Saturday, July 31, 2010

Doorway Suprise


This is not what I expected to find outside our door when we moved into Wymount. I guess this is what we get for having the beautiful trees so close to our apartment. To give you an idea of the actual size of this beast:


We'll be locking our doors tonight.

Monday, July 26, 2010

New Apartment & New Belly

Well, we have been all "officially" moved into our new apartment for a almost two weeks now. Honestly, I was NOT excited to move into Wymount. However, since our old apartment complex would only sign another contract for a year and we couldn't find anywhere else that wouldn't have us stuck in a contract, we felt like it was our only option.

But, I shouldn't have been so scared. We actually LOVE it here so far. The apartments are cheap, clean, updated, and we pretty much have the best apartment here. We are at the very top of the hill and this is what I see out all of my windows: (ignore the fact that my reflection looks like a creepy ghost).
Yup, trees. I always kept my blinds closed before because we backed up on a courtyard and people were always looking in. I love the privacy. So, while I definitely wouldn't want to live in Wymount forever, I think we can be happy here for the next five months.

The other "new" thing in my life is my growing belly. I wanted to take some "before" kind of pictures to see how things grow, but since I honestly already have quite the little belly, this will have to do. Here I am at about 14 weeks. I'm pretty much at that awkward stage of, "have you been eating too many treats or are you pregnant?" Yikes. I thought it would take longer to get to this point, but I'm trying to enjoy it all.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Big Event(s)

I think that there are times in everybody's life that are both absolutely crazy and absolutely exciting at the same time. Steven and I are coming up on one of those times. Here is an approximate timeline of the end of 2010/beginning of 2011......

December 17, 2010: Steven finishes his last final exam of his master's degree and the student chapter of our lives officially comes to a close.

December 21, 2010: Because Steven is graduating, we get kicked out of our apartment. Just in time for Christmas :)

Beginning of January 2011: Steven starts working at Ernst & Young in San Jose, California and moves all the way to California without me. Why does he have to move without me? Because......

January 25, 2011:
WE'RE HAVING A BABY!!!!

Yup, baby Foote is on the way at last and we couldn't be more thrilled. Despite the crazy timing, we feel so blessed. I am 13 weeks along and am looking forward to saying goodbye to the sickness and fatigue of the first trimester.

Wahoo!

Sunday, July 11, 2010

No More....


Tuition! This week was a good week, and one that I have been anticipating for a while. We paid Steven's final semester of graduate tuition, and it feels GREAT to have that done.

Two undergraduate and two master's degrees later, we have finally made that final tuition payment. Some days, when I was working 75 hours a week, Steven was taking tons of credits & working, and we still lived in an old, not nice apartment, I wondered if it was worth it.

But, to press that button and be able to graduate 100% debt-free, made all those sacrifices and hard times DEFINITELY worth it.

I will miss SO many things about BYU when we leave in a few months, but paying tuition will not be one of them!

Friday, July 9, 2010

July Updates

July (so far) has been MOSTLY nice and relaxing. We enjoyed the 4th of July weekend, and did all sorts of typical 4th of July things- BBQ, fireworks, hiking, etc.
I think that July is the best month of the year. Mostly, because it is my birthday. Even though Steven's birthday is in June, he is also in agreement. He thinks that July is the best month because July is the Tour De France. Yes, we watch a hundred men cycle every single day all month. Steven loves it. You know that you married a road cyclist when....

At first, I thought (like most people) that is was boring. But, seeing as this is my third "tour" I'm actually getting kind of into it. I know all the names and everything. Speaking of my birthday, it was great. I'm now 24, and that is starting to sound old. So many people I loved called and stopped by, and I even got these sweet flowers from a sweet guy.
We move in four days, and that is the part of July that has not been relaxing. The packing still has a LONG way to go, but it is nice to know that this move is only a couple of miles. Instead of the thousand or so our next move will be. One of the packing things that I have done is take all the pictures off the walls. We had this one picture in our living room that was kind of heavy and awkward. So, we stuck it to the wall with those 3M sticky things that are supposed to be awesome and come right off. Well, dear 3M, this is what our wall looked like when we took the picture down.
They should have some sort of warning on the package like, "if the walls are painted with really cheap paint and really old, these will probably strip all the paint off down to the drywall." We tried to repaint over it and right now I'm just crossing our fingers that we fixed it enough to get our deposit back. Yikes.

Friday, July 2, 2010

O, Canada!



Yesterday was Canada day, so Paige and I made Canada Jello and seven-layer dip (apparently a Canadian favorite) and went to the park.  Vive le Canada!

Editor's note: Seven-layer dip is not actually a Canadian favorite. Paige just really loves guacamole.