Blickenstaff's

AKA - Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.

This is a toy store down in Provo, and it is absolutely magical. We like to go there.. whenever we can. The problem is, we want to buy EVERYTHING THERE because Cody and I have yet to grow up (: I think I'm going to start our kid's toy box.. right now.. and they can enjoy them whenever they come along! Anyways, they have everything at this store! Candy, old school toys, new school toys, games of all shapes and sizes, round dice, and they even have those dumb Jack-in-the-box's that scare the crap out of me every time! When we own a house someday, we're going to try our darnedest to have it look like this!! Check out their website here!

Before pictures of our home

This was when we had all of our stuff in the house but nothing put away! MESSY!!

Family Room 

Family Room

Family Room

Front Room

Front Room

Front Room

Front Room 

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Bedroom

Bedroom

PICTURES OF OUR HOUSE!!

Finally, right?! I'm so freaking glad it's finally all set up!! And I'm super excited to have game nights and fun hang out's here cause we have a ton of room!! 

CAUTION: There are a ton of pictures!

Also, we still have to put a lot of stuff on the walls, because decorating a HOUSE is A LOT different than decorating one room of an apartment!
One more also: Please admire our lovely green carpet (: We love it!

Front room 

Front room / doorway to kitchen

Front room / Peek of Family Room
Also, that floral couch is not going to stay there..
We're just waiting until Cody and his brothers have time
to take it back to his parent's storage unit!

Front door/room/ peek of Family Room

Family Room

Family Room

Family Room (still need to hang those pictures up!)

Family Room / Craft area!

Doorway from Front Room to Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen (Smaller door goes to the bathroom and the other to the bedroom)

Kitchen

Kitchen

Back door area and laundry stuff

Our fridge is too big to fit in our kitchen
so it's in the back room!

Washer/Dryer and peak into the kitchen

Midget bathroom

Midget bathroom

Midget bathroom

Bedroom

Shoe Shelf / Closets

TONS of closet space!

TV area

Our cute bed (:

My side of the bed

Right next to the front door

Our house! And Cody & his brother cutting wood to board up our house..
We have raccoons in the attic..

More house

Parking area.. there's a gate to get under the "garage" but it's
a hassle, so we just park in front of the gate

Yard to the right side of the cars

Over hang

HUGE front yard!

Pathway to the backyardish area

Behind the house

Our front walk way (: Cute flowers all year round! (Thanks Grandma!)

English SUCKS!

I seriously hate it so much. Since I graduated high school, I've continually said, "I'd rather shoot my eyeballs out than have to take another English class again." .. And then I realized I had to take English 2010 at UVU. So of course, I put it off for 2 and a half years, until now. And it actually hasn't been TOO terrible yet, but we hadn't been required to write a paper before. It's all online, so you can work ahead, or go the regular pace, but you never meet in a class. Well, I knew there was a midterm that was coming up, and it had to be 3 to 5 pages. Let me tell you, I just about had a panic attack every day for the two weeks before it was due. I cannot write a good paper, let alone a research paper that has to be 3-5 pages! And I'm positive that the only reason that I passed all my High School English classes was because the teachers didn't want to have to read another one of my papers, so they passed me with the lowest C that I could get by with.

Thank goodness I have my amazing husband who was there to calm me down everyday and assist me in writing my paper. Luckily, the paper was on something that I really enjoy reading about, so once we got started, it wasn't too bad. When I finished the paper at 4 pages, I was sick of it! I didn't want to look at it again, and I kept saying that I'm not trying to ace this class, I'm only trying to pass it so I never have to take it again. Well, I turned the paper in online at 5:00 on Friday night, and my teacher had it graded by the time I looked at my computer on Saturday morning. Talk about nerve wrecking!!! It was so hard to open the UVU website so I could see my grade and her comments on my paper!!!!

AND to my surprise, here were her comments:

Shaylin,
Nice work on your paper. Here are some suggestions for revision as you works towards the final paper in lesson 13:
MLA: Just a few minor details--your last name and page number should be in the upper right corner of each page. The entire page is double spaced, including within the works cited page and paper heading. You also need a title--see the sample MLA paper in the text. 35/40
Standard English/formal style: Well written with few errors. 20/20
Organization: Clear focus and support. 40/40
Evidence: 50/50
Persuasive: You need more discussion and debate of opposing views. Who disagrees with you and why? If no one disagrees with you, then you don't need to persuade anyone, and this is a persuasive paper. 35/50
Total: 180/200


DID you see that?!??!?! 180 out of 200?!?!?!?! ON MY FREAKING MIDTERM?! For those of you who aren't good at math, that's a whopping 90%!!! Yeah buddy, I got an A freaking minus on my English 2010 midterm!! Woot Woot!!!

Dinner & Movie

Cody and I are so lucky to have some really amazing friends! A couple of them, Taylor & Lance, had been asking us to have dinner and hang out with them for quite a while now, but our schedules just wouldn't work together! So last night we finally did something! We all went to Cafe Rio and ate some of theeeee most delicious food on the planet. We got to talking, and 2 hours later, we realized we were still in the restaurant! So we headed over to their cute apartment and decided to watch a movie.. The genre that we were looking for was Action, and all three of them kept saying how good the movie "The A-Team" was, and to me, the first thought that popped into my head was "Spy Kids"! I'm not going to lie, I judge movies very strongly by their title, and if the title sounds lame or the cover looks too.. weird, I have the hardest time watching it! But boyyy was I wrong about this one! Nothing like Spy Kids (: It was thee funniest action movie I've ever seen!! And the action was very well done too!!

Needless to say, it was a very successful double date night (: THANKS Taylor and Lance!

This will make you chuckle (:

Cody was helping me write my English paper today when all of a sudden, we hear a knock on the door. I was very much un-presentable, so I ran back to the bedroom as he opened the door. It was our Relief Society president, who stayed for freaking ever! When she left, I came out of the bedroom to see what the reason for her visit was, and this is what Cody said: "She just came over to find out about us." So I said that was very nice of her to do and his response was "Yeah.. it would have been better if she brought cookies.. But whatever. We have crappy neighbors."

Oh my goodness, I love my husband (: