My craziness

My craziness

So I seem to be little OCD, or something like that, about a few things. A clean and organized apartment is one of them. Mike and I live in 550 sq ft apartment and to say the least I am terrified for the day we move out. I have stuck things so tightly in places, that you can imagine how I could be nervous. I have basically spent the day reorganizing my apartment, yet again. I seem to do it every few weeks or months. It started with just my closet and then turned into two other cabinets, our tool boxes,miscellaneous boxes, TV cabinet and I don't know what else. So really its been about a week now since I started with putting all my old journals into one big binder and a few other things and before I knew it, I have basically redone my entire apartment, yet again. Here is what I pulled out of my closet today, which doesn't included our shoes and clothes. This is usually has something to do with the mood I am in and if the apartment is a mess, and I start putting things away, I end up redoing a few things. I do this a lot when I have a lot on my mind and need to focus on something other then what I have been thinking about. I am a little nervous for what happens when we finally have a house, we'll have double the space and stuff. Yikes :) Oh how I can't wait to have a house of my own though!!!! Thanks to mike's Dad and my sister we have a few things at there place, (bed frame, sheets and stuff from our full bed and a cooler). Or else I would be even more cramped then we already are. I am finding room though in some places and you should see the table I built around my couches and lamp. Yeah its kind of awesome and I love it, it makes me happy and feel more organized. What is my deal. Lucky I have a husband that loves me and just smiles and lets me do it and thinks its cute and helpful. All he asks is that I let him know where I moved things. Plus he's getting good a letting me throw things away (he's more of a keeper than I am, I kind of like to throw things away.), Like empty boxes, just so we can have them when we move.

Anniversary, Friends and fun

Friday the 21st was our anniversary. Mike met me when I got off work, we went to my Mom and Dad's and borrowed my dad's motorcycle and drove up to Park City. We stopped at Tanger Outlet and got my Mom's birthday present. We then went to Ruth's Chris, thanks to a wedding gift certificate. We spent about 3 hours sitting out on their deck, eating a FABULOUS dinner and talking. Mike was like a little kid eating his steak. The steaks we got were delicious!!! We got free deseret thanks to it being our anniversary. We talked about a lot of things, the last year, our future, we made some new goals.
Saturday we had our monthly friends party and we went floating down the Provo river. We had so much fun and it was so relaxing. We talked and laughed all the way down. We kept getting caught in the branches which was quite funny at times. We all got a few scratches. Since we were so close, we went and hiked Bridal Veils Falls and took some fun photo's, we then went to dinner at one Mary Anne's favorite Mexican restaurant.
Sunday we had the amazing temple dedication for the Oqurihh Mountain temple. The talks were awesome and President Monson was funny and amazing as usual. The prayer was beautiful.
Thursday Mike surprised me by setting up a little get away without me knowing. Saturday He had talked to his friend Nicole who lives up in Kuna Idaho, 20 minutes out of Boise, with her husband Nathan. Nathan is a head trainer up their on a ranch, they live on it as well. We stayed with them and they taught us so much about horses and everything that goes into it. We asked probably a thousand questions. We had some awesome riding lessons as well. I knew a little bit about riding and mike new very little. It was a extremely fun, relaxing and educational weekend. Hope to visit them again soon.
The best part is, Utah football starts in just 2 days!!! YAY

Lake Powell

We just got back form another great lake powell trip. The wind blew a little bit more this trip so we didn't get as good as water as usual, but it was still fun. We went on another hike. This one tougher then the last, at least this time I had better shoes on:) It was a little scary at times, since the footage wasn't always stable and you were jumping, running or sliding form one spot to the next. This is of course with cliffs straight down. We were trying to get to a spot we thought we could cliff jump that turned out to be over 100 feet so we bypassed it. Every night the kids had either a dance off or a beat Grandpa up night. My nephew Sam learned when asked "who wants to go to lake powell?" he would raise his arm and say "I do!" It was adorable. Even my sister Brittney, who has had MANY health problems lately water skied. She can't see 6 inches in front of her and had to be extremely protective of her sight skied. The first time in her garments and pj's, her husband said the first time her garms would protect her, the rest of the time she wore her swimming suit and scuba goggles, she even crossed the wake even though she didn't know shew as going to because she couldn't see it, she did it a lot of times and all by feel. Way to go Britt. We got the kids up wake boarding, well they would be inbetween my brother in laws legs, but they loved it. We put a NOS system on the boat, which my dad LOVED trying out on all of us, I think I was out of the water in about 5 seconds. It was kind of nice. We did have some jerks for neighbors. It cooled down pretty good at night and I had to get into my sleeping bag way earlier. I got through two books and started a third and even got some studying in.

Mike made it possible to go to lake powell by doing so much work at the apartments since he was odne with his internship and school hasn't started yet. He is really excited for school to start next week and I am a bit jealous wishing I was able to go as well :( I would love to get a second bachelors or a masters, but the question is WHAT? Any suggestions.

Update

Here you go Heidi :) I have a new goal to update this on Sunday afternoons. So much has happened since I have last updated this!!
We were recently in Lake Powell June 28th-July 5th. It was awesome as usual. Water was pretty warm, weather was great, really only had 2 small storms rather then the usual daily. Mike got to learn so much. He learned how to drive the houseboat, the boat, pull a skier, he got a up on my double boot competitive ski and so much more. We hiked, wave runner, swam, ate, read a lot of books, slept and played games. The kids were awesome. Jordan (3 yrs old) tried water skiing. Megan 8, Halie 7, and Issac 4, we couldn't stop from jumping off the top of the house boat, which is about 20 feet, or from water skiing. Bella 1 yr and Sam 18 mths didn't want to stay out of the boat or wave runners. We tie-died tee shirts and made a huge fire for smores, and watched the neighbors shoot off fireworks. My dad was a little crazy and ended up gettting a ticket, oops, but lucked out and only got it for 1 situation rather then the 4 it could've been. We got to sit at the end of the dock on the 4th of July and watch the fireworks shooting off from Page, Arizona
July 11th, we got to go to Mapleton and spend the day with some good friends before they leave for Podiatry school. We took his CJ out and went 4 wheeling up Spanish for canyon and went to a small reservoir, walked around the lake, had lunch, shot some guns, pushed a tree over and just played around and talked for a while. We went back, went hot tubing, ordered a pizza and watched 310 to Yuma (clean version). It was a great day, which unfortunately had to end. We will miss them but wish them the best.
For the 24th, we went swimming with the family and then met some friends for some fireworks at Liberty park. We had the best spot, we got to see them shoot off fireworks as well as watch them go off. Saturday we helped our home teacher move and then went out to Antelope Island and were going to go for a 10 mile mountain bike ride. It didn't exactly happen that way. We had a 74 year old guy,named John, join up with us at about mile 3 and things went down from there. The road was really sandy in some areas and so we had to walk parts. John then got a flat in his tire, we couldn't find the whole so just re in flatted it up, just in case he was running low to start. We he wasn't. We couldn't find the whole to even patch it, and he didn't have a spare and we didn't have one. So we road/slashed walked the next 7 miles. About mile 6 mike grabbed his keys and followed his directions to get his car and meet us where the trail ended and the service road began. Well he had know idea which way anything was. Mike road an extra 5-10 miles, still couldn't find his car, but some really nice people drove him around trying to find it, but never could. He was still looking for it, when we got to the trail head and called him. They came and picked us up and finally found John's car. We then got a ride to our car and left. What was supposed to be about 1 1/2 turned into 4 hours. I only put some sunscreen on and didn't take any with us, needless to say, my arms and shoulders and quite burnt. I have been so careful not to get burnt, I even got a TAN in :ake Powell, yes I am serious, I had tan lines, real tan lines, not even one burn line.
We have done lots of other fun things too. Picnics up the canyon, bees games, motorcycle rides and a few other things. We are trying to have more fun lately rather then allowing managing the apartments taking over our lives which it has been the last while. We weren't having enough fun and starting to resent it. Hopefully with our new plan, we can keep managing and still do the things we want. We are young and newly married and don't have kids yet. We should be out having fun, going away for the weekends whenever we want rather then just working here. Wish us luck. See you next Sunday!!! Hope you have a good week.

Update

So I am lying her thinking how much I have not wanted to update this. I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am that March is over, yes I know it's Easter and its half way through April. March was probably one of the worst and best months ever.
Our car got broken into and after all was said and done, they got away with about $1500 in cash. We only had a $200 deductible on cash and gift cards are considered cash. So that totally sucks, but we are counting our blessings since it could have been so much worse.
Drama, drama, drama. That is what work has been. One of our PA's is no longer there and girls are hard to work with. I now know why I had all guy Friends growing up, I had all sisters and enough drama. A few other really sucky things happened, but I am not dwelling on them any more.
Here is the amazingness of our last month. One friday afternoon, I walk out of work and my amazing husband Mike is standing by the car and says that the bags our packed and he is taking me to Lava Hot Springs for the weekend. Most of it was bliss, but the last 12 hours not so much.
The next weekend my boss couldn't use some ski tickets so we got to go skiing at Deer Valley Resort for FREE, that was hilarious, because neither Mike nor I had been skiing in 10 years. I didn't have a hard time remembering anything, but he was hilarious all day. I have never seen him so nervous or feel so vulnerable. Slightly adorable, and lots of laughs and falls(him, I didn't fall once).
The next weekend we were given a pass that expired on April 4th for a free night at the U of U Marriott resort. So we went up, went hot tubing, slept in, had an amazingly huge free super yummy FREE buffet breakfast, enjoyed the first session of conference.
This weekend, I had Friday off, YEAH and amazing. However of course Mike had a school thing that morning, he usually doesn't have class, so i stayed in bed till 8:30 got up worked on the apartments, and then we went shooting with some friends that afternoon. I did a lousy job, but it was fun anyways.
Sorry no pictures we suck at remembering our camera, so we bought a disposable in Lava and just finished using it up and its at Costco getting developed, what a weird thing. Don't know the last time I had to have something developed. So much st res the last month in a half with so many different things going on in so many parts of my life, but I have been blessed with things as well to help me relax at least one day a week and have some fun and get away from it all, unfortunately you have to come back to reality. Life so good and hard and make you unhappy at times with all that goes on, so wish I knew how to turn off my brain at times or at least slow it down. Sleep through the night would be nice. Luckily, somehow the good Lord decided to bless me with an amazing husband to help relax me, keep me calm and help me through it all.

PS. Easter was great. We had Mikes Mom over for dinner and then went and played catch till it got dark. Good Day. Hope you all enjoyed your amazing day.

Turned Upside down- Be careful!!!!!!!!!!!

OK. So Friday morning life got a little turned upside down to says the least. I got to the gym at 5:40 am, went in changed realized I left my Ipod in my purse so ran back out and got it. Went in worked out, got ready for work and headed back out to my car. When I got there my passenger was broken out and my purse which was tucked under my seat was gone. They spent over $1400.00 in less then an hour, plus the cash that was my in my purse that was left from our wedding, I'd pulled it out of our safe the evening before so I could go by a Bosch. They also got all my gift cards, were talking about a lot of money in gift cards, some from our wedding, some from birthdays, Christmas and other stuff. They even went to the bank and pulled money out.
We spent the weekend closing all our accounts, putting up fraud alerts on everything, talking to the police and tracking them down. We almost caught them on Saturday when they tried to pull more out. But they got away before the police could get there.
This has been such a headache and nightmare. I am so exhausted with dealing with all of it. It seems to never end. We should get all our money back, but it just takes time. Plus getting all new cards and accounts and so forth. Please don't leave anything in your car, cause you never know whats going to happen or what time of day.

The best husband and updates

So I know those two statements don't go together and Ok so I know I say this a lot and I don't really blog about anything else, but it is the truth is I really don't know how I got so lucky with whom I married. He is constantly blowing me away.
He is gone till Friday in Las Vegas at the American Physical Therapy Association conference which is going to be a really good experience for him. Unfortunately he has horrible weather on the way down and was in the amazing snow storms we had today. UGLY, but he made it safe and sound. Anyways I get home today after work and running errands and walk into the bedroom to found flowers, a teddy bear and two really sweet notes. It made me miss him all the more. The teddy bear was to keep me company at night. He made me cry, I swear I have turned into such a girl since I've been married. I love my husband.

Computer and Bed: Well Mikes computer is basically dead. So we bought and bought him a MAC. We really bought it because of school. He takes it to class and he has been loving it. He feels like he is taking better notes, keeping up on things better and well he just loves it. He is like a little kid. He locks it up in the safe every night or during the day if he isn't there but he usually always has it with him.
Ok so we have been sleeping on a full the last 6 months. It was very difficult, Mike's feet would hang off the edge and he likes to sleep in funny positions when he is not wanting to cuddle (which is 90% of the time) and when he turns over it is more of a flop. I am a very light sleeper, have some back problems, like to sleep at angles, am usually hot and don't like being touched and like me space when I am trying to sleep ( which if I am lucky is about 4 hours). So the full has been interesting to say the least. Well we finally did it and after much shopping we bought a KING bed. WE LOVE IT. There is still a lot of cuddling, but there is so much more sleeping too, he isn't constantly being pushed over and I am not rolling over to an elbow or getting kneed. It has made for some good stories though. It is so comfortable and I am getting some sleep YAY and my back is feeling better- who'd a thought huh.
Mike let me get whatever I wanted because of my problems and the fact that he can sleep like anywhere. Picking out bedding was difficult cause it was all on me, everything I brought home was it looks great hunny what color is it? It was so frustrating, I hate shopping in the first place and he couldn't help me cause he's color blind, plus there are some seriously ugly stuff out there.
Yeah I know its a lot of money, but thanks to amazing parents who have taught me to manage money well so we could afford it and were just fine even with one income.