life in Nampa ID

it has been quite a whilr since i have given any update so i figured it was about time. we finally got into our house two weeks ago and it was sure a pain!! there were mistakes that were made that pushed it back a long time and it was hard to wait even one more day. but we made it through the last three months of waiting and finally are in our home.
it has been a headache trying to get all moved it, but slowly we are getting it all done. this next week we have a wall going up and also some floors going in so a lot of work to do. on top of that we have had a very busy schedule. we have had some of my siblings over for half a week and also have had things going on every night. mike just finished two more classes and has one left on top of taking his license test. so things have been crazy! but mike got a fun toy that makes things a little more fun. he found a great deal on a projector screen for our bonus room and we tured it into a theater room. it is so so so much fun!!
we are going to a new ward which is amazing! we love our new ward so much. there is such a great mix of younger and older family. tons of kids maelis age so she will have lots of friends. mike and i had to give a talk today in church. one lady came up to me later and said that she has had a friend investigating the church and that he really felt the spirit while we were talking. i was glad to hear that we were able to speak with the spirit. we have already made lots of friends and cant wait to get to know everyone.
we are so glad to be so close to all our family! its been great seeing them so often. and its also nice to have our own space and also start this new part of our lives!

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Just an update on life :)

Well we are enjoying living in Ontario! It is so nice to be close to all of our family and getting to spend so much time at everyone's events! Not a whole lot has been going on, but i will give you all the lowdown on whats up!
First of all, mike got a job!! He is starting on May 10th! Right after graduation we will finally be making money! He will work as a tech till he gets his license, but at least we will have an income till then! Him starting his job means that we can start moving forward on our house and plan to be moved in by the end of May! Mike starts his last week of clinical tomorrow and i cant wait for him to be done! Its hard working for free!!! And graduation is on May 8th! (Maeli's Birthday)

Maeli is walking everywhere! She has been walking a little since we came back to Oregon, but now she is running! Its super cute but also lots of trouble! She is into everyting!!! Her birthday is in just two weeks! WOW! I cant hardly believe that it has already been a year! I am kind of sad about her growing up so fast already! We have truly enjoyed her sweet personality and her adorable laughes! She makes us so happy and we are so blessed to have her! She has been talking a lot too! Everything about her just makes our hearts smile! We couldnt be more happy!!
As for myself, I have been enjoying staying home with Maeli and watching her grow! We have been learning lots and playing hard! We have enjoyed playing outside and she often refuses to come inside!! I have been doing a lot of crafts and cake decorating! I have discovered that i love to decorate cakes! What a fun and messy new hobby! I have been able to try out a lot of new recipes for fillings, frosting and cakes on Mike and our family and practicing my decorating skills! The picture above was the first time that I made fondant roses and I loved them. I will have to use them more often!


Well not much else is going on in our lives. We are just waiting and waiting till we can move into our house and start that part of our lives. We are looking forward to all of the new things in our life that are to come and all of the new exciting adventures that we will be taking! Only one more week of clinical and two days of class for mike and a whole new life begins!

We got it!

We were supposed to find out on monday if we got the house or not, but they didnt get to us until yesterday! But after a few minor changes to our offer, they accepted it! Pretty much the only change that was made was that the closing date was moved back which works in our favor anyways. It gives mike more time to find a job too! But we arent gonna tell them that :)

The house is 1663 square feet and has 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. There is one place in the house that was supposed to be another bedroom but one wall was never put up so we are going to do that so we will have 5 beds! the yard it huge and i just love the front of the house! Its so cute and has so much charm! its on a dead end street and has a park right across the street! It will be perfect for our first home!

We are so excited to be able to have a house by the beginning of this summer! We never thought that we would be getting a house anytime soon and are just so happy that it all worked out so well! We just have a little less than 3 months left living with people and then we are in our house! So exciting!!!! And the best part is that we will still qualify for the 8000 tax credit too!

We will post some pictures of it once we move in and have made some repairs and changes!

house hunting MADNESS!!

Mike and I had a crazy day yesterday! We have been house hunting for about a week now with a realtor in Nampa. On Tuesday we went out and looked at a bunch of houses and there was one that i absolutely loved. We got pre-approved through a lender for enough to pay for this house that i loved and then went back to look at it yesterday. Well when we got there, the realtor got into the lock box and the key was missing. She called around and found out that the house had sold and that no one had bothered to update it in the systems! So i was really upset! I was in love with this house and now it was gone! Well we went back to her office to look and see if any new listing had come up. There were two more so we went to look at them.
The first was trashed! The people knew that they were gonna lose thier house and so they kicked in all the cupboards and recked the whole house! The next house we looked at was perfect! it was a cute house and the floorplan worked out great for us! But then i look out the back window and realized that the yard was like two feet wide and i couldnt deal with looking at a fence all day long out the window! I was pretty upset because Mike loved the house and i did too except for the yard! Then we realized that the house that is backed up to this ones yard was the very first house we ever looked at. So I asked if we could look at it again because the yard was HUGE! So we went inside and realized that it was the exact same floor plan minus a wall that was never put in to make the bedroom downstairs! Well my dad has built a house and so has mikes dad so we knew that they could put in this one wall for us! I was sold! I wanted this house so bad!!!! So we went back to her office to make sure that it was still available!
Well it was still available, but there were 7 other offers on the house and they were only accepting offers for another hour. And we had to be pre-approved through wells fargo because that is who the house was through! Stupid wells fargo! Well every person who could handle a mortgage loan was at a meeting in boise! and we only had an hour left! We couldnt get a hold of anyone but still wrote up an offer anyways hoping that we might be able to get it in! Well 20 min before it was due a WF person called us and just said that he knew Debbie and trusted her and if we were pre-approved somewhere else he would just write us a letter saying that we were through him too! Without even taking any information. So we got the offer in with not a second to spare!
Who knows if we will actually get it but it was a fun and exciting day trying to get this all done on time! We made a very strong offer that was 10000 over asking price, so we are hoping that we get accepted! I love this house! But with 7 other offers, who knows how high they offered for this house! I feel really good about it though!
So we will find out on Monday evening if our offer was accepted! If not, we will not get too upset because we know that the right house will come up! We have really been enjoying this whole process of searching for our home! Its kind of stressful but its so intense and exciting! So i will keep you posted on if our offer gets accepted!!!

We are all moved!

So we loaded up the uhaul last friday and left saturday afternoon for home. It did take us a while to drive back because the uhaul can only go so fast... but we were glad to be back home! We got all of our stuff into a room at my moms house on sunday and i was surprised that it all fit! I did have to leave my craft stuff out because i use it so much! but everything else fit into one room! Mike is still back in Pocatello because he has classes until tomorrow, but Maeli and I are settling in back here in Oregon!

I was kind of sad leaving pocatello! I never thought that i would be sad moving away from there, but i was! I have made so many good friends that i was having a hard time leaving behind! EMILEY!!! I MISS YOU!!! :)

So things are gonna start slowing down here soon i hope! Once mike gets back and he starts a regular schedule of clinicals it will be at least! But we are really looking forward to being done with school and finding a house this summer!!!

Maeli's first word

We have been trying to get Maeli so say mama or dada for the past few months... and today she finally spoke! Well she didnt exactly say what i wanted her to... but i guess that she has her priorities straight :) I got it on video right after she started talking so here you all go!

Christmas and the new year!

Hi everyone! my mom was begging for an update and some pictures and i have to agree that it has been a while since i have updated this :)

Well we got to go home for a full 2 weeks for Christmas! it was AMAZING! We had tons of fun with all of our family and got to see lots of friends too! Christmas eve we got to see some family out at my Marvin Grandparents house for dinner. My grandparents are much too generous and got us the whole getup for church. Mike got a new suit and he loots so good in it!! I got a few church outfits and some shoes!! and we both got new scriptures with our names on them and cases for them too! Maeli got a toy :) We felt very blessed to have gotten all of this stuff because we needed it badly!!

Christmas morning we got up bright and early as always at my parents house. We got up and played with the kids santa toys until mom and dad got up. Then we got to open presents galore! We got all sorts of books and movies for FHE and that are just great to have a round. We got this adorable measuring board from my mom for the kids growing up. I got some vinyl for my new cricut (i didnt know about yet), mike got white pants and a shirt for getting baptized in, and maeli toys... and tons of other stuff... we got spoiled this year for sure!!! oh and i got mike some weather toys as we all know he is obsesed with weather!

After we were done there, we headed over to mikes parents house where we had some breakfast and waited for Matt to get up :) Then we opened some presents. Maeli got some toys :) and she ate some paper too!! I got spoiled over there! I got some more vinyl, a jukebox for by cricut, my software for my cricut, and a cartridge for my cricut! And then mike surprised me with the pink cricut that i was begging for and he told me that i couldnt have and that i would have to wait till after christmas! It was so sweet of him to keep it a secret from me so that i could have a sweet surprise :) And we also got a lot of other great gifts as well from family!!

We got to got and see mikes aunt Jennifer and uncle Ken and cousin Megan! We always love seeing them! They are a hoot!!! And we got to see Brittany and her family a few times while we were there!

We left the day after the fiesta bowl because mike wanted to stay and watch it with is brother.

Then on the 9th was mikes baptism day! we were so blessed to have so much family down for that. My parents and younger siblings came, and Brittany and Adam and the kids came too! We also had tons of friends who came from rexburg and logan UT that night too! Maeli got an ear infection AGAIN that day! but we got her to the doc and got her some meds and still carried on with the night. Bryce got to baptize him and Brittany and Adam gave some great talks! Then we all stayed for some grub and had fun chattin!! It was a great night. The next day he got confirmed in church by my dad! It was just such a great weekend!!! Im so proud of mike for making this huge step! Maeli got a rash in church so we had to take her back to the doc because she was allergic to the penicillin. we got some new antibiotics and it was all good! She has been quite the handfull when it comes to health :) but we still love her!!

Not a whole lot has been going on since then. Maeli is starting to stand by herself for short amounts of time. She will be walking here soon im sure! I have just been enjoying my cricut and doing lots of crafts with it :) finding every reason to use it!! Oh and i joined Weight Watchers. Its not so much my new years resolution but a life time resolution to have better health. WW has been teaching me how to make healthy choices and to look at what is in food before i just eat it. Its crazy what all i was eating before. And i have started to work out again. I was doing really good before thanksgiving but then quit when we were traveling so much... so im back on track and im gonna lose this baby weight. I started another blog to track my progress... www.projectbabyweight.blogspot.com if you wanna cheer me on :) i know that i wont do it if im not accountable to someone so thats why im doing the blog :)

We are moving home soon too! we are getting excited for that! Only like a month and a half. And mike sold his car last night! That was a huge blessing. We used the money to pay off some student loans :) only like 13,000 more to go... we will get there someday! Well here are some pics from over the break!! Enjoy!