its a good feeling...

to have a debt all taken care of. I paid off my car yesterday! It was a 5 year loan and I paid it off in less than 3 years. Not that exciting of a blog, but something that I am very proud of!!

I will blog soon about my 'weekend' at work this past weekend.

unexpected blessings

Its funny how things turn out sometimes.  Our life has done so many 180's lately, I am still dizzy!!  Its just crazy all the changes that can happen in such a short period of time.  I quit my job in mid february, started my new job in the beginning of April, nathan put in his 2 week notice the same week and started a new job a week later.  We decided to become apartment managers in a weeks time, and moved 3 weeks later.  And now to top it all off, we have decided nathan is going to quit his job AGAIN, but this time go to school full time.

We really view all the things that have happened over the last 4 months to really be a preparation for us knowing that this is the time for him to go to school.  We are both excited and scared, but we both feel like its just the right thing to do for our family.

So, if you need your car worked on, I know of someone that will have some more free time come this september...

Guess what I bought?!?!?!?!

That's right!!!  2nd year of So you think you can dance!!!!  But this year I bought them myself so I won't be paying 3 times the amount for them.  I can hardly wait for November!  

They are coming to the Everett Event Center if you want go see if you can still get tickets. 

The new blog!

My friend whitney totally overhauled my blog!!!  I think it looks amazing, she was so patient with me not knowing what i wanted.  She made my blog exactly what I wanted it to be!  The little characters of nathan and I are just adorable, she made those for us too!!  

Her prices are very reasonable for having a blog look fantastic!!!

Let me know what you think of the new look!!

And check out her site, you can click on the button under the designed by at the bottom of my left column.  

Thanks Whitney!!!!

The down low

SO, I have been a HUGE slacker with my blog, but I like to think I have pretty good reason too.  We have been CRAZY busy lately and things are only just barely starting to slow down.

Here is a list of things that are going on:

 -biggest on the list, my family is moving to San Diego!  My dad is down there already, he started working on the 12 of July at the San Diego airport.  So, we have been helping my parents get their house ready to sell

- We also moved a month ago.  An opportunity came up that we couldn't pass up!  A block, and I do really mean a block, away from where we are living there is another town house complex that needed an onsite manager.  And to make a long story short, we moved in to be the managers!!  That has taken up most of our time lately, with people moving in, moving out, and there was a huge back log of work to be done before we even moved in!!!  But things are starting to slow down a little bit.  Some day we can have time to hang out with people.

-4th of July we went to a family reunion in Utah, or as nathan likes to call it, the mother land.  It was for the family on my dad's side.  It was so wonderful to see family, some of which I haven't seen in years.  And some that nathan hasn't even met.  

-Work has been crazy!  I feel soooooo lucky to have such an amazing job.  I have been bless a thousand times over!  I have a ton more responsibility and what I do makes such an impact on everything that is done here, but the best part of it all...... they appreciate the hard work that I do and recognize when I have done things.  I know, you would think that is a duh thing, but when you work at a place for 3 years and you don't get those things, its so wonderful when you feel needed.

Sorry another long post with a run down on things.  I will hopefully have something more exciting with some pictures soon.  When we finally get unpacked I will take pics of our new place!!!

chocolate cake

I found this recipe and thought I would share it with you all.  It's actually pretty tasty for only taking about 7 minutes!

4T flour

4T sugar

2 T cocoa

1 egg

3 T milk

3T oil

vanilla

chocolate chips (optional)

mix first 3 together

mix in egg

mix in milk and oil

mix in vanilla and chips

(mixing can be done in mug or in separate bowl) 

microwave for 3 minutes

allow to cool for ~2 minutes

ENJOY your chocolate cake!

I know, I know

you are all jealous, but not everyone can be as cool as me.  Not everyone gets a lab coat with their name on it!!

I didn't listen

This is what happens when I don't listen to my husband.  At least that's what one of my coworkers said.  

This nice and beautiful bruise comes compliments of our 3rd baseman on my softball team.  I play first base and he had a pretty wild throw that bounced just perfectly and rammed right into my calf.  This happened on monday, and it's only wednesday, and the picture doesn't do it justice.  Its a lot darker.  Something even more special, if you look at the inside of the bruise, the non bruised skin kinda looks like a heart.  I know, too much time staring at my bruise, but it keeps growing!  Tuesday it seriously doubled in size!!

In other exciting news I got a 'suspicious spot' take off my shoulder on monday.  They think it could be skin cancer.  I'm not really that worried if it is, because come on, I'm a red head with fair skin.  I basically counted on some day getting some skin cancer.  I wasn't however ready for the amount of skin they would remove!  They took out about 1/2 inch deep!!  Gross. 

2 wounds in 1 day, I think I should win an award or something...