A Quickie

Here's a quick post about what we've been up to lately.

*Christmas was AWESOME (Late, I know. Get over it.)! Lots of good times spent with family playing games and eating lots of really good food.

*New Year's was a fun night spent with friends playing games and eating more good food. I see a pattern developing.

*Watching The Hole turn into a Home has been quite exciting (I have new pix to post soon)! We can't wait to move in and settle into our new home. Also excited to start attending our new ward soon. Watch out 11th Ward! The Foster's are coming!

*I started school again the first week in January and it's going about as well as can be expected. School has never been my favorite, but GCU is very adult-learner-friendly and not too overwhelming. It's really more annoying than anything else and I should be done this coming December! YAY!

*Albert has been working his guts out with insurance renewals and whatnot. He still likes his job a lot! He continues to serve as 1st Counselor in our Bishopric and loves being a volunteer fire fighter for Roosevelt City.

*Albert is also starting school TODAY. He's doing the Master's of Human Resources program through USU. He's pretty excited to be back in school and have homework again. He loves homework and reading textbooks and stuff.

*We've been packing and taking stuff down and apart (and we found a few really huge, really nasty looking spiders in the basement last night - shiver) getting ready to move. We will be renting our house to a really awesome family in our ward and we will be out of our house February 8th.

*Not sure The Hole will be ready for us to move in in 2 weeks, so we'll be bunking with some good friends that have been kind enough to let us mooch off their heat and space for a couple weeks. Thanx, Mandons!

*The Hole will be painted next week, thus this weekend will consist of me, besides doing homework and packing more stuff, finalizing my paint colors. A difficult decision for me as I tend to lean toward the indecisive side. Our rock is also being put on as I type this now not-so-quick entry like I thought. Maybe I should change the title. Ah well.

*Oh, by the way, I got released from Young Women's in November. It was hard and I miss my little chickens. But they give me hugs on Sundays and text me every-so-often.

*We're thinking of looking into adopting a kid from Haiti - like everyone else who's been watching the news. Albert read that there's an estimated 1 million children who are now orphaned and/or homeless.

*Lastly, ummm... what else... I don't know. That's pretty much all. Hope you've enjoyed this quickie. Oh! I'm going to go tanning today because I'm grumpy because I'm sick of winter and I haven't seen any real sun in months now because I live in the freakin' deep freeze and we've gotten about 5 - 6 new inches of snow this week and it's supposed to keep coming, but the snow is good because that means that it actually has to WARM UP to snow here, so we're at like 36 degrees today (how did you like that sweet run-on sentence?). Heat wave. I should put my swim suit on and go play in the slush.

*That's all.

The Hole Update

Well, it's not exactly just a hole anymore.
Here are some pix of how our new home is coming along.

This is a pic of part of our basement where there will be 2 bedrooms and a bathroom and a big living room.

This is a pic of my crawl space that's underneath my kitchen. It's about 4 feet high and has tons of room for storage - a necessity.

This is an earlier pic - these are all kind of out of order, sorry - of our basement when they very first started framing.

Here's a pic of the kitchen.

And here's one of the front room. You can see where the front door will be and 2 windows to either side of the door. To the right will be 2 bedrooms and a bathroom.

Front of the house. The right side will be our master bedroom and the kitchen in the back. To the left will the be the 2 bedrooms that we'll fill with munchkins one day.

Okay, now onto the most recent pix.

This is Albert's garage. You can see they've got all the insulation done and have started doing sheetrock. You can also see the door into the house and out to the back (someday) yard.

Another pic of our front room, bedrooms and bathroom.

Here's my kitchen!!! I'm so freakin' excited to have a nice kitchen I'm about ready to pee myself. This is going to be a vast improvement from my current kitchen. I can't wait!

The front of the house, of course. You can see they are almost done shingling, there's just that little bit left on the top of the garage.

Another angle of the front.

Out of order again - oh well. You get the idea.

This will be our bonus room and (if Albert gets his way) eventual movie room. You can see where the stairs go down in the middle - there's kind of 2 sides. The side you can see is bigger than the other so the smaller one will probably be an office or something when we finish it later.

And there you have it, my friends. You have officially been updated.
I'm a great tour guide, huh?

Mas Gratitude.

Today, I am grateful for...

My job.

Funny cartoons that are even funnier if they specifically pertain to your profession.

{...like the one above... :D}

That I get to spend 2 whole weekends with my family!

I can't wait!

My personal value system.

...and...

Volleyball.

Even though I don't get to play tonight. I live for thursday nights during the fall and winter.

What are you thankful for?

Gratitude.

Today I am THANKFUL for...

My family.

My awesome Young Women.

(I am going to miss you girls like CRAZY!!!)

The fact that I can listen to Christmas music whenever I want (you know, even before Halloween, APRIL) because it makes me happy.

My wonderful husband, Albert.

Thank you for always taking care of me.

The reality that the Lord is always mindful of everyone,

all the time, no matter what.

I AM BLESSED.

Quality.

Found this little gem today while trying to find ideas for my Halloween costume.

It's pretty sweet, no?

Shut up! She actually posted something!

It's true. Try not to pee yourselves with excitement.



So,



We have a hole!

We're building a house and here are some pix for you all to see.

Moki likes it. He's really excited for some new ground to sniff around and pee on.

They started digging our hole on my birthday (October 7th for all you who forgot the best day of the whole year) so I'm pretty sure that's a sign that this is going to be the coolest house ever.

They poured our foundation last week and I think they're supposed to start back-filling and then framing this week-ish.
You can see where Albert is standing will actually be a crawl space underneath my new kitchen and the basement on the other side there. The house will face East (YAY! No more crappy north-facing!) and the garage will be to the left where you can't really see in this pic.

This is a view of the south side of the house. That window will be one of the basement bedrooms that won't be finished for a while but will eventually contain some adorable little kid we'll have someday.
Or maybe it will be a guest bedroom. Who knows.

Well there you have it folks. My first real posting in about 7 months. I've been kind of busy, you know. Get over it.

But I'll try not to let another 7 months go by without posting anything.

I need....

...to start blogging again.