Dinner and Jazz for $10

Jeff and I had the best date on Saturday night and it only cost us $10. Jeff surprised me this weekend by winning tickets to the Jazz game on Saturday night. He is so lucky. I swear he wins things all the time. He just has some type of gift for winning free tickets. Anyway he won tickets so we headed down to Salt Lake early afternoon. Took a trip down to Lakeshore (my favorite teacher store where I spend way too much money), and then went out to dinner. We had a giftcard from Christmas to Macaroni Grill so all we ended up paying there was our tip. Then we went off to the game. The tickets were pretty good seats and the game was really fun. Then at the end of it all we went home and went to bed. All in all it could have cost us about $150 yet it only cost us $10 total. I love dates like that. Especially when you're married and you have no money.

Dinner and Some Chocolates

Jeff is the best husband ever I have decided. He always remembers the sweet things in life and makes sure I feel extra special. He may sometimes try to trick me into thinking he isn't going to do something romantic or sweet, or that he couldn't get what I wanted, but in the end he always comes out with the sweetest things. For Valentine's this year I was feeling pretty sick. I started with a cough on Friday and it just got worse from there. I ended up actually spending the whole weekend in bed. That didn't stop Jeff from being super sweet though. On Friday he surprised me with my absolute favorite treat Chocolate strawberries. He said that the store was sold out but he brought me some anyway. Then on Saturday he took me out to a nice lunch at Texas Roadhouse. It was so good. He then took me home and just held me and rubbed my back as I laid down sick all night. I really owe him big for taking such good care of me. He is really full of love. He must have learned it from all his sisters!!! Thanks hun! I love you.

Our fun little life

So I wanted to post some pictures of what Jeff and I seem to spend our free time on. Jeff of course is going to school to be an engineer and loves building things. Because of this he has been obsessed with the whole K'nex roller coasters ever since Christmas. Since Valentines was coming soon I let him buy another one for our living room. Here is what our living room now looks like. I am pretty sure it would be much worse, but I think the only thing that is holding him back is that we are running out of room in our living room to hold that many coasters.

On the other hand here is what seems to be my new obsession. I have had a student teacher in my classroom for the last 6 weeks and that gives me quite a bit of extra time to get things ready for future weeks in my teaching. Therefore I have been planning center activities for my kids. That means I have spent most of my time in the faculty room laminating different activities. That also means that I have spent most of my free time at night cutting lamination. Oh what a fun family we are: Jeff playing with roller coasters, and me on the couch cutting. Marriage is so fun!

Fun and exciting weekend

Jeff and I had quite the weekend full of fun. It started kind of before the weekend began but who's counting. Thursday night we went to a Josh Turner concert. Jeff is super lucky and always seems to be able to win tickets to places off the radio. He called in a few weeks ago even though he had no idea what he would win and won these tickets. He didn't even know who Josh Turner was. Well I was super excited because I love his music. It was really fun. It was at a bar and there were a lot of drunk people all crowded around us, but we still had such a great time. I included some pictures from the concert. Then this weekend Jeff and I were lucky enough to be able to attend the baptism of one of my students. I love the experience of seeing such a sweet innocent little girl take such an important step in her life. She was so cute and I was very happy we were able to attend. The gospel is so true and I can see it in everyone of my sweet little students. I love them all.

The joys of owning a home

This weekend Jeff and I had an interesting experience with our home. We have been trying to figure out what is going on with our leak in our ceiling and have decided it has to be coming from outside. Jeff on Saturday went and looked, and thinks that it must be a spot that is puddling on our roof, and so he spent a few hours out in the rain putting some flashing in that area that will hopefully make the water slide off the area and down to the rain gutters. Well we were so excited because when he did that the dripping stopped in our living room, but it is still flooding our bathroom. I guess this leak will never end. We also fixed a leak in a valve for our water heater, but in order to do that Jeff turned off the pilot light. Big Mistake!!! We couldn't get it lit again. So after trying for two days straight we finally gave in and called a plumber to come out and do that. Well it took him about 3 tries and the plumber got the pilot light on. I thought maybe he would be nice about it since it took him about 2 minutes and no tools, but of course I am not that lucky and he charged us $88 to do that. Bummer!!! Oh well, I am still grateful to have a beautiful house that Jeff and I live in. I have been told that we are at least lucky enough to not have had our sewer back up. I will just stay grateful for that!!

Our amusement park and a hole in the ceiling

So our house seems to be turning into an amusement park. For Christmas Jeff helped his mother out by purchasing a K'nex amusement park ride for his brother. I knew when he was staring at it drooling that he probably wanted one for himself as well, so we bought a small Ferris wheel for Jeff's Christmas gift. I had no idea at that time what a can of worms I was opening. The day after Christmas we spent wandering to every store we could think of to find the other rides in the set. After a few weeks we finally purchased all 4 rides in the set, and Jeff continues to find more on the Internet. So this is now what our living room looks like.

On the other hand I guess it is better than what is going on in our ceiling. We found a leak and Jeff made a hole to see if he could figure out where the leak was coming from. It dripped a ton, but then of course when we called a plumber the leak mysteriously stopped, and hasn't dripped since. The plumber couldn't figure out what it was so he just said to wait a while and see if it starts dripping again. Of course it hasn't dripped even once since that happened, so we are stuck just waiting with this hole in our living room ceiling and a big garbage can underneath it. Oh what is my house turning into!

Our wonderful home

I was so excited to post this blog because Jeff and I have been working really hard on finishing our living room so that it doesn't look so bare when people walk into our house. We have done a lot to it since we have moved in like getting couches, making drapes, putting up a bookshelf and pictures, but we just had a few finishing touches that were bothering me for a long time. Finally last weekend we were able to get most everything done. Jeff's mom gave us some vinyl letting that we have been waiting for. We got ready to put it on our walls and it turned out to be a much bigger task that it should have been. See we have textured walls so the vinyl wouldn't stick. We ended up having to take off each letter and stick it up there with our fingernails. We did get it done though. After that, we ventured out to Pier 1 to look for something to put up on our vaulted ceilings. We got a gift card from a friend at our wedding and we never used it. Jeff and I just are creative like that. Well we went and a nice lady helped us find something and we were able to get that done as well. So now we have a few more things to add to our living room. It is looking quite nice and I am really excited to have it done. Unfortunately now we have a new room to work on. Yesterday afternoon Jeff came home and found a leak in our family room ceiling. So now there is a huge hole in the ceiling and water leaking out. I guess the work on a home never ends!