Home, home on the range!

We may have found our dream mansion!!! We have decided to go with an apartment in Addison about 20 minutes north of downtown Dallas!!! YAY!!! It's a two bedroom, spacious kitchen, over 1000 sq. ft. dream house because I am assuming that the toilet works! YES! We are so excited. The rent is decent and we have been to that area and know that it is nice. So far we only have like four weeks left till we go. I can't tell if I am excited or nervous, both actually. I am looking forward to a new beginning with Kevin. Another update on our toilet situation. It was fixed yesterday and we have been enjoying the spacious freedom of our in-laws we may stay the rest of the week.... maybe :) . Honestly it has been so nice not to worry about a working toilet or having to think of dinner ideas. I know I am so lazy. Next week is spring break too and Kev surprised me with a trip home for the weekend to see my sister and mom!!! Yay! I am planning on making some awesome skirts with my mom and maybe seeing a movie with my sister. So happy. AND THEN..... the day after I get home we are going to California!!! It's basically my first time going there and I am so excited. We did the give a day get a day of Disney thing with Habitat for Humanity and so our passes were free!!!! Great for our budget!

Here we go loop de loop!!!

An update on the bathroom problem. Yup, still a problem. Still flooded, still smells and still disgusting. It flooded again last night just as we were getting ready for bed, and I woke up to the sounds of a bubbling toilet flooding this morning. You win some, you loose some. But anyways, I am excited today because our good friends are getting married, Kevin will be spending the morning doing his parents yard and I GET TO GO SHOPPING!!!!! Woo hoo!!! So hoo ray for not having to spend the day in our stinky apartment.

Just an update on our apartment situation for Dallas. We have none. HA! We are still looking for places to live. Plan A. Is to try to find something before we get down there. Plan B. is if we don't have a place Kev and I will try to find a bishop who can direct us to some members that we can stay with for a couple days while we find something (that way we won't have to pay for a hotel). The hard thing is we really don't have the time or the money to fly down and look at something so we really are relying on the members to help us out. A couple weeks ago our long distance friends who we have never met went to look at a place for us. The Realtor left them waiting for an hour before they called us. They had already driven from Plano! When my husband called the Realtor she said she didn't even know they were waiting or even coming (but we emailed and called her a few times). Anyways.... the place was a dump, food and rust stuck in the dishwasher, loose floorboards, stained carpet, you name it!!! So glad we didn't rent it. Our lives would have been miserable. BUT on the bright side of things, we have been looking at some pretty nice condo type apartments that are really big and come with a lovely garage. Wish us luck! We will need it. I am planning on doing hair in TX. and really excited too because even though I have to get re-certified (only 300 hrs. compared to 800 in Utah) I feel blessed that I will have something to do during the day. It's crazy when you listen to the spirit everything just falls into place. Really!!! We have been so blessed in numerous ways. Kevin got a scholarship that he can use any way he wants, and we got a good size tax return. When we found out about the job I seriously didn't know how in the heck we were going to be able to do it! We were living pay check to pay check as it was. But now we have a little money to help us get there and get started. Now the trick is to just find somewhere to live!!!! Oh man.

The best part of waking up... is not to a flooded bathroom.

Sooo, I decided to blog. We are moving what seems like a zillion miles away from family and I felt like this would be a great way to A. document the move B.Let family see and read up on whats going on, and C. Vent. It's not that I don't want to move, actually, anything is better than where we are living right now. When we were in Colorado I felt pretty proud of our 650 sq.ft. apartment and would clean and declutter it often. Now, I hate the 300 sq. ft. apartment we live in and tend to be a bit lazy when it comes to cleaning it. Oh, don't get me wrong, I will look back a probably smile a little and laugh, and it has been a great experience. We have awesome landlords, a great ward, and are close to campus and family so those have been great blessings BUTTTTTTTTT it is way too small, it's dark, and the toilet floods at least every two months and if it's not the toilet it's the fridge smelling like vomit and old man breath.
Take this morning, Kevin gets out of bed and I hear "UGGGGHHHHHH." He didn't even have to tell me, I knew in my heart of hearts that the bathroom floor was covered in toilet water. I knew it! So we mop it up and text our landlords. Needless to say I was so disgusted by it that it was hard to eat breakfast, and I felt contaminated all day. I must have washed my hands a million times. Did I mention that I left my makeup bag on the floor? Oh yeah, I left my makeup bag on the floor and so now I must buy new makeup. We tried our best to clean up but since he had school and I had work we had to leave it job half done.
Okay, so I get to work, enjoy the free use of a working bathroom there and then come home to find that the problem was not our toilet but the pipes altogether. The laundry room flooded into our bathroom. LAME. I realize now that wherever we go in Texas will be a luxurious place because we probably won't have to deal with old pipes that flood every two months because of root problems and what have you. Song of the day to all you with working plumbing, "Count your many Blessings."