Pretty much got our two year plan in the mail today… Can i get a what what for blessings!
Roping @ Mom & Dad’s
Sunday after an amazing day at church (our primary class is awesome!) we headed over to cook steaks at the parents house. Later in the afternoon we went out to lunge and ride leafgetter (pic above) so that when Sally and Maggie come to town she can ride a horse.
While out there we got the ropes out and and played with the calves a little bit. Amanda picked up a rope for the first time, and we enjoyed roping for a little while before the sun went down. Little things are making life very enjoyable.
More pics in our Albums…
UPDATED: We’re Here!!!
I promise i’ll post something more soon, but we be very busy today trying to finishing cleaning up things….
UPDATE: 3/4/2008 – A long weekend it was indeed. We started out on Friday with getting a few things done at the house. My Mom came over when she finished up work and she painted the rooms again, and then Moo and I headed for Gwen’s to pick up the remainder of our things and the trailer at the same time. There we got the truckload out of Gwen’s and made it back to our house (that’s still really weird to say) to find Mylea there as well. She had a note to come to our house, and she was soo excited to be riding a new bus to our home. With her we headed to lunch at Arby’s where we saw the Pifers and then the Shumways as well.
After filling ourselves (not the best move) we started in on the bed extravaganza. At Gwens with the trailer we got our bed out of the back room, and then cleaned like it was our job. We ended up cleaning the whole house before we were done. From there we ran back to our house to switch out the bed we had bought with the house and ours. After getting all of mom’s new furniture loaded and ready to go we strapped it all down and headed for Mom and Dad’s house. We got some help from the Shumways there and moved Mylea’s and Mom’s new beds in. After there we ran to storage and moved some more bedding action around and headed back to the house. *While at Mom’s house Amanda smashed her finger, and i jammed my head into the door frame of the Kia*
That night we didn’t do too much more, but i did hook up the majority of our TV stuff in the living room. Heading to bed we talked to Clancey and Kody that were heading up for the weekend to help us. At 12:30 when Clancey called to say that they wouldn’t leave until 4 or so I had a wonderful pounding headache from my run in with the Kia. When i would lay down my head would only hurt worse, and my ice packs were still at Gwens. So for the next 5 hours I worked in the living room, and also hooked up my computer in my office. At 5ish i went back in to take a shower and slept for about 2 more hours.
Clancey and Kody made it to our house about 8ish. They crashed out for a while, and we started with Breakfast. Amanda made biscuits and gravy for all the willing victims that would be helping us that day. With migraine in head, and everyone full from Breakfast we started in on the day.
Moving from storage took no time at all, and we had so many people that the entire act of moving didn’t seem bad at all. SOOOO THANKFUL for my family and the crazy generosity they showed me and my wife. We moved the Ping Pong table to the house, and that entertained the little kids while we networked the house, put things in the right room, and put pictures up.
At 345ish we went to Brando’s and had lunch/birthday action for Clancey and Kody. We went back to the house and hit it a little more. After terminating the network cabling, and hooking up the TVs we had cake and brownies while Clancey and Kody opened up their “practical” college kid gifts.
All in all it was an amazing experience, and i still have a hard time thinking that i own a home, but its growing on us. I never saw or thought about myself doing some of these things. I’m now getting up earlier for work to make a fire before i leave. Growing up whether i like it or not! Pretty much by the end of it we all felt about like this…
Another album and stuff on the way… Here’s the pics for now.
Today is the first day of….
Do i really have to grow up? Today it feels like it. We signed more papers than i care to count yesterday and at 4:00 this afternoon we will be proud owners of what i call debt, and a friend of mine called an investment. i like how she thinks better, but it seems so huge! We’ve made so many crazy, life-changing experiences lately that i want to take a moment to breathe and slow down a little bit. i feel comfortable with school and work together, but i’m still struggling with the schedule. i’m not a morning person, and while i’m not late for work i definitely hit the snooze button more times than for my wife’s taste. hopefully after we move into this “investment” we’ll be able to slow down a little bit so i can juggle work, school, home, wife, and side-work more effectively. seems like to much at times, but i guess this is what things are going to be like from now on. how FUN is that?!?
so pretty much, we’re buying a home, it scares me, and i hope i make it out the other end with out too many migraines…
Euchre, Houses, & Homework
So much to talk about, and so little time between now and when we close on our house. Life has been a little weird lately, and I hope that he majority of it is stress-related to the whole “I’m going into a little bit of debt” time. Not that things are going to calm down as soon as we cross into the threshold of our new home, but hey at least we’ll be “Living the Dream.” So much fun had a Aunt Gwen’s house right now. Well we’re not her house 95% of the time, but when we are there boy do we feel crammed. We went from a one bedroom apartment into a bigger two bedroom apartment. Then we decided, “hey lets just move on into a single bedroom!” Pretty much been an extravaganza since. In all seriousness it has been a huge blessing to have moved up to Round Valley and start this job, but as in all other things it has not been the easiest thing in my life ever.
So pretty much my only out at work lately is a card game that i won’t get to play for a while until we are able to find a couple more people to play with us. Euchre is such a good release game for me. It makes the day go by much faster.
Anywho, i ran out of gas for this post, and i’ve got a lot to do so i’ll just quit…
How they met…
We’re here at my parents house while i’m listening to music on my mom’s computer, Amanda and my mom are talking. My mom is telling her story of how my mom and dad met, and it’s soo coll how things happen. Their story is as crazy as ours. The chances of ever meeting are the craziest thing ever. How much had to go into it before we even met each other. Isn’t the Gospel grand? We talked today in our new ward, and it was a warm welcome to the newest chapter of our lives.
Hurry up & Wait
So we are beginning the fun process where we ran around like crazy signing our life away to the have absolutely nothing to do for another 3 weeks. Right now we are waiting for the appraiser to finish up his dealio so the underwritters can approve everything. Who knew the whole house process was so involved.
In the middle of all this we have been getting dumped on with snow like every other day. Right now we are in the middle of the mud all over the place part of the week.
Today we are in the middle of the weekend, and preparing our talks that we are to give in Church tomorrow. We haven’t even been in the ward a week, and out records aren’t even in 3rd Ward. We heard that another member of the Bishopric was going to ask us to talk in a few weeks anyways so i guess a trip to Phoenix that we were going to take this weekend wouldn’t have kept us from the pulpit. Never a dull moment.
Funeral & February
Here it is Saturday morning… I’m sitting here in my parents living room watching the funeral of President Gordon B. Hinckley. Our life has been mad crazy exciting, and in the middle of all this you’d think that we’d have a little bit of down time, but of course something has to happen to Clancey. Last night Clancey had some problems with his car, and now we’re trying to get things straightened out. My dad can barely handle it that he is so far away and can’t do a thing about it so he just gets mad. We are currently signing our life away on our house, and paying for random things that we didn’t even know existed. Also we are trying to pay off the apartment and our permanent plates on the trailer. Newho life is wonderful, and we are trying to stay on course but at times it appears too much. The house is goign well though. We had our two inspections yesterday, and everything is ready for us to move in, and I know that we ended up getting very much hooked up with our house.
http://picasaweb.google.com/wesmcb/OurNewHome
The buyer seems to be very compasionite toward us in our scary and frugal situation. Hopefully by this time next month we will be moved into our own home, and beginning a huge chapter in the book of our lives. Clancey has his birthday on Monday, and i think we are going to go down to the valley this next weekend, and do something for his birthday. That’ll be a good time, and I hope that it still happens.