Well I finally got some pictures from the past few weeks. We've just been getting the house ready to move into and we got moved in and now we're finishing unpacking, then the fun can begin! I will start decorating! Woo hoo! Mike was at the top of a super tall ladder painting the tip top of our super tall walls in the entry way!

Everyone helped out and we got the entire main floor and upstairs hallway painted!

Me cleaning the laundry room and the spanking clean microwave! It was pretty sick before.

Dan cleaning out the garage! We LOVE our garage!

After another long night getting the house ready.

Painting is my nemesis! I suck at getting edges and I'm so impatient! I have started going around all my edges and corners where different colors touch with a really tiny brush to try to make them look good! It's a never ending battle!

Here are the mouse pictures I promised....brace yourself haha. We found out we have a mouse problem but I think we've figured it out! We caught about 8 or so mice in just a few days! The first one dan killed while we were cleaning the house and the rest have been caught in the good old fashioned traps. Dan sealed up a bunch of holes outside the house and under cabinets and behind the stove. We think that's where they were coming from and we haven't had any for the past few days so cross your fingers!

Yucka. I just had to take a pic and post it! :) On a totally different note, I made my first official craft. I've become completely obsessed with all these great thrifty and crafty blogs! There are so many cool ideas and I can't wait to start working on things! Before we moved, I started small and I just made this! I think it's really cute and I have a few other ideas for something similar for Christmas. It's just a fleur de lis cut out (really carefully) on scrapbook paper, modge podged to a painted canvas and hung with a ribbon! Cuties!

Dan finally cut his hair! It was really out of control and even though I absolutely loved his curls, he was way overdue for a trim! So his mom chopped it all up and cleaned him up beautifully. He now looks like the man I married, what a hunk. See the pic of Dan and the mouse above for the after shots.

Painting, painting, and more painting....

Isn't he cute? Hahahahahaha I love that afro.

Well this another post without pics (sorry). But we got all moved in and somewhat settled thanks to our GREAT family! They are awesome and helped get us moved quickly. Now we just have unpacking to do! But so far we love our house except for the mice...more to come on that later. Hopefully we got it figured out but we'll see! Eeek!

The tragedy that has struck is that my little ford focus has reached the end of its life. This is tragic for many reasons. Most of all because we have to buy a new car (unless someone has one to donate?? :) We just bought a house, and this is extremely unfortunate timing for us, but oh well....you just gotta roll with the punches. And there are a lot of blessings to come from this difficulty. Dan just got a new job with Backyards Inc. so no more 5 buck pizza yay! I love him for working pizza when he hated it, but I'm so glad he found something better and now he will work more and get paid more so that is a great blessing!

My awesome parents are letting us borrow their trusty old accord (that I drove in high school) for now and I love them for that. We wouldn't know what to do if we didn't have that car right now! So for now we're still debating our options and reviewing our finances (not a whole lot to review but ya know...). We knew this would happen soon enough, so I'm sure things will work out and everything will be fine. We are grateful for the support of our friends and family and I'm especially grateful for our wonderful families right now. They have done so much to help and I love having them close and being able to see family all the time. It's a great blessing and I'm so grateful for them!

The best part about dealing with something like this is that I don't have to do it alone. I've thought that many times over the time that Dan and I have been together and I am so thankful for him in my life. It's such a great feeling to know that he is by my side and we're in this together. I love him and I have so many things to be thankful for in my life right now!

So things are super duper busy right now! Our apartment looks like a tornado blew through. It is a disaster because we have been so busy getting the house ready to move in to! On top of everything, I have been battling a yucky cold! I'm finally better (1 week later), but luckily it wasn't the swine flu! Friday Dan and Mike worked on prepping the house for paint, then they painted all the ceilings. I came over later Friday and helped sand. I basically had to sand every single wall that we were going to paint because the old owners had used some crappy paint and there were bumps everywhere! It was nuts.

Saturday we got up bright and early and Dan's great family came over and helped us paint ALL DAY LONG! I didn't realize what a huge task that was, but we got so much done with their help! I had chosen 4 different colors so that definitely made things harder, but everyone was a trooper and helped a ton. We have really super tall ceilings in the entry way and stairs so Mike was balancing precariously on a ladder trying to paint! I have pictures, but I haven't had time to upload them yet.

We worked all day and all evening Saturday and were able to get all the walls painted. Dan and I went to our new ward Sunday and we're really excited about it! I think it's going to be GREAT! This week Dan and I have been going to the house every night to finish painting trim, doors, and CLEAN! We're getting the carpets cleaned today and our our fridge and new furniture delivered on Friday! Then Saturday is the big moving day! Woo hoo!

Story: So while Dan and Mike were at the house Friday, they saw 2 mice! Or maybe the same one twice! So we got mouse traps, but so far we've seen nothing. Then last night I was vacuuming the stairs and I saw something our of the corner of my eye move at the top of the stairs! I looked around the stairs and the mouse was running up the stairs! AHHH! I screamed and Dan came running with a painting bar in his hand! He cornered the mouse in the linen closet, but then it ran into a bedroom. Since there is no furniture or anywhere to hide, Dan was able to corner it and then as it tried to run by him, he used the bar to let loose his best golf swing and I saw the mouse go flying! I screamed again and ran into the next bedroom while still screaming and jumping around and letting loose a few choice words. (I don't know why I act like such a girl!) Dan quickly covered the mouse with the sticky mouse trap and that was the end of that! Very entertaining, but I'm just praying it was a one time thing and that we don't have a mouse problem! I'll post the triumphant pictures later.

We still have a lot of work to do to get the house ready but some things will just take time and they will come as we move! Thanks to everyone who helped paint the house-you guys are amazing and we really appreciate you all jumping to come help us out! We couldn't have done it without you!

Dan and I got tickets to go to the So You Think You Can Dance Tour several months ago. I have been able to go to the concert the last 3 years and I love it every year! We went with Dustin and Kaley and we had a blast.
At the show. For some reason I didn't take any pictures of the actual dancers. Probably because I was enjoying it so much! They did all or most of my favorite dances and I loved it!

This is yet another one of Dan's cute little hair styles he busts out for me every night. I helped me with the pony tail, but I was laughing so hard I thought I would lose it. He hasn't cut his hair forever, and even though I love his cute curls, I'm definitely ready for him to get a trim! Hopefully soon!
Last but not least, we closed on the house last night! Woo hoo! We get the keys tomorrow and then the real fun begins! This whole home buying process has been so stressful and crazy and the last few weeks have especially been hard. But it will all be worth it I'm sure, and we can't wait to move into our new house! We're going to paint Friday and Saturday then move in throughout the week and be all settled by next weekend! We can't wait!!

So this fall has been really great. I've loved not being in school and having more time to do things I enjoy and not stress over school so much. Dan has been working really hard to do well in school and we have been having a good time. I love the fall weather and we have a great park right by our apartment that we walk and run at a lot. We went over there on a Sunday afternoon a few weeks ago and had lunch and enjoyed the gorgeous weather and colors.Dan is really funny and this was after our walk, on the way home.

Pretty leaves!

I love fall so much I'm leaping with joy!

This is a little weird...I was walking at the park one day awhile ago and I saw this big group of people dressed up in medieval-type clothes and they were battling each other with padded swords, shields and bow and arrows! It was so crazy, but I didn't have my camera! When we had lunch at the park awhile later, I saw this poster! Sweeeeet.

I went with Shelley and her sister Haley and her girls to the Witches Night Out at Gardner Village. It was the first time for all of us and we had tons of fun. We didn't really go all out, but we definitely want to next year! So many women were there and the atmosphere was just really fun. Afterards, we went and made caramel apples with heath bars! So yummy!

Me and Laney.

We also went up to Logan to visit Shell and Brian and Thad! I love this sweet little boy!

Well I had my big 23rd birthday on Halloween (best day for a birthday ever!). It was a super fantastic day and I just had a blast. I dressed up for work as a witch on the 30th. Of course I was the only one dressed up in my whole department because I work with a bunch of old guys who are party poopers. Haha, but they loved that I was dressed up and it was still really fun because a lot of other people in the company were dressed up. It's just a fun day!

On my actual birthday, Dan sang to me about a million times throughout the day and we had breakfast together then opened presents! We went to West Jordan and went fridge shopping! Very exciting :). But we found a good deal on a fridge so yay! We went to my parent's house and opened presents there as well. Then we all went to dinner at Cheesecake Factory! YUMMA! My sister was able to come from Cedar City so I was really happy about that! We had a delicious dinner and I got some incredible Godiva chocolate cheesecake! And the best part was that I had leftovers for Sunday!

We went trick-or-treating with our nieces in South Jordan and that's always fun. I think holidays are so much fun with kids around. They make things so fun and their excitement is contagious! I love it and I love all my nieces and nephews and I love doing fun things with them whenever we can. The rest of the evening was spent with my family! A busy, but wonderful day!
My witch costume and Dan as....nothing? He's not big on dressing up but I'm sure we'll have coordinating outfits one year if we go to a party or something!

Sarah admiring (and scarfing) all her yummy Halloween candy!

Me and the kiddos before we left to go trick-or-treating. Emily was a warrior and ran everywhere! They were out late and got loads of candy!

Me and Ryan (a cute little bumblebee).

Steph and I at Cheesecake Factory.

My super awesome cheesecake! It was so freakin' good. So what if they spelled my name wrong? No biggie. :)

When I came home from work on Friday, there were a dozen beautiful roses waiting for me at home! Dan is a sweetie and did great on my presents this year. I can't wait to spend all the money I got from him and my parents for house stuff and clothes!

Well Dan requested that I post some house pictures individually because it's hard to see them the way I had them in the collages. So here are a few individual pics! The view from the front door. To the left is the living room, to the right is a closet, and the stairs. Straight ahead and to the right is the family room and straight to the left is the kitchen/dining room. Below is a view from the stairs looking at the front door.

The master bathroom. I love the double sinks and soaker tub! YAY!

Big master bedroom with sweet vaulted ceilings and a huge walk-in closet!

My favorite part of the house is the kitchen. It's goregous and I love to cook and bake so this will be awesome!

The kitchen is behind me in this picture so it's really cool how the family room/dining room/kitchen are all open. There are also 2 pantries, one you can see below on the right and one right in the kitchen. There is also a desk area on the bottom pic on the right.

Kitchen/dining room area. I'm standing in the family room in the pic below.

There is also a nice laundry room and the yard is big! There are a total of 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, laundry, and living room. There is also a big unfinished basement. We're so excited and can't wait to move. It's scary but exciting! It took a month to get an approval, but now things are flying and we could be closing next week! Very cool! I forgot to mention that the house is in West Point, which is west of Clearfield. Dan says it's beachfront property because it's pretty close to the great salt lake! But we really like the area and the neighborhood is great. Thanks for all the nice comments!