Blind Me!

Our blinds have arrived!! (All but one). We special ordered blinds for all our windows a couple weeks ago at home depot and picked the right weekend to do it because we got 20% off the whole order. Chris spent a night last week putting them up and I think they turned out great. The ones on the main floor still let a lot of light in which is nice. We went all out with the upstairs bedroom ones and got the blackout blinds. Talk to Richard and you will learn that these were a necessity.

In the living room.

Black-out blinds. They are pretty great, darker then our bedroom.

May Long Weekend

Chris and I had a nice, quiet long weekend. With the move, starting work, and taking a class, it was very enjoyable to have a weekend with no plans but to relax. On Friday Chris and I went go-karting and did a few rounds at the batting cage. Unfourtunately I forgot to bring my drivers license with me, so we couldn't ride the super big and powerful go-karts, but it was still fun. Saturday I worked on a paper for my class and Chris finally finished fixing his bike. In the afternoon we biked to the library and back which took us about 50 minutes round trip. Sunday at church I found out that there are three families in our ward that live just down our street. Two of them have young kids/babies, and one has no kids. We've only been to ward three times so far but I get a good vibe from it. I think we will like it and fit right in. Today neither of us had to work because of the Victoria Day holiday. I finished my school paper and Chris spent the day with his brother. They went and saw the new Star Trek, very action packed apparently.

Anyhow, so here are some pictures from us prepping to ride the go-karts. Don't mess with Chris!

The Second Floor

Here our some more house picture of our upstairs.

Looking in the front door.

The stairway.

Our bedroom. The window faces the front of the house. Since we have no houses across the street from us yet, when you look north out the window you can see downtown, and when you look south you see country and farmland.

'His and Hers' closets, I think perhaps better than a walk-in closet.

My study room/spare bedroom.

When the action all takes place.

Chris's study room. That door opens to a walk-in closet.

Another view of his room, window looking out to the backyard.

The front of our house. It was rainy out when I took the picture, so I didn't step off our front porch to get a better view. But you get the idea.

All Moved In

So I finally took some picture of our new house. We didn't take to long settling in and getting everything organized. We're not sure if we are abnormal is how quickly we got settled. We had two other couple friends that moved at the same time and have just recently been at their places and they are nearly as settled or organized.

This is the living/family room. The windows face our backyard.

The kitchen. I love it!! So much counter space, and you can actually fit more than one person in it at a time!

The dining room. It is just to the left of the living room. I love that we no longer have to push our table up against the wall to make room.

Me out on the deck.

Chris' new work truck. This is my favorite out of all he has had, I think it's the prettiest.

Chris and I. Happy in our new home.

Weird Dream

The other night I had the oddest dream. In it, Tom (our good brother) admitted that he had a gambling problem. In fact, he had dropped out of Law school in December of his first year to support his gambling habit. He didn’t come out and say it, but I thought it was maybe one of the reasons Julie was so hesitant to go to Italy, because in my dream they were still going. Anyways, dream me was very willing to help Tom in his addiction. A strange dream, perhaps it means something….I don’t know!

Finally...

“Summer” has started and it’s back to work for me. I am back at the insurance office and it’s as though I’ve never left. I always get my old desk back, which is odd because it is one of the better desks because I have a window right next to me. I’m also taking a spring course, Family Finance. It is so practical and I am really enjoying it. So far we’ve talked about how to do your taxes and minimize what you pay, how to choose your financial institution, and some basic budgeting. I think every university student should be required to take it to graduate.
We are also in our new house and loving it. It is hard to believe that it is ours! Mom, Dad, and Richard came out to visit at the beginning of May and it was fun to have them. We welcome any visitors as we now have two extra bedrooms. I still don’t have any good pictures because my camera battery had died and I am finally now recharging it. Hopefully house pictures will come soon.
We did have a little bit of excitement when we used our washing machine for the first time. I guess a valve in the plumbing was stuck so our basement floor quickly became covered with soapy laundry water. Luckily Mom caught it soon so it wasn’t really that bad, just a little frustrating since everything is brand new and should be working. I do have a few pictures of the basement from Dad's camera.

Happy faces, at least it cleaned our basement floor!