The long catch up/OUR OWN HOME!

 So life has been a little hectic lately! I am so sorry for leaving you on such a sad post for so long!!!

So we had a great Christmas and the rest of 2012. We got up at 2:45am on Christmas morning to surprise my family in highland. We showed up before they got up so that they could see what Santa brought, US! My parents didn't even know we were coming that early they thought we were coming later in the morning. It was great to be able to surprise them like that!

In February Curt and I kind of toyed with the idea of buying a house. We thought about it and how a down payment would be cheaper than rent or about the same, we would be paying ourselves, we could have pets, do whatever we felt like with the house, and be one step closer to being grown ups.
We looked out in Hyrum and didn't find anything that we really liked, there was a house in Clarkston that was down the street from our friends that moved out there a few months prior. We weren't sure we would like the commute into Logan but we thought we would look at the house. I fell in love! We loved that Clarkston is a small town, we could have horses; we could begin our dream of starting a farm/ranch. We made an offer on Tuesday it was accepted Wednesday morning and we signed the contract on Wednesday afternoon! WOW talk about fast! After we got the inspection we were informed that the foundation was crumbling and we had to back out because it was too expensive to fix... :( we were heartbroken, we already had our apartment rented out and we had no place to go. Luckily Curt's sister Connie lives in Providence and loves us enough to take us in for 3 weeks, until we could find something else out. We found another house we liked, it was more money but a much better house with more land! It technically wouldn't be on the market until May 1st (we found the house on April 30th). So we moved out of his sisters house and borrowed Curt's dads Fifth Wheel camping trailer and lived in a trailer park for another 3 weeks! Ugh... I was so fed up with not having our own 'home'/place to live. Finally we signed the contract and moved in May 11th. Almost 3 months from the time we packed our first box!

I don't know why this is sideways but this is our first box packed

Front of the house!

Front Room!

Kitchen

Dining room with my gorgeous red wall I painted!

2nd bathroom

Extra room that is doubling for a shed right now until we build one

Guest room

Office/craft room

Master Bedroom

Master Bathroom

Mud Room/back door

So we are loving the house! So much space and yard, we live on 5/8 of an acre. In a small country town with wonderful people! We couldn't be happier to be where we are now!

What a week..........

Wow it has been quite the week.... a lot of bad news.

It started on Monday November 12th with a good friend of mine from high school posting on Facebook that her little girl had to be taken emergency C section and she was struggling... then by Thursday she had posted they were letting her go. She had, some how, gotten a brain injury while in the womb and since being born she had yet to open her eyes or breathe on her own... they had decided the next morning they would say goodbye to her. So Friday she posted her amazing testimony as they said goodbye to her perfect, precious, beautiful little girl. I am amazed at the strength she had at this time of trial for them, she is so strong in the gospel to be able to be positive while it is happening.

Precious little Paislee

That news was followed by Curtis calling me from work to tell me that he got in a fight with a lawnmower and it won... he was in the emergency room with lacerations to the index and middle fingers on his left hand (which is his dominant hand) he ended up loosing his fingernails on both fingers, he broke the bone in his index finger with a hairline fracture in his middle finger and had to get over 20 stitches. My poor man can't do much for himself I have to help him eat, get dressed and tie his shoes... He has at least 6 weeks of recovery. Then therapy to follow... poor guy! *WARNING* I posted pictures of his exposed fingers if you are squeamish just skip over them... they aren't too bad but just in case.

poor hubby's fingers

The bad news ended with finding out a friend of mine died while duck hunting with his 2 friends on Saturday... they were on the Great Salt Lake when the weather changed and caused huge waves that capsized the boat and one of his friends hurried to swim to shore to get help, but my friend Chad and his best friend Logan chose to stay with the boat. The water was only 47 degrees, and they ended up getting hypothermia and they passed together... poor Logan he leaves behind his wife and 2 children. Chad was and is such a great person he was a friend to all those who knew him and was the friendliest guy. I know he is doing a great work in Heaven and that Heavenly Father wouldn't have taken him from us so young if he didn't need him for something bigger and better.

My friend Chad

Well as the saying goes bad things come in 3's so I'm done right? I sure hope so I'm not sure I can take much more bad news... All I can say is that I am so thankful for the true gospel in my life... it doesn't make the pain go away completely but it helps to ease the pain some.

Happy 2 Year Birthday

My cutie cute nephew turned 2 on Sunday. He is such a fun little guy! He's starting to talk and has more energy than a barrel of monkeys.

 

 

My mother-in-law made the cute cake! He loved it and was great and blowing out the candles! Happy Birthday Tye Boy!

True Aggie Night

There is a tradition up here in Logan we have a block "A" and on certain nights, you stand on top and kiss someone at midnight to become a "True Aggie". If you and your kiss partner both are not True Aggies you have "A" day or Homecoming night to become True Aggies but if one of you is already a True Aggie, you can go on a full moon night at midnight and kiss on the "A" to make the other a True Aggie. 

Since Curtis and I, both, were not True Aggies, we needed "A" day or Homecoming night, and we missed them last year because we were gone so much. This year, finally, we were here for Homecoming night! So last night we made a date night of it. I had a pressure cooking class at 6:30 but after that we went and got Jamba Juice and went home to set up our tent, sleeping mats and sleeping bags in the living room for a campout! We watched some TV until 11:30 and we hiked up Old Main Hill to the block A for our True Aggie initiation.

Holy wow was it packed full of people! I was reminded why I don't miss being single. It's crazy how things change after you get married, because when I was single I would have had a blast there. But being married it bugged me there were too many people and it was late and loud and cold and I just wanted to go to bed. It made me feel like a party pooper, but I stuck it out and kiss my hubby on that A good and long and then we unzipped our jackets to show our True Aggie T-shirts that we can now wear with pride.

sorry its kinda blurry

24

Holy wow I thought it was huge that I turned 22 well big news people my hubby is 24 he's almost a quarter of a century!!! He had a bigger birthday than I did. He has this place he is in love with The West Desert! It's out past Tooele by Dugway Proving Grounds. It is his favorite place to go camping but it isn't fun unless you have the big toys to play with ;)

So I'm fired, I can not be trusted to take a lot of pictures... but in my defense it was an intense trip.

 

It started on Friday Curt and I met his dad and step mom at their house loaded all the stuff from our truck to his dad's big "Bertha" truck! We headed out to the desert to set up camp. Curt was helping his dad and they sent Trudy and me down the dirt road on four-wheelers to meet my parents and munchkin to lead them to camp. Trudy has never been on a four-wheeler by herself so she was leading and it was a good thing too because she caught a soft spot in the sand rolled the four-wheeler on top of herself! Luckily she didn't get hurt too severely she has some bruises and a few scrapes but overall ok. We got back to camp and Curt said "it turned out to be an expensive trip" he accidently ran the truck into a stump and blew out the radiator. Oops! So then his brother had to come rescue us the next day. My brother's drove 40 miles the wrong way and had to meet Curt's brother in Rush Valley so he could give them a ride the rest of the way so they didn't get lost again. My parents also tipped a four-wheeler over, they are also ok thankfully!

So when Joey came to our rescue we packed up his truck with our stuff and hooked up to the trailer, we got back to Magna (Curt's dad and step mom's house) at about 10:30pm then Curt and his dad went to pick up a trailer to tow Bertha back to the house. They got back out to the desert by 1:45am and it took them 30 minutes to load the truck up and it barely fit, then they didn't get home till 4:30am it was a late night! But a fun memorable trip! Happy 24th babe!!!

22

I am 22 holy cow! I swear it was just my birthday!

Well it wasn't a huge day it was a Thursday so nothing too fun.

Curt did take me to Chili's for dinner which I love that place p.s. :) Curt had to work and I didn't, so I stayed home and did dishes exciting right? I did go over to my sister-in-law's house, after the 3 hours of dishes I did, and hung out with my darling nieces til Curt got off work so we could go to dinner.

I got a fun game called Fluxx, some fabulous cushy mats, a weekend at my mother-in-laws condo (which we used in March for our anniversary), a gift card to Claire's, a new white board calender (which I was in desperate need of people) Curt got me a cribbage board, princess bride, and A BRAND NEW SMART PHONE! I kind of really enjoy that thing but I feel bad for it, it doesn't get used to its potential.

Another year old I don't know about wiser but definitely older :)

One more thing HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNTIE!!! I miss you! (I tried to post a cute picture didn't happen imagine cute picture of us together)

P.S. The half asleep picture in Curt's shirt is because he had to give me my phone at 7am before he went to work!

Camping!

One of Curt's and mine favorite summer activities is camping! We love being in the out of doors, enjoying nature, and four wheeling all over! We had a great weekend, we spent Friday night up Blacksmith Fork Canyon we were supposed to have some friends come up and stay with us but plans fell through and they didn't make it up on Friday night, so Curt and I played in the river by our camp, played a few games together and went to bed earlier than we do at home. Curt's friend was coming up to meet us Saturday morning to go fourwheeling all day, so we were up at 8:30am to make breakfast and then we went all over the back trails in Blacksmith for hours! It was a blast! Such beautiful views, we went to Old Eprhaims Grave (which is a giant slab of rock, in tribute to a giant bear), and 3 or 4 other trails. The boys shot a pine hen and we saw lots of sheep being guarded by two dogs.

We enjoyed spending time together without any distractions. Yay for the simple joys in life!