Seriously, so blessed ; )

Thurm & I have been working on our house trying to get the basement ready to rent. We were hoping to have it done by September, but we were kidding ourselves about our remodeling skillZ. We tried tiling the basement bathroom on Saturday. Its a huge mess, I don't think I measured one tile right and chipped the corner of every tile I cut. I caused a huge fight because I was so mad and frustrated over how completely lacking I am at something I thought looked easy. I hate tiling. And we still aren't done. There are a few more tiles to lay and grout and caulking to do. Oy Vey! After that is done we just have a bit of painting, installing some flooring in the kitchen, and carpet in the bedrooms. My sister-in-law scored us a free fridge so we will be good to go. Shauna is amazing when it comes to hunting up cheap or free stuff. She is the one to go to if you are looking for ANYTHING. Thurm needed a job a few years ago, she found him several to apply to. We recently needed a mattress...done. Want tickets to Disneyland for 75% off...done. Ask and ye shall receive. Its an amazing gift. I've been racking my brain for more things we are in need of.

We have been feeling the love from all our family, friends, and neighbors. Numerous people have brought us welcome gifts and told us how glad they are to have us in the neighborhood. Our neighbor Jim tilled our garden with his tractor and brought us 25 pounds of ground beef from his cows. Our new friend, Marie, a horticulturist came over and told us what every plant in our yard was, which was no small task. My brother did an inspection on our house and went through every nook and cranny and told us what was wrong and how to fix it. My mother has spent many, many days here helping us paint and taking care of us. My dad brought us supplies and is drawing plans for our attic. Thurm's parents came and helped us plumb two shower heads, fix some electrical, and hang wallpaper. My friend Danalin, knows how much I love her bathroom, so she bought me everything it will take to copy hers...the shower curtain, towels, rug, even the wall paint color!!! And Shauna is going to hunt down everything we need and get it for free. Thank you, thank you!!!! We love you all.

Quinn playing the harmonica

Doesn't everyone have a picture of their kid in a drawer. But its so cute every time.

My little Calvin and Hobbes

Marriage Advice (in the Sept Ensign)

-Never say anything negative about each other in public.
-Put your spouse's wants before your own.
-Never let a day go by without saying "I love you"
-Never let a day go by without praying together
-An accomplishment for one person in the marriage is a victory for both.
-Don't discuss important issues after 10pm (I can testify to this!!! arguments escalate when your tired.)
-Do common household tasks together (cooking, dishes, making the bed)
-Attend the temple as often as possible
-When you can either be "right" or have "peace", choose peace.
-Keep the marriage within the marriage (don't turn to others before you turn to each other)

Our stake president's advice when we got married was "don't put anything but the Lord before your spouse, not even children."

What was the best marriage advice you received?

Today I fixed a leak in our main water shut off valve. I'm so proud of myself. I'd like to thank my father and brother for their knowledge and example. I'd like to thank the helpful people of Home Depot. And lastly I'd like to send a shout out to the world wide web, without which, I'd have no idea what a main shut off valve was.

Thank you.

just figured out how to use iMovie...

Dancing must just be inherently human because we never taught him to dance. He has amazing rhythm and sings on tune. This is Thurm & I's new favorite song.

Big Ol Bear

Quinn went to his first concert last night, Iron & Wine. He stayed up the latest he's stayed up since he was born, 10pm!!! I have to admit, I was trying really hard not to think about him getting off his schedule and to just enjoy the concert. It was an awesome concert, I love his music. But I think Thurm & I both felt like that scene isn't as appealing as it once was. It made us appreciate that we are happily married and living the family life. I think we got our fill of being single, hanging out with all the hip people of SLC. But I do love a good concert. Especially at outdoor venues.








I went to Thurm's school a couple times this week to help him set up his classroom. And I realized that I'm a little disgruntled that his occupation requires me to forever be apart of high school. I couldn't wait to be out of high school and never looked back when I left. Only recently have I even been in contact with friends from high school. Not that I had a bad experience, but I was just biding my time till I could forever be done with petty girls, popularity contests, flirting with silly boys. A few years ago in college I ended up hanging out one evening with a couple of football players from high school. They both reminisced about high school being the "best days of their lives" and how they wished they could go back. I laughed out loud. That's just crazy. Thank goodness there are good teachers out there that are willing to put up with the silliness and arrogance of teenagers.

AFTER photos::Living Room

We had this room done the 2nd day we moved in, I don't know why it has taken me so long. I have been meaning to order pictures for our walls, but haven't. So I guess thats why I didn't want to post pictures yet. Oh well, just imagine a huge, gallery wrap family photo in the middle of the dark wall.

I had this room planned out long before we moved in. I knew I wanted walls in silver, dark grey, and damask wall paper so I could use them as photography backdrops. This room has lots of light so it'll be great. The rest of the house I have no ideas and no money for, so that will be for later. Oh, and I even have a wreath for our front door to make it officially our home.

Tonsil Update: Still sucky, not sleeping as much, the scabs are supposed to be falling off any day now (gross!!!!), one week of recovery down, possibly three more weeks to go : (

I know this blog is funny and ironic and sarcastic, but it still makes me mad because there really are women like this. I'm friends with some : ) (nobody you know).

http://www.seriouslysoblessed.com/

I feel the way about this blog as I did about Napoleon Dynamite, its too real life to be funny. The first time I watched Napoleon it was like NOT WATCHING a movie. It was like living a day of life.

It would be more funny if I knew less women like this.

While you were sleeping....

I had multiple ENT surgeries on Thursday. I've been awake about 10 of those hours since. Take lortab, sleep, sleep, eat popsicle, sleep, sleep, take more lortab. This is the most coherent I've been in four days, but I should probably have Thurm proof read this before publishing it. I remember how crazy my dad is on lortab (very chatty).

I got my tonsils & adnoids removed, a deviated septium fixed, mucus something or others removed from my nose, and my esphogus stretched.

While I've been sleeping, my mom & niece have been here to take care of us. While Thurm is an excellent chef, capable nurse, and a wonderful daddy, he is glad to have the help I'm sure. They've also helped us paint a bit of the basement and found two layers of wallpaper underneath two layers of paint. I haven't seen it, but I've heard there were lots of flowers and teal. So I'm not sure if we are just adding another laying of paint on top or ripping it all down.

Thurm undertook tiling the basement bathroom all by himself. He put up the waterproof sheeting and backerboard and its now ready to tile. I wonder what else they will get done while I sleep for a few more days?

Quick Post

Just a quick post...we've moved and are in our new house. We've been here for two weeks, but we've been crazy busy. We still aren't totally unpacked. But we've painted five rooms, installed two shower heads, and changed out a couple electrical outlets. We've also bought everything to tile the basement bathroom. So we've been busy, but we have SOOO much more to do! Its actually pretty fun having stuff to work on everyday (Wendover got PRETTY boring). But Thurm & I drop into bed every night at 11pm and realize we haven't hardly talked to each other about anything but the house, but are too tired to do anything but say goodnight.

Above are the BEFORE pictures of our living room. I don't have all my pictures hung on my walls, but when I do that, I'll post AFTER pictures.

I'm getting my tonsils out on Thursday and supposedly its a month recovery time for adults. Sort of bad timing for the house, but I wanted to get it done while Thurm was still out of school. He only has two weeks of summer left!!! Sad, sad, sad.