My favorite things this week....

1. My new phone the G1. I'd been dying to get a new phone and thanks to my brother who had some gentle persuasion convinced me to get the google phone. I AM SO GLAD! It's pretty much the best thing ever, I can't stop playing with it. Its got so many col applications mostly just absolutely ridiculous ones like games, the weather channel, an etch a sketch.... Mostly things will distract me from getting anything done... ever....

2. My new purse I got for 75% off at Nordstrom, YES! Best day ever! (well asleast this week) My new phone fits in it quite nicely :)

3. Grapes- for some reason I cannot get enough red grapes to satisfy my craving. Me and Chris have been sick lately and all that sounds good is fruit and we have seriously eaten so much it could be considered unhealthy!

4. Cinnamon Candy- I love Valentines day for the simple reason of Cinnamon candy lips. A lady that I work with has a bowl sitting on her desk with all sorts of cinnamon candy, its so bad for me! Every time I walk by, which is quite frequently since its on the way to most things I need to do in my day, it starts with one, then when I walk by again, two, by the end of the day she has to fill up the bowl because they are gone!

Well thats me this week and the things that have "changed" my life! :)

Our House! Finally!

Well the past two months have gone by fast! Christmas and new years have just flown by not to mention moving. I'm sorry it has taken so long, its so crazy how time flies! I finally have some pictures to post of our new house. It still needs a few touchups and things put away but so far we are loving it!

Here is our masterbathroom
The best part about it, we don't ever have a shower door yet! So we have to use the shower in the other bathroom, and its getting kind of annoying....
Here is our bedroom, I'm thinkin I probably should have made the bed....
This is our lovely little office with the printer on the floor, Zira loves the paper
This is the entry when you first walk in the house, Chris was dancing it up in the background

This is the powder room downstairs, we need to get a bigger mirror, it looks tiny!
Here is the living room no furniture yet, just the way Zira likes it, lets just say this is Zira's favorite room! And yes, that is a potty pad... enough said
This is our family room not much furniture yet, we hope we can get some this year!
Here is our kitchen
And the dogs running very excitedly to me to see what I was doing...

I didn't take pictures of everything because most the rooms are just, well just that rooms with nothing in them.

We're so happy to finally be in our house and can't thank everyone for all their help to get us here! We have such wonderful families and friends who spent many hours helping clean, getting things finished up and letting the 3 of us crash the bachelor pad for 7 months while we finished things up (thanks keith :) ) We're so so grateful that we've finally made it after almost 2 years,!

Watch out Eagle Mountain.... HERE WE COME!

Well it's not completely official and well its not completely done but.... WE'RE MOVING IN!! We've been so busy packing and getting things all done so I've had no time to post. But, just an update.... we'll be in this week, I'll post more pictures later.

Zira, doin what she does best

FREAKING OUT!! Good night. Poor Zira was neglected and didn't get brushed as much as she should of the past month (or 8!) and she got so matted we had to take her to get shaved. This has happened to her a few times so by now she doesn't seem to mind it as much. What she does mind though, getting her picture taken! I tried for no joke 10 minutes and these were the best ones!



Honestly, she would sit there so perfect looking at the camera, and my camera takes SO long to take one picture, by the time it took the picture she would hurry and look away! Plus, I really wanted to capture the ridiculousness of the bows in her hair before Chris comes home and makes me take them out. They just crack me up, and I didn't even have to ask for them!


I also just could not resist putting on this video, Zira and I went for a walk, and it was pretty cold today and since she lost about 5 pounds of fur ( hey, the vet said she needed to loose 5 pounds, he didn't specify where!) I made her wear her sweater outside, which she HATES so she won't freeze. And this is her, trying to in combination, get the bows off her ears and some how manage to get off the sweater in the process.

Our house.... in the middle of the street......

Well, our house isn't really in the middle of the street but it sounded good right? Well there have been some good things happening in our house the past couple weeks. We're not done yet, but it suddenly seems a whole lot closer....

This picture ended up being kind of weird dust in the air or something, but you can see our new countertops are in, the fridge and freezer (hiding behind the plastic so they won't get scratched, and my favorite, the black chandelier. I've always wanted one and Chris hasn't always been too jazzed about the idea, but he let me get one because he knew I loved it!


Just wanted to add a picture of the railing/banister that Chris built. I think it looks great, it's not quite done but I really like it. He did such a great job!

Here is our master bathroom with the new counter top, snks and faucets. It looks so nice, I'm glad in the end we decided to do it this way. I love the vessel sinks


Wow, this is a really not so good picture, but this is a really cool light fixture that we got for the front entry. We had our eye on this one for months but we had already got our fixture. Finally we broke down and returned the other one and got this one last minute and I am so glad we did.

Well, thats all I have for now, but seriously we hope to be in within the next couple weeks. Carpet is supposed to go in probably next week or so, so after that were HOME FREE!

The Zira Chronicles Volume 3: Zira and the Fur Coat

Well the picture pretty much says it all.... I can understand why Zira simply could not resist the awesomeness of this coat....
It all started when my brother, Telden, and I went to Savers to go find things for our Halloween Costumes. We wandered around the store for quite some time and we both found things that would be ok. The original plan was that I was going to be Cher and Chris was going to be Sonny Bono. I found a dress that was pretty ridiculously good but I needed to find something to go over it, so we went to the coat section. As we both walked up we instantly starting laughing so hard at the fur coat. Telden begged and begged for me to get it and I couldn't really pass up a gem like this baby.
We continued to laugh about all of the many possibilities for use that the coat might have as we got to the checkout line. As I was getting rung up, the lady who was ringing up my items couldn't get over how nice of a coat it was and she thought for sure it must be a really fur coat, Telden and I laughed about it and for $15 neither of us thought it could be real. We finished up at the store and I went home.
Upon arriving home I did the same thing I always do with bags, I just set them on the floor, Zira knows to leave things alone (most of the time). I pet her for a minute then turned around to go into the kitchen, which really is only a few steps away in our apartment, to wash my hands. As I was walking into the kitchen I could hear the bad rustling as usual. But, when I came around the corner I found Zira in the huge Savers bag, clawing, biting and attacking the fur coat! By the time I ran, which I couldn't run very fast because of my laughter, and grabbed her out of the bag, she had a big piece of fur in her mouth. I was laughing so hard, she continued to stalk it. I had to take it upstairs and hide it from her. Throughout the day Zira would continue to run upstairs and try to jump and grab it off the top of the bookcase. The attacks and stalking of the fur coat continued all night and the next day. When I finally decided to look at the tag to see if it was real fur and if that was why Zira was going crazy, I found a tag that in fact put truth to the matter that the "fur" coat, was really real rabbit fur.
I guess we know what would really happen if Zira caught a bunny......

October

Well, I really meant to post alot more this month, but its been a very odd month. Chris and I are doing well though. Chris is still busy working on the house as usual and right now I'm not working. Its nice in one aspect to not be working I guess, I've had time to kind of relax and me and the Gilmore Girls have really strengthened our relationship.
All in all, were doing good!