Eagle Mountainites!

Eagle Mountianites!!
To celebrate our move we decided to dress up as Eagle Mountainites for Halloween! Everyone gives us a hard time about living in the boonies, so we dressed for the occasion. (Disclaimer: We mean no offense to anyone living in Eagle Mountain, this is just a funny interpretation!)

October was crazy and I'm not going to lie; I'm glad it's November.
We repainted the house, refinished the floors, and got new carpet, while packing, moving, working, and finishing up the term with homework galore! Add church and family things and to say the least it was a busy month. In true Anna fashion I did to much, wore myself out and have been sick for the past 2 weeks! :) But Novemeber will prove to be less stressfull... or else! Right now we're not very busy, but we'll see how long that lasts.... HA.

Happy side note: Now that Halloween is over, Jon will let me bring out more Christmas decor! Woot!

3 Months of Bliss

Wow! We've been married 3 months! It seems like so much longer... in a really good way. It's amazing how you can live without someone for your whole life, then in just a few months time they become your everything and it seems like you have known them forever! I think that's what they call soul-mates, and that's definitely what we are!! We like celebrating our life together everyday, but especially on occasions such as this; so we went to Hale Center Theater and saw "Curtains" last night and it was awesome! We would recommend it for sure!
We are still ridiculously in love and extremely happy! Eternity is going to be so fun, bring it on!!

Adventure...

You gotta love the timing of life. Always an adventure. Everything has been perfect since we've been married, we are so blessed, so I guess it was our turn for a little change. Ha.
So Jon's car, the Polka Dotted Wonder, has seen better days. The paint alone is a sight to see, but the sun roof doesn't work, there's an oil leak, the windows in the back don't stay up, and the newest thing is that there was a leak in the radiator. No worries, last time Jon took the car in they said to just keep up on adding the oil and coolant and we'd be ok. Woot.

So Saturday was going to be a long day, but we were ready for it... or so we thought. We were helping out with Governor's Day up at Rice Eccles for Argosy (Jon's work). It would have been annoying for Jon to work another Saturday, but I got to go with him. (I even got an Argosy shirt to look official!) We had to be there at 7:00 AM. Woot. All the stuff was in Jon's car so we took it with out thinking about it. We have a fun time playing games with the kiddos, making snow cones, and handing out balloons. We left at noon to be down to Provo by 2:00. We couldn't get into our car because of the car next to us, so Jon took the opportunity to fill up the car with the needed oil and coolant. All filled up we were good to go...

We got to lunch and come out and there is a puddle of coolant in the parking lot coming out of Jon's car. Oops. But we had to hurry and figured we would be ok. We thought about trading cars, but again, no time. So we head to Provo. Note: this was a very hot day!

Almost to BYU where we're excited to see "World of Dance" we're on University Parkway, so close, then the light comes on... we're overheating... no big deal... we're almost there... then the smoke... just a little on one side... then a lot out of both sides! Luckily we were right by a gas station so we pull in. We park, Jon gets out to scope out the situation and this little old man looks at me and says "That can't be good" and he was right. Jon opens the hood and coolant is spuing out of the radiator!!! No joke, it was everywhere. There's a huge crack in the radiator and we're stuck. The cute old man comes over and he just happens to be a mechanic. He looks at the car and talks to Jon about options. The only option really is to find a ride home and get a new radiator on Monday. Awesome. Since we would have to wait for a ride anyway the man offers to drive us to BYU so we can see the rest of the dance show. He was sweet. So at least we got to see some dancing and some folk dance friends as we waited.


To understand the awesome timing... both of our Dads are out of town, Jimmy is going to Homecoming so Mom is helping him, and Cami is doing his date's hair, My mom has a quilt show and none of my brothers can help. So we have to wait a few hours before any help can come. And we're buying house, we close next week, so we can't do anything big with money untill all that is done. Woot.

Luckily Tom and Mom come down with the truck and a tow rope. Both Jon and Tom have seen Dad do this before but have never done it themselves. Mom and I just laugh as we're freaking out about it all. The boys figure it out. Jon's car is a Saturn and most of the front and frame is made out of plastic, ok, basically I think we're going to die! Ha. So we get ready to go and I decide to ride with Jon in the car... if anything happened I didn't want him to be alone! So we start off... being towed. It was SO Jerky! I get car sick so I'm thinking the whole time I'm either going to throw up, or we're going to rip off the bottom of the car! The first 3 minutes were horrible!! I knew this was going to be the longest drive home in my life!! But luckily Tom and Jon are amazing and they figure it out and it's smooth sailing. But as we're riding home the car starts making all sorts of noises... ha... everything is breaking. All we can do is laugh!!



















We make it home safe... laughing all the way. Mom and I are texting the whole time because she can see the look of panic on my face in the rear view mirror. Ha. We park the car at the Bay's and say goodbye for awhile.
We're still deciding what to do, whether we should fix the radiator or just buy a new car. Of course we would need to buy a new car when we're buying a new house! But with our new longer commute who knows how long the car would have lasted anyway!

You gotta love adventures in life!

SOLD!

I think it may have finally hit me... we're buying a house, for real. It's not that I didn't realize it before but you know when you have that moment when you realize something is really happening and it's more than just a nice thought... yep, that what happened when I saw the "SOLD" sign in front of our house! I was giddy! So giddy in fact I couldn't help but embrace my cute husband and force him to be in a picture with me! (My Mom says this picture should be in a commercial) It was so fun to look through the house and think of really living there! We have such a to-do list! We LOVE the house, but of course we want to make it our own. Paint a little there, build a little there. It'll be so fun! We'll definately have a house warming party... eventually. Then y'all can come and see how cute it is... if you are willing to make the drive. Lol.

My favorite part of the house is the fireplace (Even though it's not finished yet). I LOVE fireplaces, they are just so cozy! I'm so excited to be able to have our stockings hung by the chimney with care in hopes that St. Nicholas soon will be there! One day... hopefully soon we'll finish a nice family room to house the fireplace and it will be the cool place to hang out for sure! Woot. This house just has personality which I love! I can't wait to decorate it! Tai Pan and IKEA here I come!

(One day I'll figure out how to add the pictures and things better, but until that day... don't judge me and my lack of skills!)

Today was the world cup qualifier game between El Salvador and USA. The game was awesome and USA won 2 to 1. Woot!! We went with Anna's family including Brycson, who likes to come to the games. Lately he is into Peter Pan. He and and Anna are best friends so he has decided that he is Peter Pan, Anna is Wendy, and I am Jon the lost boy. Tonight at the game Papa Hales bought Brycson cotton candy. It was the first time he has had it, and he was thoroughly enjoying the experience. Brycson was sitting on "Wendy's" lap and decided to share his cotton candy with us. This picture is us with our blue tongues. Brycson thought they were so funny - we laughed and laughed.

Life is GOOD!

So we think it's kinda funny how everyone wanted us to get a blog, because that's what people do these days is blog about life, but it seems like now that we have a blog everyone else has stopped blogging.... oh well, you got us into this thing, so I guess we'll use it! Here we go.... another post!

We thought life was good and slow, we were just hummin along, enjoying life, and then the craziness started!!!
I (Anna) decided to go back to school!! With Jon working at Argosy, and me not getting a teaching job, the idea of a masters degree kept coming up, over and over again. So I enrolled at Argosy and start this week! I'll be getting my masters in Educational Leadership while Jon is getting his MBA. Yep, we're crazy!! But they put us on a fast track and we'll graduate in 10 months if all goes well. We're spoiled! AH!!
While still working 2 days a week at the glorious DMV I'll also start substitute teaching next week. Woot. If that wasn't enough I'm also in YW so I have that funness each week. And if that wasn't enough to fill my time I got a call from an old friend and now I'm choreographing Draper Historic Theater's production of "Annie Jr"! Double woot! I'm really excited about it, there's just a LOT happening all at once!!
On Jon's end of things, he works hard everyday (which I really appreciate), will be doing school, and is Cubmaster!!! So bring on the pack meeting! :)
Life is good!!

But just in case it wasn't good and busy enough... we're buying a house!!!!!!!!!!!!! We're under contract on a house in Eagle Mountain! We should close the first of October! So this month is full of inspections and bargaining! WOOT! It's almost like we're grown-ups... but not really. We just do grown-up things! :) We know we are spoiled like crazy... blessed more like it, and we love it!!!

Woot! Our Cute new house!