What a blessing.

What a great day!!!!

Why?

Because our basement completely flooded!!!

No, I am not being sarcastic.

We had Jason's family over for dinner, and after it was done and I was doing the dishes, his mom went to our basement and found that it had flooded!!

Why am I so excited?

Why wouldn't I be?

In relief society they mentioned facing trials head on and looking at obstacles with gratitude for the chance you have to grow stronger.

Here we go. :)

Time for a spiritual work-out.

I even made my hubby take a picture with me so we could officially document this exciting occasion.

after all, it is our first flooded basement, in our first house, during our first family dinner.

This is a day, we will look back on and laugh at, or one we can pin point great strength from.

Stay tuned for further excitement. :)

long update.

Hello again to all my friends.

:)

There is not a whole lot going on with us, yet anyway.

So here we go!

This is the view from our kitchen, dining room, family room and bedroom. :)

The picture obviously doesn't do it justice. You can see the temple so well and I love it. I love being able to eat dinner and look out to see the temple, so clear and so well.

I didn't really appreciate that about our house when we were buying it, but now I cherish it.

It helps to keep my daily life in perspective.

This, is our new table.

Now, we were not going to buy a new table for a while, but thanks to our kitten, we had to.

You see those cute flowers on the table?

Well, in the vase is fake water, you've see fake water, well I did it to those flowers.

well in the middle of the night, before the fake water was dry, Reesie knocked over the vase spilling the fake water on the table. And the fake water, DOES NOT COME OFF ANYTHING!

So fair warning, just don't do fake water.

but anyway, I got a nice new table out of it. :)

We are either going to stain the table to match the chairs, or stain the chairs to match the table.

haven't decided yet.

We love Reesie. :) She is so cute and cuddly. She is just so much fun to play with. We chunked her up real fast lol.

I don't understand why people want dogs.

Reesie is so much fun, doesn't poo and pee on things, doesn't need to be watched every second, isn't this big huge thing running around the house, cuddles at our feet at night and purrs.

eff dogs.

There isn't much new about the house since the last update on it. Not that is terribly exciting or anything.

We love our ward so far.

Its pretty much all young couples with a few kids. The ward has 4 nurseries on sunday! FOUR!

The relief society women are so sweet. I still miss young womens, soooo much, but at least in this ward its not all 80 year women talking about genealogy. I secretly hope they call me to be in Young Women's again. I do feel out of place because their(relief society) topic of conversation is their kids, so I guess I need to get on that. ;-)

oh wait!

I am starting a garden.

:)

I am nervous about this task, cause either I don't do a garden, or I do it awesomely.

no half-A garden here.

So, we bought 2 grow boxes to keep the garden elevated and so it has proper drainage, and I just need to figure out where the best place for them is.

I am going to grow tomatoes, basel, squash, cucumbers, raspberries and maybe corn. pumpkins would be fun.

I really love my front room.

Decor aside, its the room I love being in the most.

Its quiet.

there is no TV in there. I don't know what it is, but I feel like if there is a TV in a room, it has to be on.

The couches are soooo comfy.

get this, I actually read in there!

Granted I was reading the Ensign but thats pretty good.

I just love being in there where its quiet, calm, I can look out our big front window and watch the neighborhood kids run around.

Its nice.

Thats one thing I love about being in a house, WINDOWS!!

In our apartment we had 1 window in the bedroom and the sliding door in the living room. lol.

It seems like a cave to me now!

I love having windows everywhere! and whats best is that there is no one behind us so I don't have to worry about shutting the blinds on the back side of the house.

I colored my hair a few weeks ago. I wanted to go really dark, but just for a bit. So Miss Kourtney came over and we colored my hair with a temporary brown color. It was fun, its pretty much all faded now, I think at least. Which is good because as fun as it is to change your hair color, it just didn't feel like me. I also cut 2 inches from the bottom and thats taking some getting used to.

The more I get done on the house, the more I want to get moving on the baby front, so its getting closer. lol :) I just don't want to have a baby and then not ever feel like I "finished" my house. I know its a lame excuse for not starting a family, but to me its a good one. Everyone keeps saying, do everything and get everything you want, because once you have kids you can't do those things anymore, and all the money goes to them. I think its a good point, I mean its not like I am going to wait 10 years because I want to go on vacations and buy purses, but I think finishing the house is a good goal.

Actually, Jason and I know exactly what our baby plan is, I am just not going to tell. :P

my dad is home!

He has been gone for over a month training with the FAA for his new position.

he golfed EVERY SINGLE day. Except for Sunday of course.

His apartment had a free golf course.

lets just say I am sure it wasn't torture for him to go there lol.

Well I think thats it! I am going to go cuddle and watch a movie with the hubby. :)

simple post.

In our search to obtain relief from the stresses of life, may we earnestly seek ways to simplify our lives.

Elder L. Tom Perry

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Brilliance.

I love my house.

The living room with a few changes.

The end result coffee table. After brilliant advice from Tigan Robinson, I learned that whatever goes on a coffee table should be viewable from all sides.

Luckily today my mom came over bearing gifts and this cool sand hour glass was one of them.

Reesie. :)

I bought 2 older books for this shelf, the blue and red ones. :) I bought them from little cute little Paris style consignment shop in Sugarhouse called Abode. so cute.

But really, they had 3 rotary dial phones there, they were selling them f0r 35-50$! Gosh. I am sure glad I got mine for 4$. :)

So is Jason. :)

sigh.

oh my goodness.

Today was glorious.

for one reason.

Let me explain.

I wanted something.

Something I have always thought was cool and fun but never really put effort into finding.

Whenever I was at a thrift store, I would secretly glance and see if they had one.

I had yet to find one.

Well, today I decided I REALLY want one.

So I googled search for thrift stores in salt lake and found one that sounded promising.

oh was I right.

I searched the whole store, top to bottom and was heart broken to not find one.

Till I came to the bin.

THE bin.

tangled in a mess of random useless cords and old broken phones, I found it.

IT!

:)

Isn't she pretty?

She needs a good cleaning, but oh I was so elated when I found it.

Such color.

She fits RIGHT in.

I need to make sure I do her justice.

BTW here is my living room. :)

OH I just love my new couches.

And they are sooo comfy.

Alright, now I need your opinion.

Below you will find 4 different variations of my coffee table decor.

You must vote.

A

B

(the mirror will mostly likely get painted white.)

C

D

Oh it has been so much fun decorating.

I love it.

clarification

Let me clarify my last post.

Of course I want kids.

and Yes, a while ago I did post about how baby hungry I was.

I still am baby hungry, but not for the right reasons as I think is the case with MOST newlywed wives.

So yes I am still baby hungry, just keeping it tamed.

:)

But really, who knows.

It may happen sooner then I think.

am I selfish, or smart?

Pressure.

I have been feeling an extreme amount of pressure lately.

To have a baby.

ugh.

And its different now because before I could say, oh we live in an apartment etc and it doesnt make sense.

But now, there is no good reason not to have a baby, other then the fact that I just don't want to.

Selfish?

Don't get me wrong, I want to have kids, and soon, just not now.

Reasons.

1. I love my job, and will quit when its time to have the baby.

2. The extra income from my job has been quite nice.

3. I want to get the house 100% complete as far as things I want to buy.

4. I am scared to be pregnant, just the physical part of it. ugh.

5. I feel like I am going to be a bad mom. :(

More on #5. I am so impatient and short. If things aren't going my way, or people aren't doing what I say who I feel should, I get very, well, bratty. Its just Jason and I right now, and when we have a baby, it will never be that way until we are old and grey.

I am not one of THOSE girls.

Those girls who feel like they need to get pregnant right away after getting married. Those girls who hate working and think having a baby is the solution. Those girls who want to have a baby as an accessory.

When I do have a baby, its going to be because I am ready to rear a child, to teach it because I want to, not because I have to. Its going to be because I feel ready, not because everyone wants me to be ready.

more on #2. The extra income has been extremely nice, and its not something I feel like giving up anytime soon. When I do have a baby, I don't want to be poor. Sorry if that sounds vain or selfish, but I want to be able to give my baby everything, including worldly things. Not saying we would be poor if I quit my job, its just that we are that much less poor with my job lol. I feel like we need to take this chance to do things we won't be able to, spoil ourselves, save, go on trips etc.

Selfish.

Maybe.

But I think there is a pinch of smartness mixed in there too.

MY baby.

Thoughts on having your own house.

:)

I love it, first of all.

For some reason, to me at least, owning my own house makes me keep in nicer and cleaner then anything I have ever owned.

I hate when it is dirty, and not just hate it and deal with it, hate it and won't stop til its clean.

and you know how I clean.

which brings me to my next subject.

This beauty.

This, is my life saver.

You all know I spill things, make messes, whatever.

You also know I am a clean freak.

so those don't mix well.

But this gem has saved my life, or at least the life of my carpet and couch. :)

Its obviously an upholstery cleaner, but the best part is seriously the scrub brush on the top.

Its a one step process to cleaning up a mess, most of the time.

I love it, and you should get it.

I love having space. sooo much space.

I love that I have options of where I want to be in the house and its not all contained within a 700 sq feet parameter.

I use my dining room table so much more now.

the thing I love the most about my kitchen though is my radio. :)

We have never had a radio or CD player in our place before, never thought to.

But it makes cleaning and other things so much more pleasant and even fun when I have music in the background. I watch a lot less TV now.

Really, its over said, but I love being able to do whatever I want to the house. Its really the best part.

I love not having to hear all the noisy neighbors.

No walking to my car.

no walking to the garbage.

sigh. I love it.

I won't lie to you, this will not be the last post about the house.

But really, the house is my baby.

so it will be blogged about, like you blog about your baby. :-)

oh silly little boy.

Tonight I was waiting for the wash to get done so I can put the clothes in the dryer and I started Facebook stalking.

Don't judge, we all do it.

Anyway, I looked up one of my ex's.

one of THE ex's if you will.

This guy, we will call him guy, I thought once upon a time was just the greatest thing ever.

oh I was so swoon by him.

Have no idea why.

can't recall.

Anyway, when I was dating guy I was heavier, and not as confident as the bratty sassy lady I am now.

Guy once told a friend of mine, that even if I lost a lot of weight, I would never be "hot", I would only be able to achieve being "cute".

:/

What a jerk right?

right.

Well, let me just say, from my Facebook stalking, I learned, I ain't missin much. :)

I feel like thats karma.

what kind of a person thinks they have they right and the audacity to say something like that about not only another person, but their GIRLFRIEND!

I felt a slight bit of, I don't know, justice? when I saw him, and what he is up to.

Guy was kind of a jerk the whole time we dated, and really needed to be put in his place I think.

Glad he found his place. :)

I love my man. :)

He is a keeper.

A hot keeper.

He puts Guy to serious shame.

oh how I love my little life.

Our new couches come in 1.5 weeks. :) eeks. I can hardly stand it.

having the second living room empty has really been bugging me.

I realize I haven't posted pictures of the downstairs living room, or any of the rooms, its because they aren't done, and I can't think of how to finish them yet.

One day soon it will come to me, probably while I am at work like normal.

tada!

Alright, I think am ok showing some before and afters.

living room before.

Sort of after lol. Red couches are on their way.

Dining room before.

Dining room after. :)

I think the dining room is my favorite room in the house.

The colors are really bright and vibrant. I tried really hard to make sure they all tired together and that it wasn't like melted crayons.

So there ya go.

Everyday when Jason and I come home, this is what we come home to.

:) Oh its such a happy place.

decor

Sigh.

I love my house.

:)

Well, again, we are all moved it.

People keep asking me that so I keep saying it.

We are officially all packed and put away, minus the decorations that have been sitting all over the floor in my front room.

But tonight, I made progress with them.

Good or bad progress, I don't know, you be the judge and tell me.

This is in the front room, obviously above the coat closet.

Its a random assortment of things, with a churchy theme.

I may tweak it a little here and there, but I am almost certain I like it. :)

This is the dining room, pay no attention to the mess on the table.

Really its just the one wall I have done so far, I don't know what I will be doing on the brown one. Curtains maybe?

The vase is filled with the flowers from my bouquet on our wedding day. :)

I really like this arrangement, I just need to figure out what else to fill the space with that isnt too heavy. Floating shelves are tricky little things.

The picture is my favorite church picture. Its the Sacred Grove with a sentence that says," What happened here changed the world let it change your life"

These are flowers that are going on the table once the fake water decides to harden.

Alright well those are my decorations thus far.

What do you think?

I don't want things to look too cluttered or busy, and I want to keep it modern with a dash of traditional.

How am I doing?

BE HONEST!

My next task is to recover the pillows on our couch, and to decorate that living room.

Its still weird to me that I have 2 living rooms.

Oh yeah, did I mention we got a kitten?

:)

Meet Reesie Powell.

She is black and brown, hence her name.

She is awful cute, awful bratty and awful loving.

We love her to pieces.

Reese's pieces. :)

Well thats us.

Jason spent the week in New York, I didn't blog about it in case some freak stalks my blog and would know I was home alone. eeks.

I worry.

He is home now.

I love him.

:)