First day of school

Oh my. It's been a busy one. Happily, i am not starting school. Sadly, i still have to deal with all the students, craziness, minor meltdowns of the semester start courtesy of my job.

Today was also David's first day of work so it was new for us. He has to get up early and leave the house by 7 to get up to his job by 8. Hopefully he can work with his boss to be able to come in earlier or later to miss some of the rush hour traffic. (and hopefully we'll find a house soon so that the commute will be cut down by more than half.) Well that changes my schedule a bit too. all summer we have been driving or riding to work together so it was my first day to go it alone. I decided to ride because it is much faster than walking. I soon realized it wasn't much easier. It's different riding in the summer when there are so few students to weave through. It took so much longer today because there were so many other walkers/riders to deal with. Not looking forward to doing it again tomorrow morning, although I'm going to try a different route.

So i was sick of students by the time i got to work. Not really good when i know I'm going to have to be dealing with them all day. It's all gone fine. No major catastrophes but it has been kind of annoying to have a higher volume of questions (some legitimate, some stupid) coming in all day long. On the other hand, it's nice to finally have a day that has gone by quickly.

So the first day is over and i am more anxious than ever to leave this job and head up to Salt Lake and be settled for a while. On that note, I have a job interview in Draper on Wednesday and after that I will be going to see some houses. Thanks to everyone that has been helping with the house hunt!!! (Carebear, Mom 2, Sukie, Wudan, Striker, David) I think i would be having a continuous breakdown without you! I really appreciate the help!

Please continue to send good vibes/prayers and ideas etc. our way. Thanks again all! Hopefully we'll have a house warming party soon :)

3 posts in one day, i know, this one's good

So last week we went to Boston, flying standby thanks to David's mom. (Thanks!) We spent a lot of time in a couple airports on the way home. Let me tell you, you see and hear interesting things when you're in an airport all day.

1. Make-out-while-waiting-in-line-to-get-a-ticket couple. Just wrong. No one wants to see you going at it, tongue and all, while they're waiting in line behind you. Lay of it in the airport! Seriously!!!

2. Ridiculous/stupid questions and people's reactions. Loved watching/listening to people ask the airline counter staff where a gate or concourse is when it's on a sign if they would just look up. it's so funny how bugged people get when they're told to go back the way they came because they didn't look for the sign that tells them where they should have turned. Love it.

When we were picking up our tickets for the last leg of our journey some guy asked some such question. the airline guy was awesome! after he told the guy where the gate was he was like "people don't read anymore. they'll come up to me and ask me if I'm united (we were flying united and the counter and his uniform clearly mark him as a united worker) he says no, he's American airlines." Awesome!

3. Guys, or girls but this time it was a guy, trying to pick up girls at the airport. So ridiculously hilarious.

While we were waiting for one of our flights this guy in his early twenties is talking to some girl, obviously trying to pick up on her. He even managed to get a phone number, very likely a fake number but a number all the same. The whole time the girl was totally acting like "OK let me get on the flight and get away from this weirdo." He just kept on talking trying to fish for compliments and impress her.

Here are a few gems from what we overheard:

"I have this girlfriend, well she's not my girlfriend she's just a girl who's my friend, and she says she's interested in me but i totally don't think she is."

"I'm on the deans list at my community college. I don't know how that happened. I don't even buy books for class. I just go to class and i guess i did good enough." haha as if a community college's deans list is much to brag about.

When he got the girls "phone number": "I'm a nice guy. I just like to be friendly. I like to talk to people etc." blah blah blah.

Lucky for the girl she got on a flight and he didn't get on until the next flight.

I love people watching and the airport is one of the best places to do it. Good times.

Our Apartment. Long time coming...

Best part. Huge, frosty root beer floats.

Second bedroom. It's had a futon and a bunch of random stuff. But it's been good for a few guests so far. This is my brother, he and my dad were in town when the pictures were taken. Oh and the house hasn't been cleaned for these pictures. this is, more or less, how it usually is.

Our bedroom. Our amazing duvet cover that's 650 thread count that we found at Bed Bath and Beyond for super cheap clearance. Lovely.

Bathroom.

Laundry area.

Dining room/office/sitting room/ my dad's left arm. OK so this area is actually a little messier then it usually is. My dad and brother brought a bunch of my stuff out to me and that's what's all over our table and counter. That's usually cleared off.

Kitchen.

Living room. Our elliptical.

Other half of living room.

TV area. Lol. Our apartment is so glamorous. My mom has been wanting to see it forever and I've been bad and not taken or posted pictures until now. I figured that since we'll be moving up to salt lake pretty soon we'd better document our "first place" before it's too late. So there it is.

Cute Babies

On the way to and from Boston we stopped off in Denver. Carebear and Squirt were there at the same time so we got to see the cute cousins playing together.

Bones.

Whenever Alice comes over to our house she goes straight for our bedroom because she loves getting thrown on our bed. We have a down comforter and mattress cover so it's quite fun.

When we babysat Alice for Carolyn and Frik's anniversary she wasn't in to taking a nap in her port-a-crib. But she fell asleep on David. So cute. Don't worry, she did better that night on her own.

Playing around in PJ's in my shoes.

Little musician.

New Hampshire, Wedding, Boston Trip

We went out to Boston for a long weekend last week. One of my mission companions and old roommates got married. She lived in New Hampshire and was so great to have her uncle put us up for a couple days. She lives in a very small town in the country and it was very pretty.

They were married in the Boston temple, which is beautiful. It fits in with the architecture of Boston i feel like. It looks like one of the older churches with the really tall steeple and stained glass.

Kirstin and Jimmy, the happy couple.

Our feet.

Cool church in her town.

This is the house we stayed at in New Hampshire. Very cute and country.

These are pretty much the mail boxes for the whole town. LOL

We did a lot of the freedom trail in Boston. It goes around to a bunch of historical sites from the beginnings of America. we first toured the shipyard where there is a super old ship from the 1700's. We didn't tour that one but they also had a WWII destroyer that we did tour. this was the replica of the store in the ship.

Old Boston.

Bunker hill monument. We climbed 294 steps to the top of that tower. It was difficult and exhausting. Even worse because it was in the 90's and very humid. I gave up even trying to not sweat at that point. I gave myself up to it.

View of Boston from the top of the tower.

Cool Bridge that David likes.

Old North Church. Where Paul Revere signaled the troops. "One if by land, two if by sea."

Good ol' Paul Revere himself.

there was a very cool outdoor market in downtown Boston. I loved it and decided i wanted to buy something there. We bought peaches and they were nasty. I'm sure most of the other things were great. But if you ever go, don't by the peaches. I was so disappointed.

My cute dork.

The state building. Very fancy.

My first time on business class on the way home from Boston. It was fantastic. After trying to get on a flight all day to Denver standby paid off for us with these sweet seats. It was a wonderful flight home.

Marty's little cousin followed us throughout our journey. We saw him in Boston and again in Wyoming.

Abe. Enough Said.

All in all it was a great trip. A great last Hurrah before David starts his new job next week. I'll let him blog about all the specifics but yes he got a job!!! It's in Salt Lake so I'm now looking for work up there too. (if you know of anything let me know!) We're looking to buy a home up there and get ourselves settled down for a while! We're very excited!!!

We've been babysitting Alice. She's cute.

Alice found a stick she loved outside. (She i guess hated the pants to that outfit and just picked whatever shoes were easiest.)

She looked like a dog playing fetch with the stick in her mouth. So cute. (yes that is so you think you can dance on in the background.)

Getting the stick. Duke is like, "Hey guys that's what I'm supposed to do.

She's so cute!!!

Habeneros from our most recent salsa making venture. 8 habeneros for 9 jars of salsa. It's getting spicier as it sits.

David teaching Alice how to love the olives.

Swimming is her new favorite pastime. Luckily we have a pool.

Also dog sat for a week. Eva was so cute and fun. Has tons of energy.

After swimming.

Alice loves books. she always goes for this same book at our apartment. it's a book about the Japanese detainment camps during WWII. We'll let her read it when she's much much older. LOL.