Update

Okay so read the last two posts for updates on the last couple months. Now I am going to begin to recap on my weeks, So I'll probably post every monday missing this upcoming monday, because I'm doing it today. This picture makes Bridger look super young I think.

Recap:

-We are continuing to paint the house. Almost done, or we like to think. I never realized how much work it would be but I love being outside working side by side with Bridger. Definitely one of my favorite things.

-We have found out this past month and weeks, Bridger's brother and wife are expecting, his sister and her husband are expecting as well as our cousins. So congrats, congrats, congrats to them :)

-My favorite past time, sketching up our house ideas. I am currently designing the room where you walk in from the front door. I call it the living room. Bridger calls it a family room. I say family rooms are the one with the TV where you hang out. Living rooms are for formal sitting and talking. Any ideas on whose right? :) It's one of our debates.

-My reward for doing something outside or a long day of cleaning or work, playing Donkey Kong Returns for Wii. I beat Super Mario for Wii. (It took me like 8 or 9 months.) It's my guilty pleasure.

-Arizona was going up in flames. We drove to Sierra Vista the other day and as we were driving back it was night and there was a fire at the base of the mountains. It was HUGE, more than a mile wide. Very eerie feeling.

-Upside to that last one. We are getting RAIN! Everyone is so grateful. (me too, means I don't have to water as much... sweet). Downside to that.. Freaky thunderstorms. I am used to normal thunderstorms where you can see lightning in the sky and you hear thunder but I never remember seeing lighting strike the ground. Last night was my first experience. Bridger and I sat in our living room with the blinds open watching it. Thankfully it was in the distance a little bit but it was crazy. The lighting was insane. It was like the whole sky lit up and you would see this lightning bolt, strike all the way to the ground. FREAKY! Maybe people are used to that. I am not.

-I saw my first gila monster. (it's like a lizard). I guess they are really mean and they like hiss and arch up and if they bite you, like in the arm, your arm starts to rot away. Fantastic. They had one in a bucket. Creepy. Consequently, last night I had a dream that I got bit but my arm just had like purple rings on it. Thankfully it didn't rot off. Phew :) Look at the picture. I guess when they eat they fill out and their tail gets the width of their body. (that's where they store stuff).

-A very happy birthday to Dalton, Bridger's younger brother and Aunt Lori. Their birthday's were yesterday and we had fun with family!

-I am lifting weights and working out with Bridger's sister Cheyanne. It kills, but we are getting stronger. She is like an energizer bunny and pushes me because most of the time I would rather not.. ha. But we have a blast.

-My new love, our dishwasher. We haven't had a dishwasher our whole married life, until we moved here. Let me tell you people totally take it for granted. Not to mention it gets our dishes like 100% cleaner than my hands. Why is that?

-I am working at the grade school next year as a teachers aide for 3rd and 4th grade. I'm so excited!! So I sent off my fingerprints this last week and turned in all my paperwork. Hopefully it comes back clear... and that I'm not a felon. Here's to hoping :)

I think that's all. Next post probably won't be as long as this one. I'm just getting back into the swing of things.

Until next time

-XO-

Just stuff...

So you knew we had a puppy, but we also have the mom. No one would take the mom off of the families hands so we ended up with Maddie. Things about Maddie... She LOVES fetch, and that's even an understatement. She will bring you the ball all day long as long as you throw it for her. And even if you don't grab it she will sit there panting just staring at you. She makes the word fetch have a whole new meaning for us. :) She is the best dog. She listens, and guards the house like nobodies business. She is kind of territorial and will guard me and Bridger from everything and anything. Now we never have to worry about unwanted guests (coyotes, etc). From coming onto our land, or even getting close.
On the opposite end, remember our puppy?? He is now taller than Maddie and still has humongous paws that he hasn't grown into. He can sprint up to probably 2 miles in a dead sprint and has legs like a race horse. We've debated putting him in dog races... only kidding :) Unlike Maddie he likes EVERYONE. He looks terrifying because he is so big but all he'll do is try and give you a HUG and lick you to death. As opposed of guarding things off he likes to get to know everything. He's hilarious and hasn't realized his own size yet still! Maybe someday... He loves chewing things up, which is his favorite past time. We learned very quickly. If we leave anything chewy that he can get to it's gone or completely destroyed. He's a hoot. P.S. Our dogs and cats.... COMPLETELY hate each other. We had hope they'd be friends. But no longer. They've had run ins and the cats are like 2-0 for winning.
This past month I was able to take a vaca to Colorado. I absolutely love trips to Colorado, but everytime I WISH Bridger could come with me. I got to see my parents in a triathlon, hang out with my brother and his family, have a blast with his two adorable boys and see some friends. Some much needed city time. I am beginning to really love the country, But I need my "city fix" every so often. Not to mention, I have to see my parents. I love laughing with them and spending the much needed quality time.
Here is some crazy pictures of us in the car. My nephews are so crazy. Not to mention their car seats are HUGE. I swear each year car seats get bigger by at least an inch or two. So I squeezed in between them which got old pretty fast. But we still had a blast making faces :) I had a week well spent, but I loved coming home to Bridger and jumping into his arms. Luckily my hubby gets to take a summer vacation with me later. :) one of my favorite things to do, roadtrips with Bridger. They are full of Dill Pickle sunflower seeds, games, and dance offs. BEST THING EVER. :)

Another thing that happened these past couple months... our cats had kittens. They had four each. Ginger had all the light ones in the picture. Posh had the 3 black ones and a dark grey one we called "smokes". We named almost all of them and had a blast with them. Kittens are hilarious. They each had their own personality and we enjoyed having 8 little friends. ALTHOUGH from now on. I don't think we'll have any more kittens. It was fun, but a good one time experience. We gave all the kittens away and now just have our two cats which we are content with. Don't they look so cuddly?? Adorable. :)

Look at the post below for some house projects :)

-XO-

House Projects.

Notice the end of the last post? How it says that we would be moving into our house in the next week or two?? COMPLETE JOKE we found out. :) It took like 10 times that long. But the moral of that story is we finally moved in! We absolutely love it. We bought it from the bank so it had some little quirks that we had/ have to work out. It is a huge double-wide that sits on 7 acres of land (Our favorite part). I am changing the approach I take to blogging. It is now going to hopefully be every week and include house projects that we are

doing/accomplishing. Project #1: Right after we moved in to our house I left for a vacation to Colorado to

visit my parents. (Pictures to follow) So Bridger took that week to start bringing the grass back to life and organize a little bit. I can honestly say he is a better organizer than me by 100%. You probably won't see any pictures of the inside of the house until we get it decorated exactly how we want. So as soon as I got back I woke up the next morning and tackled a huge project. There was a walkway leading up to our house. Dispersed in it were huge cement slabs, which were weird and not very attractive. So I went outside and began digging around them and prying (SP?) them up to carry or roll them in a huge pile.

After 2 hours of hard labor and sweating profusely in the hot Arizona sun I decided to take a break and return when Bridger got home when it was a little cooler. Here is a picture of my progress...

Okay... so when the hubs got home I told him of what I had done, he asked if I wanted his help. I graciously accepted because my arms and back were already feeling what I had done that morning. He proceeded to do the next half in a matter of about 30 minutes... Maybe he should've done all of it ;). Gotta love the hubs muscles. MUCH stronger than mine. So we got it all cleaned. Notice the difference in halves. Just take a guess on who did which one.

So eventually we'll make it a little cooler looking but for now this is what it turned into. The upside?? NO CHARGE. :) Those square rocks were on the

side of our house and the rocks were on our property. Free project: check.

Project #2: We are repainting our house. It was a tan with a reddish color so what did we decide to change it to? Yellow with white trim. :) Since yellow is my favorite color it just worked, and we LOVE it. So in the process we had to re-caulk everything to close it all up and paint multiple coats. We are still not done. Here is a picture with THEN and NOW.

Notice the grass we are saving in the front yard. Now it is green and almost lush enough to lay on. The painting in this picture is first coat, and not perfect. We did another coat of yellow and then touched up and brightened the white trim. We're still working on finishing it. If you haven't noticed. Bridger and I love making things our own. And seeing the potential in things. Anything can be nice if you put in sweat, hardwork, and time. This house is our main focus right now. In the future though, we have enough land that we can build a house on it. So that's what we might do sometime. But for now we love working on making this house ours.

More pictures to come when I start my job and we have the extra income to start decorating the inside. I am sketching up ideas as I write, there are a lot of decisions to be made. :)

-XO-