Peas In A Pod

Monday, September 20, 2010

We are Alive but warning now it is a Novel

We are still alive! I figured that everyone might have started to wonder if the move killed us. We got all moved and settled for the most part. I’m hoping to get pictures this weekend since we will actually be home and hopefully have everything finally settled and all the way unpacked.
The recap since I last wrote, this is going to be way long so brace yourselves. We went Bear Lake with my family which was awesome! It was nice to get to spend the whole week with the fam. It was the first time in a few years that everyone (at least in my immediate family) has been there all at once. I love spending time with family and just relaxing and not having anything pressing to get done. The annual golf tournament happened and a good time was had by all. We got paired with my cute cousin Alysha and her boyfriend Josh (the girls were just there for support). We had so much fun! I love my cousin and I’m a big fan of her boyfriend! He is a good catch! ;) We spent the rest of the week at the beach on the wave runners or in the condos stuffing out faces. There is always so much food when we go up. It was a great time!
The first part of August Rumel had is last day of work. I was so excited because it meant that we were getting closer to moving! After he quit, we went to Lagoon for a day. It was fun! Although we both aren’t as young as we used to be. We spent the first few hours at lagoon-a-beach. We both got tubes and went down the slides that required those. I never knew that playing in the water could be so dangerous. We had gone down a couple of times and the tubes were filled up too much, so we let some of the air out of our tubes (bad mistake). They went a lot fast on some of the slides. But in one of the slides it made it so Rumel got thrown off, hit his head and finish the slide without a tube. Well the empty tube got stuck and we had to stand at there for about 20 minutes until someone came down and pushed it free. At the end of the inventory of our wounds: a bruised toe (Me), cut forehead with goose egg (Rumel), and a scraped leg (Me). We didn’t fair too well on the rides either but we had fun!
Next on the agenda for August was to finishing the packing and cleaning and then get moved. We borrowed a truck and snowmobile trailer from Rumel’s dad and the two of us got most of the boxes and small stuff moved on the 17th and 18th. Then my dad, mom, and brother Todd came down on the 20th and helped us pack up the truck with the big stuff that we couldn’t get by ourselves. We headed up to Hyde Park that night then got up on Saturday and finished the drive to Pocatello. We had my parents, Rumel’s parents, his brother Tyler, his sister Tiffany and her husband Kyle come help us. With all of us, we had the truck unloaded in only 40 minutes. Thanks again to everyone that helped!! We couldn’t have done it without you all! By the time everyone left that day the kitchen was unpacked, the living room set up, and our bedroom put together. We are still working on the last few boxes but there luckily aren’t many left.
September has kept up pace with August so far. Over Labor Day weekend, we moved my brother Todd and his family to Centerville. Then later that day we finished cleaning out our old apartment (Thanks again for all the help Mom and Dad!) and met up with my Sister Jenni and her family (they were in Utah for a baptism on the other side) for ice cream. Then, on that Monday we helped my parents freeze the corn. It was Rumel’s first experience with helping do the corn. We have it down to a pretty good science so we were done pretty quickly.
The following weekend I went back to Logan Friday night and Saturday during the day for Time Out for Women. It was awesome! My sweet Grandma offers to take any of the girls in the family that are close or want to come. Sheri Dew was the speaker on Friday night. She is amazing! It was such a wonderful time and exactly what I needed! Thanks Grandma! Then Saturday I hurried back to Idaho to meet Rumel in Blackfoot so we could go to the demolition derby at the State Fair. It was a good time!
This past weekend we headed back down to SLC. We had dinner with some friends on Friday and then Saturday we had the walk through of our old apartment. It is so great to be done with it all now! After the walk through, we had lunch with my friend Lisa. I love that girl! It was good to see her. Then we head up to Logan and went to dinner and to The Scarlet Pimpernel with my parents. I love that show! It was amazing and the costumes were fabulous!
We are hoping for a more quiet weekend coming up since we haven’t really been home much since we moved. Sorry for the novel, but now you are updated.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Exciting News and Big Changes!!

I can’t believe that July is more than half over already!! Time flies when you are having fun I guess! We have some exciting news that is going to change our lives in a big way! After much praying and planning, we are excited to announce that we are going to be moving to Pocatello in August! Rumel is going to be back to school at ISU in their college of Technology. He is in their Energy Systems Technology program going into their Electrical Engineering course. We are both really excited! It’s a little scary to think about going back to being poor college students, but this is what we know we are supposed to be doing so everything will work out. It will be nice to be closer to Rumel’s family and be about the same distance from mine.
So to recap the first half of July, our Fourth of July was great! We went up to Blackfoot that Thursday after work and spent 4 days with the family up there. Rumel’s youngest brother Troy, was home on leave for a few weeks and it was great to see him! That Friday we spent the day in Pocatello looking for a place to live. We are happy to say that we found a great little two bedroom, two bath apartment up by the Highland Golf course. Friday night we celebrated one of Rumel’s other brother’s, Tyler, birthday. Saturday and Sunday was spent hanging out with family and relaxing. We watched fireworks and set some off of our own. Then on Monday we went to Jensen’s Grove (a local lake in Blackfoot) and had a picnic with some of Rumel’s extended family. It was really windy that day so we didn’t get in the water but it was still great to spend time with the cousins, aunts, and uncles that we don’t really get to see.
Our next few weeks should be interesting. The 22nd was supposed to be my last day of work, but things are changing. I’ll still be working the first few weeks of August and then I’m going to work remotely from Pocatello for a little bit. My boss is trying to get the approval for me to work remotely permanently so keep good thoughts for us and we wouldn’t be unappreciative of prayers. But on the 23rd of July we are starting a 10-day vacation. We’ll keep you updated on everything!

Sunday, June 27, 2010

We Are Still Alive!

Okay so sorry it has been forever since we updated. It just seems like time keeps going by faster and faster. I can’t believe that 2010 is half way over! Where has the year gone? So a recap for May and June.
May we were busy with work, work, and more work. We did celebrate 2 years on the 21st! I can’t believe how fast it has gone by! Its seems like just a month ago we were planning our wedding and it couldn’t get here fast enough, now 2 years have gone by. But life is great and just getting better and better! To celebrate we got a couples massage which was soooooooo relaxing and then went up to Cache Valley to stay at the Providence Inn. We just spent the weekend relaxing and chilling together and with friends and family. It was great! Just what I needed.
June was also crazy! I spent a lot of time at work. =( We were going through a second conversion for the last 2 divisions in our group. I’m so glad to have all the conversions done with now! In June we celebrated Rumel’s 32nd birthday! We kept it kind of low key because that was the actual week of the conversion at work. So we went to dinner at Red Robin and then just relaxed at home. Hopefully Rumel had a good birthday! I’m so grateful for such an amazing husband! I love you more baby!
Then this last Friday night we watched Rumel’s brother’s kids overnight so the Travis and Heather could attend a marriage conference. It was an adventure. We ate pizza, went to the park, made milk shakes, and watched a movie. Then Saturday morning, we had breakfast watched another movie, Rumel went swimming with Harlee and Bodie while I stayed here with Jax (he was napping). When Travis and Heather came back, we went to Hoogle Zoo with them. It was fun to see all the animals and spend time with family. After we got done with the zoo, Travis and Heather headed back to Idaho, Rumel and I went to ‘How to Train Your Dragon’. It was so cute! Then we went to the store and Jamba Juice. All in all it was a great weekend! I’m excited for July because we have lots of fun things planned. I’ll keep you updated on things and try to remember to take pictures.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

April Recap

Sorry it’s been awhile. Rumel has posted pictures and the details from our awesome road trip to Washington. It was so great to get away from work for a few days and spend time with my hubby! We had a blast in Ellensburg, Seattle, and Boise. The worst part of the trip was that the blinker switch in my car would just randomly click and keep clicking forever. At points It made for a REALLY long car ride, especially when the warning tone would ding and not stop. But we got that fixed ($700 later) once we got home. Thanks again to Trevor and Kari for putting us up and letting us come and crash the baptism. It was so great to get to spend time with you guys. I’m glad that Rumel was able to get to know you guys better. I can’t wait for Bear Lake!!!!
A lot of people are probably wondering if anything happened with Biggest Loser. Well, a week or so after the auditions here in SLC the casting director that I met with called me and told me that she wanted to make sure that I did an audition video. So Rumel and I bought a video camera and went to work. We finished it in about a week and got it sent off. I was in contact with Barb (the casting director) and she let me know that she got it and sent it on to the powers that be. The deadline to hear anything back was the 23rd. Unfortunately, I didn’t hear anything from the show. But that is okay because Rumel and I are going to get in shape together. And if I would have been on the show I would have missed all the fun vacations and family stuff this summer. And who knows, maybe I’ll try again for the next show but for now things happened the way they were supposed to.
So since my last post, we celebrated my 25th birthday. I was spoiled royally by my cute hubby. We got the video camera as part of my birthday present and I also got new glasses. Then when we were in Seattle I got a new fabulous purse and lots of clothes. On my actual birthday, we celebrated Easter and conference the same day. We invited Lisa over to dinner with us and then watched the last session of conference together. Lisa then help us film the last little bit of my video. It was a great birthday and past few weeks! Hope all is well with everyone!