10 Years!

I can't believe that my mom has been gone now for 10 years. It was 10 years today that my mom returned back to her Heavenly Father after a long battle with breast cancer. She was such an amazing mom and wife and we all miss her terribly. Being able to go through such a trial like this made me SO greatful for my testimony of the gospel. I have no idea how I could have gotten through something like this without it. I just want to tell everyone who reads this that I know that we are here on this earth to be tested and be able to gain a testimony of our Savior through those trials. I miss my mom so much but I know that she is happy and I know that this was part of the plan for our time on this earth. Thanks to my mom, I feel like I have become the person that I am, and I'm greatful for her amazing example, and I hope I can become more like her someday. I miss you mom! I love you so much!

A Christmas...card?

So I saw this hilarious Christmas card off of my friend Mekell's blog where you download your pictures on the head of elves. Feel free to check our elf christmas card. I laughed my head off!
Merry Christmas! Enjoy!
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/cNUHNtYj6l9u49kd

Merry Christmas!

Our New Place!

Here are some pictures of our kitchen. Notice there is hardly any storage in the cabinents, thank goodness for the huge pantry!

Another picture of the kitchen.

And another picture, of the kitchen. (I didn't realize how many pics I took, oh well.)

Here is one of my most favorite features of the apartment, the pantry! I honestly now have NO excuse to not have a food storage. The picture doesn't do this pantry justice. The shelves are about 24inches deep and 6 different levels of shelves. Anyway, I love it!

So, since I haven't posted anything for a very long time, I thought that I should tell you all what Dave and I have been up to. Well, we ended up moving out on December 6th, and I had this great plan that I would take that entire week to move little by little. Well, then Josh and I both got colds. Yeah. So, pretty much my energy was shot, because not only was I still having to play "mom" to a sick baby, I also was working 12 hour night shifts at the hospital. It sucked! Well, to say the least Dave ended up doing most of the moving on Thursday-Saturday. Thank goodness for him! And we are so greatful for my dad and especially my brother Chad for helping Dave move all of the "big" stuff! We pretty much took all of Saturday and moved in, put EVERYTHING away and even started to decorate..thanks to my sister-in-law Kami! She put away everything in our bathroom and then helped me decorate! We have such a great family! Thanks to everyone for helping out SO much! And thanks to Chad and Kami we now have a washer/dryer and a "new" couch! Thanks you both! We love you guys!

Well, since we moved in we didn't have a phone (well I didn't, because Dave uses the cell phone and I'll use the home phone), and we didn't have the internet. So Quest came and set everything up and we were so excited, until we got our first phone call, that ended up being for the lady who lives upstairs. Yeah, no one had ever put in a second line! So we called up Quest and they told us we were going to have to pay $100 to have someone come out and put in our new phone line. And if we wanted to pay another $60 we could have a second jack put in. I was freaking out because that is just a ton of money! Well, thank goodness for my husband...and my brother in law Keith. He knew how we could switch some wires around and create our new line. Well after some time, Dave got it to work! We were thrilled! Thanks Keith! You saved us $160!

So now everything is set up and I can finally relax! It feels so great to live on our own again! Don't get me wrong, living with Dad and Diane was WONDERFUL and we will ALWAYS be greatful, but it really feels good to be an "adult" again, even if now we are really poor! It feels very fulfilling!

Dave is almost done with his first semester of graduate school, and he has done AMAZING! He has two more finals and if he does well on these 2 tests he will have straight A's! Well done honey! I always knew you could do it!

I'm just working. I have been able to float to post-partum and that was a nice change, from being around lots of really sick people! I love seeing all of those new babies! Lots of fun! Hopefully one day I'll be able to work labor and delivery! I'd like to see if that would be something I'd like. Those were some of my greatest experiences in nursing school, so who knows! Someday!

Josh is growing like a weed! He is now over 9 months old and he is wanting to walk! He pulls himself up and moves back and forth between the couch and the recliner and his bouncer. He is getting into everything! He will keep me busy very soon! He is so much fun and has such a funny personality! He always makes Dave and I laugh! We love him so much and we are so excited to have Christmas with him here! Even though he could care less what is given to him, he'd be happy with a box wrapped with paper, just so he could rip it open!

Anyway, this post is getting way too long! That is about it...even though I know I'm leaving something out!

More pics

Here is our bathroom. It's actually a really big bathroom, and it even has a linen closet! (I know, it doesn't take much to please me, especially after our other apartment! :) )

Dave and I's bedroom. (Notice the large walk in closet with organizer shelving!) I didn't get a picture of Josh's room, but it's the same layout and the same size. He is napping so I didn't get the pic, oh well, you all get the idea!)

One side of our living room. Notice my husband taking his sunday nap in his favorite recliner!

Here is the the other side of our living room. You can't tell by the pics that it is a very large sized room. We love it!

This is our storage/laundry room. We don't have much to store so everything fits nicely! (Sorry, it looks quite messy, oh well!)

New family pictures!

Well I FINALLY got my family into get our pictures taken and here is a little preview of some pics...and might I add that I have the CUTEST little boy ever! I know I'm biased because I'm Josh's mom, but seriously people...

Enjoy!

Exciting news!

So, we FINALLY got an apartment! We are so excited to finally have our own place again! It is kind of a neat story. It starts back even before we moved from Logan. Dave and I had found a basement apartment in Layton that was so affordable, clean and in a safe neighborhood. Well, we applied for it but we didn't get it. I was so sad because the more we looked for an apartment, I realized just how expensive rent is in Davis county. Well, obviously we still haven't been able to find anything that Dave and I felt like were affordable and safe. So last week I had mentioned to Dave, "If we could just find an apartment like the basement apartment, that would be great."
The next day I happened to look on KSL.com and guess what, yup, that same basement apartment was back up for rent! So, I called the lady and she said that she remembered Dave and I from back in April, she said she would send us an apartment application.
Well, as of Saturday we now have an apartment! YEAH!!!!! We get to move December 1st.
Here is the low down of our basement apartment!
-2 bedroom , 1 bathroom (great sized rooms with walk in closets in both and organizer closets!)
-full sized kitchen (with a dishwasher, HUGE pantry)
-TONS of huge windows, so it doesn't feel so dark and "basement-like"
TONS and tons of storage!
Our own washer and dryer and more storage in the laundry room
Clean and safe neighborhood (it's actually in my old neighborhood, just down the road from my Dad and Diane's current house.)
Just down the road from my work.
And best of all, we are paying $625/month, and includes ALL of our utilities!
YEAHHHHHHHHH, I guess being patient pays off after all!
I'll post pics after we move in!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween was so much fun for us! Luckily, I was put on-call so I didn't even have to work! Yeah! Anyway, the pictures didn't come in order, so I'll start with this one. This is actually at the end of the night, after we took Josh trick-or-treating! He really liked putting each individual candy in his mouth. We dressed him up as a puppy, and I decided to draw on his nose and cheeks with my eye liner! What a cute little puppy!

Here is Dave and Josh trick-or-treating! Josh WOULDN'T let go of his bag! It was really funny!

Me, Diane and Josh getting ready to head out to go trick-or-treating! I was so excited to show him off to our neighbors!

Here is Dave and Josh at Diane's work. We went to her work to let her show Josh off to her co-workers! She had a really good time doing that...but who wouldn't!

This is how we started our day off, showing Josh off at Barnes Bank in Kaysville. Diane had a great time!

It was such a fun day, and thank goodness I never got called into work! Great memories! I can't believe my baby is almost 8 months old! Time is flying by!