Idaho happened

We last left by announcing that we would be transferring to BYU-Idaho to start school in the fall, and that we were looking for housing and jobs for the summer. Well well well, a lot has happened since then and things seem to just keep magically falling into place- Idaho, we love you! 

Oh yahh, I had birthday

And shout hooray- that David got me a dang nice sewing machine!!!! I cried as I was opening it up, I had no idea he had something that big planned. 

Back in March, during Spring Break, we flew to SLC

  

where Ashley picked us up and then we took her car up to Rexburg. But not before we stopped in to see a special couple and to show off the sweet chunk of love.

We looked into a few job opportunities and we checked out pretty much every single married housing option. (...single married housing....hahaha! didn't even plan that one) After our full days of looking at housing, we were pretty discouraged with our options- 1) We couldn't get up here til' May due to school in NV still being in session, and May is mid semester up here so there was NO housing available, ugh! 2) It is more expensive than we cared for- talk about a monopoly on the housing market in a small college town. Double ugh! 3) If we got a job that started at the beginning of summer (end of Mayish), there would be no apts/etc available until July- the end of the semester up here.

We drove back down to Logan to return Ashley's car with our heads spinning, wondering how we were going to pull this off. Da da da dahhh! Parents to the rescue!

They have a house in Rexburg, but we didn't want to pay to rent out a whole house- 4 bedrooms, basement, a huge shop...that's just a lot of space for 'lil ole us. But Daddy-o said that he wanted to get those nasty boys out of his house anyway and that he wanted to put a kitchen in the basement so he could rent out the top and bottom. So we twisted their arms and offered our sweat and labor during the summer as we fixed up the house if they would let us be their new renters- they said yes! ;)
After Azalia'a blessing, we hopped in with KK&KJ...and Jenette to hang out in Utah County while Mom and Dad drove to Rexburg from Logan to check on the house etc. and tell the renters to be out by May 31st. Because we didn't have a ride south until they got back from Idaho, David and I just hung out at Keith and Keri's- played with kids and did yard work.
    

It seems we didn't get a picture of that other cute kid- but in our defense, he doesn't really slow down, so it makes it kind of difficult to snap something of him...  :) 

David finally shaved his beard off, and had fun doing it!

 

I have to admit, he's pulling the mustache off quite nicely. :) He shaved Easter morning, and all day I found myself just staring at him, more than usual- it was like I'd forgotten what he looked like! 

Easter!

    

We were informed that we both qualified for graduation. Look Mom, here's my card to hand to the reader. Had we been walking at our graduation ceremony here's where I would've been in the line-up. High honors, ooooo.ahhhh. pshh CSN, easiest 4.0 of my life.
 
This just in- Grades were finally posted for this last semester. David got straight A's!!!! hip hip hooray! Now we're waiting for that silly school to get our diplomas posted so we can get our credits settled up here. hmph. Like I've said, kids, if you can, avoid transferring schools at all cost! 

 And then we searched and searched and waited, and waited to hear back from possible work prospects. And we also pulled Youth Conference together. David was awesome and came and helped me out with everything. This is us when we got back- sweaty sweaty and worn out! We crashed and fell asleep right away on the love sac (did I mention we got a love sac- for crazy cheap, thank you FB Henderson yard sale; we also got a nice couch, hooray!). I woke up with David attacking my face in his sleep.


Before we left (for Utah/Idaho in March), I think, David applied for this random job as a boat inspector that he stumbled upon on Fremont County's website. Finally, he was interviewed via telephone, and a week later he was told that they couldn't officially tell him he got the job, because they needed to extend the application date to see if they could get any more/different applicants. So, the Mr. asked if his super duper awesome wife could apply, and what they thought of a husband-wife team working together. They said that heck yah she should apply and that they love husband-wife teams. What the what what? Hot dang! So I applied, David was told he got the job, I was interviewed and then about an hour later got a call saying that I got the job as well and that David and I would have the same shift. Heavenly choirs singing!!!! Downside- a 10hr mandatory job training would be held on May 14th... Well, I guess not everything can be perfect all the time. We were planning on having me continue to substitute teach until the 17th, have my piano recital on the 20th, and then start packing. Instead we started packing every night after we got home from a quick trip to Panaca to gather up any gear David had stored there and to fish! We each caught over 20. It was nuts!
       


 I taught until the 10th, had my recital on the 10th, oh and just to make things interesting, I also put together a quilt for the YW auction, loaded Dad's truck and trailer on the 10th/11th, and then we busted out of town on Sunday after church. Madness, I tell you! Madness.
  

Our last night- bittersweet!

We also went to some baseball games that Saturday before we left, and I went to the future Mrs.Amanda's bridal shower.
 

Farewell to thee, basement walls; you will never be forgotten.
 
Seriously- are you impressed with how comfy and homey we had this place? It looks so much smaller with everything out. Weird!

Finally, the day came! Off on our great adventure!
 
We were slowed down for about an hour in the gorge due to an accident. While we were stopped in bumper to bumper, not moving, cars shut off and waiting traffic, we enjoyed marveling at the thousands of bees everywhere. Where did those things come from? And then we looked down to our left and laughed at the guy in his open convertible. haha!
These pictures do not do these bees justice; so many bees; they were everywhere.
 
We stopped in Provo for the night and got back on the road in the morning to stop in Rexburg at the Erickson's on Monday night. Tuesday morning we had to be in St. Anthony for our training. We got trained up a bit and got our schedules. It's a pretty sweet deal. We work 3, 13-hour days, and then have 6 days off. There's a trailer that we sleep at while we're up there so we don't have worry about setting up camp, and we don't have to drive to and from Island Park every day. With both of us working, we put in 78 hours within 3 days- yahoo for having money to pay for school! And with the 6 days off we have time to work on the house.

After training, we got banking shtuff transferred over to up here, and then headed back down to Utah county, because we didn't have anything else to do until our first shift on the 27th, we didn't want to go back to Henderson, and because Keri was due any time with baby #3, so we thought that we maybe could be a little bit helpful. :) We laid pavers, pushed a lot of sand, shoveled out a sand pit, shoveled sand into said pit, and then played and played with some cute kids as we waited for baby to come.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
Welcome to the world, baby Liv!
   

We then scurried up to West Valley to visit with David's Grandma and family for a few days. And didn't get one single picture! Argh! I'm slapping my forehead right.now! grr! But we loved just being able to relax and talk to Grandmama and see some of David's family. Thanks Grandmama and Aunt Bridgett and boys for making us feel welcome. We love you!
Saturday we met up with Chris and Shelly at temple square to watch over their little ones while they were in the temple for a friend's wedding.
 
   
Sighhh, we are definitely going to miss getting to play with these guys all the time.

The next day we headed back north, this time all the way to Island Park to start our first 3-day shift as boat inspectors. Welcome to our office:

Why must he always be so good lookin'? Look at that mugger he gets to hang out with for 13 hours a day! Beautiful!
 
This picture (found after browsing through David's phone) definitely shows my better side:
 
After our shift, waiting for all those boys to get out of the house, we've been hanging out at the Erickson's and taking care of all of those little things that come with moving- new bank, new address= changing all your billing/withdrawals/deposits/insurance + getting utilities set up. Fun, fun, fun!
Now that we're up to date, and David found the box that contained the chord to the camera so I could upload some pictures (bless him), I'll keep ya'll posted on our progress with sprucing up this old house. We got the keys on Saturday, yesterday, and we dove right in to tearing things up. :) T'will be an adventure, and we're looking forward to it!