Swimwear giveaway

It's an awesome give away for a $96 giftcard for Hapari's swimwear! I'm supposed to post a link to my favorite page! So here's the link!! http://www.hapari.com/modest-tankinis/

Rules of Young Married Poor Students

I can't wait until Phil and I have a career and for us to put the Young Married Poor Students behind us. I realize that there are certain rules to being Young Married Poor Students:


Rule #1- You can never have too much ramen, and cup o noodles
Rule #2- "Which bill is top priority and which bill is not and won't hurt us if we are behind"
Rule #3- Vehicle gas tanks must ALWAYS be on half tank when you gas up. None of this full tank business.
Rule #4- Date night = Netflix and ice cream (ice cream if only affordable)
Rule #5- Even though cat food costs $7 a bag, you must still feed the cat.
Rule #6- Husband can get haircut for cheap for $6 every 2 or 3 weeks, Wife must wait 2 or 3 years to get a decent haircut that makes her try to look fetchin good.
Rule #7- Clipping coupons for groceries is the highlight of a wife's week...but never used.
Rule #8- Umm yeah I'm still wearing clothes I wore my senior year in high school.
Rule #9- You can look but you can't touch
Rule #10- Use a fleece blanket and push pins to put up as a curtain in your bedroom. No matter if that blanket has basketballs on them, you will be grateful when morning comes around.
Rule #11- Must sell either car or truck to get rid of payments
Rule #12- Remember that looking for a job IS a full time job
Rule #13- An hour trip to donate plasma for $30 is only paying for gas for that trip and it isn't worth it.
Rule #14- Love your husband even if he eats 2 bowls of cereal a day, 2 ramen noodles for dinner, and you have to cook 2 boxes of macaroni and cheese for you to have 1 helping and for him to have 3. You STILL love him like crazy. ( even if he begs for 3 boxes of mac and cheese.)
Rule #15- Student loans are not just for school. If there is leftovers, MUST PAY BILLS AND FOR FOOD.
Rule #16- Last but not least...write down all experiences in this stage of life. These are huge memories in the making and will be of some reassurance down the road that things will get hard, but things will get better. The present is hard but the future will get better.

I don't mean to portray that we have a terrible life and that we live in an old shoe. We love our life and our adventure that we're going through! It's great and I wouldn't trade these for anything. I think it has also brought Phil and I closer together while trying to support each other help each other. It kinda makes me laugh at these rules and gives me something to look very forward to in the future. Plus I am glad that we weren't the only ones.

Give me the simple life

Finally! We have been able to get into the groove of things and getting everything started:

My job with Convergys starts Monday (been bored out of my mind and can't wait)

Phil is just finishing his first week of school and he loves it (relief)

met the ward and we really love it (relief)

This isn't our church building that we go to, but it's an LDS church building that is around main

Then I have been working on my New Years Resolution which has been going really well since I'm not one to make goals and keep them.

We are loving it down here in Cedar. It's a sliver bit warmer than up North, the people here are great, and it's just a small town with 5 grocery stores and tons of eating places. The nearest shopping that is probably worth going to (mall) is in St. George. Which is a nice excuse to get out and go somewhere PLUS it won't tempt me as much to shop and spend money even though my wardrobe needs an upgrade. Ah well, what do you do.

Playin' catch up

So on Friday the 13 I got my wisdom teeth takin out and have been out for a couple of days with a ton of homework to catch up on, a biology test failed and getting back in the flow of things! It's been awesome being able to catch up and not living on the couch for a while. I kinda missed being busy!!...AND...I'm not posting pics up of that event. Nope.


Also, last Saturday PJ and I went down to Cedar City to see if we could find us and our friends a place to set up for probably a couple of years. PJ's friend Logan and his wife Carolyn found us some places to check out since they live in Cali right now. So we were down there and we picked a winner!! We all filled out applications for it over the weekend and we'll probably hear by Tuesday if it's ours! It's a little townhome in the Southern part of Cedar. It's a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom w/fenced backyard. Since both of us couples are trying to move into the townhome, since the other side was available also, we will be paying $575 a month!! I'm kinda depressed now in the place we're living in now after I saw this place. We're merely paying $797 for a 1 bedroom...and that's it. Not to mention for the past 3 months we had to add $150 to our rent to pay for the garage repair (my fault) and that was about $950 for 3 months. Holy crap!


PJ's going to talk to the management today and get us out of our contract! But here's a pic of the outside of the new place. I'm not going to post all the pics until I know for sure that we're out of our crappy contract and when we've found out about the other place! I'm praying so hard that we can get into this place. It would be nice to bring rent down, and PJ can get going in his schooling. It would be a huge blessing.

All That Jazz

So The opener Scrimmage game for the jazz was tonight and can I just say how I love the Jazz! Since I was a little hoopster, John Stockton was my hero! I just fell in love with the game and the Jazz! It was great to see them at the White and Blue game tonight and see the rookies play along with there professional teammates and lead the new jazz team along! Sigh... I do love me some Matt Harping. He's been with the team for 11 years!! He is my absolute favorite on that team since Malone and Stockton retired their Jerseys!
















PJ loves me sooo much he lets me love the Jazz and I love him soooo much to let him love the Spurs. It gives me a good excuse to go to a Jazz vs. Spurs game in SLC. ha ha ha. Oh I can't wait for the season!!

"From the Voice of my servants it is the same."

I loved conference this past week. Ha even though I was asleep for most of it, and was distracted by the Leah, and packing to stay over at the Stewart's for the weekend, I really needed some of those talks. Sometimes the best thing about conference is hearing something that catches you off guard and realizing that what they said was EXACTLY what you needed to hear. Even when you didn't even think about it.

I'm really talking about Elder Uchtdorf's (spelling?) talk on Saturday morning. "God doesn't need our love. We need His love." I have forgotten just how much love God has for me. I get so busy and frustrated about my hand that life has dealt me AND I FORGET! I was kinda taken back and really overwhelmed with his talk. I can't forget how much He loves me. He loves me even though I'm not a doctor, or have trouble with paying tithing, or let a lot of slip-ups while driving. I have forgotten that. I love Him and need to show Him appreciation a whole lot more and not forget. Cuz without His love, I'm nothing!

Skool Daiz

Sorry it's been almost a couple of months for me to update. School has started back up and I finally put my rear in gear to go back. I'm back here at UVU aka High School Re-union everyday. But that's ok I know that I know at least a handful of people in that school that I went to school with way back when...4 years ago. But it's been great. I had a job with my home teacher who was an Insurance Broker. I helped in assisting him for about 4 months when a couple of weeks ago, he decided to let me go. He needed to find someone that could work full time and be another Licensed Agent also. Crap. So here I am searching for a JAY OH BEE and going to school. It's hard to find a job that works with my school schedule since I worked my school schedule around my work schedule that I had. But ah well something will come up. My mom has helped me out immensely letting me cut felt for her and earn a little money on the side which helps. I wake up early in the morning to cut for about 3 hours (falling asleep in the middle of it here and there), get ready for school, drive 20 minutes to school from 11-3 and then head back home for the homework, dinner making and more cutting. So it's been kinda hecka crazy but I prefer crazy over doing nothing. Nothing exciting but that's my life for the past couple of weeks. Hopefully something RANDOM happens that makes my life more exciting....oh I did however see the ghostbuster mobile in Orem today. That's as random as it gets today!