real quick...

My first craft at the new house.

:)

I think it turned out pretty fabulous if you ask me.

we are here.

This is our dining room thus far, I just wanted to show how the colors will go together. :)

My kitchen cabinets are so tall I can not reach the top shelf, I am 5'10 so thats pretty intense.

The fabric that inspired it all

This my friends, is the start of my craft project. :) I am so excited for it I think its going to look great.

Well.

We are all moved it.

It was a looong tiring day for sure.

Now we have to unpack and get settled.

sigh.

btw, I am stealing internet.

shhhh

bahaha!

whooooa

I was ready for the move, I thought.

I packed, some.

got the paint.

prepared myself for hard work, unpacking, sorting, organizing etc.

What I did not prepare for, was the lack of internet and cable.

:(

So. Until tuesday I have to use the internet at my moms.

do facebook via my mobile phone.

As for cable, sadly that has to wait until Friday.

No one tree hill.

no olympics.

no law and order.

no biggest loser.

No one warned me about this part of moving.

Oh well. Maybe it will give me a chance to reconnect with the simple life.

You think?

anyway, we are painting, moving in and getting it done.

Wish me luck.

window seat

Alright.

I need to document our home plans somewhere, so I don't forget and have a place to reference.

This is the place.

Well. We have big simple plans for the kitchen.

I have been told by numerous people to leave the tiled floor alone. Depending on how it all looks in the end, I may.

We are painting the cabinets. I wanted to stain them because I thought it would look nicer and have better resell value, but then I got some advice that there is no difference in resell value and staining is a lot easier to mess up and have it show. So we are painting them a brown/black. Hopefully soon, like within a month. :)

Then we are tiling the counter tops with granite tiles. This, from what I have heard, is going to be a big project. Luckily my dad knows exactly what he is doing, and so does Jason's brother so I am hoping with their help we can get it done in a couple days, probably in the summer.

Then when that is done, we will be adding a stainless steel back splash like this one. Normally this would cost a lot, but we got a tip on where to get it for a couple hundred so I am pretty stoked about that, if I decide thats what I want. There is still a huge part of me that would rather do one like this. Jason is worried it would get dated and old fast, so we will see.

One day, maybe next year, I want to build a window seat in the front room. Like this one.

To go here.

This window is just crying for a window seat. The window goes down too low to put a console table, and that would be weird to put a chair, so a window seat is it! I have dreams of our kids jumping on the window seat waiting for dad to come home. :D

well, we got the house today! Keys and all.

Its ours.

We will be taping, painting, cleaning and whatever else until its done.

Then we will be packing, moving, unloading and unpacking until its all done.

Then I will have a house. a home.

Ah.

Then we will be buying couches for my front room, which I am all too excited about. :)

I will post on that when they come.

I am a home-owner. Weird.

Just kidding!

I know I said the next time I post it would be about the house, but I totally forgot about V-Day!!

This year for V-day Jason bought me a house! lol

We did V-day on Friday since we knew we would be packing this weekend.

Jason got me a pair of pants I have been wanting and I got him a video game he has been wanting.

We are people pleasers :D

But I was sneaky.

I wanted him to have something on V-day.

So I made him Coupons!!!!

not just any coupons.

These coupons:

PDA! This coupon is good for one passionate kiss in a public place.

This coupon is good for one trip back to our younger years, lets play 7 minutes in heaven with only kissing allowed.

Redeem this coupon for a week's worth of morning wake me up morning kisses that last at least 15 seconds.

Present this coupon when you want to teach me something about kissing.

Good for one hands free smooching session, use of arms prohibited.

Lets watch a romantic comedy together and every time the couples kisses, we have to kiss, too.

This coupon is good for a kiss you can feel all the way to your toes.

With this coupon I will re-create the scene of our first kiss for you, and kiss you just the way I did then.

You get the idea. :)

There are many more I just don't have time to list them all.

anyway I made them on my digital scrapbooking software and then printed them on photo paper.

Jason doesn't like using coupons, ever, so we will see if he uses these ;-)

Anyway, even though this holiday was made up by Halmark and the candy company's, Happy Valentine's Day!

moving

Today is the first day of the move, meaning packing.

It went better then I thought it would, packing went smoothly, in an organized fashion.

Then when it is all packed and boxed up, I get to clean like this one more time at our apartment.

I started packing the cleaning supplies, and had to laugh at how much of it I have. This is just one box. There is just no such thing as too clean, I think.

Its a little bitter sweet. I love having a house and a place thats mine and I can do whatever with, but that means this chapter of our life, the apartment living, is over.

That is a little sad.

No more mail walks

no more stealing other peoples parking spaces

No more telling the neighbors to be quiet

no more "gotta get the groceries all in one trip!"

no more walking to grill to BBQ

no more depending on the front office to sign for packages

and sadly, no more living in Sugarhouse.

that is the saddest part.

But its for the better. Jason and I have done the apartment thing for 17 months, and now we will do the house thing for hopefully the rest of our lives.

Having a mailbox.

Having the garbage can just outside the back door.

Gardening.

Painting.

Having lots and lots of space.

remodels.

decorating.

a permanent ward and friends.

Living in Davis County again. :-)

living closer to my family and still close to his.

having a garage.

a real dining room.

a place for a baby to go. :) One day.

So many things to look forward to.

This is what my apartment looks like at this very minute, and it drives me crazy. So crazy.

I can not stand this type of chaos. I really miss when my living used to look like this all the time. It will be that way now, I promise.

This is what my bedroom floor looks like. But if we are being honest, its looked like that for a month now lol.

Packing sucks.

But Jason and I have made it less sucky.

Every hour on the hour, we stop what we are doing and play a game. Scrabble, Uno, Go fish etc.

It helps to break any stress or tension there may be, and lets us have fun for a little bit.

:)

I highly recommend it for packing strategies.

It is getting sooo close I can taste it.

Next time I blog, it will be about my new home. :-)

lately...again...

Right now, I should be packing.

But I am not. eeks.

Here is the latest going ons with us.

We are moving! on the 20th we will move into our new house. :-) We close on the Tuesday and we are very excited. It really does break my heart to leave my young women, but I know we will still be great friends ;-). We can not wait to get out of this apartment, in the last 2 months its really gotten annoying. people moved in upstairs who are sooo loud its pretty miserable to live under them. I am excited to have a garage! attached to my house!! so I don't ever have to walk outside to my car!!!!! EEKS!!! lol We are really ready to move, except the packing. lol

I took my Personal Trainer exam.

It did not go well.

And I stand by the fact that its 95% not my fault, so I will be re-taking it again soon.

Enough said.

Jason is going out of town on business in March to New York. Brat. So, I will need lots and lots of company from you. :) Unless I can find some friends to stay the nights at my house with me, I will be sleep at my moms. lol, seriously. I can't sleep in a place alone. Maybe if someone comes over and stays right up until I go to bed, I MAY be able to sleep, but who knows. I am a wimp.

I can't get enough of babies and kids lately, wonder why ;-)

2 girls at work just had babies so when they bring their babies in I just hold them until I am forced to give them back. :(

I don't know when it will happen for us, right now its kind of all up to me, and I am having trouble with it. I just don't feel like I am ready to be done with this chapter of my life, make sense? As soon as I have a baby, I become their mom, and thats who I am. Right now I am me, I am kati and I am having fun being who I am and doing what I like to do. So, until I have had my fill of that, its the childless life for us. :)

I guess I am being kind of selfish...

I love trying new foods, love it. I recently tried newer things and was shocked that there were other foods out there I liked other then what I already knew. With that, I am excited to start a garden. I am waaay nervous about it because it seems like a big task, but I think its do-able if I get started right. I will let you know how that goes :)

I am trying to think of anything else....

Work is good on both ends.

Jason got a lateral type promotion that will lead to bigger promotions so he has been doing a lot with getting that ready and learning new duties. Hopefully he still loves it.

Oh, I am excited for a perk we just found out about at Jason's work. They will pay for me to have a gym membership!! yay! so next week I am going to sign up at the south davis rec center which is like 10 mins from our house, and his work is paying for it. :) I love Jason's work.

Well, I guess I will go eat some squash and pack. GRR.

Happy Friday to me.

My job is the same. lol. But its fun and I like it. I think you have a good job when on Sunday night it doesn't depress you to think about going to work the next day.

1 year later.

Wow.

1 year ago, my family prepared anxiously for the arrival of my dad, who was coming home from a year long tour in Iraq.

We had all prayed for a year, that he would be safe, kept from harm and would come home soon.

I thought, as long as my dad comes home safe, everything and everyone will be alright.

one year ago I experienced what I would call the worst day of my life, because I never thought something like this could happen.

I received a call at work, from a very scared older sister, telling me that my sweet little sister was in a car accident and didn't know if she was ok.

My entire world stopped that very moment.

nothing was important.

The meeting I had that day with a partner from Dorsey and Whitney was no longer optional.

The dinner plans I had were canceled.

Even the mere task of eating was no longer considered.

I rushed to the hospital in Provo as fast as my crappy car would take me, and then some.

Its amazing I myself did not get in an accident since I was crying hysterically the whole time.

I drove for 25 mins before I was able to find out at least, that Hollie was alive.

for 25 minutes I thought my little sister, who I took for granted, was gone.

It was still, by far, the worst day of my life.

and I have had some bad days.

Only hours before my only concern had been making sure my dad came home safe. The red cross flew my dad home right as Hollie was getting out of her first surgery.

Hollie broke her arm in 2 places, her leg in 2 places, shattered her foot, and ankle, they removed a rib and she had broken her back.

for days, the only part of Hollie we could touch without hurting her, was her right hand.

My little sister, layed in a truck, broken, and the only thing she could say to the first person who arrived on scene was,"Are you a worthy priesthood holder? Because I need a blessing."

She was given a blessing on the spot from someone who still remains a stranger, and I believe it saved her life.

2 months in the hospital.

9 surgeries.

150+ hours of driving to Provo.

hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of medical care.

3 different hospital rooms.

dozens and dozens of daily prayers.

many milestones of progress.

lots of grape Popsicles.

1 mean nurse (That I yelled at)

5 weeks of physical therapy.

2 types of back braces.

8 medications.

2 powerful and emotional sacrament talks.

1 amazingly strong woman.

Hollie has become the glue that holds our family together.

I love this woman with every fiber of my being and am so proud and amazed at who she is today.

She has no restrictions or limitations.

She has overcome it all.

She does not let anything get in her way, or get her down.

Hollie Kristine Odekirk is nothing short of my Hero.

wanna know some more about me?

Today, I was texting my friend and had to go downstairs. I almost typed "brb" until I remembered that I could bring my phone with me.

Sometimes I look at people throughout the day and think," are you serious?"

Then there are times when people think they are funny, they I have to chuckle otherwise they will feel bad.

I doodle when I am on the phone with Claimants at work.

I realized that the word bed, looks likes a bed.

I found out that lion in Swahili, is simba. Very sneaky Disney, very sneaky.

I hate boots with the fur, and I hate jeans tucked into boots. I am sorry.

I have a funny face when I take pictures. Ask Gabby.

up until 2 years ago, when I would write words I would write the second letter first, and then the first.

I am puzzled by my own emotions.

I can not sit still while on the phone, hence the doodles.

I NEVER match my socks. So if you see me, and they match, it was not on purpose.

I have always kept my eyes open while kissing, which I thought was normal...

When I wash my hands at work, I have to immediately put lotion on.

I listen to upbeat dance music in the morning to get me pumped up for the day.

I got caught dancing at work the other day, that was embarrassing.

I rarely get embarrassed.

I can get out of just about anything by batting my eyes.

I am still super scared to take my test.

I love taking pictures now, but I want to take pictures of kids and I don't have those in stock.

I realized that Mario is definitely homeless. He wakes up every day wearing the same clothes, runs around in sewers, beats up people for their money, and what does he spend it on? Mushrooms.

Today. I. Realized. That. Typing. Like. This. Does. Not. Make. Your. Point. Stronger. It. Makes. You. Look. Like. Your. Computer. Has. Asthma.

The other day I was driving on the freeway and the car that was merging in front of me did a full on over the shoulder head check in his blind spot. I was shocked.

I had Baskin Robbins for lunch. No regrets.

I lost another 2 lbs. Didn't mean to do that.

I have no idea what the difference between an ipod and an iphone is.