Confessions

A friend of mine, Mary Jett Killion, posts a weekly "confessional." I think it is hilarious! Because of my crazy weekend with packing, moving, trying to set up and unpack a new apartment I have a few things to confess...

1. I cleaned the oven of my old apartment with a pumas stone...after I used it to clean the inside of the toilet
2. I cleaned the oven grates in the bathtub
3. This was the first time I cleaned the oven (I lived there for 26 months;)
4. In the scurry of the move I couldn't find my bra so I went braless to church (the day before I was wearing a sports bra...it didn't really go with my dress)
5. I hate General Conference weekend, I feel like I can't really do anything and I always fall asleep during the talks anyways. HOWEVER I found a set of the April 2003 General Conference CDS under the set in my car that were left there by the previous owner of the vehicle, which I was so grateful for since I drove by myself from Glendale to Tucson on Sunday afternoon (2.5 hour drive)
6. In church on Sunday Brother Lowell said "what do we say when something bad happens to us, 'whaaa utttt'.” I thought he was being silly, I thought "I don't do that." Until I realized there is no linen closet in the new bathroom like I thought there was suppose to be and only one pull out drawer and I uttered "WHAAAAAA!!!!"
7. I'm totally bugged when people don't recycle, but I threw away a ton of boxes on Saturday
8. I hate when people ask, “do you need any help finding anything” when I go to the store…unless it’s at Home depot cuz the answer will always be“Yes”
9. I was hit on more times in Home Depot with 5 cinder blocks in my cart than in the 2.5 years I’ve been married

10. Our new apartment stinks of cigarette smoke which makes me feel like I'm living in a ghetto motel. Thus I was too afraid to take a shower until Evan got home last night. Let's just say my hair was looking non-to-sexy when he came home after not showering for over 72 hours!
11. I've found one good thing about Tucson...there is an intersection 3 minutes away that houses a CVS, Target, Walgreens, and Frys...a couponers dream

Saying Good bye 10.23.10

After moving all our stuff to Tucson we headed back up to Glendale to clean up the apartment. With the help of a great visiting teacher we finished just in time to turn in our keys. Here is Evan and I in front of our apartment and our attempt at making "sad faces." We sure are going to miss that place and all our friends :(

After cleaning we headed out to the mall to "hang out." Evan went to Ultimate Electronics and chatted with the sales guys about TVs, his favorite past time, while I browsed around Forever 21. Then we ate dinner at On the Border and watched about 5 different sporting events all at once, had to get our fill in since we missed the BYU game while packing. Then we headed to the Wingets for our SLEEP OVER. Mostly just sleep happened we were so tired. OOoow long day!

Packing Up 10.23.10

I spent about an hour each night for 2 weeks packing up the apartment, so when moving day came we were all set to go. We picked the truck up Friday night without a hitch. The guys even gave us a little discount (it still cost us an arm and a leg). A few of our friends came over early saturday morning and helped pack up the truck. We were done in 30 minutes (thanks to all our great friends-thanks guys/gals)! Then we chowed down on bagels and powerade...ooo Yum.

We then raced down to Tucson to unload our stuff, before we had to head back up to Glendale to clean the apartment. The new ward Elders and two of Evan's second cousins (that we both met for the first time that day) met us in Tucson to help unload our truck. The first apartment they assigned us to spelt like an ash tray so we asked if we could switch apartment. The new place spelt like wet dog and only a hint of cigaretts so we took it! It took us a little longer to unload since we had to sign the lease and switch apartments, but overall it was pretty painless. Pictures of the new place to come

Good bye friends 10.20.10

A couple days before we moved to Tucson a group of my friends all met up at a new hip frozen ice cream place that did not dissappoint. I miss you girls already.

Brenda, Ashley, Jessy, and Kristin

Cara, Britani, Liz, me, and Christy

Klinton's 3rd Birthday Party 10.17.10

I have loved living so close to Evan's sister the past two years. We get to participate in birthday celebrations and big and small events in our niece and nephews' lives. Klinton loves Clifford the Big Red dog, so his talented mommy made him an awesome Clifford cake. He also got a rad motorcycle bike. Above is a picture of him closing his eyes waiting to see his gift.

After cake, silly string fight, hot dogs, and swimming I helped Kallie with her "all about me poster" for school. She is so creative. Kallie came up with hiding the pictures under the flaps all by herself.

Fancy Fancy 10.16.10

Evan and I continued our quest to find the best "lava cake" in Phoenix by going to Roy's inside J.W Marriott at Desert Ridge. It is a pretty fancy place. So we dressed up and didn't use the valet parking and had a good time. We sat in the bar area since we only ordered desert and watched one of the Giants playoff games. The cake was good, but for the price we paid I'd rather go to Applebees. Now that we moved our quest is on hiatus, but we had a great time especially since we got to go to some fancy places we normally wouldn't have gone.

Fall is finally here 10.10.10

Evan and I only have two more weeks in Glendale. We've know for the last 9 months that we had to move, but it doesn't make it any easier. We had some friends over for dinner. I made homemade soup and rolls since this is the first week we've had under 100 degrees for months. (I'm not complaining I LOVE the heat, it's just hard to justify slurping soup when it is 100 plus degrees outside.) After dinner we made fancy carmel apples with white and semi-sweet chocolate, peanuts, cinnamon-sugar mixture, oreos, and sprinkles. They were a hit. They tasted a lot better than they looked.

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In other news Evan and I went to the local high schools' rival game this week Deer Valley Vs. Mountain Ridge. I was very impressed with both schools' marching bands and Deer Valley's cheerleaders were non-stop cheering the whole game. Although there were no fireworks at this game. A couple weeks ago we went to Chaperal's homecoming game and saw quite the firework show.
We also had a CRAZY hail storm this week. It hailed the size of golf balls (no seriously). Lots of people in the area have lots of damage to their cars and/or houses (the storm happened during rush hour, so LOTS of people were stuck on the freeways because of accidents and now have golf ball size dents in their cars).

Fall in Seattle

Evan and I purchased plane tickets LAST fall to go to Orlando...the trip didn't work out and we haven't been able to use the airline credit and on the eve of them expiring my parents flew me up to their place. And what did I discover? There is a fall in Washington. I guess I took the "evergreen" a little more literally then needed.

My parents spoiled me. Mom and I got haircuts and our toes done, we all went out to dinner and a movie and had popcorn, we decorated the house on the First Day of October and made it OH so scary...decorations included a hand painted figurine by yours truly, General Conference while crafting, and of course lots of shopping (which is where I found the piggy bank dressed up like a doctor-too bad Evan didn't have one of these growing up or else maybe we wouldn't have had to take out so many loans;)