not big on games at those kind of things.

I went to the storage unit this morning to get my "crafty" stuff out so i can work on a few things in my "down time". It's hard not working. I don't have any kids to keep my completly busy during the day so i find things to do. I applied for 2 jobs at the Twin Falls hospital. It would be nice to get one of those because Kevin says we should get some good insurance through them. LOL. I think i should hear something next week, hopefully. i should become a nurses assitant or nurse. There are TONS of job openings for them!

Well i guess i should go and get some things done.

My 6

OK, Heather always seems to want to know things about me. So here you go...

1. I am completely obsessed with checking blogs. Checking mine for comments and checking others for new posts/pictures. I bet i check them about 5+ times a day. no joke.

2. I have THE worst self-esteem. I talk "big" but deep down i feel horrible about myself. Which has got to drive Kevin just completely NUTS! I try to be good, but i think this is going to be a life long issue. See just thinking about it makes me tear up. ugh!

3. I can never make as many cookies as the recipe says it should make. I just made a double batch of Snikerdoodles and it says that i should have made 72 cookies (36 in each batch). I bet i made 48. I didn't even eat that much cookie dough either!

4. I ALWAYS have to have some sort of dessert. Popcorn, ice cream, fruit, or whatever.

5. I miss California more then i thought i would. I was so glad to get out. Sometimes i wish we never left. I miss alot of people down there. But it is nice to be near Kevin's family. I know he is totally enjoying it.

6. One of the only places i felt like "myself" was on the volleyball court. I love the sport and i want to play again badly. That was something i was really good at and not everyone could do. Made me feel really good about myself.

** I did not write #2 for any sort of sympathy. Just being honest and said what i was feeling/thinking.

**oops. i forgot to tag people. So here it goes: T. Jack, C. Sauser, N. Price, K. Fowler.

I'm Alive!

Wow, its been forever since i last posted. My apologizes. It's been a bit crazy (to say the least)!

We are now in Twin Falls. We are in our apartment. We are LOVING being together again. I'm sure Jeff & Barbara are excited to have their house back. Though Jeff said they will be sad to not have their dishes done for them now. LOL. Kevin is BIG on keeping things cleaned up and they don't have a dish washer, so it's all done by hand. I don't blame them for not wanting to do them all the time. I know i'd hate it.

So i am on the job search. I am hoping to find something soon. I might just take "any job" right now that will hold me over till i can find "the job". So wish me luck.

Well i am at the library so i don't have much time. I hope to be able to check out everyone's blogs soon. I'm going through withdrawals of not having the internet. ugh. I didn't have alot of time to even look at anyone's blogs my last two weeks because i was training, though i tried when i could. But that's OK. We will hopefully be getting internet REAL SOON at our house. WOO HOO!!!!!!

better run. i'll try to update soon.

LONGEST POST KNOWN TO MAN!!!...or what should be

Hope you have some time to read. Let me fill you in on everything that has been happening since Thursday.

Thursday we got the call that we were for closing on the house Friday morning. So i call Kevin to come out to he can be here to sign papers. He gets out here Thursday night at 9pm. I had alot of the kitchen packed up by the time he got home. We continued to pack a bit and then went to bed.

Friday morning i could not sleep so i finally got out of bed finally at 6:30. I went downstairs and let Kevin sleep a little bit more. So i started packing more stuff. Kevin gets up around 7:30. We continue to pack until about 10am when we decided to go rent a Uhaul truck. Those of you familiar with Rexburg will know "the dome", so as we were driving over there my phone rang...it was Max & Sarah (who are buying our house). I thought "aren't they supposed to be signing papers right now?" So i answer and we make small talk and then Max says "uh...we decided to back out." Literally my heart stopped! He then started to laugh SO HARD, then said "just kidding. we just finished signing the papers." I said "don't do that to me!" So we continued on our way to "the dome" to get a Uhaul. We get there and we go in and we say "we need a truck and we need one 'this big' " She replied "we don't have any." Once again my heart stopped. She gave us a few other options to find a truck and wished us luck. From there we went over to the title company to sign all the papers on the house. All went well and we were told the money will be in the bank on Monday by three. So i planned with Max & Sarah at 5pm Monday to hand over the keys. Then we went over to Ace to rent a truck there. They didn't have any big enough either! So we tried our last hope...a place in Rigby. Kevin calls and the lady says "uh, let me see, oh yes we just had one returned." Kevin's response "WE'LL TAKE IT! HERE IS MY NAME AND CREDIT CARD NUMBER, WHEN CAN WE PICK IT UP???" So we arranged Saturday to get it at 8am. Kevin also found us a storage unit in Twin for all of our stuff. Things were looking good.

We had EVERYTHING packed Friday night (except for the bathroom). We were exhausted! We went to go sit in the Spa in the club house one last time. we get changed and walk over there and IT WAS BROKEN! We were so sad! So we jumped in the pool. It was cold and not what we wanted so we got out and went back to the house. We went to bed and i slept very soundly cause i was so tired.

Saturday we were at the store in Rigby at 10 minutes to 8. We get all the paperwork filled out, yada yada yada, the kid (he was only 16) goes to give us the keys...AND CAN'T FIND THEM!! So for 20 minutes we searched for the keys and finally found them. After much worry on my part. We finally got out of there and back up to Rexburg. Our friend Calvin was there waiting for us to help load the truck. Just after that our home teachers showed up. While the guys loaded the truck, i packed up the bathroom and my bags for the week of staying with my friend Gracie. Kevin said he would be happy to load the truck by noon. They had it loaded by 10:30! WOO HOO! it was great. So the guys left and we arranged a few things, got some lunch and then we were on our way to Twin.

I needed gas in the car so i told Kevin to go ahead in the truck and I'm sure i would catch up to him. Well the only way i caught up to home was because we made a stop at a gas station after passing Pocatello. Which is almost the half way point of the drive.

We got to the storage unit at about 3:10pm. We had it unloaded by 4pm! There was Kevin, me, Jeff, Lynn, Doug, and Linda.

So we went back to Jeff's house (where Kevin is staying). Doug & Linda ran to the store and all us kids decided they should buy us dinner. Nice of us huh? LOL. So Jeff calls and says "Dad i have a problem, my stomach is empty and so is my wallet. How about taking us to dinner?" Doug replied "You'll Have to talk to your mom" But then doesn't hand over the phone to Linda. LOL. They got back to Jeff's and she quickly agreed to take us out. We wanted to go to Gertie's a FANTASTIC pizza place, but it was WAY TOO crowded. So we went to another place and currently i can't think of the name. We then went back to Doug & Linda's for the night. We were so excited to be somewhere where we could watch Game 3 of the World Series. I unfortunately could NOT stay awake. So Kevin finally got me to bed when the game was over. Sox won! WOO HOO!!!!!

Sunday we planned to get up, get ready and drive back to Rexburg. Well Kevin decided we should see if his brother Keith was working. He works in the Tire Center at Walmart in Burley. So we chatted with him and noticed that they do tire rotations for $1.50 a tire. So we said do it, we needed it anyway. Well the front tires were pretty bad, OK REALLY BALD! Well apparently they were splitting apart. So we had to get two new tires. Well i guess they put the new tires on the back and the older ones in the front. They take off the back tires and noticed one was beginning to split! So FOUR new tires and 2.5 hours later we were on our way home.

We got into Rexburg and headed over to the house to do the final clean and pack up. We got started cleaning at about 3pm and 8pm we finally locked up the house. So Kevin left to go back to Twin Falls and i headed to St. Anthony to stay with Gracie.

Monday the money was supposed to be in the bank by 3pm. Well it wasn't there before my meeting so i was a little concerned, so after my meeting i checked again, cause i was supposed to hand over the keys at 5pm (only IF the money was there). Well i get a phone call at 10 minutes to 5pm saying that the painter has put a lean against all of Phase 4 and then they couldn't record the title in Max & Sarah's name. I FREAKED OUT!!!! So i called around to the foreman of the construction, the realtor that WE bought from and the title company. Finally at around 6:30pm got some reassurance that things might/should get sorted out on Tuesday.

Today, Tuesday, it's 3:15pm and i heard that hopefully by 4pm all is cleared up and closed. I will let you know. We are freakin' out here people!!!

hope i made sense. i don't have time to check it right now.

UPDATE: WE ARE OFFICALLY CLOSED! WE HAVE OUR MONEY! WE ARE NO LONGER HOME OWNERS (to our beautiful townhome, which we will GREATLY miss!!!). Hopefully in about 7 months we will be buying another home. Kevin is turning in our form to get an apartment in Twin Falls tonight. Hopefully we should be able to move in Friday!

10:30 tomorrow...

...WE CLOSE ON OUR HOUSE!!!!! We couldn't have picked a CRAZIER Saturday to need to pack up, but i think it's going to work out OK. Jeremy is doing great so if i leave her for awhile then we will be just fine (we have a Reunion).

* i also got an email yesterday from CSI saying "sorry it's taken so long but...thanks but no thanks". idiots!