~So, Brian and Zack spent the morning moving stuff from our storage unit to our house. It is such a tedious process seeing as how we don't have a truck and have to use the van with the back seats taken out. Well, they put everything on the driveway under the carport thinking we could look through things there and decide whether it needed to be taken in the house or stored in the cellar. After a while we got sick of sorting and decided to go to Walmart for some much needed supplies. When we got back home we discovered that the STUPID wind had blown over my "special" box of memories from high school, etc. Most of the contents had blown all over the driveway and across the street into the big open field that is surrounded by a barb wire fence. Luckily Brian was able to carefully lift Matthew over the fence and he collected everything he could find and Brian carefully lifted him back over the fence. I am SOOOOO incredibly sick and tired of WIND!!! First it was super cold wind. We have watched most of Zack's baseball games from the van where we wrestle Gracie. I don't want her out in that bitter wind! Now it's fierce wind that's warm. I don't care what the temperature of the wind is....I...HATE...WIND!!! It reminds me of growing up in Kansas. I loved growing up in Kansas but I don't miss the wind!!!
~I feel I should offer my condolences to my friend Emily. I hear her super fun, fellow Santaquin resident, Gary Coleman, has passed away. I am sure she'll miss his tirades and all that positive publicity he brought to the community. ;) HeHeHe May he rest in peace...
~I'm wondering if the chick I saw today in town that rats her hair up in the back so that it makes sort of a tiara shaped ratty mound on top of her head, thinks she's a princess. I think I would rather see her walking around with an actual tiara on her head than that mess. I know I am no beauty queen and certainly no princess but even I know that that looks ridiculous!! I do think it is an improvement over the ratty, box on the head shaped mess people were doing for a while there, though.
~There are tons of lizards (or maybe just the same creepy one) in our back yard. The boys are in HEAVEN!! They have had more fun chasing lizards the past few days. I'm cool with them chasing them, touching them, holding them, whatever, but I about jumped out of my skin the other day when my nephew brought one in the house!!! And when I took the garbage out and one scurried across the ground in front of me. Shiver, shiver!!
~Just a little tip for the people at the dentist office...if you have like 12 patients in the building at the same time and there is only one dentist working...you MAY have overbooked. I'm just sayin an hour and a half to glue Max's crown back on was a bit excessive!!!
~Have I mentioned how much I HATE moving?! We move so much you would think it is our favorite pass time but, no we really, really hate it! It's GLORIOUS to be in our own place again but I can't stand the state of disarray the house is in while we are trying to figure out where to put everything. All the craziness going on in our lives right now and the every day duties of a mother with 4 kids that are all home for summer vacation keeps me busy enough! This putting the house together thing feels like it is taking FOREVER!!! Especially with my kids destroying all progress I seem to make as soon as I make it. I told Brian the next time we move we better be able to eat out a lot because trying to cook for 6 people and clean up after 6 people with no dishwasher while trying to get a handle on this place is just TOO much!!!
~June is going to be very interesting around here. It will be fun too but more than a little crazy. Zack is in baseball and has been since April, Matthew is in soccer, and Max is in Tball. There is one game or another almost every night of the week in June. Sometimes there are 2 games a night. Sometimes both at the same time. I know many of you deal with the same thing. My sypathies...jk. It really is fun to see the kids having so much fun and progressing and succeeding at something they love so much. I just hope the weather in June is better than the weather in May has been so the games will be more fun to watch!! I think May and June are busier than November and December are for us at this point in our lives. Crazy times but oh so fun!!!! We love it and we LOVE our kids!!! I'm planning to post some fun pictures on my Word From The Zoo blog soon. If anyone doesn't have an invite to it since it's a private blog feel free to request an invite from me. Just give me your email address. I just like to control who sees it so some wierdo from some crazy far off land isn't looking at pictures of my babies. I once had several of those show up on my feedjit and that made me go private with the blog. Anyway, I hope everyone is having a fun summer vacation so far. Hopefully soon the weather will actually act like summer so we can all enjoy all the really fun parts of summer!!!
Friday, May 28, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Finally....
We FINALLY found a house to rent here. It's taken us such a long time to find a house. It's hard to find a house to rent when you have a large family and no one wants to rent to that many people. We also ran into an interesting situation where people offered the home owners $200 more a month than what they were asking because the market is so tight for rentals here that people are desperate!
The house we found is right by the highway but it has a fenced front yard so hopefully the kids won't wander off and get run over...I'm a worrier... I'm sure they'll be just fine! It's old and outdated on the inside but some of the things I like least about the house (for example: bright orange carpet in one of the bedrooms) are the things the kids love most about it (Matthew begged for that room because he thinks that carped ROCKS!!!).
I am SO looking forward to having our own place and being our own family again. It's been some of the hardest 8 months of our lives living here, which was especially difficult after coming from our last place we lived where we were so darn happy! I am looking forward to being in our own environment where joy is encouraged and inspired. I am so grateful for my precious family and look forward to everyone being able to be the free little amazing spirits they used to be.
Money will be quite tight. We are spending about $250 more a month on rent than what we planned which is so much better than the $400-$600 extra we were afraid we would have to spend. We aren't going to have internet and cable for a while. Yes...you heard me right...just as the boys are getting out of school for summer vacation...how will we EVER survive?! I'm going to try using the internet at the library (thanks for the tip Emily). We may have to get rid of our cell phones. Yes...you heard me right...how will I ever survive?! Brian is positively THRILLED with the idea! He HATES having a cell phone! Weird, I know, but I still love him. He never has his ringer on if he even bothers to take the stupid thing with him anyway. I can't tell you how many times he hasn't known I called because the stupid ringer was off. Or how many times I have gone to call him and it has started ringing in the house where he left it. That's my favorite! So he found this super great package deal where you get a home phone/landline, internet, and cable for the same price we are paying for our cell phones now.....grEAt...NOT!!! I just want to have both...like normal people...this is a tougher decision than one might think. Oh, well. Life could be worse. At least we'll have a roof over our heads, food to eat, you know the basics that really do matter more than cell phones and cable and INTERNET. In the grand scheme of things this is really not a problem. It could definitely be worse. For example...we could have to live here longer........I'm giving up internet, cable, cell phones, haircuts and color, having any new clothes, going anywhere that costs money EVER, I would even eat ramen every day if that means we can be done with the loveliness of living here any longer!!!
So anyhoo, that's the scoop and now you know why I haven't been on here much lately (scrambling to find an apartment after getting kicked out of my mother-in-law's house through a note on Mother's Day night has taken up all my extra time along with all the end of the school year festivities and activities and Zack's baseball tournament this week and all the other fun things we've had going on) and why I probably won't be on much for a while. I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father! We have been desperately searching for all this time for a place to live and now that we HAD to find a place or live in the gutter, one magically appeared. It was the only one in town available. There weren't any listed in the paper, KSL.com, no for rent signs on houses that we drove by in 4 towns up and down every street, and it was the only one out of all the realty offices in town that was available. We got it in the nic of time since someone else looked at it that night. We are blessed and happy to finally have a house to live in. So looking forward to that!!!!!!
The house we found is right by the highway but it has a fenced front yard so hopefully the kids won't wander off and get run over...I'm a worrier... I'm sure they'll be just fine! It's old and outdated on the inside but some of the things I like least about the house (for example: bright orange carpet in one of the bedrooms) are the things the kids love most about it (Matthew begged for that room because he thinks that carped ROCKS!!!).
I am SO looking forward to having our own place and being our own family again. It's been some of the hardest 8 months of our lives living here, which was especially difficult after coming from our last place we lived where we were so darn happy! I am looking forward to being in our own environment where joy is encouraged and inspired. I am so grateful for my precious family and look forward to everyone being able to be the free little amazing spirits they used to be.
Money will be quite tight. We are spending about $250 more a month on rent than what we planned which is so much better than the $400-$600 extra we were afraid we would have to spend. We aren't going to have internet and cable for a while. Yes...you heard me right...just as the boys are getting out of school for summer vacation...how will we EVER survive?! I'm going to try using the internet at the library (thanks for the tip Emily). We may have to get rid of our cell phones. Yes...you heard me right...how will I ever survive?! Brian is positively THRILLED with the idea! He HATES having a cell phone! Weird, I know, but I still love him. He never has his ringer on if he even bothers to take the stupid thing with him anyway. I can't tell you how many times he hasn't known I called because the stupid ringer was off. Or how many times I have gone to call him and it has started ringing in the house where he left it. That's my favorite! So he found this super great package deal where you get a home phone/landline, internet, and cable for the same price we are paying for our cell phones now.....grEAt...NOT!!! I just want to have both...like normal people...this is a tougher decision than one might think. Oh, well. Life could be worse. At least we'll have a roof over our heads, food to eat, you know the basics that really do matter more than cell phones and cable and INTERNET. In the grand scheme of things this is really not a problem. It could definitely be worse. For example...we could have to live here longer........I'm giving up internet, cable, cell phones, haircuts and color, having any new clothes, going anywhere that costs money EVER, I would even eat ramen every day if that means we can be done with the loveliness of living here any longer!!!
So anyhoo, that's the scoop and now you know why I haven't been on here much lately (scrambling to find an apartment after getting kicked out of my mother-in-law's house through a note on Mother's Day night has taken up all my extra time along with all the end of the school year festivities and activities and Zack's baseball tournament this week and all the other fun things we've had going on) and why I probably won't be on much for a while. I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father! We have been desperately searching for all this time for a place to live and now that we HAD to find a place or live in the gutter, one magically appeared. It was the only one in town available. There weren't any listed in the paper, KSL.com, no for rent signs on houses that we drove by in 4 towns up and down every street, and it was the only one out of all the realty offices in town that was available. We got it in the nic of time since someone else looked at it that night. We are blessed and happy to finally have a house to live in. So looking forward to that!!!!!!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
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