Happy Father's Day!!!

I've noticed while there is such a Holiday as Father's Day it seems to take the back burner to Mother's day, here are some of the things that I have noticed:

1. Most of the wards that I have lived in, while they always seem to have something nice for the Mothers almost always the Father's are forgotten. (unless you have a super ambitious RS President or other ambitious Sister in the ward)

2. I don't remember ever hearing a Sacrament Meeting with talks dedicated to Father's, but almost every Mother's Day there is at least one talk on Mothers.

3. While the media might have a few reminder commercials out there for Father's Day, it is nothing compared to Mother's Day and it is little and late in coming.

With these few things said I'd like to dedicate this post to the wonderful Father's in my life, there are many and they each have Blessed my life in so many ways I could never count! I Love each of you and hope for you a Wonderful Father's Day!!!!!!

Pros and Cons of Owning a House!

We have had quite an awaking to ownership and even more of an awaking of the shotty job people do to get a house sold. Below I will share some of our experience thus far.


unfortuneately for your viewing pleasure I was not able to take a picture of the nasty bug filled florensent lighting that was in place previous to this track lighting that we installed in it's place, sorry the picture is not to clear, but I wanted you to get the effect of what it looks like turned on. The blubs used in these track lighting fixers unfortuneately cost between $5 to $12 each, luckily for me I found some on clearance at Shopko for $1.24 each!

We were given a surprise a couple of days after we started staying at our house as we had one of the toilets clogged, as we inspected it we found that the water had been shut off to the toilet, when we turned it on to our surprise we found that it would not stop running, with a little closer inspection we found that the hardware in the tank did not match each other and thus it would not turn off.....sooo we did our first fix by putting a new value system in the tank, now not only
does it shut off, but it uses much less water.

Our front bathroom had been an add on to the house and was designed with all new brushed nickel fixtures except the faucet which was the ugliest comercial grade faucet you would find in any public bathroom. I found on Clearance at Lowes a Peerless brushed nickel faucet for $16 and installed it! not my bathroom is finished!
Our Kitchen is quite large, but until we can afford to put in an island with a dishwasher, we have virtually no counter space, so we decided a hood microwave was a must, since we had a hood installed already, we figured installing a hood microwave would not be too hard. we did some price shopping and found we could get a decent one for about $199, but when we were ready to buy it we found the floor model at Lowe's on sell for $109, it was a stainless steel upgrade worth $349. When we got ready to install the hood, to our surprise the old hood had been jerryrigged, by just splicing the electrical cord out of the wall to the wires in the cord of the hood. So I got the pleasure of putting in a new socket in the cabinet above and then we drilled the holes for the hardware of the Microwave and installed it. It has been nice to finally have a microwave again and eventually we will upgrade our stove to Stainless steel too.

In Our House!!!!!!

Many of you may have been wondering what was going on with the purchase of our home in Ogden, well here is the up date. We were suppose to close on May 28th, so that it would fund and record by the 29th and we would get in by the weekend, well unfortuneately for us the FHA computer system went down the week before we were suppose to close creating a back log in document preparation, needless to say our loan documents were not prepared till early afternoon May 29th, throwing our move off by a week. We were able to get our keys the afternoon of Monday June 1st, but because of our work schedules we were not able to really start the move till Friday June 5th. We picked up the truck at about 2pm and worked non-stop till about 9pm loading moving and unloading the truck, the first 3 1/2 hours we were on our own, but thankfully we had some of the Elders in the ward show up and help finish the move off. I am so thankful for the help we recieved, because without it I don't think we would have made it. I had to work that night and didn't get off till Saturday morning around 10am, due to my exhaustion and Darin's and the fact that we both had to work tonight, we did not get anything unpacked today as you can see by these pictures. We are so grateful to be in and excited to settle in and do a bit of decorating.