10 for Tuesday

1) Thursday we went to a book signing of the "Wheel of Time" at Books a Million. The original author Robert Jordan passed away a couple of years ago so Brandon Sanderson a wonderful fantasy writer that I love to finish up the very long series. It was suppose to only be one more book, but they decided to spilt it into three books.

2) There was a lot of people there so we had to wait in line for awhile, but we were entertained by the ushers who handed out free stuff and played some trivia games with everyone in line.

3) It was great to see Brandon Sanderson again and Robert Jordan's widow Harriet who also signed our book.

4) On Friday we attended a Stake Youth dance where we invited 6 stakes. There was a pretty good turn out, but we could of had a lot more. Hopefully we can do this every year and have a bigger group. Gary and I stayed late to help clean up.

5) Friday night i slept terrible so on Halloween I was tired all day. We did some cleaning around the house and ran some errands. We bought a toliet that we had installed today.

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10 for Tuesday

1) Grandma Lougee visited with my in-laws for a week so Gary and I went over to visit with her. She lives in Prineville, OR.
2) We have been making a lot of progress on our house with unpacking. We still have a couple, but the majority of them are gone.
3) We bought an entertainment center at the Salvation Army that we needed to pick up within 7 days and since we couldn't fit it into the van we had to schedule with our friend who has a truck to come and pick it up on Friday. We also had our home teachers come and help us move it into the house. They had a hard time getting it though the doors and down the steps, but they made it and I think it looks really nice down in the basement. After they moved the entertainment center our home teachers gave us a little message before they left.

4) We also bought a coffee table and an end table that is the same color as the piano which look really nice in the living room. Here are a couple of pictures.


5) It rained all day on Saturday, but we managed to plant our Swamp Chestnut Oak Shade Tree that we got for free before it really poured in the back yard.
6) We cleaned the house top to bottom. We steamed cleaned all the carpets and stairs in the basement and mopped the one unfinished room.
7) On Sunday I had a couple of Young Women meetings that I went to after church and then there was a "Why I served" fireside that we attended. The branch president of the Deaf branch and his wife who both went on missions spoke at the fireside to the YW & YM. The branch president is hearing, but his wife is deaf. It was a good fireside.
8) The Fall leaves are so beautiful right now. In our back yard we have these beautiful trees with bright yellow leaves. I will have to take some pictures and share them.
9) Okay, so this is a little out of order but on Thursday Gary and I had Kendo and our writers group. I'm really enjoying it. I am slowly getting better at it.
10) Well, that's all for this week.

Till next time!

Our first home!

We are so excited to finally have our very own home after looking for the last year or so. We closed on our house September 30th so we were excited to get everything cleaned up before we moved into our home. This is the first picture of us on our porch. We should of took the picture earlier so you could see us better, but we didn't think about it until it was to late. I will have to get a better one taken later.

Getting rid of all the cobwebs

Gary just chillin in our living room.

A better view of our living room

Bedroom/Dinning room. It was meant for a dining room, but they wanted to count it as a bedroom. It is located right next to the kitchen so it makes more sense as a dinning room.

Upstairs bathroom

Master Bedroom

Basement/Laundry room in the back

Beautiful hardwood floors that we found under the carpet in the dinning room!

A better picture of the hardwood floor

Look, mom I can blog!

Yay, for blogging! I have wanted to blog for the longest time, but never got around to it. Mostly I felt like I had nothing to blog about, but this week we are purchasing our first home! We are super excited. We will close on the 30th and will move in the next day. We found a beautiful little home in Riverdale which is really close to where we both work which is very convenient. We have been packing for 3 weeks now and I am so sick of it. Through all of this Gary has gone on two business trips leaving me behind to do all the work. Gary first went to Omaha which he loved and then this past week he went to Dallas to give a presentation on the Lacey Act. We are getting really excited about our move and can't wait to close on Wednesday. Well, I guess that's all for now.