Justin Came!

Justin came and visited me last weekend! I know! What a lucky girl I am! He drove over nine hours to see me! So crazy because we only met 18 days ago! We met on August the 6^th at an institute soccer tournament. Justin insisted that he wanted to make sure that I was settled in and safe; he’s really sweet like that. Another reason that he came was because he very rarely has Saturdays off, but last weekend he did! So yeah! Justin got here around 1pm on Saturday and we had fun until the moment he left on Sunday.

When I first met Justin he reminded me a lot of Jeremy. When Jeremy got home from work and they stated talking you could tell they were like two peas in a pod. Erin told me that once she thought Justin was Jeremy! Hilarious! it was on Sunday after Justin had changed into some cargo shorts (the same ones Jeremy wears) but she didn’t go up and hug him or anything, thank goodness! Justin even said that he

and Jeremy had a lot in common.

It could have been awkward having a guy come to see me that I had so recently met, but it wasn’t at all. Justin fit right in with the family and we did the same kind of stuff we always do. Kenrda loved having his attention and talked with him much more than she talks to any of us. They played connect 4 together over and Over and OVER!

One of the things we decided to do was to go geochashing! There was one that was really close to us just down the street and there was another cash that was about a mile away from the house. Since it was so nice outside on Saturday we decided just to walk. We looked and looked for the first one and never found it. We didn’t give up though; we just decided to look for the next one. The 2^nd one was a lot further away than we thought and we were totally hiking by the time we got there. We had to go through fields, climb boulders, cross roads and hop over fences. It was quite an adventure. The sad part was when we finally got to the top of the hill (we were so close) his phone died!! Good-bye GPS! So we ended up not finding either cashes, but we both had a lot of fun. We went exploring and that was on my list of things to do! We found this little cave thing; it was totally awesome!

Guess what this is! I bet you’ll never guess right.. It’s a Dr pepper bottle cap seal. Yeah! Justin made one for me! All you have to do is find a bottle cap seal that you can take out, fold it in half, bit a little hole in it, pull, and voila! You’ve made yourself a cool bracelet! We’ll see how long it last for!

Another really fun thing we did together was squash pennies on the train tracks! Justin used to do it all the time on his mission and I never had before. It was a little scary making sure no police saw us doing it but we were safe and had a lot of fun doing it.

After Justin left on Sunday he said he felt bad because he had only spent seven cents on the penny squashing. I was totally happy with that!! Plus he spent enough on gas getting her and going home. It was a perfect weekend even though we didn’t go out and do the typical “date” things.

Aww! This shows how kind and thoughtful Justin is! He bought this bamboo for me as a house-warming gift. Lol, I love it! It looks so pretty in my new room! Thanks Justin! It's so pretty!

This is on Sunday after we got home from church! We put the kids down for their naps and we played settlers of catan. The game was close in the end; we were all a few points away from winning. Jeremy won! We had fun!

Overall it was a great weekend with a really great guy! Thanks so much for everything Justin!

Getting A Bed!

I got here Wednesday and on Thursday I decided I wanted to get myself a bed! We started looking at thrift stores around town and it was going nowhere! All the bed we saw were either gross or way too expensive. We still had a lot of fun shopping around. Erin wanted to find some snow boots for Kendra. Sadly, these were all we found. They weren't exactly snow boots but she was way cute!

After finding nothing at the thrift stores I decided to look on craigslist and try my luck on there. I found a lot of beds that would of worked great and they were pretty cheap. I was super excited when I found a waterbed!! Yes, I would love to have a waterbed! So I called the lady with the waterbed first and left a message asking if we could come see the bed. Then I started calling and e-mailing asking about all the other twin beds that were posted. No one was answering their phone and some didn’t even have a number to call so I had to e-mail them.

It wasn’t long until I got a call from a girl named Alexa. She was selling her twin bed for $75 and said we could see it any time. So after Julia and Kendra woke up from their naps Erin and I decided to go. She lived in the “Forest Meadows” apartments and we didn’t really know where they were, but we both said we could just ask someone for directions on the way. It turned out that we couldn’t find them at all. We probably looked for 20 minutes before we found the apartments (we were both too chicken to ask for directions). Once we found the actually apartments we had to find her building. All we knew was that it was # 211. Erin was holding Julia and I was Holding Kendra and we’re walking all over looking. You think they would all be labeled and it would be pretty easy to find. Wrong! It took us another 10-15 minutes to find the right building; her building didn’t have the numbers on it like the others ones did! We didn’t find it until we went into the office and looked at a map on the wall.

To are disgust we found that we had walked past it several times already! So we find the apartments, the right building, and the right door and guess what! She wasn’t home! Luckily though there was a guy there that said he could show the bed to us. It was nice and Erin and I were both done with searching for a bed so I bought it! Of course Alexa lived on the 2nd floor so we had to carry everything down the stairs and to the car…ugg.

It only takes a few trips to get everything to the car. I got the mattress down and Erin comes with both girls in her arms. Then we had to get everything in. Looking back, it was amazing we did it all!
Right after we got everything in the car guess who called me! The lady with the waterbed! Just my luck! We found out later that you can't have a waterbed on the 2nd floor anyway...so it all worked out.
Isn't it pretty? I love it!

Cutest baby girl ever! She's 6 months old!

Getting Settled With The Englers

Guess what!! I made it!! =)=)

I made it up to Flagstaff in my very own amazing car! I stopped once for gas, but had no car problems at all.

Thank you, My car!

I love it here with the Englers!

I think I’ll stay as long as I can, and NEVER move out.

I could never find any cuter or more fun roommates anywhere.

Julia

Kendra

Getting Ready

I thought it would be a good thing to start packing a week before I had to leave to Flagstaff. My “being on top of things” kind of backfired when it left my room a disaster. I had enough time to start packing and pull everything out, but I didn’t ever have enough time to get it all put away and packed. So for the last week at home my room was the dirtiest it’s ever been before.

It killed me to have a room so dirty! Just look at my face! Luckily my face has gone back to normal since I got it clean. Whew!

Ask anyone! Kylee, Riley, Georgia, and of course Mom and Dad they all saw it… how embarrassing! I truly am one to have a clean room, never never as dirty as it got. It was so hard to find stuff and very hard to move around (for me, very irritating). Most nights I almost killed myself trying to go to the bathroom or turn over the tape (not to mention the night I climbed in through the window).

Cleanliness is next to Godliness! I believe it wholeheartedly. KEEP YOUR ROOM CLEAN. It’ll make you happy! and Safe! =)

Starting Up My Blog Again!

There are going to be so many new fun adventures here in Flagstaff and I want to share all of them! I thought starting my blog again would be the easiest way to do that. So here goes nothing.

Sleepover Disaster

Riley had asked Taylor Lewis to come over on Friday and spend the night till Saturday.

Well of Friday Riley and I went to Sally Beauty Suplies and saw that there were hair curlers ( you know the ones that you put in when your hair is wet and in the morning your hair isdry and curly). I had been wanting them since Erin took ours. So I got them and we decided that we would do them that night at our sleepover with Taylor. that nigth Taylor and I had Riley put them in our hair. The next morning wewoke up to this.......

Caving!!!

We went caving with the YW in the ward. Bishop Haymore loves to go caving with his boys and so he asked if we would want to go.

this is me TRYING to climb up this wall because we have to go down the wall to get into this other cave to get out.

there was this really tiny hole that you climb through. The bishop, Patricia, and I decided to go back up through the whole again.

Patricia Cluff, Riley Cluff, Talor Lewis, and Kimberly Beckert