Fathers Day and remodeling

We were so happy to have Heather and Justin here for the weekend helping us to do a little remodel of our home. Justin is very talented and super knowledgeable about building and so we asked them to come help put up a wall. Well we got the wall up downstairs to finish off that back bedroom and we also got the sub floors laid so that we could redo the flooring. I was so glad to have them here to help out and get this huge project done. And i was so happy to have my Heather here too! It started to pour rain one night and they were huge drops, like a flash flood, so heather and justin went out and washed thier car in the rain. It was pretty funny!!
Although we still have to lay the floors and also tape and texture the wall... i am still impressed with how much we were able to get done. And the rest i feel confident doing myself.

Since yesterday was fathers day, and I knew that we would have house guests and be super busy with the wall... i decided to give mike his fathers day gift early. Maeli and I came up with 100 reasons why we love him and we filled 100 balloons each with one of the reasons. It sure did take a long time to fill each one of those balloons... but Maeli had so much fun running around in them once we were done. She was laying down on them and rolling around. It was so funny!!! We also got him a new tool box cuz his was falling apart and a drill since we seriously needed one. I was glad that we did it early so that he could use it for helping with the wall.


So today I am left here at the house that looks more like a wood shop, trying to get some floors laid and still keep an eye on Maeli. Its a task but Im sure that we can do it!!! We are hoping to have everything done so that we can have a great weekend at my family reunion this next weekend. The best part of this whole living room remodel is that I now have a CRAFT ROOM!!! YAY!! That is what we are doing with the extra bedroom downstairs. So excited to get to work on my scrapbooking because i am way way way behind!

So here are some before, during and after pics of the wall going up. Still lots more to do but Im excited with the progress!

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!