Tuesday, April 12, 2011

It's that time of year again





Yep. That's what I did today! First mow of the season! I actually really enjoy mowing the lawn. It's almost theraputic to me. I just love the feeling I get after it's all mowed, the feeling of making something look nice! We are still only renting a place, but I really have enjoyed having a front and back yard, and doing all the yard work. Makes it feel more like the home really is mine! I grew up mowing the lawn. It was one of my favorite ways to get a tan, go out in the middle of the afternoon on a Utah summer day. Yeah, sometimes I would come back in and be like "why the heck do I mow at the hottest time of day!! GAH!!" But it was all about the sun baby. Anyways. This is kind of a random post, but as Blake and I are getting all packed up to move up north for the summer, I found pictures of the last place we were in, and Blake and mines first place together! Well, they're kind of "pictures". I accidentally deleted the original ones I took on my camera, off my camera, and off the computer. Luckily, I had printed them out on paper! I believe I was going to send them to someone so they could see but I never got around to it. So the quality is very pixelated, and not very clear, but still. At least I have the memories captured of that basement suite. I honestly can't believe that we're already at that point in our lives again, starting to pack and leaving to work for the summer! It came back SOOO FAST!! I can not even begin to tell you how happy I am that we aren't going to New Brunswick again, or ever again for that matter. It's funny to think how fun we thought it was going to be, being clear across the country on the East coast....yeah, definately didn't expect what we found. Such as rain almost every day, and living in hotels..the WHOLE summer. Horrid. I mean, it's fun to think about now, but during that specific time, it honestly was miserable!! But I guess it makes fun memories! So yes, there is lot's to do by the end of this week. We don't actually have to be up in Edmonton until the 25th, but I really wanted to go down to Utah with Blake and see my family before summer, or else they wouldn't even see eachother again until next fall! Not okay! Plus I haven't had easter with my family for 2 years! So we're making it happen. I'm very excited. So we will be down there for about 6 days, and then drive all the way back up, have a little easter with Blake's family and then be on our way!! What I want to happen is for us to have everything we need to take with us up north all packed and ready to be loaded for when we get back before we leave to Utah this weekend. So hopefully that is possible!! It's kind of hard, because we don't really know the place that we're staying at and everything that we would need to bring such as cooking supplies, towels and other random things that you wouldn't think you would need to bring. Last summer, we took WAAAY too much. Like way. to. much. But it was our first summer doing it, and we were freakin stuck in hotels (which by the way shouldn't have been the case) so how were we supposed to know?! So I guess we will see!! Oh, some good news!!! They are FINALLY processing my paperwork!!! YAY!!! Except only kind of...right now my paperwork is on hold because they need my marriage license to be approved and notarized by a provincial authority. It makes me laugh, because that would've been SO, so very easy to do before I even sent my paperwork, copy of license included, if they would've specified it needed to be approved by the province. Like seriously, in the paperwork it just says this "include a copy of your marriage license". That's it. But oh well! We're getting that done tomorrow and then sending the copy in and then it will continue to be processed!!!!!! I can't even tell you how happy that makes me. It will seriously be a year at the end of next month since I had sent it in! Wowzers. Anyways, that's what we are up to this week! I'm excited to see what this next adventure this summer has in store for us! Now for some pictures of our cute basement suite we had last year! :) Oh, and it was a basement suite that brought all the joys of living in a basement suite.. such as: not having any hot water when the upstairs tenants would run ANY water at all, shared laundry (upstairs tenants always leaving their laundry there), you could hear every footstep, every dog bark, little girl whine, any argument, and any baby cry (a baby in which we didn't know would be born a couple months after we moved in). Over all, I kind of miss it, only because we had all our own furniture and wall decor and such. Makes it feel more like it's my own home. Where as we are living in a place now that is already all furnitured. I mean nothing is wrong with that! I just kind of miss all my stuff! And our landlords couldn't have been better! In fact they would bring us free loaves of bread every monday! I don't think we bought bread that whole year :). So here it is!
So you walk in the door and it's the kitchen and to the left is what you see here.
So, to the right of when you walk in, this is what you would see! Sorry, I took this picture when we were starting to pack up that place around this time last year!
So looking at the last picture, to the right where you can see a room, this is the room you would see! Our little living room :). Sorry there is a fold in this one, like i said these are on paper. So on the right down the hallway is the bathroom. So walk down the hallway a little more and on the left is the office! It was sooo nice having this extra bedroom to put the desk in. Blake would study in here a lot. And at the very end of the hall, is our bedroom! I took the picture like this to show the dresser. I absolutely love this dresser. It was my great grandmothers. With this we got the headboard which you can kind of see in this picture, another tall dresser, a coffee table, two end tables, and night stands. We also have my great grandmothers couches. Also, just a random fact...Blake and I slept on a queen size airmatress our first year of marriage, and we started off this year sleeping on it too, but apparently it didn't storage very well because it kept going flat every night. Seriously, it was SUCH good airmatress! It was big, and it BARELY would go flat after a few months! I was soo mad it started going flat everynight. I'm determined to fix it, because I'm just so mad it is doing that after just being stored. So there you have it! That was our first little place, our first year of marriage! Now on to the next! Yip, yip!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

First Weekend in April



So this is going to be quite a random blog post, but oh well!! This last weekend, we went out to Blake's parents house for LDS General Conference. And I have to say, it was one of THE best conference's up to date for my lifetime of watching General Conference. Soooo good! I don't know if it's because I'm getting older and can relate more to a lot of the stuff they're talking about, or that it's because I am able to stay awake and actually pay attention. But I'm so, so excited to read the talks again. On top of the uplifting messages that we heard all weekend, it was a lot of fun just being with the family!! It was also a crazy weekend because it had snowed almost the whole time we were there! Seriously. At least it is all melting now!! It's just supposed to get warmer from here on out! So I'm very excited. I need to get rid of these winter blues, and this pale skin of mine! Oh, speaking of melting....because of the huge drifts that are created during the winters out at Blake's parents house, once they DO melt, more often then not, it will flood the basement! And, unfortunately Blake's room...well I guess my room too, got flooded majorly. So that always puts a "damper" (wahaha) on the getting warmer situation! Anyways. We once again stole the beloved family dog P.J. He was due for a much need bath and grooming, plus I just enjoy the company of a kanine companion! He honestly was like a little e-walk before we washed him and brushed him. Now, for the grooming part.....oh boy. I'm so ashamed... and if I'm ashamed over it, imagine how he feels!! I'm getting worse and worse at shaving him. Really, though it's not all completely my fault, or lack of ability to do so! It is the buzzers that I have to work with. They're absolutely horrible! I think it's his fur and how it curls and just the general texture of it....but...they either decide to cut it....or they don't. And when they decide to cut it...you are NOT expecting it. Probably would've been smart to use a guard right? Well, we had been! But it was just not doing the job. And as a result... he shall now be named "patchy" or "baldy", or hideous. Something to that effect. No, I'm just kidding. It's really not THAT bad. Besides, the way I like to think of it is the shorter it is...the longer it will take to grow back! :) Anyways, I didn't even want to take a picture of the aftermath because I am too mad at myself for it! I'm sure he could care less..but really, I feel so bad! What I do have pictures of though is my sweetie in the middle of P.J's groom. Here it is! P.j. was giving so many kisses! It was so cute. Little do we know...he really was hating the whole thing and was only giving kisses while thinking "you are the most horrible people in the world, stop, pleeeeease."
As for this next picture...there is this game called Mass Effect 2. You can create your character, so Blake and I did our best to make it look like him, and honestly...considering the graphics and stuff it freaked me out how close it was to looking like his side profile! So here that is! I actually really liked watching Blake play that game, it was like a movie! In the game, you have to make choices and stuff, and you can choose to be either good or bad...of course blake would always choose the bad one, against my advice. hahaha. But I guess that's what games are for. To live the life that you can't? hahaha. I don't know. But seriously, look how much this look's like him. So, this next picture is just from a random morning in February, or even January, I honestly can't remember, but regardless it was sooo beautiful!!! And as for this last one.... I want one. Or both. But I want a french bulldog. Mark my words...we will be getting one.