Delay

I'm just about to get to bed, but I thought I'd give an update on the house situation!  We are squared away, everything is approved, we're just waiting on HUD to close!  Unfortunately they are taking their time.  A lady who works for our Broker called today and said they will take around 6 days to close after they have all the paperwork.  So now instead of the 1st we're looking at the 7th or 9th.

It was kind of a downer to hear, a-whole-nother week to wait.  But we are just grateful that that is the only problem we've encountered through this process.  I'm really excited (believe it or not) to start cleaning and even more excited to start on projects.  We have everything lined up, and I've got some creative ideas up my sleeve that I am really stoked to try and to share.  I've run into some really cute blogs lately that have helped stir that creativity, check out the flea market trixie.  Her blog is so cute!

 Anyways, I have one fear about our moving date being moved.  My sister in law is having to stop and breath through contractions before she can finish a sentence.  or start one for that matter.  So-it could very well turn into quite a busy week for us as we will most likely be watching kids while they're at the hospital ;) Hold out just one more week little baby Ence! Or come now while we're still here!  I'm sure your mother would appreciate the latter ;)  I'm excited to meet yet another Ence child.  They are all so cute, and I've now seen 2 boys as babies, but I didn't really know Ali when she was a baby so it will be fun to see a little girl this time.  I think Ali needs a sister, yet again maybe she would rather remain the one and only princess of the house.  She's already terrified that her new sister is going to have a prettier name than her for heaven's sake.  Bring on the drama!

Anywho... I will do my best to keep updated, and hopefully return soon with pictures of either our house or our new niece!  Perhaps both...

Live long and Prosper
                                         Sorry, I just love Big Bang

I'm Back!

So... I'm back.  My computer for some reason was not letting me connect to the internet.  Holy frustrating!  Its sad how much we rely on technology to keep us occupied and happy.  Anyways so I'm back for now, and then in a WEEK, yes a week, when we move into our new house :)  I will be back to no internet.  Until we figure out installing it or whatever.  I'm not dreading the time away from the internet though.  I will be more than happy to spend any extra time working on my house and/or yard!  I'm so excited!  So basically thats all thats new with us.  Pretty much just waiting for our closing date.  I'm all packed up except the things we use on a daily basis.  It didn't take long.  We don't have too much to move.  I'm sure it will only take one load with a truck and trailer.  That will be nice!  Luckily I will have some time off work right when we close and I'll be able to get us all nestled in over a long weekend. Hooray!

Speaking of work... I am so stinking sore!  My sister in law paid to go do a 5K in Salt lake last Saturday and was unable to go, so she offered Ben and I to go.  We decided it would be fun...ugh.  What were we thinking!?  The last time I ran a 5K was a year ago at the Memorial Day one in WX.  We are so out of shape.  We weren't even half way through the first lap and mothers with strollers were passing us.  Ben just looked over at me and went "aw..."  We then busted a gut at our own expense.  Which by the way doesn't help you run faster, when you're laughing.  Any way by the end we had been passed by many a mother and stroller along with a paraplegic who kindly cheered us on as he passed us, and an old stinky grandpa (seriously, we could smell him.  That my friends does help you run faster, when you need to get up wind from stinky grandpa).  Although we are regretting it now, and trying to decide who's idea, and fault, it is; we had fun.  
So back to why work brought up the 5K.  I was working with Dr. Robins, Christopher Robins (haha cute huh, his mom named him after pooh's friend) and we always talk about food and how out of shape we are over our patients.  So naturally I told him about our idiotic idea to run a 5K without training... screw training, without being in shape and his advice was to make sure we keep stretching really well to help release the CITRIC acid from our muscles.  BAHAHAHAHAHA  the funny part is we both kinda stopped and  sat there for a moment.  I knew that wasn't quite right, and I could tell he was thinking about it too.  Then we both said "oh wait, LACTIC acid" at the same time.  Hilarious!  Oh I bet the patient was scared that our hands were in his mouth doing work when we had to stop what we were doing and think about that.  Yikes.  And even funnier, is that he said citric acid, considering we're always talking about food.  He must have really had food on the brain.  Good Grief!  I know that probably wasn't quite as funny for all of you, but you had to be there.  Picture yourself in the dental chair and reread that.  I absolutely love my job.  I work with the best people out there!  Woot Woot!

Drum roll please...

I just heard some wonderful news today and had to share!!!

We got a house! They have accepted our contract and we are scheduled to close June 1st ;)
I am so thrilled!  All this waiting has definitely paid off.  I must say all the credit goes to my wonderful husband.
I was ready to have a house, um... over two years ago ha!  Good thing he has so much patients.  I gotta say though, lately its been hard to tell who's more anxious to move.  We have really enjoyed living with the Ence's over all, and although it has been a great thing for us in some ways we are so excited to establish a place we can really call our own.

And the best part is, well not the best part, but a big perk.  I will have my very own kitchen!  I cannot tell you how happy that makes me.  Ah, I am on cloud nine right now.

As soon as we start projects, I will post before and afters, I'm sure they'll be amazing!  The pictures will be slow coming.  Money doesn't grow on trees you know.  but this place is totally clean so we have all the time we need to save up and knock 'em down one room at a time.  That is what Ben is most excited for.  He can't wait to do some work on his OWN house.  It gets really tiresome working for everyone else.

We were skeptical about getting excited over this one, but I feel really good about sharing the good news!  Tuesday we'll have an inspection done and then an appraisal and from there it is smooth sailing (probably not, I hear nothing is too smooth in this crazy process) through financing and on to closing.   Buying a house is so much more complicated than you'd think, and it doesn't even sound easy to begin with!  There is so much to do!  I am so glad though to be doing it.  We got a great house in the heart of Bountiful, where we wanted to be, for an outstanding price.  Plus we can grown into it.  I really like that there is a lot of room to grow.

I will definitely keep you people up to date on this awesome adventure!  Wish us luck :)

Landrie Grace + Titan

My last post reminded me that I slacked off on the last little one that came into the Fam Damily ;)  Little Landrie Grace.  She belongs to my Brother in law Hank and his wife Rachel.  She is such a cute happy baby.

Here she is! In the cute little out fit I bought her ;)

Such a sweet girl!

Our girl time was shortly interrupted by a little boy.  Titan:

He wanted to play "birds".  He is the cutest thing. He just shoots the birds backwards and laughs.  Wow, isn't it sick that this two year old knows how to use an ipod?  Holy cow!  Now I know how old people feel when they see us using computers ;)

Adventures in Rexburg

Ya, I know.  You probably read that and thought Rexburg and adventures should never be used together in a sentence because Rexburg sucks.  Well, yes Rexburg sucks, but we ventured out there anyways because Ben's oldest sister Cheri and her family live there.  She just had a baby a few weeks ago and we hadn't seen the little guy! 

Chase Vincent 

Cute little guy!  I had him several times while he was hungry and I must say He was quite angry at me knowing I had the parts but wasn't putting out! Hopefully he won't hold it against me the rest of his life:)

Ben and I decided we wanted to stay at a hotel there.  It's called the Americ Inn.  It was really nice!  Ben surprised me and got a theme room.  Take a look:

The chivalrous "knight"

As you walk in the door

I want the big brown chair sooo Bad!  It would have been far too noticeable carrying it out to the car, so I had to settle for a towel instead.  O, come on!  Like you've never stolen from a hotel.

My flat iron was still hot, so I just "borrowed a towel". Don't judge me.

The bed.  Super comfortable!

Our Jetted Tub

Sorry its blurry, but there is a knights armor next to the bed. 

Not going to lie, I checked it's helmet for cameras hahahaha

paranoid much?  Yes.

My blurry husband walking in to put our complimentary 

Martinelli's on ice

The bath room

It was so much fun to get away for a night!  We stayed in a themed hotel room for our wedding night as well, the captains quarters (a pirate themed room. Arg! be there any booty in here!? ;) bahaha) and I'm so sad I didn't get pictures of it!  We like the theme rooms, they are so fun.  Two down, and hopefully many more to come.

The People of Walmart

I just had a thought.  Ben and I were driving the other day and I remember him saying (out of the blue),

"Hey, we haven't looked at any Walmart People in a while..."

So I though I would share with you one of our favorite pass times.  Enjoy ;)

TESTING HIS BOOB PRESSURE

Why roll up your sleeves? Another way to check your blood pressure is by clamping the testing device on your left nipple. See, you learn something new every day.

END SCENE

Oh sorry for staring, I just assumed a Shakespeare play was about to start when I saw the theater drapes on your back.

THE FIRST EVER WAL-MADNESS CHAMPION!

It was a close one, but That’s A First prevailed to take home the title! We would like to thank everyone for voting.

IF IT SMELLS LIKE A FISH…

Oh damn! How is it that fishnet can’t even hold you in? Those things are strong enough to contain angry sharks but somehow your side tire is too much for it! Not good.  Ps they found this in UT People...

ELITE EIGHT: EAST #1 FRONT TO BACK VS. #3 NO TAN LINE

I shall dub this match-up “Who would you like to hug in a loving embrace more?”

WHAT YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

Holy Sweet Mother of Molasses! I’m not gonna ask where you’ve been all my life because I don’t venture to the types of places you do, but I can’t help but wonder why you weren’t in my life sooner so we could have put you in our tournament!!!!

SOUTHWEST: #3 TIGHTER VS. #14 FEEDING TIME

I like the connection between these two opponents. He looks like he is wearing a big condom and she could have used one.

HA HA!  Sorry if this isn't your kind of humor, but we love it!  So stinkin funny!

Helloo Helloo

I don't have any pictures but....

I joined a volley ball team with Emily Ferguson and some other girls from high school who all played in high school... except me haha.  I have really enjoyed playing though.  Its so much fun to be part of a team again!  I will have to have Ben take pictures of our next game so I can share ;)  I'm definitely the worst player on the team but I am learning a lot and thankfully All the girls are patient with me and are SUPER helpful in teaching me how to get better!  Thank you Ladies!

This Volley ball thing has really got me motivated to start working out again too.  I have been pretty good about staying active since high school but it is definitely more challenging.  The lady who used to come teach us pilates/cycling/circuts had to stop since her kids started up school again so I haven't been very good the past... umm...several months... But its never too late!  So I decided to look into Gold's Gym.  I know Emily goes there and It would be great to go with her and motivate each other.  I signed up for those 7 day pass things and Yesterday after much confusion on what time I was really supposed to be there, went and had a session with a trainer.  I ran on the eliptical for 20 min, did intervals on the bike for 10 min., and then we went down stairs for some core work.  Yeah Baby ;)  My favorite.  I have always had pretty good core muscles, especially my back. Thats not to say that they have always looked amazing, but they have always been strong.          He said I was so fun to train because I had good form ;)   Well thank you!  So right as I'm feeling awesome about my "good form"  I started to feel faint... Dont worry I didn't pass out, but I felt like it.  Feeling retarded,  I sat down for a minute and he could tell I was not so good so he had me lay down and put my legs up... on his leg... AND IT WAS PRICKLY!!!  Ya!  This dude totally shaved his legs.  GROSS.  They were so prickly.  After I was feeling ok again, and he proceeded to show me the next move, I noticed that he saves his freaking ARMPITTS!  Ok, I have heard of guys shaving their chest, legs, arms, etc.  but never have I EVER seen a man shave his armpits... good grief.  Still wondering why I was feeling faint I realized it was lunch time and I'm telling you if I don't eat I will pass out.  My metabolism is quite demanding these days even when I  am a bump on a log at home.  Plus he was totally eating a cookie and drinking a capri sun right in front of me!

So now that I'm thinking about it, Yesterday was pretty much fun between the work out at golds and what I'm about to tell you.  If you are easily offended please discontinue reading.

After I was done at the gym, I walked down to my parents house seeing as I didn't have a car and it is a long walk to my house.  up hill both ways you know, anyways.  I was watching a movie with James when Cody came in the front door holding two snakes.  Nothing creepy, just two little Gardner snakes.  But wait.  How did you catch two of them!?  So we go outside with the snakes as Cody tells us that these snakes are in the middle of a little somthin' somthin'.  Have you ever, ever in your whole life thought of, much less, seen snakes doin it?  I haven't.  Well I am that much more informed.  I now know that snakes have penises and the other girl things... ( I'd rather not say it).  And I SAW them.  HAHA It was the oddest thing I think I  have ever seen.  And then I thought, hey Cody what the heck!  Leave them to it man... How dare you, really.

Yup, so that was my day yesterday.  I really liked it haha.  Please don't think I'm a sicko, it was freakishly interesting, I wish you could have been there.

Thanks for reading, try not to lose any sleep tonight

PS A special thank you to Ashley and Emily for sharing Fart stories on your blogs.  I love you